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Kathleen Martin
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To the dismay of most, 2021 began with disruption everywhere. The global pandemic continued its churn, forcing organizations to maintain remote workforce practices established the year prior. More and more applications needed to be deployed at the edge, and IT managers scrambled to keep up and accelerate their digital transformation strategies. Several key trends that are on my mind — and the 2022 horizon — are listed below:
1. Cost-Effectively Storing Video Forever: In most cases, enterprises must continue to buy expensive disk systems to store video footage for future use, and retention times are limited due to cost. New technologies are emerging that allow video data to be stored for months, years or even forever at low costs by moving to other media like low-end NAS, tape and cloud storage.
2. Customers Seeking Alternatives To Cloud Computing: Data often needs to be processed at the edge due to performance or budgets, and the cost of cloud computing can be prohibitive. The edge needs to be able to process huge amounts of data in real time and send only archived or summary data to the data center or cloud.
3. New Data-Thinning Techniques Introduced: This will help edge solutions handle the massive amounts of data being generated. This will entail sophisticated software to quickly analyze data importance and move it to the appropriate place — keep it local for analytics and AI, move it to a lower-cost storage tier like cloud or tape for long-term storage and future use or delete it if the data just isn’t needed.
4. Virtual Reality Going Corporate: This technology will enter business outside of gaming and entertainment. Healthcare devices, education, training and manufacturing will have a profound impact on the amount of data being generated and the type of files, with a sharp increase in the amount of video data.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/01/26/2022-predictions-edge-computing-takes-center-stage/?sh=51a7811a38b0
1. Cost-Effectively Storing Video Forever: In most cases, enterprises must continue to buy expensive disk systems to store video footage for future use, and retention times are limited due to cost. New technologies are emerging that allow video data to be stored for months, years or even forever at low costs by moving to other media like low-end NAS, tape and cloud storage.
2. Customers Seeking Alternatives To Cloud Computing: Data often needs to be processed at the edge due to performance or budgets, and the cost of cloud computing can be prohibitive. The edge needs to be able to process huge amounts of data in real time and send only archived or summary data to the data center or cloud.
3. New Data-Thinning Techniques Introduced: This will help edge solutions handle the massive amounts of data being generated. This will entail sophisticated software to quickly analyze data importance and move it to the appropriate place — keep it local for analytics and AI, move it to a lower-cost storage tier like cloud or tape for long-term storage and future use or delete it if the data just isn’t needed.
4. Virtual Reality Going Corporate: This technology will enter business outside of gaming and entertainment. Healthcare devices, education, training and manufacturing will have a profound impact on the amount of data being generated and the type of files, with a sharp increase in the amount of video data.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/01/26/2022-predictions-edge-computing-takes-center-stage/?sh=51a7811a38b0
