The task of taming the growing amounts of data pouring in from the connected universe starts with the devices themselves, or at least that’s the position of the Open Interconnect Consortium, a newly established industry group focused on harmonizing the way information is  exchanged throughout the Internet of Things.

The group currently only consists of its six founding sponsors, all of which are big-name vendors with plenty of gain from accelerating the connected revolution: Amtel, Broadcom, Dell, Samsung, Intel and Wind River, the chip maker’s embedded software subsidiary. The OIC’s mission statement is to enable seamless data sharing among devices regardless of hardware or operating system, a formidable challenge its plans to tackle by developing tailored access standards for specific use cases such as smart homes and networked machinery

Splunk also hopes to open a new dimension in how information is presented in the connected universe, and mobile devices in particular, with a new app for its flagship machine data analytics platform. The free iOS client hooks up to a server agent managed by the user’s IT organization that serves up dashboards and  alerts from their company’s backend Splunk Enterprise deployment in a mobile-friendly format. The server  doubles as a control point, allowing admins to regulate exactly what it is that employees are accessing and tweak how the app handles requests.

Hot on the heels of the Splunk Mobile App hitting the App Store, web monitoring powerhouse New Relic introduced its own iOS companion application. The software serves as a mobile gateway to  Insights, the company’s newly launched analytics platform. Originally announced in March, the hosted “database super-cluster” enables developers to query billions of real-time data points at a time using a relatively simple SQL-like syntax dubbed the “New Relic Query Language”, or NRQL for short.

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