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The Edge is coming! The Edge is coming!

By cfheoh | October 12, 2020 - 9:15 am |October 11, 2020 100Gigabit Ethernet, Analytics, Big Data, Containers, Data, Deep Learning, Edge Computing, Flash, Industry 4.0, InfluxDB, Linux, Machine Learning, Mellanox, Mellanox Technologies, Minio, nVidia, NVMe, Pravega, SNIA, Solid State Devices
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Actually, Edge Computing is already here. It has been here on everyone’s lips for quite some time, but for me and for many others, Edge Computing is still a hodgepodge of many things. The proliferation of devices, IoT, sensor, end points being pulled into the ubiquitous term of Edge Computing has made the scope ever changing, and difficult to pin down. And it is this proliferation of edge devices that will generate voluminous amount of data. Obvious questions emerge:

  • How to do you store all the data?
  • How do you process all the data?
  • How do you derive competitive value from the data from these edge devices?
  • How do you securely transfer and share the data?

From the storage technology perspective, it might be easier to observe what are the traits of the data generated on the edge device. In this blog, we also observe what could some new storage technologies out there that could be part of the Edge Computing present and future.

Edge Computing overview - Cloud to Edge to Endpoint

Edge Computing overview – Cloud to Edge to Endpoint

Storage at the Edge

The mantra of putting compute as close to the data and processing it where it is stored is the main crux right now, at least where storage of the data is concerned. The latency to the computing resources on the cloud and back to the edge devices will not be conducive, and in many older settings, these edge devices in factory may not be even network enabled. In my last encounter several years ago, there were more than 40 interfaces, specifications and protocols, most of them proprietary, for the edge devices. And there is no industry wide standard for these edge devices too.

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