IBM ADDRESS THE IoT

摘要

By now, nearly everyone has heard the term "Internet of Things (loT)," which - like "cloud computing" - is vague enough for marketing purposes and catchy enough that people want it even if they don't know exactly what it is. When you get down to the nitty gritty, however, what we're talking about is a conglomeration of machines, sensors, computers, phones, and other apparatus that - according to IMS Research - will number more than 22 billion web-connected devices by 2020 - most of them mobile. According to IBM, the world is already creating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day through our use of social media, digital photos and videos, purchase transactions, GPS signals, and so on. So the question is, "How can we handle all of that traffic?"