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11/24/2014 @ 11:06AM
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Its become clear in the past few years that few technologies live in a vacuum.
Theyre more likely to be connected or related and sharing data, which is why
its always better to think of the enterprise holistically rather than in silos.
(Imagine how much more efficiently the federal government would run if it
stored one record of each citizen, rather than one at the Internal Revenue
Service, another at the Social Security Administration, another at the
Transportation Security Administration, and so on.)
Thats also why youre hearing the term SMAC bandied about more recently.
Thats the amalgam of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud, because the four
work better together than individually.
Similarly, the close sibling of analytics, big data, also feeds off the Internet of
Things. Admittedly, I think were much further along with big data than we
are with the Internet of Things, especially since, as Forbes contributor Gil
Press noted wryly earlier this year, the Internet of Things has surpassed big
data on the Gartner hype curve.
But once the Internet of Things gets rolling, stand back. Were going to have
data spewing at us from all directions from appliances, from machinery,
from train tracks, from shipping containers, from power stations. I loved the
infographic on the Big Data Startup site about all the ways well come to
collect sensor data. If that doesnt get you thinking about how to handle
real-time data feeds, nothing will. But heres a suggestion: start now.
You may still have time. GigaOms Derrick Harris noted last week that the
Internet of Things isnt producing a data deluge yet. But the analytics
challenge is nonetheless looming. As Harris rightfully says, after citing
Ciscos prediction of 21 billion connected devices by 2018, the companies
that will be storing all that device data are less concerned [about] sheer
volume and more concerned about making it usable.
Some companies are already starting. As Drew Robb noted in his Enterprise
Apps Today article last week, How IoT Will Change Big Data Analytics, Duke
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