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For many organizations, data collected and analyzed at the edge is the engine of digital business, enabling real-time decision-making, operational efficiencies, and innovative use cases that drive competitive advantage.
Now, as cloud takes center stage, distributed computing is reemerging — a reimagined operating model for hybrid and multicloud environments that can uplevel the value of edge deployments. In a distributed cloud, multiple clouds are used to meet compliance needs and performance requirements or to support edge computing while being centrally managed by the public cloud provider.
In a distributed cloud model, the key elements of the distributed landscape are visible and accessible through single-pane-of-glass management. This greatly simplifies the typical siloed IT landscape, ensuring that federated resources can be monitored and managed easily from a central command center, regardless of whether they reside in multiple public clouds, on-premises data centers, colocation facilities, remote locations, or edge deployments.
Distributed cloud tackles the operational and management inconsistencies common to hybrid and multicloud environments while also modernizing legacy on-premises infrastructure as part of a phased cloud migration. Distributed cloud also serves as the optimal foundation for edge computing, as it eases management complexity and enables compute resources and applications to run more effectively close to where data is created.
This e-book dives into what’s driving the need for distributed cloud and edge computing and helps IT leaders chart the best course to this evolved operating model.