IDC is forecasting that service provider data centre capacity consumed by IoT workloads will increase nearly 750 percent between 2014 and 2019. Also, IDC says, the growing importance of analytics in IoT services will mean that ‘hyper scale’ data centres capture most of this IoT driven workload. IDC also says that IoT will emerge as […]
EIU surveys Aussie M2M market
Telstra Wholesale has released a report commissioned from the Economist Intelligence Unit into the M2M market in Australia saying it reveals slow uptake of M2M in Australia. The report Land of Sweeping Change: Powering Australian Business Towards A Connected Future “assesses the landscape for M2M in Australia, in particular existing ‘gaps’ between the view of […]
Hadoop and streaming analytics key to IoT data analysis
Forrester Research has published a white paper Internet Of Things Applications Hunger For Hadoop And Real-Time Analytics In The Cloud ($US499) in which it argues that Hadoop and streaming analytics platforms are key components of IoT data-driven applications. According to Forrester enterprise applications must handle IoT data in two ways: analyse large volumes to find […]
How brands can mine IoT
Research firm Altimeter has released a free 30 page report Customer Experience in the Internet of Things: Five Ways Brands Can Use Sensors to Build Better Customer Relationships to illustrate “how brands can use connected devices to enhance the customer experience and create a ‘win-win’ value exchange for all parties.” It claims to give brands […]
Security vulnerabilities of automobile technology revealed
A US senator, Edward J Markey (D-Mass) a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, has released a report Tracking & Hacking: Security & Privacy Gaps Put American Drivers says it shows huge vulnerabilities from the communications technologies in today’s automobile, and he says standards are needed to plug security and privacy gaps. In […]
M2M deployments similar in different verticals
The London-based International M2M Council (IMC) has undertaken what it says “could be the largest quantitative study ever undertaken to understand technology buying patterns for the Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine Communications.” More than 5,000 OEMs and enterprise users that deploy connected devices participated. According to the IMC, “Just two of the surprising results from […]
The role of data service exchanges in M2M
Machina Research has published a free white paper, The Emergence Of Data Service Exchanges: Liquidity For The IoT that looks at the emerging opportunity in IoT for data service exchanges It says: “Every connected device must have an associated application, and the development of those applications and the provision of supporting capabilities (such as, for […]
The Identity of Things for the Internet of Things
Gartner has published a report The Identity of Things for the Internet of Things ($US195) saying: “Existing ideas and approaches to identity management will not be entirely effective for the IoT. IAM and other security leaders must rethink and re-architect to be successful.” According to the report, “The growth of the IoT means the IAM […]
The future of consumer IoT adoption
Acquity Group, a digital agency that is now part of Accenture Interactive, surveyed more than 2,000 US. Consumers on their behavior and preferences when it comes to the Internet of Things and expected adoption of connected technology. Based on the data, this white paper The Internet of Things: The Future of Consumer Adoption “provides an in-depth look […]
Standards and emerging IoT technologies: who will win?
UK based research firm, FC Business Intelligence has published a study has published a study Standards and Emerging Technologies in IoT: Can proprietary technologies succeed? It features the views of four industry figures, Professor William Webb, Founder, Weightless Sig; Jonathan Wiggin, CEO of NWave; Professor Mischa Dohler, Professor in Wireless Communications, Kings College; Thomas Nicholls, […]
