big data
& IoT
MEETING THE IOT CHALLENGE
Today’s data centres are facing unprecedented pressure to keep up with the intense demands of the Internet
of Things. Valerie Maguire, director of standards & technology at Siemon, provides an outlook on new
solutions beyond 100Gb/s Ethernet, including cabling and connectivity options that will enable data centre
infrastructure to meet the need for increased data speed and throughput driven by the IoT and Big Data.
T
he deluge of device
generated data resulting
from the explosive rise of
the Internet of Things (IoT)
challenges the ability of
today’s data centre architectures
to meet the need for faster and
higher volume communication
between server, storage, and core
networking devices. According to
the Cisco Global Cloud Index (GCI),
the total amount of data created,
but not necessarily stored, by
devices will more than quadruple
from 2015 to 2020. Furthermore,
the huge volume of device
generated data that is stored in
the data centre and available for
analysis (Big Data) is expected
to increase 10-fold from 2015 to
2020. This astounding growth
of machine-to-machine (M2M)
communication brings many
great advantages to organisations,
however, data centre networking
equipment and applications must
quickly evolve in order to be able to
facilitate and streamline people-to-
machine and M2M communication.
According to Cisco, Western
Europe will have an average of 9.9
devices or connections per user
by 2020. In addition, adoption of
emerging IP-enabled technology
such as PoE-enabled lighting and
digital signage, is on the rise. The
challenge for network cabling
and data centre infrastructure
designers is how to facilitate
and streamline communication
between and within the
26 | June 2017
The challenge for
network cabling
and data centre
infrastructure
designers is
how to facilitate
and streamline
communication
between and
within the
enterprise, data
centre, consumer,
and mobile
environments.