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.