{"id":3413,"date":"2012-11-30T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2012-11-30T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T15:00:12","slug":"big-data-and-technology-the-internet-of-50-billion-things-in-eight-years-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/big-data-and-technology-the-internet-of-50-billion-things-in-eight-years-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data and Technology: The Internet of 50 billion things in Eight Years Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the 2012 Oracle\/Java One show<\/a>, Oracle President Mark Hurd<\/a> talked about Big Data challenges associated with machine data. \u00a0Today already 9 billion devices are attached to the Internet. A 2011 study by Ericsson estimated that by 2020<\/a> that number will grow to more than 50 billion devices. \u00a0Hurd picked up on that number and asked what it would take to grow another 40 billion devices over the next eight years.<\/p>\n

A key driving force to the explosion in numbers of connectable devices is that by 2020 100 billion computer processers capable of communication will have cumulatively shipped. \u00a0Areas that will have large number of devices include:<\/p>\n