When Amazon made its first steps to creating a cloud company AWS, it was impossible to predict what has occurred since. The innovative use cases for public cloud and the potential for disruption of existing IT ways of working were unknown. In the beginning, Amazon was a bookshop that gave access to compute and storage over the web. However, even at this early stage it was possible to identify business drivers that would take existing and new applications to the public cloud. Public cloud points the way for edge cloud Edge Cloud we believe is at a similar point in its evolution. It has huge future potential. However, the small set of current use cases hide the unknown opportunities for innovation and disruption. We believe it is possible to identify business drivers for edge cloud and the economics that need to be in place for it to be successful. Economics, that just like in public cloud, are based on maximizing multi-tenancy of infrastructure and optimizing the cost of acquiring and running that infrastructure. Moving beyond use cases to business demand drivers Much of the current analysis in network edge remains focused at known consumer or enterprise use cases. The danger […]