An edge data center is a physical facility that processes data at or close to where the data is generated. The goal is to deliver operational and business insight for latency-sensitive or data-intensive applications.
Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. They come in all shapes and sizes depending on the use case: Small ones can fit into a wiring closet. Larger ones resemble traditional data centers. There are also modular, prefab edge data centers that can be set up outside a manufacturing plant or retail location to avoid expensive and time-consuming renovations to the facility creating the data.
Edge data centers serve as an extension to the organization’s existing on-premises data-center/hybrid/multicloud IT infrastructure strategy. They are an intermediary that collects, filters, and processes some types of data on site, and that sends other data that requires additional analysis back to a central data center, the cloud, or both.
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