by Angela Guess
Tom Krazit recently wrote in Fortune, “It’s kind of amazing that we all settled on the term “big data” before the “Internet of things” really arrived. That pending revolution, in which we’ll see all kinds of new objects connected to the Internet thanks to the cheap hardware provided by the smartphone boom, will generate information on a scale we can’t even really comprehend yet. Most businesses have woken up to the reality that data analysis is the lifeblood of a 21st century corporation. Yet they are not prepared for the incoming flood of data that these connected objects will provide. It’s one thing to track your customers as they flow through your website, or observe that the yellow button gets way more clicks than the red button. It’s another thing to track data created inside and outside a company about their employees, customers, and partners.”
Krazit goes on, “We need new technologies to make sense of this glut of information. And this is going to change the way that big data companies like Hortonworks, Cloudera, IBM, and others sell products and services. This looming problem is something we’re sure to discuss at Structure Data, scheduled for March 9th and 10th in San Francisco. We’re featuring speakers such as William Ruh of GE, who will talk about the impact the industrial Internet will have on the manufacturing sector; Jerome Dubreuil of Samsung, who will illustrate just how much data connected home devices generate; and a panel of healthcare experts will sort through the dual challenges of the retiring baby boom generation and an explosion in quantified-self health apps.”
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