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Fog computing provides an intermediary between these IoT devices and the cloud computing infrastructure that they connect to, as it is able to analyze and process data closer to where it is coming ...

The rise in interest around the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has introduced a variety of new technologies and strategies to deal with all the production-related data at the core of IIoT. While ...

What's the difference between edge computing and fog computing? We've asked industry experts to help distinguish the two. Internet of Things (IoT) devices are flooding the world. In fact, studies show ...

Like any kind of large-scale computing system deployment ever, the short answer to the question “what should my fog compute deployment look like” is going to be “it varies.” But since that’s not a ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

In recent years, computing workloads have been migrating: first from on-premises data centres to the cloud and now, increasingly, from cloud data centres to 'edge' locations where they are nearer the ...

Sometimes you really are on your own. And calling for directions isn’t feasible. It’s the same with many IoT systems. Centrally processing large volumes of sensor data slows decision making and ...

The sheer volume of data streaming from IoT and the new types of applications it is enabling make cloud computing impractical. What is next? Buzzwords, even when they hold some grain of truth, are ...