The increase in data and the need for high-speed data transfers has inspired the recent trend known as edge computing. Learn more about this topic.
Each day, technology touches nearly every aspect of our lives in one way or the other. For example, how many times a day do each of us access one or more apps on our smart phone? This trend of needing, creating, transferring, and accessing data in fractions of a second isn’t going away either. According to Gartner Research, by 2020, internet capable devices worldwide reached over 20 billion, and this number is expected to double by 2025. It is also estimated that approximately 463 exabytes of data (1 exabyte is equivalent to 1 billion gigabytes) will be generated each day by people as of 2025, that’s the equivalent of 212,765,957 DVDs per day! Along with this increase comes the need to have this data as fast as possible, with minimum delay or latency, something most of today’s data centers are not capable of.
The increase in data and the need for high-speed data transfers has inspired the recent trend known as edge computing. What exactly is the edge? What is an edge data center? How are edge data centers evolving and how can facility and data center managers be ready without being left behind? What about the challenge of making a resilient, modular, and scalable edge data center while maintaining high efficiency and reliability? This paper will answer these and many more questions about the edge in the following topics:
- What is an Edge Data Center
- The Evolution of Edge Computing
- How Organizations are Responding to Edge Data Centers
- Solving the Challenge of Modular and Scalable Edge Infrastructures
- Reliability and Efficiency Needed at the Edge
- Containment’s Critical Role in Edge Deployments
- Bridging the Gap to the Edge, Now and Future