Bringing the Cloud to the Edge

Terence Johny accepts the 1st Place Award at the 2016 Knowledge Sharing Celebration. L-R: Debi Graci, Knowledge Sharing Program; Joe Milardo, Sr. Director, EMC Education Services; Terence Johny, Solutions Architect, EMC; Jennifer St. Hill, Vice President, EMC Education Services.

The cloud is viewed as the powerhouse that will fuel and support the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), which continues to gain momentum as vendors and enterprises begin to embrace the opportunities this market presents. However, an important question lingers: will cloud be able to sustain the expected growth of IoT, with billions of devices communicating over data shared across inter-clouds while providing the quality of service that we have come to expect?

In this Knowledge Sharing article—awarded 1st Place in the 2016 Knowledge Sharing Competition—Terence Johny examines the existing Cloud Computing landscape and contemplates its place in the “Things to Come” era of computing. The idea of extending the cloud and bringing it to the edge of the compute endpoints – something that is now being called “The Fog” – is introduced and discussed in-depth.

Read the full article here.

Watch an interview with Terence Johny discussing his article here.