Technology Magazine February 2018 | Page 41

The beauty of this ? Each of those is creating data but research suggests that no more than 2 % of the data we collect today is being properly understood and 98 % is wasted . When you think of what we want to do as a more connected society , it ’ s essential we actually pick up that data and start analysing it to ensure we know the interdependencies . This brings us to the edge where IoT is going to go on and provide a whole new impetus to this thing called cloud .”
But there is , of course , the danger of the cloud becoming a fog and that with all the data being compiled and generated there are not efficient enough tools to mine it for actionable insights . Industry observers , and market leaders like Dell , are exploring ways of moving compute and storage closer to where the data is being generated to achieve more useful analysis in real time . To achieve
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