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Edge computing has been a prominent environment in the industry for some time now – it is clearly an important space wherein everything is connected. Because of its significance, protecting these edge environments is crucial. And we’re seeing data center modernization tactics being taken to improve resiliency and maintain uptime. IT professionals and business owners know what they need in a technology platform that works for their company, and that means seeking the best solution. Supporting the Edge – Why Computing Power is Demanding Greater Infrastructure For example, if you were building a brand-new house in today’s digital age with 30+ connected devices in your home, you probably wouldn’t be routing phone jack and network cabling all over the house to support the connectivity to these devices. You would be looking at wireless – for your router, repeater, networking switch – essentially a whole new network infrastructure to support the new technology today and what’s coming tomor...

Recent data shows that industrial productivity is currently stuck in neutral. According to the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics , labor productivity, during the current business cycle (which started in the fourth quarter of 2007), has grown at an annualized rate of only 1.1 percent. In essence, across many industries, a productivity ceiling has been reached. A new wave of industrial edge applications, however, that generate and process manufacturing machine data locally, now present a possible solution to this problem. Productivity numbers have reached this plateau because traditional technologies are imposing fundamental limits on how effectively workers can perform their jobs in the workplace. Most organizations have reached a productivity limit that will require a different fundamental set of work tools and new, more collaborative work approaches to overcome. Now, the search is on for new ways to improve industrial productivity. A recent trend which is helping t...

According to a recent Synergy research report , Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and AWS drive 75% of the revenue in the cloud provider space of the data center market . In the U.S., that leaves enterprises with essentially two choices. Does that mean it’s easier or harder to migrate to the cloud? Put simply, both. So said panelists David Linthicum, Chief Cloud Strategy Office, Deloitte Consulting and David McCall, VP of Innovation, QTS, during a discussion I led at this year’s Data Center Austin Conference (DCAC) . Assessing Cloud Providers for your IT Applications Linthicum and McCall are mixed on their views of simplicity and complexity. McCall believes it’s “exponentially harder for CEOS, CIOs and CTOs to walk through the minefield.” The question is bigger than which cloud provider to pick, he said. It’s a matter of what companies are specifically looking for: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, private cloud and so on. Before picking a provider, he said that companies must understand the problem they...

According to research firm MarketsandMarkets , from 2017 through to 2022, edge computing will experience a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 35.4% (from $1.47 Billion USD to $6.72 Billion). Increased load on cloud infrastructure, application environments that are not suited to the cloud due to latency issues, and the growth of digitized applications across industries are some of the main factors driving the edge compute momentum. Organizations that invest in edge computing will need to devise modern strategies for managing these small, yet important and geographically dispersed data processing environments. The approach will be different from the way traditional,  centralized data centers are managed. A large global enterprise, for example, may find itself having to manage hundreds or even thousands of these sites. Therefore, dedicating IT staff for edge support is neither practical nor affordable. These environments will require sophisticated tools that enable a very simple...