Modern enterprise Data Driven Applications make predictions about business functions, prescribe what to do next, and in many cases, take action autonomously. As a result, business users get answers directly from the software without interference from analysts querying databases.

Storing Big Data in the cloud does not remove the responsibility for protecting it – from both a regulatory and a commercial perspective. The practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction of information is equally essential in Big Data environments.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal states or the external environment. Although things, Internet, and connectivity are the three core components of IoT, the value is in closing the gap between the physical and digital world in self-reinforcing and self-improving systems.