The Current State of Public Cloud Enterprise IoT Platforms
Customers are adopting cloud-based IoT because of the rich data platform services that complement the core IoT services. Data ingestion, transformation, data storage, processing, analysis and integration with 3rd party databases are the key capabilities of these data platforms. Mature IoT platforms offer real-time stream analytics powered by Apache Spark and batch processing based on Apache Hadoop. This seamless integration between device management and data platforms makes public cloud IoT services attractive for enterprises.