HOW DATA CENTERS WILL EVOLVE TO BECOME SMARTER AS IoT SPREADS ITS WINGS

Shantanu is a seasoned IT professional with more than 23 years of solid experience in Digital and Cloud CoE and Parctice management, Consulting, Delivery Leadership, Presales, Automation and Innovation. In his current role, Shantanu focuses on enhancing the Digital footprint and revenue share of Oracle Competency through IoT, Blockchain and other cutting edge solutions on Oracle Cloud.

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A Paradigm Shift of Data Center Architecture

There has been an immense change in the technology topography in last few years and that is not only convincing us to change the way we do business but also influencing our lifestyle. Right from our mobile phones to home appliances and cars, everything is getting smarter by the day with the introduction of Internet of Things (IoT). These IoT enabled devices simply capture a continuous stream of data from its surroundings and push it to the backend applications or ERP systems so that appropriate actions can be performed based on this input.

The major advantage of IoT based Data capture is that we can understand a problem as soon as they occur and sometimes even before that, based on the pattern of data and that helps us in addressing the issue ahead of time. The challenge that comes associated with this is, the Data Centers handling such massive amount of data, would require a major shift in their model to deal with IoT based transactions.

At present, Data Centers are looked as a source of data repository and the applications connected to them, fetch the required information as needed. With the advent of IoT enabled devices, the Data Centers will be working like a Hub in the middle of a two way datahighway where they will manage both the huge inflow and outflow of data.