India, May 9 -- Although Agile is now widely used for many types of software development, many IoT projects continue to be created in traditional, and now, increasingly out of date ways. Therefore, many IoT projects are taking far longer than anticipated, or even failing altogether.

This is a situation that doesn't need to exist, said Steve Todd, a software engineer and fellow at Dell Technologies, who noted that there are two main drawbacks to conventional IoT development. "One of them," he explained, "is the lack of a robust, vendor-neutral continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline that makes it easy to deploy applications close to the IoT data sources." Cloud developers, on the other hand, can take advantage of open framewor...