Fog Computing Aims to Reduce Processing Burden of Cloud Systems

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeff Burt.
 
Cisco Systems officials have spent much of the year talking about extending the cloud with "the fog."  In January, the networking giant introduced its fog computing vision, the idea of bringing cloud computing capabilities—from applications and data analytics to processing, networking and storage—to the edge of the network, closer to the rapidly growing number of end-user devices that are consuming cloud services and generating the increasingly massive amount of data.

Cisco officials also unveiled the company’s IOx platform, designed to bring distributed computing to the network edge.
Earlier this month, the vendor rolled out the next phase of IOx, which included adding to the list of Cisco products that support the platform and the list of partners involved…


The billions of mobile devices—such as smartphones and tablets—already being used to generate, receive and send data make a case for putting the computing capabilities closer to where these devices are located, rather than having all information flowing back over networks to central data centers. The expected growth of the Internet of things (IoT) only strengthens the argument…

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