Getting Ready for Big Data 3.0 and the IoT

To get ready for the future of smart, connected products, practitioners must deal with the current equivalent of IoT: the portfolio of modern applications. Properly collecting and analyzing their log data in order manage them requires putting in place many of the skills, infrastructure, and processes necessary to support the IoT of tomorrow. Running Hadoop on a public cloud is likely the quickest way to acquire the skills to manage elastic big data applications on shared infrastructure.