to collect data that they generate in farms, factories, hospitals, aircraft, and oil wells. From shop floor metrics to video surveillance, to information collected by IoT devices, customers are interested in a model that goes beyond straightforward store-and-forward data to collection, and would like to be able to do some local processing as the data arrives. They want to filter, clean, analyze, organize, track, summarize, and monitor the data as it arrives. They want to scan incoming data for patterns or problems, and raise alerts quickly if something interesting is detected.