Today, IoT-connected devices outnumber the human population and is expected to triple it by 2030. The amount of data being created, processed and stored is putting a strain on traditional data centers and the organizations/individuals that rely on the cloud for their compute power.
Edge computing. Edge technologies. Edge platforms. Edge devices. Edge to enterprise. We’ve seen the term “edge” used so many times in news, articles, blogs and campaigns that we’re starting to feel some semantic satiation on whether it’s even a real word anymore.
Thanks to modern communications infrastructure we can bring the compute power from the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to just about any point in the developed world. But what do your customers do when they need data-heavy analytics in remote, rural, or undeveloped locations? They can’t always afford to build a data center where they need them. The poor quality of infrastructure in these regions prevents the use of high bandwidth solutions. But there must be a solution, right?
With the technology landscape ever changing, it seems like there is a new hot buzzword online or acronym being thrown around phone calls every day. Oftentimes, words are used improperly or without a true understanding of their relationship to the technology at hand or business problem in question. It can be hard to sort through all of the noise.
