The Raritan Blog

How the Internet of Things Will Drive the Need for Capacity Management

Paula Alves
July 9, 2014

The Internet of Things (IoT)  , the concept of virtually every gadget and appliance we own being interconnected via the Internet, continues to make great strides, and in the words of Gartner is “promising to transform the data center market.”  If and when that transformation does take place, data centers will be faced with an overwhelming amount of data that will need to be synthesized, analyzed, and stored. That “big data” will push the need for additional storage, network, and computing resources to unprecedented heights.