The middle of November saw the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2013 take centre stage in Barcelona. Cloudreach took along a few tricks of our own, and some neat themes to entertain guests on our stand. If you’ve never made it to Gartner before, you need to make sure you’re at the next one. But, enough of that – something big is happening in the digital world, and we’d like to share it with you.
The internet of things (IoT) is a concept with its roots in the late ‘90s, at a time when the true extent of 21st Century digitalisation could barely have been dreamt up. There’s no doubting that the advances in thinking and technology over the past 10 years or so have been spectacular, unprecedented, even unthinkable in 1999 perhaps.
But even back then a need was emerging for a new type of world, where digital creation would lead the world’s biggest systems; economies, health, business. And out of this need came the ‘internet of things’.
At Gartner, this concept was realised as an everyday phenomenon that is transforming the way we live; unique internet structure-like systems to automate processes which until now have been subject to human-to-human, or human-to-computer interaction. Just about every device you can think of can benefit from communicating with other devices or ‘back to base’ whether its a gas-meter, a streetlight, a car engine, a vending machine or a freezer in your local supermarket!
It is widely acknowledged that the growth of the world’s top businesses will rely on being more connected, more able to control their assets, and more able to track their progress and automate systems. The work Cloudreach has been doing for its customers is very much in the vein of this concept - all these devices generate huge volumes of data; data which has to be structured, stored, sorted, visualised and analysed. Cloudreach uses the power of cloud-based technologies to provide the capability needed to deal with the volume, velocity and variety of this data.
By assisting our clients with the installation and management of a vast array of tools to help them track, analyse, automate and generate data from their business systems Cloudreach is enabling them to “know what they don’t know” and then address it.
At Gartner, Cloudreach was in the company of some of the world’s leading CIOs - Leaders of world business, whose job it is to forecast the development of future business, and to lead the global change due to emerging digital trends. We found it reassuring therefore, that we’re already embracing these trends, and exploiting them for our customers.
Don’t wait for the next Gartner expo to discover a direction for your business. Speak to Cloudreach today.
