The Internet of Things (IoT) has a potential transformational effect on the data center market, its customers, technology providers, technologies, and sales and marketing models.The exponential growth in data due to social media, smartphones, websites, cameras, computers, and a wide range of cloud and enterprise applications are all generating data in different formats and protocols. Thus, the amount and type of data that is permeating through today’s networks is increasing in an exponential manner.
IoT is introducing all sorts of new pathways into data centers. Data centers need to upgrade their networks for the IoT revolution. Many data centers are only equipped to handle mid-level bandwidth needs. They will need to boost the number of connections and overall speed in order to keep up with IoT.The increasing need for data storage could potentially require data centers to reconfigure their server farms to handle wider and more diverse data flows. At the same time, the data center industry may need to invent more robust load distribution strategies to deliver better data management for IoT.