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Gartner: Internet of Things Has Reached Hype Peak
Brandon Butler writes In the annual battle of the buzzwords, the Internet of Things has won. Each year the research firm Gartner puts out a Hype Cycle of emerging technologies, a sort of report card for various trends and buzzwords. This year, IoT tops the list. On another note, somewhat surprising is that Gartner says the "cloud computing" is not just hype anymore, but becoming a mainstream technology.
The internet of things sounds so stupid. In the spirit of stupid marketing phrases that mean nothing like "the cloud" wouldn't it be cooler to call it "the swarm"?
Do Gartner reports actually have any use? I mean, they put a nice graphic to their "hype cycle", but this is surely stuff that any technical type over the age of 25 understands?
You can purchase their report on the Internet of Things for the low, low price of $1995. If it's like most Gartner reports that I have seen, it will contain nice references to certain companies - my suspicion is that these companies have recently given Gartner fat consulting contracts. If you watch the same report evolve year-to-year, recommended companies change randomly - from a technical perspective - so one presumes that the deciding factors are politics and/or money.
Anyone want to argue against my cynicism? Are Gartner reports actually useful to some people?
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No, it's really not. It's the name for a cluster running a virtualisation environment that lets you spin up virtual server instances quickly and easily.
It's an abstraction layer that sits between your clustered hardware, and your virtual machines.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Gartner is useless. However you can pay them money and they'll increase your company's rating and this will fool people who trust Gartner's opinions.
it's about whether you think "buzzword" is a good or bad thing
see, i'm with you completely on this:
TFA comes from a different angle...and more importantly the Gartner report it references, take a critical approach, but not the same one as you and I
the Gartner report examines the words on a function of **expectations**
we are judging it on accuracy & functionality
the problem is, the Gartner people are limiting their analysis to a factor that is not consistent..."expectations" are too variable to use as an experimental variable
it's all soft science, but Gartner is analyzing hype with more hype which made for the confusion...interesting though
Thank you Dave Raggett
Does your cloud support push technology?
"internet of things" is a redundant concept...same as "the cloud"
it's all just "the internet"
the fact that you hook up your bike tire to a sensor so you get an email when your air is low isn't a new "thing" that should be given a "name"
it's just a further application of an existing technology...
big brother and his capitalist cousin want "the internet of things" to control our behavior..."the cloud" is a way to get you to put all your data with one "carrier" be it google, apple, or another...they want to have as much of your behavior on their system as possible
so there's a component of dishonesty..."the cloud" and "the internet of things" were phrases chosen to obscure and confuse meaning not communicate it
Thank you Dave Raggett
It's not peak hype until it has caused a world-wide stock market crash.
No, it's just the name for client/server architecture, usually for bad one implemented hastily.
Is it immersive?
(another word that desperately needs to die.)
Donald Trump, on a crusade to make Nixon look respectable
Cloud = thin air
IoT = thin air
Social networks = thin air
Smartphone = thin air
Tablets = thin air
Apple = thin air
Applications = thin air
At the end of the day i still use a PC behind a series of tubes and all that thin air stuff is trying to inoculate me with cancer+aids.
If anyone can be said to be experts on Peak Hype, Gartner certainly would be the ones.
It's still nothing more than a cluster. The only difference is your high availability and dynamic allocation is now performed at the (virtual) machine level, rather than the application level.
No. Cloud computing has not gone mainstream. Cloud computing was always hype. Hosted services have been around since the beginnings of the internet. Taking the brute force approach of using VMs to make the entire "machine" highly available, as opposed to elegantly building such capability directly into ones applications, was an evolutionary change, not a revolutionary one. Calling it "the cloud" was nothing more than a way to make it sound more amazing and awesome than the same thing that was already being offered.
Hmmmmmm. So,
A. Hosted services have been around since forever. Ergo they are mainstream.
B. "The Cloud" is just another name for said services.
Ergo: "The Cloud" is mainstream.
Taking the brute force approach of using VMs to make the entire "machine" highly available, as opposed to elegantly building such capability directly into ones applications, was an evolutionary change, not a revolutionary one.
This is true, but completely irrelevant to the question of whether "The Cloud" or whatever we want to call it is mainstream or not. That is, this statement, while true, it deals solely with the process by which hosted services (or more broadly speaking, hosted capabilities) came into being. By itself, this statement does not deal with the issue of adoption rates and commonality (or rarity) of adoption (vertical and/or horizontal.)
A solution looking for a problem being sold to people who don't have extra money to spend.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Saying things have reach X Peak (or Peak X) has reached it's peak.
If Gartner is talking about it, you know it is only hype.
It is on a graph so it must be true!
Could you make a heat map or a spider graph to show me more??
If my mother-in-law had a smart fridge...it would look at the expiration date on some of the containers and call for the paramedics instead of ordering replacement food.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
nice...sort of like 'P-hacking'
it would be great to be able to find the pattern then retroactively examine research data to see which (many probably) show evidence of graph hacking
Thank you Dave Raggett
Internet of Things Has Reached Hype Peak
If it reached peak hype, then it can finally start dying. Good riddance.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
The Cloud = software as a service (SaaS) = hosted services = "the network is the computer" = blah blah blah..
..it's all more or less the same decades-old idea:
"you just click buttons and pay us all the money, nevermind what's behind the curtain."
...where you trade huge amounts of control for incremental savings
"we're not sure where your data lives, so you'll just have to trust our vague compliance statement"
...with the same bad security implications:
"software vulns and compromise stats are a trade secret, so don't ask"
So with a nod to JKR...
I offer the only truly wise decision principle regarding adoption of "cloud"/hosted services:
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
I think not...(*poof*)
I *** LOVE *** connected devices. Connected to MY network and under MY control. I love to tinker and connect in and do things just to be doing things. But stuff like the NEST thermostat that cannot be controlled directly, but require me to ask PERMISSION from a central authority at Nest to control my device can stuff it. I'd love the technology but if it is in my house, no one else will have access to it.
Digital is, by definition, imperfect. Analog is the way to go.
When millions of minimally engineered consumer devices meet big data you get the internet of things. This is all just a marketing wet dream. When your fridge knows your out of milk and your thermostat knows when you are coming home and your TV knows what you like to watch then something really important happens, which is that those devices can tell the marketing people. Never mind that these devices have no business communicating on the internet or leaking data to third parties. There is a strong and valid case for many devices to be IP enabled in a secure way with controlled access, but the haphazard insecure marketing driven approach to the internet of things is garbage. It's internet pollution.