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The Internet of things will dwarf the Internet of people

Trends in the Living Networks

In 2008 the number of devices connected to the Internet surpassed the number of people connected, and in 2020 there will be 50 billion things connected, 7 times the world’s population, according to Dave Evans of Cisco.

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ARM Brings the Internet of Things To Life On Its Campus » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

ARM Brings the Internet of Things To Life On Its Campus. ARM Brings the Internet of Things To Life On Its Campus. The systems will be based on open internet standards and designed to help application developers mobilize connected assets of all kinds. ” RELATED POSTS: The Internet of Things: Buzzword or Big Business?

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Bay Area Internet Acquired by Private Equity Firm » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Bay Area Internet Acquired by Private Equity Firm. Bay Area Internet Acquired by Private Equity Firm. Private equity firm The Stephens Group has acquired Bay Area Internet Services (BAIS), a colocation provider in Santa Clara with a Tier IV facility. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147).

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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

CIO Business Intelligence

According to the indictment, Jain’s firm provided fraudulent certification documents during contract negotiations in 2011, claiming that their Beltsville, Maryland, data center met Tier 4 standards, which require 99.995% uptime and advanced resilience features.

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20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big and Important

Social, Agile and Transformation

20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big and Important. How big and important will the internet of things and machine to machine technologies be over the next 5-10 years? So Ive been doing a lot of reading - and below is a mix of metrics, company strategies, and technologies on the Internet of Things and M2M technologies.

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What is IPv6, why is it so important, and why is it adoption taking so long?

Network World

For the most part the dire warnings about running out of internet addresses have ceased because, slowly but surely, migration from the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 has begun, and software is in place to prevent the address apocalypse that many were predicting. What is IPv6 and why is it important?

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Robot Chef Brings Internet of Things Into the Kitchen

CTOvision

Using hands produced by Shadow Robot Company , the robot chef is capable of producing meals from a collection of over 2,000 recipes, using natural motions learned from Tim Anderson , a human chef and winner of the BBC''s MasterChef competition in 2011. It will be connected to the Internet, and will be controllable via smartphone.

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