Exploring 5G Edge computing
When discussing Digital Transformation, a majority of the descriptions describe moving toward cloud platforms to modernize and also take advantage of operational cost factors. When you consider cloud platforms, there are the predominant players that have huge capacities that correlate to economies of scale.
Visually, you might imagine the cloud as a hub and any integrations being the spokes. This is the classic hub and spoke model as shown in the following figure. So, if you are multi-cloud you may have multiple hubs. In the case of hybrid, your on-premise applications are part of the spokes if you are focusing on cloud deployments.
Figure 16.5 – Hub and spoke cloud
The pandemic accelerated the move to the cloud as a means to support working from home and expand the business outside the wall of private data centers. Now, if you were to look closely at the cloud models, you would find that although the cloud platforms...
