Edge computing devices are proliferating at an astonishing rate, jumping from about 15 billion devices today to about 55 billion by 2022, according to Rob High, VP and CTO of IBM Watson.
“This marketplace around edge computing is enormous,” he said. “We don’t really know where the saturation point is … There will be a limit at some point, but we don’t know what that is.”
As edge devices continue to hit the market, “the No. 1 thing you begin to realize is that this industry is at risk of imploding on itself if it does not solve the problem of creating a standard way of managing it, [and] creating a set of standards that developer communities can begin to form and create ecosystems from,” High said.
[Source: SDxCentral]
