Building a better CSP business case for Edge Cloud What is the killer app. for edge? In our discussions with CSPs, and their software providers, one conversation dominates all others; what are the use cases that will drive a business case to invest in edge cloud? In addressing this question we have been particularly impressed with the powerful tool from mobiledgeX that allows users to explore the use cases for edge cloud. We believe that CSPs, and their suppliers, will miss the overall edge opportunity with an exclusive focus on use cases, and by inference the need for “killer apps” to drive their business cases. CSPs will build and make investments for those use cases; they will not create and own a new Edge Cloud market. In our 2018 report ROI at the edge we looked at the ROI for CSP edge to support enterprise applications. We found it was difficult to make a business case for this type of edge, beyond roll out to regional edge data centers. In terms of latency (the key edge technical differentiation), these would be barely differentiated from in-country data centers from public cloud providers. Given the existing market dominance and efficiency of the public cloud providers this […]