The Four Key Benefits of Edge Computing

Over the past decade, businesses have undertaken a variety of initiatives to improve the scalability, performance, security and cost-effectiveness of their IT assets. They have moved to the cloud. They have migrated from monolithic applications to scale-out microservices architectures. They have adopted software delivery strategies like DevSecOps.

All of these changes have enhanced IT outcomes in many ways, but there remains room for further progress especially as new modern, data-driven services and applications are now powering differentiation for today’s businesses.

That’s why many organizations are now focusing on a new strategy for optimizing IT: edge computing. Edge computing enables businesses to extract actionable insights by processing data closer to devices, sensors, and other sources. With edge, businesses can use Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning (AI/ML) powered applications to make data-driven decisions to enhance the business.

But edge computing goes beyond gathering and processing data—it opens up the ability to create new customer experiences for latency sensitive applications such as AR/VR, remote learning or healthcare, and live communication. By gaining the ability to support low-latency applications, organizations are able to better meet user expectations for a great application experience and even open new revenue streams.

For businesses of all sizes, and across all industries and verticals, edge computing offers a variety of advantages for deriving greater value from IT investments and, in turn, enhancing the success of the business.

To illustrate how modern businesses can leverage edge computing architectures and platforms, this eBook walks through four key benefits of edge computing. In doing so, it explains the main reasons why businesses should consider expanding their existing IT infrastructures to the edge, or increasing their edge presence further if they already maintain some edge locations. It also highlights examples of specific use cases that stand to gain the most from an edge strategy