Fallacies About Edge Computing

Philbert Shih | Jan 25, 2021 Philbert Shih is Managing Director at Structure Research There continues to be a conversation around what the emergence of edge computing will mean for the wider cloud computing and infrastructure services market. In this article, we take a close look at the recent predictions from a Forrester Research analyst and compare with similarly dubious commentary from a Gartner analyst a few years back. Forrester Research. Forrester claims edge computing will hit an inflection point in 2021 and its emergence will moderate cloud growth. Quoting the analyst: edge will “siphon off some of the money that would otherwise have gone to cloud expansion” (in 2021).