On 19th November 2015, Cisco, ARM, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Princeton University have launched the Open Fog consortium with the goal to realise the full potential of the Internet of Things. On the other hand, the telecoms industry has been working since late 2014 on mobile edge computing. Also, edge cloud is seen by several vendors of telecoms infrastructure as a key component of 5th generation wireless systems. To add to the confusion, other renowned institutes like Carnegie Mellon University have promoted Cloudlets as a means to enable a new generation of edge cloud computing applications. What’s going on? How are things related? Continue reading
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About Mobile Edge Cloud Computing – An Introduction
Everybody surely knows that most of our on-line applications and services are served out of the “Cloud”. Cloud computing has become more and more important, with ever increasing size of datacenters and degree of automation. Where next? What comes after the hyper-scale datacenter and ever-growing consolidation? Might it be distributed computing? Edge cloud computing? Micro datacenters? Continue reading