Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy.
How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Red Hat’s Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems, described how to revolutionize your architecture and create an integrated, interoperable, reliable system of thousands of devices.
He covered the transformative process taken by companies in moving from a two-tier to a three-tier topology for IoT implementations. He also discussed:
The benefits of a three-tier approach
The emergence of the controller tier as a pivot point for modern enterprise IoT architecture
Architecting your IT environment to achieve scalability, reliability and security