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The Internet of Things (IoT) brings the promise of new possibilities, but to unlock them, organizations must change how they think about data. With the emergence of IoT, there is a new class of applications that processes streaming data from sensors and devices that are spread around the globe. In theory, the solution is simple: turn massive amounts of data into real-time insights by immediately processing and analyzing it in a continuous and infinite fashion. However, managing streaming IoT data is not that simple. Legacy infrastructure is not made to support IoT data streaming from millions of data sources with varying datatypes. The world of streaming IoT requires a shift to the world of real-time applications consuming continuous and infinite streams.
Today, there are hundreds of applications trying to solve different pieces of the IoT puzzle. This scenario makes it difficult to build a full, end-to-end solution as the applications keep changing, have various interoperability requirements, and require their own infrastructure. Managing this complex system is costly and time consuming and requires substantial maintenance.
The Dell Streaming Data Platform is designed to solve these problems. It is an ideal enterprise solution designed to address a wide range of use cases by simplifying the infrastructure stack. The solution described in this document will help customers to reunite the Operational Technology (OT) world and the IT world by providing the following key features: