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Sep 14

The Emergence of Application-Specific IoT

By Internet of Things (IoT) 4 Comments

General IoT vs. Application-Specific IoT

2014 Gartner Hype Cycle Special Report

2014 Gartner Hype Cycle

Gartner recently published the 2014 Gartner Hype Cycle Special Report, which evaluates the market perception and penetration for over 2,000 technologies, services and technology trends. Of particular interest to many was the placement of the Internet of Things (IoT) at the top of the Peak of Inflated Expectations. Gartner defines the Peak of Inflated Expectations as: “Early publicity produces a number of success stories—often accompanied by scores of failures. Some companies take action; many do not.”

And, indeed, inflated market size forecast and grandiose visions of IoT reign supreme. Morgan Stanley forecasts that by that by 2020 there will be75 billion connected devices, whereas Harbor Research estimates the same market will consists of a meager 8 billion connected devices. Gartner estimates that by 2020 there will be 26 billion connected devices, IDC counters that with 30 billion connected devices, Cisco says 50 billion… you get the picture.

Do you think they really know? The typical rationale offered by industry analysts is that they use different market and technology taxonomies, hence the vast differences.

On the other hand, does it really matter that much? Read More

Nov 06

EMC: Large Enterprises Reduce Investments in Public Clouds

By Cloud Computing, IT Strategy No Comments

By 2016, Only 12% of Workload Will Run On Public
Cloud Infrastructure

This was the surprising perspective offered by Adrian McDonald, EMEA President at EMC, addressing the audience at EMC Forum 2013 that took place on November 4 in Tel Aviv, Israel. McDonald maintains that public cloud architecture is not the right solution for large enterprises, and, in fact, CIOs are reporting that when considering the investment in security, compliance and business continuity, public cloud infrastructure is more expensive than the alternatives.

According to McDonald, market research conducted by EMC shows that large organizations are gradually reducing application deployment on public clouds. EMC forecasts that by 2016, 12% of the workload will run on a public cloud and 12% will be using a private-virtual cloud, but 76% of the workload will require internally managed infrastructure.

McDonald estimates that organizations can cut as much as 38% of annual IT expenses through virtualization and cloud deployment. But he cautions that this is an aggressive goal that requires both IT organizations and cloud infrastructure and services providers to offer new ways to deliver flexible and agile solutions and services, such as supporting customer self-provisioning.

As reported by Ran Miron http://www.pc.co.il/?p=135820