3 Must Haves for Building a Resilient Edge
OCP at the edge is predicted to be a larger market than hyperscale. That’s quite a statement considering hyperscale capacity is expected to double in the next few years. To support the growth and maintain the increasingly critical edge , we must build resiliency through a collaborative ecosystem. This was the topic of my presentation at the OCPSummit19 . Reduced latency and the need to process massive volumes of data are driving the edge. Plus, new 5G technology will depend on it. Applications and closed services are moving to the regional edge — some even closer to the user at the local edge. Call them cloud stacks, cloudettes or outposts, complex architectures including these local edge data centers will be required. Telco networks will build similar architectures with a multi-access edge computing (MEC) model allowing delivery through fiber, radio network and wifi. And though users won’t know where an application is hosted, they’ll surely feel the effects when processing is...