When people talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), their focus inevitably falls on the “things,” because we all take the Internet itself for granted.
But we ignore the Internet at our peril, because today’s cloud-native approaches to IT are disrupting the nature of the Internet itself.
Given how fundamental and ubiquitous this half-century-old network of networks is, it’s time for a closer look at the changes that are afoot.
IoT and the explosion of endpoints
Let’s start with the IoT, since, after all, “Internet” is right in the name. To be sure, we must have connectivity to the various sensors and actuators that make up the IoT, as well as all the devices, from autonomous vehicles to smart thermostats, that constitute all the “things.”
Connectivity, however, is merely the price of admission for the enterprises that are building out IoT-based solutions. Even more disruptive: the collapse of the Internet’s fundamental hub-and-spoke topology.
Read the entire article at https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/why-we-need-transform-internet-cloud-native-world.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, Open Systems and ThousandEyes are Intellyx customers. None of the other organizations mentioned are Intellyx customers.
