Cisco: Big Data Is the Network, Too - NYTimes.com

Concluding paragraphs of a snapshot from the front line of the battle for "Internet of things" and big data market leadership

"As we rush to crunch data from more parts of both the Internet and the physical world, the argument runs, we will make analytics and computing part of everything. That could make it hard for independent analytics providers, or force them to also adopt networking or computing businesses. But that would require a lot of money.
The question could ultimately be whether the center of the system is in the data, as EMC thinks, or in H.P.’s servers, IBM’s software, or Cisco’s network. As the saying goes, where you stand has a lot to do with where you sit."

Cisco: Big Data Is the Network, Too - NYTimes.com