Either way, factories have to take advantage of new capabilities enabled by the increasingly rapid convergence of mobility, real-time complex dataprocessing and analytics, cloud based services and machine-to-machine intelligence.
Palmer said rumors abound of Yahoo and Google releasing more real-time processing technologies for working in real-time with big data, and Streambase plans some specific product announcements in a month or so.
The end-to-end ocean data solution provided by Liquid Robotics' new integrated platform provides ocean data collection and processing at the point of collection with realtime delivery of critical information to shore.
And the reality is, there is more batch processing and post-process reporting in Big Data applications (vs. real-time capabilities) than insiders want to admit.
The first successful big data technology was enterprise data warehouses that implement massively parallel processing, scale to the petabytes, handle batch and real-time latencies with equal agility, and provide connectors to structured and unstructured sources.