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Digital Transformation History
This chapter will lay out the history and trends in IT and technology that got us to Edge computing. Before we dive deep into “Edge” and Edge use cases, we should pause to align ourselves on technical trends and address some questions of why IT shifted from single-use machines to mainframes, to personal computers, to clouds, and now a hybrid of cloud and personal computing.
Information and computing technology have advanced significantly over the last 60years. There have been many digital transformations over that period as well. This book concentrates on Edge computing, but we need to start by understanding how and why Edge computing devices came to be. Advances in silicon processing, nanoscale electronics, ...
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