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Edge Computing Versus Cloud Computing: Key Similarities and Differences
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Edge Computing Versus Cloud Computing: Key Similarities and Differences

Akamai·Pavel Despot·about 1 month ago
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Edge computing is growing to catch up with the popularity of centralized cloud computing. Though they’re different technologies and there are key differences in the ideal use case for each, edge computing and cloud computing share several interesting similarities. Most importantly, they each represent approaches to computing that allow businesses to process data and host applications.  \r\n \r\n Cloud computing places your workloads and applications onto a vendor’s servers in a centralized data center, making them globally accessible. \r\n \r\n Edge computing is a method of processing data close to users and devices. Workloads are distributed and located as close as possible to the relevant users and devices. \r\n \r\n \r\n In this blog post, as we look at edge computing and cloud computing, we’ll explore the similarities and differences between these computing infrastructures and describe when to use each one. \r\n What is cloud computing?…

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