LILEE Systems' new fog computing platform is well suited to distributed enterprises
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Location, location, location! It turns out that mantra is not just for the real estate market. Location is a critical aspect of fog computing as well.
Cisco introduced the notion of fog computing about two and a half years ago. (See Cisco unveils 'fog computing' to bridge clouds and the Internet of Things.) This distributed computing architecture addresses the challenge of backhauling a lot of raw data generated in the field –say from thousands or millions of IoT devices – to the cloud for analysis.
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