Edge computing strategy: 5 potential gaps to watch for

Is 2022 the year that edge computing gets down to business? In financial terms, edge has already arrived: IDC predicts that companies will spend $176 billion on edge computing worldwide this year, roughly a 15% increase from 2021. There may be more qualitative signs of edge computing's maturation in terms of architectural approaches, technical capabilities, enterprise use cases, security tactics, and more. "Even if we see echoes of older architectures in certain edge computing deployments, we also see developing edge trends that are genuinely new, or at least quite different from what existed previously," Gordon Haff, technology evangelist at Red Hat, wrote recently in his analysis of edge trends to watch in 2022. "And they're helping IT and business leaders solve problems in industries ranging from telco to automotive, for example, as both sensor data and machine learning (ML) data proliferates."