Google to close down Google IoT core in 2023: Damning verdict and recommendation from MachNation

Immediately, Google has introduced that it’s shutting down Google IoT Core in August, 2023. Based on Josh Taubenheim, MachNation‘s head IoT analyst, Google is doing this for 2 causes.

They’re:

1. Google cancels merchandise. That is removed from the primary time Google has cancelled a product or discontinued help for it. Google has axed a minimum of 20 main product releases over the previous decade (Google Product Graveyard).

2. Of the three hyperscale cloud suppliers, Google’s IoT providing is the worst of the group. Google has failed to stick to present safety requirements, modernise their platform, and has added few to no new options since inception. We’ve documented these deficiencies for over 5 years in MachNation’s IoT Utility Enablement ScoreCard and our IoT Machine Administration ScoreCard.

What ought to enterprises that use Google IoT core do?

• For enterprise with experience in cloud-native deployments on Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure options, migrate your Web of Issues (IoT) infrastructure to a unique cloud supplier akin to AWS or Azure that has a devoted group and vested curiosity in sustaining the viability of their options. However don’t underestimate the trouble required to do that. And not using a well-recreated IoT system structure, different components of your IoT tech stack will stop to operate if you transfer to a brand new hyperscaler.
• For enterprises loath to make use of one other hyperscaler moreover Google, transfer your IoT answer to a best-in-class, third occasion answer. There are lots of in the marketplace which are designed to function with particular verticals, and simply as many which are extra horizontal to suit a number of use-cases. Caveat emptor… there are huge variations in platforms’ scalability, efficiency, and options. MachNation discovered way back that solely through the use of and testing dozens of IoT platforms can we really perceive what these platforms are able to.
• For enterprises that also need to use a hyperscaler, you possibly can additionally think about a fault-tolerant multi-cloud answer. Whereas it might be extra complicated to implement and incur further prices up-front, a multi-cloud answer for issues like IoT information storage or machine agent help is extra dependable, versatile, and fewer prone to spell catastrophe ought to one other firm “pull a Google”.

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The writer is Josh Taubenheim, head IoT analyst of MachNation.

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