Processing data and exchange of information across the vast, rapidly changing edge requires standardization and open systems. iStock
Edge computing is essential to many digital transformation plans – spanning virtually any industry from retail to telcos to manufacturers. Scalability and manageability represent opportunity and challenges as organizations role out edge deployments, which is where open hybrid cloud may pave the way to achieve critical goals.
“As emerging edge computing applications for the enterprise gain momentum, it’s becoming clearer how they converge with digital transformation initiatives,” Stephanie Overby writes for
The Enterprisers Project. “In the case of many advancing capabilities – such as machine learning or IoT – edge computing can be the link that supercharges potential business outcomes.”
2021 State of the Edge Report Shows Impact of COVID-19 on Edge Use A recent edge report by the Linux Foundation concluded that the global pandemic has changed which industries will have the largest edge computing architecture footprint going forward.
Surprising nobody who’s watched IT news for the last year, the most recent edition of the Linux Foundation’s annual State of the Edge report
documented the lingering impact that COVID-19-prompted edge computing developments will have. The previous year had projected the use of edge computing architecture
on an industry-by-industry basis in 2028. Consequently, the Linux Foundation’s State of the Edge project has revisited many of the forecasts it made in its 2020 report.