Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Here Comes Santa Claus, Right Down IoT Lane

With 2 billion customers to deliver to, and just one night to do it, Santa’s operations are, if anything, the true definition of at-scale. Yet with the world’s population growing by roughly 83 million people per year, Santa will need some serious help and logistics overhaul to keep up with his operations. The data requirements of Santa’s ventures are both massive and complex – ingesting billions of simultaneous requests, processing diverse data sources for predictive analytics while achieving same-day delivery in multi-national locations. So how can he best transform his operations in the digital age? As an industry leader in data infrastructure from edge to cloud to core, we put our heads together to offer Santa some help.