Musiccosmos

The cloud…how did we get here, how did it all start…surprisingly as early as the 1950s, when mainframes – physically huge and extremely expensive – became available to large corporations and universities. They were accessed by multiple users via terminals that had no compute capabilities and acted solely as stations to facilitate access to the mainframes. Some argue this was Cloud 1.0. Fast-forward several decades and as high-speed internet becomes commonplace, users can access almost limitless compute resources from any internet-connected device, subject of course to being able to pay for it. As we enter the age of the Internet of Things (IoT) , Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication and as the number of data sources continues to grow, the cloud model, with its ultimate physical limitations in terms of network latency will no longer be the panacea it is touted as today, enter Edge computing. What is edge computing? A relatively new concept, edge computing – also referred to as c...