The Internet of Things is as much about computing as it is about the "things" themselves, and that's why Samsung Electronics is buying Joyent. At first glance, a maker of smartphones, home appliances and wearables doesn't seem like it would need a cloud computing company. But so-called smart objects rely on a lot of number-crunching behind the scenes. A connected security camera can't handle all its video storage and image analysis by itself, for example, and that's where cloud services come in....
The Internet of Things is as much about computing as it is about the "things" themselves, and that's why Samsung Electronics is buying Joyent. At first glance, a maker of smartphones, home appliances and wearables doesn't seem like it would need a cloud computing company. But so-called smart objects rely on a lot of number-crunching behind the scenes. A connected security camera can't handle all its video storage and image analysis by itself, for example, and that's where cloud services come in....
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