دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی اتصال محاسبات ابری و مه - IEEE 2017

What does this mean?

With the Internet of Things, the latency issue is more acute and more widespread than it is for other kinds of computing. That’s why putting IoT at the edge of the cloud is such an important concept. Again, it’s not that hard of a concept to carry out. Most distributed computing developers are very familiar with the concept of placing the processing as close to the source as you can.

No matter how speedy the networks get, latency will always be something that developers and admins will try to manage. While we can certainly toss new equipment at the problem, I’ve found that most performance issues need to be solved by changing the design, and not the infrastructure. This is the only way you can truly solve the problem.

So, the concept is sound, and OpenFog, and Fog computing, is attempting to formalize it, leading thought and promoting the notion of computing at the edge for cloud and non-cloud deployments. If the Cisco standard is successful, then OpenFog will have accomplished its objective.

That said, standards seem to fail, and this standard could be no exception. The fact of the matter is that they fail because so many of the member companies have their own agendas, which may not line up with the agendas of the other members. Thus, not much gets done, and the fruit of the standard dies on the vine. Fair warning, OpenFog.

If IoT and cloud are in your future (who does not have them in their future?), then you need to study this issue. This means reading my other article, Responsive Data Architecture (RDA), as well as understanding what OpenFog has to offer with an eye on what’s realistic.

At their core, the value of all of these concepts is that we’re considering alternatives to placing everything in the public cloud. Why? Because the public cloud does not make sense, in some cases. IoT will challenge us to think differently, and the use of edge computing, or fog computing, all combined with cloud computing, is the likely path that we will find ourselves upon.