{"id":72229,"date":"2017-08-29T03:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T10:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/its-time-to-think-beyond-cloud-computing"},"modified":"2017-08-29T03:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T10:42:29","slug":"its-time-to-think-beyond-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/its-time-to-think-beyond-cloud-computing","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Think Beyond Cloud Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-time-to-think-beyond-cloud-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That problem from the frontier of technology is why many tech leaders foresee the need for a new \u201cedge computing\u201d network\u2014one that turns the logic of today\u2019s cloud inside out. Today the $247 billion cloud computing industry funnels everything through massive centralized data centers operated by giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. That\u2019s been a smart model for scaling up web search and social networks, as well as streaming media to billions of users. But it\u2019s not so smart for latency-intolerant applications like autonomous cars or mobile mixed reality.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Cloud computing\u2019s big, distant data centers can\u2019t support VR and self-driving cars\u2014but \u201cedge computing\u201d can.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/its-time-to-think-beyond-cloud-computing\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/its-time-to-think-beyond-cloud-computing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That problem from the frontier of technology is why many tech leaders foresee the need for a new \u201cedge computing\u201d network\u2014one that turns the logic of today\u2019s cloud inside out. Today the $247 billion cloud computing industry funnels everything through massive centralized data centers operated by giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. That\u2019s been a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,6,1491,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}