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Enterprise revolutions
Most of the revolution will happen in healthcare, transportation, education and governmental entities and activities. These areas above all are more disconnected than others, and thus more in need of change, and proportionately more open to change than mature service sector operations and enterprises. The implication in this projection is that assets will be converged and consolidated to deliver more transformation at local levels. In such scenarios, the cloud must be the edge cloud, closer to the site of development. These edge clouds must have very low latency and high performance, serving the core or metro cloud, in a new form of architecture optimised around energy.
There will be a new sort of alliance between global and local services, driven by economic or cost imperatives, driven by the sheer volume of data management and associated infrastructure requirements. Weldon traces this development via the development of computing from the mainframe world through interactive and dedicated processing to deep cloud networks and now edge cloud technologies and contextualized network access and utilisation.
Massive device scaling in the cloud and improvements in software and signalling solutions and energy management make the edge cloud possible and viable. Near-field virtualisation (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) complement the edge cloud and operate through new IT architectures to deliver cost-efficiencies, performance and personalisation. And, interestingly, everything becomes part of a corporate virtual private network (VPN), where everything is, as Weldon put it, "instrumented and controlled". Imagine a logical conclusion beyond current capabilities, in which all things - organic and artificial - may be tracked and analysed, made more productive and more valuable.
Describing the possibilities and probabilities of the Future X Network, Marcus Weldon observed, "We are in a new capacity world of machines...and we need to build a brand new network."
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