{"id":4948,"date":"2022-04-12T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T20:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:00:30","slug":"edge-comouting-definition-and-roadmap-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/edge-comouting-definition-and-roadmap-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"An Edge Computing Definition and Roadmap for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is part of Solutions Review\u2019s Premium Content Series, a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories. In this submission, Zadara<\/a>‘s Vice President of Worldwide Solution Architecture Noam Shendar offers an edge computing definition and potential roadmap to consider for the future.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SRWe\u2019re at the beginning of a new technology epoch.<\/p>\n

The world has been migrating to the cloud<\/a><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 private, public, and hybrid \u2013 for nearly 20 years. In the last technological epoch, enterprises have utilized the cloud as a centralized repository where they can economically store and access their data<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. The cloud has taken over the world, replacing onsite servers and storage<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and providing economies of scale. And yet, a fatal flaw with the cloud paradigm lurks.<\/p>\n

For years, organizations have moved their data to the cloud while assuming \u201cthe cloud is the cloud.\u201d In reality, the cloud is an earth-bound infrastructure, managed in locations around the globe, and made accessible by the internet. Accessible, however, is not the same as ubiquitous. When migrating to the cloud, considerations must be made for which data to send there, the distance between the cloud locations and the users that access them, and technologies that can mitigate some latency along the way.<\/p>\n

The cloud tidal wave of the past 20 years has had enterprises believing that \u2018the cloud will handle it\u2019 without addressing the physical distance between cloud data centers and users, and the potential for performance, compliance, and productivity problems not only between the clouds but also between users and the cloud. These are some of the hitches that still and likely will always need to be addressed in some form with the cloud.<\/p>\n

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Fundamentally, when an organization\u2019s data resides in the cloud, it gives up its independence for convenience and affordability. The organization\u2019s data becomes a tenant, usually one of very many in one big cloud.\u00a0A cloud that can and will occasionally fail, taking every organization\u2019s enterprise data offline with it.<\/p>\n

Recognizing that the cloud is a good start but not the final destination, the pendulum is swinging. We are here, on the precipice of the next technological epoch. Organizations are\u00a0now shifting their focus from a centralized cloud<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, located out there somewhere, to a decentralized model – edge cloud.\u00a0Edge cloud is the distributed computing and storage paradigm that includes the deployment of infrastructure and applications outside of centralized data centers, in multiple locations, as close as possible to where data is generated and consumed.<\/p>\n

The very nature of edge cloud brings immediate business benefits:<\/p>\n