DocAndersen
The what is to be posted. It is one that I try to post every year. I haven’t this year, mostly because I spent most of last year posting somewhat could be or will be posted on various other blog sites. Most of those pigeons have not come home to roost yet, so it is still waiting and see a number of my predictions. One of the future states that do, however, merit some inclusion and discussion is the evolution of what the edge of computing.
Edge once was a hard outer shell used as a barrier by a company. With the expansion of computing to beyond the existing edges, our world’s have changed, but our definitions haven’t kept up. Edge now represents the farthest reaches of any person, company, and government on the internet. That, by the way, is never as far as the organization thinks it is. It is also never as far as we would like it to be.
In particular, the reality of IoT changes the edge of computing. Internet of Things devices often includes their computing power. They can connect back via the internet (hence the name) to a central solution. Or they can operate in a stand-alone manner. That operation is what causes issues for most organizations. We are used to what used to be, but now things have changed.
As computing evolves around us, it does force us to ask where the Edge is?
hard to believe just how fast!
The edge is just beyond the far reaches of the rim.
I will agree with Carol there — computing is really evolving quite fast and it is hard to keep up with the development
It truly is, plus the faster it evovles the fast the bad actors become.
Technology is definitely evolving, faster than I can keep up with.
I worry that we are creating pockets of people that can’t keep up becuase we’ve created a complexity problem.