A Christmas Story Wish List with a Modern Twist:
Decoder Pin, Red Ryder BB Gun with IoT, Edge, & EcoStruxure As the holidays approach, my kids are wishing for a myriad of gadgets but my wish list has one only item: a decoder pin like the one that nine-year-old Ralphie hopes to find each time he races to the mailbox in A Christmas Story . I love that movie and how Ralphie is sure that the prized decoder pin will provide insider knowledge into the Little Orphan Annie Secret Society. After a remarkable decade of transformation in our industry, I’d love nothing more for Christmas than to decode what is coming next. Our team recently glanced back at the last 10 years and realized that the term cloud computing did not exist before 2006. That was the year Amazon Web Services was announced and the term ‘cloud computing’ was created. Fast forward to today, about ten years later. The industry is talking about edge computing , renewable energy, driverless cars and making sure the passengers in those driverless cars will have the bandw...