“ The secular trends of cloud and mobile have driven the waves of growth over the last five to six years . Whether mobile , social or big data , it all requires the flow of data into and out of cloud then across what
we ’ re calling our fabric ”
Brian Lillie , CPO , Equinix
saying , hey if I want to build this hybrid multi-cloud architecture , how do I do that ? We ’ re pretty good at helping companies in the early days to grow and get connected , while we ’ re starting to see IoT companies appear throughout the platform .
“ What they do entails how you process the analytics capability at the edge and having a very efficient way to move large amounts of data from the IoT devices to edge processing and then being able to bring that back to a central data store to do the longer-term processing . By having what we call a land architecture - where you have collection and processing at the edge being brought back to the centre - IoT is going to drive that . Our data centre management platform is essentially a purpose built IoT platform .”
With more companies getting connected how can they overcome the challenges of preparing for the data explosion ? “ It all comes down to the user experience ,” says Lillie . “ The expectations of digital users , whether consumers or company employees , is for high-quality delivery , but the old ways of architecture won ’ t be able to keep up with that . I recently attended the National Association of Broadcasters event in Las Vegas ( NABs ) and all of the service providers for the film and TV industry vertical were present . I was on a panel talking about over the top video ( Netflix etc ) and the exploding growth of streaming video data over the net . How do we optimise that ? We believe an interconnected digital supply chain in that business is vital to service the fibre and copper to homes . It ’ s going to become more prevalent and will be driven by end user performance .”
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