Recently, an increasing amount of hope is attached to edge computing. The industry is buzzing with bold ideas such as “the edge will eat the cloud” and real-time automation will spread across healthcare, retail, and manufacturing.
Experts agree that edge computing will play a key role in the digital transformation of almost every business. But progress has been slow. Legacy perception has held companies back from fully leveraging the edge for real-time decision-making and resource allocation. To understand how and why this is happening, let’s look back at the first wave of edge computing and what has transpired since then.
