Cisco, like everybody else in IT, believes that cloud computing is central to the Internet of Things (the belief that everything with an on/off switch will eventually be wired or wirelessly connected and controlled by someone – or some thing – somewhere in the world). This isn’t a difficult concept to understand.
Naturally, all of this plays directly into the products and services that Cisco makes – all those switches, routers, random connectors, intelligent network software and so on – that link devices to systems to people and back again, according to an article on eWEEK.
Cisco estimated in an extensive research report, “The Impact of Cloud on IT Consumption Models,” that connections among people, processes, data and things will surge from 10 billion today to 50 billion by 2020.