Its incessant advantages and its increasing presence in the market make edge computing one of the safest technological values for this 2023. A distributed computing infrastructure with the aim of bringing business applications closer to data sources, such as IoT devices or local edge servers.
And it is, in fact, this proximity to the data at its source that really offers great business advantages. Or what is the same: faster knowledge, better response times and greater availability of bandwidth. All this lays the foundations so that, in 2023, the enterprise market for edge computing is one of the most prosperous in the world.
At least this is what Deloitte assures in its report “Technology, Media and Telecom Predictions 2023”, where he predicts that the enterprise market for edge computing will grow 22% in 2023, compared to 4% growth in spending on enterprise networking equipment and 6% in overall enterprise IT.
This report highlights that companies will prioritize investment in hardware so that, when it matures, subsequent investment in software and services is diversified. And it is that, another of the advantages for companies that investment in edge computing supposes is that the cost is reduced and the efficiency of the networks is increased in comparison with those known as distant clouds.
They can’t deliver the real-time data and response times demanded by newer applications. Consequently, more organizations are considering a hybrid cloud model that augments existing cloud strategies with edge computing.
It distributes the scalable and elastic computing capabilities of the cloud closer to where devices generate and consume data. These locations can be as varied such as a company’s local server, a communications service provider’s central office or tower, a hyperscaler’s regional data center, an end-user device, or anywhere in between.
Diversity in the development of the edge computing ecosystem
One must also take into account the diversity in the development of the edge computing ecosystem. While chipmakers, device manufacturers, application developers, security specialists, and system integrators also feature prominently, there are four main third-party service providers:
hyperscalers: Organizations with architecture capable of reaching a global scale for which edge computing is complementary to their existing services as a Cloud provider. In the future they may abandon their own Cloud platforms by offering edge computing on their clients’ hardware.
Communication service providers: Although they offer their own edge computing services, they can do so in collaboration with hyperscalers connecting decentralized clouds with data centers or even local company devices, also using 5G networks in multi-access mode.
Infrastructure Equipment Vendors: They have begun to offer new edge computing solutions through the Cloud environment, undergoing a transition from the model of offering hardware to that of offering software, including SaaS (Software as a Service).
Edge Cloud Management: These are new management models that appear on platforms that allow the administration and management of emerging providers and applications.
