IoT data analysis may require hybrid approach
One of the questions CIOs and businesses will have to wrestle with when building out an internet of things project is this: Where should the analysis of data happen -- at the edge or in the cloud? Analyzing data at the edge gives a company speed. Rather than send every ping or a batch of pings to the cloud, data points are collected and analyzed on the device. But not all internet of things (IoT) use cases require the kind of speed provided by edge analytics. "These are challenges customers