by Daniel Bartholomew | Nov 22, 2021 | Blog, edge, supercloud
Some things are just made to go together, like containers and edge computing. Containers package an application such that the software and its dependencies (libraries, binaries, config files, etc.) are isolated from other processes, allowing them to migrate as a unit...
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jan 27, 2021 | Blog, edge, supercloud
Software as a Service (SaaS) was the largest market segment in the cloud in 2020 and Gartner forecasts it to grow to $117.7 billion by the end of this year. Not far behind comes Platform as a Service (PaaS), a development and deployment environment in the cloud, and...
by Daniel Bartholomew | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog, edge, supercloud
Global Internet traffic in 2021 will be equivalent to 135x the volume of the entire Global Internet in 2005, according to Cisco. Globally, Internet traffic will reach 30 gigabytes per capita in 2021, up from 10 gigabytes per capita in 2016. Drivers of the huge...
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog, edge, supercloud
At Section, we are working to leverage data science and machine learning methods to create the mutual funds of edge computing. In finance, Modern Portfolio Theory revolutionized investment practices by providing an analytical framework to balance the risk in a...
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jul 1, 2020 | Blog, edge, security
Security for edge computing is ipso facto a large and complicated topic. In our previous post, we looked at challenges specific to security at the edge. In this one, we’ll take a look at some of the ways in which the edge can be secured. A Kollective Distributed...
by Daniel Bartholomew | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog, edge, supercloud
When Akamai was founded in 1998, co-founders Daniel M. Lewin and Tom Leighton, were not only inventing the first content delivery network (CDN), but also creating an early prototype for edge computing. Akamai’s network of servers distributed around the world has...
