AI & DATA ANALYTICS
THE TREND
EDGE COMPUTING
Moving data closer to where it’s needed
makes everything work faster. After
the flurry that was cloud computing,
companies are starting to realise that
pushing everything back and forth is a
relatively slow and painful process when
you can keep it nearby and have data
speeds really fly. With the advent of 5G,
edge computing is about to become a
staple of enterprise IT at scale, particularly
when deployed as part of an IoT network.
THE SOFTWARE
AWS IOT GREENGRASS
The two big players in edge are Microsoft
(Azure) and AWS, which unsurprisingly has
a variety of edge data projects up its sleeve.
IoT Greengrass is a runtime environment
for edge computing which can work
alongside the company’s Snow suite of
infrastructure products to streamline edge
networking in a localised environment,
without leaving big brother’s world-beating
data management universe.
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