First everything was in “the cloud” but today’s new buzzword is “fog computing.” No, it doesn’t have anything to do with the weather phenomenon, but rather with how we store and access data. Cloud ...

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Like any kind of large-scale computing system deployment ever, the short answer to the question “what should my fog compute deployment look like” is going to be “it varies.” But since that’s not a ...

The rise in interest around the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has introduced a variety of new technologies and strategies to deal with all the production-related data at the core of IIoT. While ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Editor’s note: This is the 39 th article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series about how real words become empty words and stifle technology progress. This “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series is ...

The cyber and physical realms are becoming increasingly intertwined — something I call “cy-phy systems.” Already we have medical devices measure vital signs in the physical realm and relay those ...

In recent years, computing workloads have been migrating: first from on-premises data centres to the cloud and now, increasingly, from cloud data centres to 'edge' locations where they are nearer the ...

What's the difference between edge computing and fog computing? We've asked industry experts to help distinguish the two. Internet of Things (IoT) devices are flooding the world. In fact, studies show ...