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32 of IoT and AI technologies . For many , both the shape of edge network evolution and its relationship to large-scale data centres at the centre of the network still hang in the balance .
“ It ’ s still not completely clear how edge computing and edge data centres will manifest in the future ,” Andrew Donoghue , director of global analyst relations at data centre infrastructure company Vertiv , explained to Data Centre Magazine in a recent interview . Donoghue added that expanded edge capacity will be an additive force to public and hybrid cloud build outs , rather than disrupt them . Both cloud and the edge , he proposed , are part of the same continuum of data centre capacity , rather than in competition with one another . “ Focusing too much on either is actually a distraction ,” he said . “ What is really happening is we are moving from a situation where data centre capacity was built out in a rather haphazard , demanddriven way to one that is more deliberateand focused on efficiency and effectiveness .”
Donoghue believes that this more considered approach , enabled by a world
DECEMBER 2020