IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- WDLabs®,
a business growth incubator of storage solutions leader Western
Digital® Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC), is utilizing its WD® My Cloud®
OS3 device in conjunction with the IBM® Internet of Things (IoT)
Foundation and the ARM® mbed™ IoT Device Platform to provide
developers a flexible platform to support advanced analytics and
data application services.
At the ARM TechCon conference (booth #910) in Santa Clara, CA, WDLabs will be demonstrating
a proof-of-concept on how the WD My Cloud OS 3 SDK provides an
ideal platform for developing applications at the edge. In
addition, IoT sensor data may be stored and analyzed when
integrated with the ARM mbed IoT Device Platform and IBM IoT
Foundation. Ultimately, knowledge gained from analysis of multiple
data sources can be combined to achieve further insight.
Together the companies create a viable infrastructure for
developers to create better and smarter apps that process IoT and
video data at the edge. Western Digital, IBM and ARM play three
significant roles to enable the development in an end-to-end IoT
infrastructure for app and device developers, such as:
- Smart Sensors: The mbed IoT Device Platform is secure, enables
devices to be mass-production ready and offers support for app
developers to plug and play sensors;
- Data Services at the Edge: WD's My Cloud OS 3 platform
interacts with the mbed IoT Device Platform, hosting data services
at the Edge and connecting to data services on the cloud; and
- Analyzing the Data: IBM real-time, predictive and cognitive
analytic services run locally through IBM IoT Foundation platform
to better understand the data that IoT devices generate, including
video analytics libraries optimized for sending alerts, metadata
and deeper analytics.
"Western Digital is enabling inventors and businesses to be more
productive, while storing data locally on My Cloud systems," said
Richard E. Rutledge, SVP of
marketing, WDLabs. "The My Cloud OS SDK and platform enable app
developers to efficiently connect to their apps and run local
analytics and metadata."
The demonstration will address the following pain points for app
developers in IoT:
- Performance: Maintaining data locally provides faster
access to more actionable data. By using local analytics, only
necessary and relevant video data and metadata need to be sent to
the cloud. Local analytics can be run on My Cloud OS 3, with
complex analytics in IBM IoT Foundation for greater functionality.
Latency problems are reduced because users are not sending all of
the data set to the datacenter and back. Local data retention also
means a user can run edge-based trend analysis on historical
data.
- Control: Storing data locally allows a user to control
what's shared. Only pre-processed fractions of the data must be
transferred to the cloud for more comprehensive analytics.
- Cost: Data storage latency and resource costs are
reduced by storing most of the data locally on a My Cloud device.
Subscription fees are eliminated and bandwidth requirements are
lower.
- Security: Pre-processed data is encrypted when
transferred to the cloud.
The impact of IoT lies in the sheer volume of data generated.
More and more of the world's activity is being expressed digitally
by billions of interconnected devices. The resulting data provides
businesses with the ability to learn more about their operating
environment and to act with the potential of creating new value.
IoT is helping businesses better understand and manage very complex
systems, such as smart surveillance buildings. According to IDC, 61
percent of the organizations surveyed by the firm are actively
pursuing IoT initiatives1.
It is estimated from IDC that by 2020, IoT spending will rise to
$3 trillion and there will be nearly
30 billion IoT devices2. As IoT sensors generate more
and more data at the edge, in systems such as automation and video
surveillance for smart homes/buildings, there is not a simple or
clear way to save, aggregate and learn from all the data that is
being generated.
"As the IoT grows, there is an increased demand for reliable,
secure and productive embedded software and web services," said
Zach Shelby, vice president of
marketing, IoT business, ARM. "ARM mbed is providing the building
blocks to simplify the creation and deployment of secure and
reliable IoT applications at scale. The collaboration with Western
Digital and IBM offers mbed developers the key value-add features
to enable a full end-to-end IoT infrastructure solution."
"We are excited about collaborating with both Western Digital
and ARM on a real-world example of secure distributed analytics for
the Internet of Things," said John
Cohn, IBM Fellow, Internet of Things. "The proof of concept
shows how easy it is to link ARM's mbed devices to IBM real-time
analytics by way of Western Digital's highly secure storage My
Cloud gateway. Together we are showing how we can efficiently move
workloads through a highly secure gateway and obtain real-time
insights through a combination of advanced analytics on the edge
and in the cloud."
My Cloud SDK Platform:
The My Cloud device SDK, based on the Docker™ open platform
technology, ensures developers can easily access and collaborate to
create customized experiences. Partners already developing
extensions and new features based on the new SDK include Plex and
Milestone. To learn more about the My Cloud platform for
developers, visit http://developer.mycloud.com/.
About WD Labs®
WD Labs, a Western Digital organization, is a business growth
incubator focused on opportunity identification, early engagement,
partnering and market creation. It accomplishes this goal via a
disciplined growth process and staffing with a broad range of WD
talent and aims to create ecosystem opportunities for both WD and
its partners.
About Western Digital
Founded in 1970, Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC),
Irvine, Calif., is an
industry-leading developer and manufacturer of storage solutions
that enable people to create, manage, experience and preserve
digital content. It is a long-time innovator in the storage
industry. Western Digital Corporation is responding to changing
market needs by providing a full portfolio of compelling,
high-quality storage products with effective technology deployment,
high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Its products are marketed
under the HGST and WD brands to OEMs, distributors, resellers,
cloud infrastructure providers and consumers. Financial and
investor information is available on the company's Investor
Relations website at investor.wdc.com.
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products. Not all products may be available in all regions of the
world. As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte = one billion
bytes; one terabyte = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity
varies depending on operating environment.
1 IoT Quick Look: Buyer Behavior by Industry and
Company Size, IDC, August 2014,
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=250209
2 IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Enterprise Mobility in
the United States", IDC,
May 2015
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