How Hosting Benefits the Internet of Things, 5G and Hybrid Computing
Like the universe, the Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding every day. By 2025, 22 billion devices are expected to be connected to the Internet. All of these new devices, sensors and computers will generate, process and share large amounts of data. This massive IoT data requires rapid processing and a large amount of storage space and hosting. The edge data center is a key backbone infrastructure, which will help support the Internet of Things revolution. The data pool has become a data lake and ocean, and the data center will need to process, analyze and store all sensor data of the Internet of Things.
What is Hosting?
Hosting is a bit like renting an apartment to get data. Hosting facilities lease space, power, cooling, network solutions and security to multiple customers at the same time, and each customer will bring its own "furniture", such as IT equipment and servers. In the past ten years, escrow has evolved from a convenient choice that allows companies to store data in different places before committing to invest in establishing their own data centers into a more powerful and beneficial internal data center solution. The proliferation of hosting facilities is a powerful driving force for the growth of the Internet of Things, because hosting can provide reliable uptime, low latency connections, cloud portals to connect to multi cloud environments, and on-demand expansion.
Hosting for tighter connection
In many applications of the Internet of Things, speed is the key, and fast data transmission depends on two factors:
1. Bandwidth between IoT equipment and network.
2. The closeness of the device to the network.
Take autonomous cars for example. In San Francisco, several driverless car companies have turned to hosting, testing their technology on the streets of the city center. The data flow of the Internet of Things may rapidly grow into a comprehensive torrent, with millions of sensors and real-time processing requirements in each vehicle.
In nearby Sunnyvale, a managed data center serves as a high-capacity hub for sensor data of driverless vehicles. These data can be safely processed to notify the control of all other driverless vehicles in the same area. IoT sensors use GPS, vectors and maps to capture speed and direction data, because these and more data points will affect the decision-making of driverless vehicles. Each of these deterministic processes must be reviewed, analyzed and processed by software - all of which occur in real time, and the vehicle will report to the data center.
Suppose that one day autonomous cars will spread all over the roads. In this case, they will need to access data centers with tight connections and high throughput circuits to process all the data they generate. After all, driving requires instant decision-making, which means extremely low data transmission delay. Hosted data centers are widely distributed, allowing driverless vehicles to always maintain a fast and close connection with other relevant IoT devices in the geographical area, similar to mobile phones connecting with nearby signal towers when driving.
5G network speed
Although proximity improves the speed of data sharing in the Internet of Things, the emergence of 5G communication networks makes the speed equation more important. The fastest 5G network is expected to transmit data at least 10 times faster than 4G LTE. Some experts believe that 5G may run 100 times faster. Many IoT devices connect directly to the public cloud, send their sensor data there, and receive communications. But when so many devices, which may reach tens of billions in just a few years, are transmitting data through the ultra high-speed 5G network, the problem arises. Data congestion will make the connection speed of the Internet of Things as slow as a snail, just like the traffic jam on the multi lane highway.
Hybrid computing pushes data of the Internet of Animals
Researchers have explored the benefits of moving cloud connectivity closer to the ground where IoT devices are located. Important data functions requiring speed occur in the data center near the equipment or nearby, and subsequent data enters the cloud directly or through hosting direct cloud connection (if necessary). This hybrid computing process is often referred to as fog or edge computing.
Hosting data centers help fog computing by providing a lot of low-cost space and security protection for IoT data, as well as an additional connection layer with the cloud. As hosting customers run their own hardware in the remote data center, they can fully control the privacy of their IoT device network and development and testing environment. The IoT devices directly connected to the public cloud infrastructure face worrying security vulnerabilities, so security experts recommend limiting access to IoT devices to private networks. In smart home, if the light bulb, refrigerator and thermostat are all connected through the public cloud, it is equivalent to not locking the front door in terms of the ease of hacker access.
Prepare for the rapid growth of the Internet of Things
With the rapid growth of IoT devices, the demand for rapidly expanding data infrastructure to accommodate greater capacity is growing. As the number of networked devices and their key functions become a greater part of our business and lifestyle, companies deploying IoT technology will become more profitable. However, if they cannot respond quickly to growth, they may also become victims of their own success.
Hosting provides speed and security advantages for the Internet of Things, and it also enables the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things data network by allocating more bandwidth, power and space in a very short time. Market forecasters predict that the hosting data center market will grow exponentially by more than 7% every year in the next five years. By 2027, the size of the custody market will reach nearly 50 billion dollars. What drives this growth is the expanding world of the Internet of Things. The more we connect with each other through IoT devices and with the surrounding world, the more we need managed capacity to process all data that is the basis of all IoT interactions.
