Big Data Bug Bites GE
General Electric must have gotten the memo from McKinsey’s research arm calling Big Data the "next frontier" and promising untold riches to those who unlock its secrets.
The company is going to pour a reported billion dollars over the next three years into a new global software headquarters that it’s moving into San Ramone in San Francisco’s East Bay where it will build the "Industrial Internet," a sub-category of the Internet of Things and create intelligent connect systems to harness Big Data.
It means to hire 400 more software architects, engineers, biz dev and user experience people, presumably folks who don’t want to cross the bridge to Silicon Valley proper…