The amount of data produced at the edge of networks today is growing exponentially. From new technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and self-driving cars to existing technologies like cell phones, laptops and gaming systems; the sheer volume of data that edge devices are producing is threatening to halt bandwidth, increase latency, limit reliability and significantly add to costs.
The problem lies in where all this data is getting processed. Sending vast amounts of data from edge devices to centralized data centers and back again — often multiple times — is an extremely inefficient and costly way to process critical data. By decentralizing processing and relocating it to the edge of the network, enterprises can create a cloud edge computing solution that allows edge devices to respond faster while consuming less bandwidth and reducing costs.
While cloud edge computing holds enormous promise for increasing computing power, it raises serious management issues for IT teams. Adding cloud edge computing to public cloud and private cloud resources means that IT teams are required to juggle an ever-greater number of enterprise cloud platforms, each with its own set of tools and processes. The result is a kind of management chaos that can only result in higher costs, greater complexity and limitations in agility, speed and innovation.
What’s needed is a better way to manage multi-cloud solutions by unifying them in a hybrid cloud architecture with a single management plane and a common set of tools, infrastructure and operations. That’s where Dell Technologies can help.