Thursday, January 05, 2017

As a result of the IoT boom, distributed computing returns to the arena in the form of fog and changes the role of the cloud

According to part of the communications industry, the processing capacity returns to the periphery. Others prefer to weave alliances while they wait for the trend to be confirmed.

The Internet of Things (IoT) and smartphones generate so much data and require response times so brief that networks, even though they have multiplied their speed, are slow. In these cases, interacting under the paradigm of cloud computing is now dispersed in the form of fog (fog computing). In other words, processing returns to the edge of the network and to terminal devices. A behavior that seems cyclical: from the mainframe, to the PC in solitude; from there to the client-server; at that moment, "the network is the computer", which (almost) returns us to the silly terminal; after that the cloud and now processing returns to the devices and to the edge of the network.

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