It’s time for fog/edge computing in the internet of things
The marketing team at Cisco introduced its fog computing vision in January 2014, also known as edge computing for other more purist vendors. However, it took until 2017 for fog to collect its most popular headlines thanks to the internet of things.
A study by IDC estimated that by 2020 10% of the world’s data will be produced by edge devices. This will further drive the need for more efficient fog computing technologies that provide low latency and holistic intelligence simultaneously.
“Computing at the edge of the network is, of course, not new — we’ve been doing it for years to solve the same issue with other kinds of computing.”
As the internet of things proliferates, businesses face a growing need to analyze data from sources at the edge of a network, whether they are mobile phones, gateways or IoT sensors. Cloud computing has a disadvantage here: It can’t process data quickly enough for modern business applications. Read more…