By 2020 at least 25 billion devices will be connected, according to Gartner. Welcome to the Internet of Things, the next major wave of computing that will supercharge businesses by taking small data from remote devices and collectively making it big data on the cloud.
“To accommodate this growing demand for connectivity, the existing cloud infrastructure will need to grow exponentially,” says Jonathan Wilkins, marketing director of industrial automation components supplier European Automation.
“There is a good chance these connected devices will not have internal storage of their own, so will need to use the cloud instead,” says Wilkins. “I think it’s fair to say that in the next five to ten years we will see 95% of companies use some kind of cloud technology – public or private.”
