The future of edge compute is more like a locomotive with a predictable future.
In early 2023 Grand View Research identified that the edge compute market had grown from $1.9B in 2020 to $11.24B in 2022.
These edge compute numbers may explain my boldness, but the business value of specific outcomes are what drives this growth in energy and mining.
In spite of our history with digital instrumentation, a surprising number of instruments are still read manually and entered by hand into computer systems.
The move to more complete digital instrumentation is making the role of compute and data infrastructure critical to operations.
Almost everyone has drastically shrunk their corporate data center footprint and moved their compute functions to the cloud.
These two factors make compute at the edge an important consideration.
In many cases the resulting algorithms are quite simple and can be deployed in lightweight container apps at the edge.
AI is one of multiple use cases that benefit from container-based compute at the edge.
Cisco's container feature directly addresses this trend today in energy and mining companies.
Here are a few examples of edge software that address operating outcomes today.
Each software solution has an instance running at the edge, in a container, on a Cisco router or switch.
The Cyber Vision agents that monitor OT traffic and describe it in meta data for central analysis, live in containers on Cisco routers and switches.
As you guessed this container app can live in Cisco's routers and switches without additional compute hardware.
Edge Intelligence from Cisco is one such tool that's highly programmable and comes with a wide variety of connectors and normalization capabilities.
As with previous examples, it lives in a container app on Cisco's routers and switches without additional compute hardware.
These are just a few of the apps that have found a home in the small container space on Cisco routers and switches.
The sweet spot for this approach is a small site that can't justify a dedicated compute platform or an app that is tightly associated with network traffic on the router or switch.
The edge compute trend is coming like a freight train and needs to be assessed across every enterprise.
Before investing in a dedicated edge compute platform for every possible location, take a look at the capabilities already built into your network infrastructure.
This Cyber News was published on feedpress.me. Publication date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:13:06 +0000