4 Benefits of Cloud Platform in the Internet of Things

What if I tell you the Internet of Things (IoT) alone does not offer many benefits? Yes, that is true to some extent. IoT is a network of billions of physical devices having processing ability, and are embedded with sensors and software. These devices collect and share a massive amount of data per second over the internet. This raw data when analyzed interprets meaningful information useful for smart decision making.

As per IDC, by 2025 there will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices that will generate 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data. Storing, processing, and managing the flow of such a vast amount of data is a complex task for businesses. In such a case, the Cloud platform acts as a catalyst by providing storage space and cloud computing allows the analysis, processing, and managing of the data enabling IoT systems to work more efficiently.

4 Major Benefits of Cloud Platform in the Internet of Things

Cloud platforms and cloud computing can bring ease to your business operations and drive its growth.  Here are 4 major benefits when you switch to a cloud platform:

Scalability

One of the biggest benefits of deploying IoT systems in a cloud is scalability. Think of a situation where your organization needs to upscale the network infrastructure for IoT deployment. In the case of on-premise network infrastructure, such deployments require purchasing hardware,

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Myths and Misconceptions about Cloud Computing and Hosting

 

As we all know that cloud computing and cloud hosting is becoming popular day by day and at  the same time, the myths and misconceptions about “cloud computing and cloud hosting” is growing among common end-users, by considering the network primarily as a means of transmitting information.

“Cloud” is based only on “Software”

Theoretically, it is quite possible to build a cloud over the industry-standard servers (x86) and intelligent software, combining multiple virtual devices, and obtain a “cloud”. But in fact, far from it, for various reasons such as, maintaining adequate performance (specialized ASICs or dedicated hardware resources), ensuring compatibility (to install drivers for each new x86 platform), or control functions (HIPPA, PCI-DSS, departmental isolation, etc.) are not all system developers that have abandoned the use of allocated hardware resources for specific elements of their data centers. In principle, the inevitability of some components of the virtualization computer environment is obvious.

Therefore, the market leaders producing the equipment, for example, Nexus 1000v, which ensures the transparency of the bandwidth of virtual machines at the level of network security technology with a built-VN-Link, providing a mobile network. And also a virtual security gateway and vWAAS. In some cases, clients choose the virtual device. In other cases, they prefer a combination of hardware and software resources, such as control points before the Nexus 1010v. All of these unified network services provide a standard set of things to share hardware and software resources to system designers .

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