Monday, August 7, 2017

The End of Cloud Computing?

Peter Levine sees another huge swing in computing architectures, away from cloud computing. The oscillation has been between centralized and distributed computing. The mainframe and cloud eras have been centralized; client-server was distributed.

With the coming era of mobile edge computing, Levine sees another historic change, back to distributed.

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