Yesterday, industrial giant GE announced that it will invest $105 million into EMC & VMware’s lovechild: Pivotal, that is focusing on the new modern era of developers and cloud.

But what does this announcement mean for Big Data applications? And why is GE’s investment in Pivotal such a huge deal?

Joining this morning’s Live NewsDesk Show with Kristin Feledy is Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante with his Breaking Analysis.

GE, as previously described, is an industrial giant trying to instrument industry and drive massive gains, efficiency, productivity and new value everywhere such as appliances, locomotives, airplanes and even health care.

“The combination of GE, and now EMC and VMware and Pivotal, essentially brings another big player to the Smarter Planet world,” Vellante stated.  “I think the significance is, in my view, the new wave of Big Data applications, everybody talks about the Internet of Things, the Industrial Internet, this is now upon us and we’re seeing a real example of collaboration to drive that forward.”

As for GE’s angle on entering the Big Data race, Vellante stated that it is basically an effort to instrument the entire world as a Big Data practitioner, by taking Big Data from all these connected devices and have its own developers handling Big Data analytics make sense of all the gathered information.  With Pivotal, GE is now entering the Big Data race not only as a practitioner but also as a Big Data investor.

Vellante is certain that the GE investment signifies that they all want to make a lot of money, but essentially, Pivotal just wants to create the next generation Big Data platform while GE wants to change the world.  This investment puts Pivotal ahead of competitors when it comes to Industrial Internet, and this is what others will be looking for in the future.

For more of Vellante’s Breaking Analysis, check out the NewsDesk video below.