Three Key Enablers of IOT and Edge Computing Resilience
More data was generated in 2017 alone than over the previous 5,000 years of human history combined. This explosion of data owes much to the Internet of Things (IoT) phenomenon and is forcing enterprises to enhance their ability to derive and analyze business relevant information from this vast pool of data in order to drive business growth. As more and more devices are connected, both data centers and edge nodes (an edge node can be a single server, gateway, or other device with computational capabilities that gathers and processes local data and is connected to a larger network) will need to be resilient and provide the fundamental physical infrastructure that enables analytics-related real-time decision support. How did we evolve to this point? Over the last several years, a wave of technology trends changed both data center design and operation practices and allowed for the emergence of a new arena of data processing: the edge computing environment. Since new technology builds on...