IDC estimates that there will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices, or “things,” generating 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data in 2025. Gartner forecasts that the enterprise and automotive IoT market will grow to 5.8 billion endpoints in 2020, a 21% increase from 2019. IDC predicts that by 2023, over 50% of new enterprise IT infrastructure deployed will be at the edge rather than corporate data centers, up from less than 10% today; by 2024, the number of apps at the edge will increase 800%.
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