Today on the show we welcome on Tasha Keeney, Analyst at ARK Investment, who covers autonomous transport and 3D printing. This show offers an intellectual discussion on technologically enabled disruption, because we believe that investing in innovation starts with understanding it. The answer to this dilemma is adopting a distributed infrastructure model, also known as an edge platform.Welcome to FYI, the For Your Innovation Podcast. If a cloud data center is a few hundred or even thousands of miles away, the physical limitations of sending an optical or electrical pulse through a cable mean there are no options to lower the latency. But what about use cases that cannot tolerate latency? Think industrial monitoring and control, real-time machine learning (ML), autonomous vehicles, augmented reality (AR), and gaming. Instead, “the office” is now anywhere and everywhere employees happen to be.Įven so, this centralized, cloud-based compute methodology works very well for most enterprise applications, as long as there is no critical sensitivity to delay.
This is especially true in this dawning age of distributed enterprises for which there is not just a single office to optimize. There are many operational benefits, but at least one unavoidable downside: the increase in latency. Cloud providers manage the underlying hardware and provide it as a service, allowing users to provision their own virtual infrastructure. Roughly speaking, cloud computing takes a server from a user’s office, puts it in a faraway data center, and allows it to be used across the internet. Content delivery networks helped host these media types at the edge, and the associated network optimization methods allowed them to provide these new, more demanding services.Īs we moved into the early 2010s, we experienced the rapid cloudification of traditional infrastructure. Today, this is even more important, as live and on-demand video streaming at very high resolutions cannot be sustained from a single central location. The need for content proximity became more apparent in the early 2000s as the web evolved from a read-only service to a read-write experience, and users worldwide began consuming and creating content. Telecommunications providers: Typically large organizations with built-in geographical reach and large investment funds, some telecom companies use their in-house expertise and extensive transit networks to expand an edge-focused product portfolio.Dedicated edge: Some players have identified the edge platform space as a future market and have quickly built their network from the ground up to deliver these services specifically.Cloud service providers: Compared to CDN providers, cloud providers had an inverted approach, in which opening more and more data centers has enabled CSPs to create CDN offerings.
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