VMware Reveals Update to IoT Device Management Software
In the past several decades, there has been a gradual sort of tug of war between centralized computing models to decentralized models. First, there was a centralized mainframe computing model, the dominant form of computing in the middle of the 20th century. That gave rise to the more-distributed client-server model. In recent decades, with the popularity of the cloud, the pendulum swung back in the direction of centralized computing.
Now, the pendulum appears to be reversing course with the rising popularity of edge computing. Gartner anticipates as three-quarters of enterprise companies will produce and process data outside of traditional data centers by 2025. “Before, you were moving the data to where the processing was happening,” said Lakshmi Mandyam, vice president of product management in VMware’s edge and IoT division. “What we see with the edge paradigm is that processing is moving to where the data is happening.”