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How Eurotech is Tackling Middleware Requirements in the Internet of Things Era

How Eurotech is Tackling Middleware Requirements in the Internet of Things Era
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PARTNER SPOTLIGHT How Eurotech is Tackling Middleware Requirements in the Internet of Things Era Sponsored by: Red Hat Adapted from Top 10 European IoT Predictions for 2015 — From Aspiration to Reality by Lionel Lamy and others (IDC #IOT51X) and Market Analysis Perspective: Innovation Accelerators in Europe — The Road to 2020 by Giorgio Nebuloni and others (IDC #VS51X) September 2015 INTRODUCTION Internet of Things (IoT) architectures are in strong demand — IDC estimates spending in the European market was at $78.9 billion in 2014 and forecasts it to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 29% over the next five years. Such numbers speak for themselves and attract a very diverse tech community. This paper provides a definition of IoT and describes where that paradigm sits in respect to digital transformation and IDC's "Innovation Accelerators" vision. In addition, it provides a view on how IoT applies pressure on the software back-end, requiring users to come up with new approaches to their middleware and cloud strategies. Eurotech is a publicly listed solution provider in the machine-to-machine and IoT space with headquarters in Italy and global presence across Europe, North America, and Asia. Eurotech is a Red Hat ISV Advanced Partner. The second part of the paper looks at Eurotech's role as a supplier of IoT solutions, specifically with its Everyware offering. It provides a summary of Eurotech's differentiation and on the role its partnership with Red Hat plays in this context. Finally, it provides essential guidance to end-user organizations that are looking to deploy IoT architectures. FROM MACHINE TO MACHINE TO THE INTERNET OF THINGS IDC defines the Internet of Things as a network of networks of uniquely identifiable endpoints (or "things") that communicate without human interaction using IP connectivity. According to IDC, IoT finds its importance in the ability to capture and transport data, and ultimately enable analytics tools to analyze it. This has a clear impact on the business processes and decision making of organizations and consumers. Indeed, IoT is about bringing together people, processes, data, and things to make networked connections more relevant by turning information into actions. IoT is becoming the de facto term to define this market concept, marking a qualitative leap beyond previous trends in this space, and particularly the idea of machine to machine (M2M). Machine to machine is a long-standing industry term that became popular to describe a network facilitating communications between devices (wired or wireless). Early applications were in telemetry and industrial automation. IDC characterizes M2M as a precursor to, and now a subset of, the Internet of Things. In the new world, IoT architectures expand beyond the mere communication aspects summarized by M2M. IDC identifies as many as 12 components involved in IoT deployments, spanning from sensors to intelligent systems for network and device management, and from data analytics software and applications to installation and maintenance services. This also means that innovati

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space is being driven not only by pioneers of M2M, but also by software or solution players coming from the outside. IDC believes that IoT implementations can bring both tangible and intangible advantages to organizations, with innovation the common denominator. Examples of the benefits coming from IoT deployments range from improvements in maintenance and field service to having a full picture of end customers across mobile devices and retail spaces (omni-channel marketing), from logistic costs savings arising from freight monitoring to enhanced customer experience (in the automotive...

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organizations, publish and process events, and monitor the business and process performance of these applications and automated processes (for a deeper analysis see IDC's Software Taxonomy, 2015, IDC #256767, June 2015). In other words, middleware is the backbone on which enterprise applications sit, and the glue that keeps them together and allow them to talk to each other and to external data sources. IDC believes that middleware for IoT will play a key role in two main locations:  At the aggregation points (gateways) close to the edge of the network. Here, the software's key role is...

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Starting from 2000, Linux inched its way into maturity. Beginning that year, Eurotech gradually expanded support for open source operating systems and firmware, exploiting their advantages in terms of customization and the fact that they enabled an even longer support cycle. EUROTECH'S APPROACH TO IOT Eurotech's leadership perceived a change in the market in 2007, as computing platforms began to quickly shrink in size, marking the beginning of the M2M and "pervasive computing" era. Technology and processes were not mature enough, but the ground was being prepared for the IoT explosion...

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the air conditioning gear it has deployed in real time, collecting information such as pressure, power efficiency, power usage, and temperature. Eurotech also developed custom, ruggedized gateway hardware for the customer to enable deployment in extreme environments.  In July 2015, Eurotech announced that Ariston Thermo Group, a multinational offering products and services for commercial and consumer heating, used Eurotech Everyware Cloud to support its IoT platform. Eurotech's solutions enable Ariston to connect the heating systems on the customer's premises to a centralized analytics...

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Red Hat's middleware technology to further bolster its capabilities both in its back-end and on its gateway solutions. The positive experience with Red Hat on the message queueing platform led to closer cooperation between the companies, and enabled Eurotech to discover other aspects of Red Hat's broader portfolio, from Linux and enterprise infrastructure solutions, to IaaS, PaaS, and other enablers of IoT. In November 2014, the company joined the Red Hat Partner Program, "Working with Red Hat gives us the opportunity to becoming a Red Hat ISV (Independent connect with potential software...

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