{"id":5437,"date":"2015-06-08T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T16:33:08","slug":"internet-of-things-iot-huge-increases-in-data-center-capacity-required-to-support-expected-surge-in-data-and-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/internet-of-things-iot-huge-increases-in-data-center-capacity-required-to-support-expected-surge-in-data-and-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet of Things (IoT): Huge Increases in Data Center Capacity Required to Support Expected Surge in Data and Bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The introduction of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to today’s data centers will likely overwhelm existing capacity. \u00a0As IoT grows the number of IoT connected things will be well in the billions. \u00a0International Data Corporation (IDC) is predicting<\/a> that IoT workloads will demand an increase in data center capacities of nearly 750% over the next five years.<\/p>\n

Rick Villars<\/a>, vice president of datacentre and cloud at IDC, said that<\/a> “equal, or even greater, investments in the IoT platform services residing in the datacenter will be instrumental in delivering the IoT promise of anytime, anywhere, anyhow connectivity and context. \u00a0Given the number of devices connected and the amount of data generated, businesses must focus on their IoT service platform requirements at the level of the datacenter itself, not just the individual servers or storage devices.”<\/p>\n

The IDC report found that:<\/p>\n