The buzz: “The IoT...ups the ante: ‘Reach out and touch somebody’ is becoming ‘reach out and touch everything’” (Parker Trewin). The Internet of Things (IoT) is about connecting machines and devices and sensors – but connecting to ‘What’? How does data from the airliner – or the factory floor, or the weather station – find its way to business applications running in private or vendor-hosted clouds, to ultimately provide useful info that impacts our daily lives? It’s about IoT data's end-to-end journey and the ‘Internet’ portion of the ‘Internet of Things.’ The experts speak. Jason E. Sfaelos,
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