Trends in Cloud IoT

This IDC Perspective explores trends in cloud-based IoT through the lens of four platforms that exhibit different strengths ranging from enterprise integrations to geography. Technology buyers will anchor their platform decision to their existing cloud investment, rigorously evaluate edge computing capabilities, and model total cost of ownership well beyond basic messaging and compute pricing. The three core takeaways are that platform maturity has diverged significantly, edge capabilities have replaced cloud-side messaging as the key competitive battleground, and multinational organizations increasingly need multiplatform strategies to navigate data sovereignty regulations across geographies."With most organizations storing data and running workloads across multiple public clouds, simplifying this inherently complex architecture with a single, cloud-based IoT platform is more difficult than ever," explains Rob Tiffany, research director, Cloud Infrastructure at IDC. "Data and API interoperability across clouds and geographies is now a minimum requirement to bring a global system together, otherwise a single system strategy is impractical."