CANADIAN TELECOM SUMMIT 2014: Exa and Zetta and Trillion. Big numbers from the cloud’s Big Data

By Linda Stuart

TORONTO – The volume of data being generated by the Internet of things is “mind boggling” and “transforms literally everything”, said Alec Saunders, vice-president of Blackberry’s QNX Cloud Business division, speaking during a Canadian Telecom Summit panel titled “Cloud, Big Data and the Transformative Power of the Network” on Monday.“We’re seeing usage of data in all kinds of analytics scenarios that people didn’t really think about when they were collecting the data,” Saunders said, adding the challenge for companies is being able to use and share that data in meaningful ways.He gave the example of an industrial lighting manufacturer in...