Satya Nadella revealed Microsoft's edge computing strategy - Business Insider - UrIoTNews

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella imagines a world with an ever-expanding set of connected devices that process data locally and work in tandem with the cloud – and his company has designed its entire multibillion-dollar cloud business around that concept. Nadella revealed the company's strategy for edge computing during Microsoft's recent shareholders meeting. Edge computing is a buzzword, but it basically means processing data on the devices themselves, instead of offsite in the cloud. Think of a self-driving car. It needs to be able to process data and make split-second decisions without the delays that would come if that data had to be processed far away in the cloud.