HCI: Edge Deployments
StorageNewsletter.com, February 6th, 2023
This report was published on December 21, 2022 by GigaOm and written Alastair Cooke, an independent industry analyst who has been writing about the challenges and changes in the IT industry for over 10 years.
Edge deployments are among the most dispersed HCI environments, with small clusters at many locations and usually without technical staff readily available. One area of differentiation is between near edge and far edge. The near edge is a data center that's not on-premises, while far-edge locations typically depend on the function. Near-edge deployments could be in co-location or telco data centers spread around the country or around the world. Far-edge environments might be in trucks, retail stores, or oil exploration platforms. The available facilities vary greatly among these locations, and so there is variation as well among solutions.