Hybrid Cloud as Alternative to “Pure” Cloud Computing

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10 pointsawiesenhofer3 comments

I always thought edge computing was driven more by IoT applications where wireless access is the bottleneck. For IoT at least, ingress bandwidth is free in most cloud datacenters so I don't see that WAN bandwidth would be an issue? Or are enterprise use cases of edge computing more concerned with 'download heavy' traffic?

Note that this article is somewhat crackpot and it doesn't represent any sort of industry consensus.

WAN bandwidth (on the office side, not the data center side) has been a real problem for many enterprises; it spawned the entire WAN Optimization and SD-WAN industries. Some vendors are pushing enterprise edge computing (e.g. Riverbed SteelFusion) but I don't know how much adoption it's getting.

As a side note, I am amazed that SoftPanorama still exists. Nothing seems to have changed since I last saw it almost 20 years ago! This website was one of the few fast-loading ones that I had bookmarked as a high schooler trying to teach myself CS on a cheap/flaky dial-up connection back in India.

Good times.

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