When a smartphone is manned, the huge data center is dead.

Paul Brody, vice president of IBM and head of global business services electronics, said on August 25 that the Paul Brody approach to using data center management devices in the Internet of things era would be phased out. This popular approach in the age of smartphones and tablets in the Internet of things era will not only significantly increase the costs of the companies involved, but also generate no revenue.

Today's smartphones are a powerful hub, surrounded by less intelligent devices, says Brody. Each device is managed and operated by a few centralized data centers. If these devices were eliminated in a year or two, that would not be a problem. Because the equipment is quickly replaced, the data Center has a short duration and the cost of management is limited.

But this is not the case in the era of the Internet of Things, LED bulbs are designed to last as long as dozens of years, and the average life expectancy of the cars running on the road is now more than 10 years. If you still manage these devices with a centralized cloud-based business model, it means that the companies involved will have to invest for decades without any corresponding revenue. There are already some device-related service companies that have difficulty meeting their revenue targets, but can't change them because they're afraid of provoking a huge customer base.

Brody believes that the solution to the cost of IoT management and revenue is not a unified approach, is distributed, edge-based cloud computing. If the data center is the center of the network, then PCs, smartphones, and other devices are on the edge. Edge-based cloud computing is not just about making these devices smart and connected, it can also connect them together to form a consolidated distributed cloud service. If you can get these smart devices to manage themselves, then as long as the device exists, the Network service can continue and the cost is very low.

Brody Frank, the future of the Internet of Things is a bit like the idea of removing the Bitcoin architecture from the financial sector, abandoning the concept of a data center, where devices can connect to each other, manage themselves, even trade with each other, and provide redundancy and backup protection without adding cost. Such an internet of things can be more efficient, secure, durable, and inexpensive.

When a smartphone is manned, the huge data center is dead.