Cloud computing hype being challenged by fog

Grazed from FinFacts. Author: Michael Hennigan.

Cloud computing has generated a lot of hype in recent years and the proliferation of smartphone and tablets devices has made many people aware of storage in a ‘cloud’ but as the use of remote computing grows, the limitations are becoming more obvious and Cisco, the internet infrastructure firm, is promoting what its calls fog computing.

Christopher Mims, the new technology columnist of The Wall Street Journal who joined from Quartz, in his first column this week writes that whereas the cloud is "up there" in the sky somewhere, distant and remote and deliberately abstracted, the "fog" is close to the ground, right where things are getting done…

Mims says there is a problem with bandwidth and the limitations of wireless and 3G/ 4G mobile networks – – as any smartphone owner who uses a ‘personal hotspot’ knows…

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