Changing infrastructure and new job roles among 2017 Internet of Things predictions

Continuing our series of expert predictions for the coming year, today we turn our attention to the Internet of Things which has begun to take off in a serious way in 2016. Although the IoT may already be pretty big but it's set to get much, much bigger. Figures earlier this year from Machina Research predict the number of IoT connections will grow from 6 billion in 2015 to 27 billion in 2025. So what opportunities and challenges is this going to present to businesses? Steve Wilkes, co-founder and CTO at Striim, sees network infrastructures having to adapt to cope… [Continue Reading]