Cloud Computing: Why Fog Computing is the Killer App for the IoT

Grazed from RTInsights. Author: Carlos Aragon.

The speed at which technology evolves these days is amazing. Although we are still in the middle of the cloud revolution, suddenly a new networking paradigm has appeared: fog computing. And it seems to be a key component of another popular trend, The Internet of Things (IoT), or as we prefer to call it, the Internet of Everything.

A Little Bit of History

The evolution from cloud to fog computing shares similarities with the history of computing itself. Just as computers evolved from bulky mainframes to personal computers as processing power and local storage became smaller and more affordable, networking and applications that started with a centralized model have also evolved…

When mobile devices began to proliferate, keeping information stored and available presented a major challenge. The first generation of smartphones and tablets had limited storage and processing power and wireless network speeds were significantly slower than their wired counterparts. This made providers realize that some applications and services could be better served with a centralized model and the cloud was born. During the last two decades, we have seen an increasing number of applications move from an on-premise environment to the cloud…

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