The Vblock, the IoT Gateway and the Sensors

The IT world is radically changing with new technologies focused on extending the mobile device era to the era where everything has sensors, i.e. the Pervasive Systems era. The Data Center with its powerful components in processing, networking, storage, virtualization and management will always be a fundamental component of the IT world. However, Knowledge Sharing author Sherif Mohsen believes the next era of IT solutions holds more.

Sensors have the potential to generate billions of terabytes from everyday devices – from cars and washing machines to air purifiers in our offices, and more. This huge amount of data needs proportional processing capabilities and technologies. Sherif posits that this can be done in the data center and be expanded to include IoT Gateway devices such as small hubs present in the streets to collect and filter real-time data from the sensors, perform preliminary processing and may be capable of providing real-time insight and decision making.

In this Knowledge Sharing article, Sherif examines the potential of providing IT capabilities, not only in the data center via Vblocks, but also extending this to include sensor devices and IoT Gateways.

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