Beginning Azure IoT Edge Computing: Extending the Cloud to the Intelligent Edge

© David Jensen 2019

David JensenBeginning Azure IoT Edge Computinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4536-1_1

1. Do I Need an Intelligent Edge?

David Jensen¹ 

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Powder Springs, GA, USA

 

Businesses today are faced with an unparalleled number of choices and technology decisions as they try to intelligently evolve their systems. There are decisions about if, how, and when they should virtualize their datacenter, or if they should just continue to leverage the investment in their current physical assets. If they virtualize, should they use their own data center or a cloud provider, or a hybrid of both? If they decide to leverage a cloud platform, which of the hundreds of available service options should they use? How do these services fit together? What ...