{"id":27977,"date":"2016-04-19T08:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zemsania.com\/?p=14991"},"modified":"2022-12-23T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:30:46","slug":"3-keys-to-it-ot-big-data-iot-and-cloud-convergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zemsaniaglobalgroup.com\/en\/3-claves-para-la-convergencia-it-ot-big-data-iot-y-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"3 keys to IT-OT convergence: Big Data, IoT and Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

We will try to analyze, in this short space available to us, the possible consequences in the short and medium term of the inevitable convergence between \u201cinformation technologies\u201d (IT) and so-called \u201coperation technologies\u201d (OT)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OT is a term coined a few years ago to refer to the set of technologies used in industrial processes and also in infrastructure and infrastructure management. utilities<\/em>, The Company's operations are carried out in the following areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The traditional IT systems<\/strong> are mostly applications running on relational databases, based on application servers and web environments. The OT systems<\/strong>, The majority of SCADA and MES applications are based on proprietary platforms of a few manufacturers (General Electric, Rockwell, Schneider and Siemens, among others).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their early days, IT and OT technologies had very little in common. Industrial control systems ran on specific hardware, with real-time operating systems, and bore little resemblance to IT technologies that relied heavily on Intel hardware and the Microsoft family of operating systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been many years since IT and OT systems began to share standard hardware and software platforms and proprietary operating systems were abandoned.<\/strong>. OT systems have also been running on virtualization platforms such as VMware for some years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as of today, few other similarities can be found between the two worlds.<\/strong>. Neither the basic products used to create applications, nor the companies that lead each of the markets have anything to do with each other. The IT world is dominated by large database and corporate application providers (ERP, CRM, CMS, etc.) such as Oracle, HP, IBM, Microsoft, etc. Open Source products based on Linux have also made a strong entrance into the IT world, especially in web applications and mobile applications. The OT world, however, remains very focused on the Windows world, and evolves on the basis of the half dozen large multinational players that provide their products with few interoperability options between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, these differences will not last forever. The winds of change are blowing, and some events that have started a few years ago and are happening right now in our environment, will generate an important evolution in the OT world that is difficult to know where it will take us and how it will end. Below, we talk about the key factors to consider when talking about IT-OT convergence:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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