Technavio predicts mini data center market to grow from 1.87 billion in 2016 to 4.13 billion by 2021 at a CAGR of 17.17%. Technavio analysts highlight the following four factors that are contributing to the growth of the global mini data center market: Increase in demand for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) Increased deployment of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) Highly [...]
Key findings of this report: Edge computing is already the default paradigm for many industrial applications given that the majority of these applications predated cloud computing. This alone will make it a ‘safe transition’ technology (in contrast to centralized cloud models) for operational technology professionals hesitant to adopt IoT solutions. Edge computing offers considerable benefits to latency-sensitive applications by performing [...]
Researcher Victor Bahl from Microsoft published a presentation showing the micro data center approach to reduce the network latency for real-time and large volume applications such as gaming, video recognition, VR and AR. By deploying micro data center to bring cloud closer to end user applications will significantly reduce the network latency, at the same time, prevent safety threats, improve [...]
Edge computing is the future Beyond industry’s longstanding reticence to store information off site and high-profile cloud service outages, there are two other reasons supporting this restatement of the importance of edge computing for IoT. One reason is recent venture capitalist calls that edge computing technology firms are the market’s next big investment target. The other is Dell’s release of [...]
Overview of Gartner The Edge Manifesto Report The edge manifesto calls for the placement of content, compute and data center resources on the edge of the network, closer to concentrations of users. This augmentation of the traditional centralized data center model ensures a better user experience demanded by digital business. We've begun the move to digital business, including rich content [...]
