Much of the revenue opportunities available for Big Data vendors is in helping traditional enterprises evolve to the next generation software defined data management data center.

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The EU for all its faults was then the center of European debates about next generation industry.

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In next-generation computing, intelligent devices will control service on the network, and bandwidth -- once a profit center for telecom carriers -- will become a commodity, Capellas said.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology is on the case, too: In 1999 it formed AgeLab, a research center within the university's engineering school, to come up with new ideas for the next generation of seniors.

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