A microcontroller (MCU) is a small computer built on a single integrated circuit that contains a processor core, memory and programmable input/output peripherals.
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Security challenges seen for 4.9 billion connected “Things”
Gartner analysts recently forecasted that 4.9 billion connected things will be in use during 2015. This figure – up 30 percent from 2014 – is expected to reach a staggering 25 billion by 2020.
Securing the IoT starts at the core
Writing for NewElectronics, Ben Jun of the Cryptography Research division of Rambus says securing the Internet of Things (IoT) starts at the core.
“The risks associated with a rapidly growing IoT include privacy, unauthorized access, malicious control and denial of service,” he explains.
Building power conscious data centers
Writing for EnterpriseTech, George Leopold notes that data center energy consumption will only continue to increase in the near future – even as regulators attempt to rein in carbon emissions at coal-fired plants tasked with producing much of the electricity used to operate and cool data centers.
Making sense of Big Data in the age of the IoT
Big Data is an all-encompassing term used to describe the collection of large and complex data sets. As Kirk Marko of Forbes notes, the rapid advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) means our data supply – both as individuals and businesses – will be shifting into overdrive.
A modular homeostasis for next-gen data centers
Writing for ITBusinessEdge, Arthur Cole confirms that modular infrastructure has gained a firm footing in the data center industry. To be sure, nearly all of the platforms currently on the market are optimized for scale-out, cloud-ready architectures.
“MarketsandMarkets puts the current value of the modular data infrastructure market at about $6.5 billion and expects it to top $26 billion by the end of the decade,” Cole explained.
