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During the past decade, businesses have been implementing IoT applications by connecting devices/“things” on their internal network (InTRAnet) to provide better customer service, reduce costs and more. These businesses are converting the vast amounts of data generated into actionable insights by applying advanced analytics technologies designed specifically to handle the requirements of Real-time Big Data analytics.

With more and more devices being connected to the InTERnet, the opportunity for additional value is growing rapidly as the projected number devices connected broadly across all of IoT grows exponentially.

To truly take advantage of the massive amounts of real-time data in the emerging IoT world, we need to transform our thinking, processes, and infrastructure to act in seconds...not hours and days.

This presentation will discuss the opportunities, challenges,  and solutions related to analyzing large amounts of IOT data.

The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference is that what have in the past been disparate and disconnected systems are now rapidly becoming uniform, connected, and always-on systems.

This shift in computing triggers new demands and requirements that will put existing infrastructures to the test and most likely cause massive disruption in the technology echo system, as old players can't keep up with new more agile players. As with any major technology shift it is important to stay open minded to new ideas and emerging technologies, technologies that may help you stay ahead in the next 10 to 20 years.

With this explosive growth in connected devices, predominantly Web-enabled and Web-accessible devices (yes, we're thinking about smartphones, tablets, vehicles, utility meters, apparel, and more) the demand for more live information, communication and distribution of data over the Web will grow exponentially. How are we going to be able to address these potential?