In the rapidly evolving world of IoT (Internet of Things), cloud computing has become a cornerstone for processing, analyzing, and storing large amounts of data. However, as real-time applications and ...

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 ...

It’s not just cloud and edge anymore as a new layer of distributed computing closer to end devices picks up steam. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines fog computing as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ah, the '80s. Valley girls haunted like, totally awesome malls, Star Wars struck back and distributed processing was the latest in cutting-edge technology. Going distributed is a vivid memory for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...