The edge may not be a specific place, but Mission Critical magazine and Panduit commissioned Clear Seas Research to conduct a survey to find out just how far away it is. Participants were asked questions that ranged from their current network deployment to familiarity with edge technology to who should be involved in the decision-making process. Mission Critical shared the findings with some of its technical advisory board members and other industry experts to gain more insight into what the numbers reveal.
“We have an intrinsic problem in the industry to have vague titles that get abused and encompass too many things,” said Carrie Goetz, principal and CTO of StrategITcom. “Edge is not very well defined, and as such, I think it is confusing to folks. I would argue that even with the maturity of cloud technologies, you can have literally anything as a service these days leading to some of the cloudiness of the definition (pun intended).”