IT loves an acronym and a trend, but eventually many of them do start to evolve, become more accessible and businesses start to deploy them and publicise the benefits, then another and another before finally the technology starts to become more commonplace and increasingly companies want to investigate the potential benefits to them.

Roll back 7 or 8 years, Cloud found itself in that position, but today Cloud is the norm and becoming standard practice in businesses of all types.

Over the last 12 months I've started to see this increasingly with another trendy tech acronym IoT.

On this week's Tech Interviews we ask why? And try to discover what is driving the uptake in IoT projects. To help me to do this I'm joined by Mark Carlton, Solutions Architect for IoT and Edge at Arrow ECS, he joins me to share his experiences of the last 18 months, and how he's seen the IoT space evolve.

On this week's show we discuss;

What is IoT

The importance of understanding business value

The importance of connectivity

Sensors are not the heart of IoT

The components of IoT

Cloud making IoT accessible

Example projects

What makes a good IoT project?

How to get started

I really enjoyed this chat and find the world of IoT both interesting and increasingly relevant and accessible, Mark provides excellent insight and shares some great experiences.

Next time we look at building a security-in-depth strategy, to make sure you catch that episode you can subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts.

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Until next time, thanks for listening.

Full show notes are here : https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1IH