EDGE COMPUTING Timeline of Computing The timeline of computing looks something like this: At first, there was one big computer; after that came the UNIX era; then we were introduced to personal computers, which led to the cloud computing era. And now, we find ourselves in the next stage of computing, named the Edge computing era. Nowadays we use our personal computers to access centralized services such as Gmail, Google Drive, cloud storage, office 365… The personal assistants on our smartphones and smart speakers are powered by centralized cloud artificial intelligence. We can say with certainty that the new opportunities of cloud services are located at the “EDGE.” Even though we are still in the cloud computing era – we can say that our cloud infrastructure relies much on hosting companies and compute power of the very few who are providing it for us: Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Google. Why do we call it Edge? The word Edge is used in the context of geographic distribution. Edge com...
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