Edge computing is here: what's next? - Embedded.com

Across a range of industries, and specifically in the industrial automation vertical, there is broad agreement that the deployment of modern computing resources with cloud native models of software lifecycle management will become ever more pervasive. Placing virtualized computing resources nearer to where multiple streams of data are created is well established. It is the path to address system latency, privacy, cost and resiliency challenges that a pure cloud computing approach cannot address. This paradigm shift was initiated at Cisco Systems around 2010, under the label "fog computing" and progressively morphed into what is now known as "edge computing". The requirements of mission critical industrial systems That said, the full potential of this transformation in both computing and data analytics is far from being realized.