Manufacturers have long sensed and actuated and intelligence throughout the network, on real-time data feeds within controlled powering internal and external processes, as manufacturing environments. This has led to well as intelligent and predictive engagements better quality products at significantly lower between businesses and individuals across prices. Companies are now looking to sense and entire ecosystems (Figure 2). The net effect is actuate on data collected outside the factory the continued importance and growth in walls, while products are being used. enterprise storage. Manufacturers can extend product life and Figure 2 reduce product failures by understanding Data propagation from endpoints to core and back product performance in random environments DPOIN used by customers with a multitude of behavior EN T profiles. This is now possible with sensors that p o l e e P are embedded and connected in the everyday s M e o l c b i DGE i h E l e e products that we use. V O h ffi c C n c a e r s o B m But the heart of the Datasphere is the R p T O E o C u I t core. The core plays a critical role by e Large r s providing centralized storage and Datacenters including archiving, service delivery, deeper-level C Private & Public el s l Cloud s analytics, command and control, and T T y t o a e O w w s regulatory compliance. As a result, data B e e s rs at A G flows in a constant stream from endpoints and the edge to the core and back out to A R / I the edge and endpoints, with each location V P R A C d o e n t n c e playing an important part in the overall s P e r s o s ce Datasphere. This propagation of data drives data growth in the core and has ramifications for analytics Source: IDC’s Data Age 2025 study, sponsored by Seagate We’ll have more intelligence and more activity at the edge on data coming from the generators that we build and the IoT devices we have deployed…raw data will be analyzed on the edge first, and then the results will be sent back to the core for deeper analysis. – CISO/CFO, Leading Manufacturing Firm IDC White Paper I Doc# US44413318 I November 2018 The Digitization of the World – From Edge to Core I 8