…. but we’ve only just started and we haven’t even got close to figuring out how to manage it yet (from an aggregated view I mean, not just within a single vendor platform)!!
This article from Peter Levine of Andreesen Horowitz predicts “The end of cloud computing.”
Now I’m not so sure that this headline is going to play out in the near future, but Peter Levine does make a really interesting point in his article (and its embedded 25 min video). There are a number of nascent technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, that will need their edge devices to process immense amounts of data locally without having to backhaul it to centralised cloud servers for processing.
Autonomous vehicles will need to consume data in real-time from a multitude of in-car sensors, but only a small percentage of that data will need to be transmitted back over networks to a centralised cloud base. But that backhauled data will be important for the purpose of aggregated learning, analytics, etc, the findings of which will be shipped back to the edge devices.
Edge or fog compute is just one more platform type for our OSS to stay abreast of into the future.