Why the IoT presents major data challenges [Q&A]

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are generating huge volumes of data and that represents a challenge for organizations when it comes to processing and storing it. We spoke to Karthik Ranganathan, CTO of the company behind the distributed SQL database YugabyteDB, to find out how businesses can cope with the complexity and performance issues that handling IoT data and its associated metadata raises. BN: In terms of data and engineering the back-end, what's the biggest question you should ask yourself before starting an IoT project? KR: The most basic requirements of an IoT platform is availability and scalability. When you… [Continue Reading]