Welcome to Fog Computing: Extending the Cloud to the Edge
August 23, 2013
Grazed from DataCenter Knowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.
It’s been far too long since we’ve had another hot tech buzz term. But new conversations are beginning to emerge around Fog Computing. Closely resembling the concepts of cloud computing, the Fog aims to take services, workloads, applications and large amounts of data and deliver it all to the edge of the network. The goal is to provide core data, compute, storage, and application services on a truly distributed level.
Fog takes the data and workload technology to a new level. We’re now talking about edge computing – the home of the Fog. Data is now being delivered in large quantities to many more users. To optimize the concept of the cloud, organizations need a way to deliver content to end users through a more geographically distributed platform. The idea of fog computing is to distribute data to move it closer to the end-user to eliminate latency and numerous hops, and support mobile computing and data streaming…
Already, we’re seeing “everything-as-a-service” models. The user is asking for more data access from any device, any time, from anywhere. This means that the future of the cloud must support the idea of the “Internet of Everything (IoE).” That’s where Fog Computing comes in…
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