‘ WHILE THE LIKES OF DELL EMC AND AMD CAN PROVIDE THE BUILDING BLOCKS TOWARDS THE KIND OF TRANSFORMATION THAT CAN REAP THE BENEFITS OF IOT IT ALSO REQUIRES SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS TO BECOME PART OF THE SOLUTION AND ADD THE PHYSICAL IMPLEMENTATION AND CONTROLS REQUIRED ’
this the edge is where the cloud will start to move next – closer to the user and producer of data . It ’ s a path towards a combination where there are distinct algorithms for everything that has to be controlled locally alongside the cloud , where data has to go back and forth .
Will the edge just remain a distributed client server environment or will we see peer-to-peer emerge here too ? AMD ’ s Enterprise Solutions GM Scott Aylor works in partnership with Dell EMC and believes it ’ s not a case of either / or but about harnessing the agility of both approaches . “ When you look at some of the things that extending the cloud closer to the edge will bring , the possibilities are endless ,” he says . “ One of my favourite examples here is the concept of autonomous driving which will need a larger client server relationship to understand traffic patterns , what ’ s happening globally , where to guide people , rules and regulations … At the same point in time you will have vehicles that are going to be able to talk to each other . Quite simply , you can ’ t get up into and out of the cloud fast enough to be able to react to those real-time scenarios . Therefore , I think the future of edge computing will involve elements of both – real-time peer-topeer ( for IoT enabled devices ) where latency is extremely important . It will also involve taking that trusted and relevant data to the cloud , processing it and then pushing it back to the user such that it can be implemented in a more useful and real way .”
Autonomous vehicles will essentially become data centres on wheels so it ’ s interesting opportunities like these that will change how we think about data centre technologies and prompt companies like Dell and AMD to bring them closer to the user . Aylor agrees the challenge for technology providers is how they deliver the building blocks in a way that meets
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