All you ever wanted to know about fog computing

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The Internet of Things (IoT) and the cloud are impossible to separate. Only about a third of the data collected by the growing army of sensors is analysed at source, but as the IoT grows, that is going to need to change.

“Sensors and the data they create are the next big thing,” says Scott Gnau, CTO of data management platform firm Hortonworks. “Compute can now happen at the sensor level, and not solely in a centralised data centre or cloud footprint, and it’s sometimes referred to as fog computing.”

Scott Gnau, CTO of HortonworksWhat is fog computing?

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