The Internet of Things (IoT) has arguably been one of the most important technologies to emerge in the past decade. After many years of speculation — and some concern that our extant computing and storage infrastructure couldn’t handle it — we are now living in a world that is full of networked, connected devices.
The sheer number of data that the IoT generates, and the need to store them, poses a huge challenge to storage engineers. Meeting this challenge, however, has also pushed forward storage technologies, and especially those related to cloud storage. As we’ll see in this article, the IoT and cloud storage exist in a symbiotic relationship, in which advances in one of these technologies drives those in the other.
IoT and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship
In order to understand the relationship between the IoT and cloud storage, it’s worth thinking about the history of the IoT. Specifically, when the IoT was first proposed — even as a theoretical system — the major limitation on development was always seen as data storage and processing. Even a decade ago, we had the technology necessary to collect data via a network of interconnected sensors and devices; the problem was how and where to store and process this data.
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