| | JULY 20188Consultants ReviewHOME AUTOMATION: THE NEXT BIG WAVE Since 1978, Seagate Technology has been creating precision-engineered data storage technologies that deliver superior capacity, speed, safety, and performance. Teh joined Segate in 1992, since then he has held several leadership roles in Global Sales, Marketing & Sales Operation, and more than anything he has a vivid interest in Storage, Data Science, IoT, and AI.By Ban-Seng Teh, SVP, Global Sales, Marketing & Sales Operations, Seagate Technologyata is the lifeblood of the IoT, with data volumes expected to grow exponentially with greater IoT adoption. According to the Seagate-sponsored Data Age 2025 report by IDC, the total global volume of data will skyrocket to 163 zettabytes by 2025, of which 20 percent will be embedded data ­ data created by embedded devices, machine-to-machine communications, and IoT. Additionally, an average connected person anywhere in the world will interact with connected devices nearly 4,800 times per day amounting to one interaction every 18 seconds. IDC also predicts 95 percent of real-time data will be generated by IoT. With more IoT devices creating an exponentially growing volume of data, there is also an increasing need for better and more efficient solutions to process and analyse this data for business use. This will require robust infrastructure - companies will have to figure out the balance of software, hardware, facilities and manpower investments to cater to the huge amount of data flowing into the organisation now and in future.Being able to connect more devices to the internet will also give businesses access to deeper insights, resulting in more efficient and effective operations. Asia leads spending in this sector ­ growing from US$ 698.6 billion in 2015 to almost US$ 1.3 trillion in 2019. With this much anticipated growth in the IoT realm, we see opportunities for us to partner with businesses to help them build or adapt their storage solutions to meet evolving needs. IoT Solutions to Enable in Creating Safe, Smart and Effi cient CitiesSmart living is highly dependent on leveraging the IoT ­ how it taps into cloud-based applications and analytics platforms and manages sensors and devices in a secure DBan-Seng Teh
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