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Current Filter: Network>>>>>Comment> Every day’s a data day Editorial Type: Comment Date: 05-2015 Views: 1485   | |||
| Have you noticed that the subject of data is rapidly rising up through the noise level of IT discussions? Have you noticed people who (and I generalise) know nothing about IT giving forth on the importance of data to the future of the business, or the effectiveness of the organisation? Whichever way you are responding, I think that it's a very good moment for IT and Networking professionals to start thinking, talking, and acting data I have just finished reviewing a book called Thingalytics by John Bates. It is a very well written and insightful book and well worth a read. We have all been thinking about the Internet of Things and frequently I have suggested that getting hands on and having a jolly good play is highly recommended. I stand by that, but the IoT is essentially nothing more than a network of sensors monitoring stuff and collecting data that is most likely defined by an algorithm, or its hip double the algo. These sensors are going everywhere and will help people in every aspect of modern and future life, including crime and transportation. Considering the latter, John Bates advises that an A380 Airbus generates 20 Terabytes of data every hour, so this is going to be serious stuff. It goes without saying that some of this data, whether it's raw, analysed or response centred, will need to move around a network. Some of it will tolerate slow, low priority transfer, while other data will need to be moved with precision in real-time with a latency that makes financial trading performance appear sluggish. It would be an obvious thing to say that data is the point of the network, but network engineers have been primarily concerned about a limited number of data types. IoT sensors and Thingalytics are going to open up a completely new world of data types - in fact already have - and they will by and large be the ones that are defined by the business, for the operation of the business. It will be your challenge to move it at agreed rates, to specified destinations, with levels of security that might make your eyes water. Now would be a good time to start working this out…
Ray Smyth - Editor, Network Computing. | |||
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