Forget 'the Cloud'; 'the Fog' Is Tech's Future

Re:Forget 'the Cloud'; 'the Fog' Is Tech's Future by rsync on Monday May 19, 2014 @10:50AM (#7767643)

"There is enough processing power in many devices such that more processing can happen at the edge so why not build more applications this way?"

... and thus spins the endless wheel of IT. You could find this exact same sentence in any number of trade journals going back every five years to 1970. Just replace "mainframe" with "cloud" and "client server model" with "fog".

See you in another five years...

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Re:Forget 'the Cloud'; 'the Fog' Is Tech's Future by amirmc on Monday May 19, 2014 @11:25AM (#7767870)

I don't understand what you're getting at. That things go in cycles? Sure, I agree with that. Is there something else?

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Re:Forget 'the Cloud'; 'the Fog' Is Tech's Future by ghkbrew on Monday May 19, 2014 @12:10PM (#7768160)

He's talking about a specific cycle in computing where it has moved from centralized processing to decentralized multiple times in the past. For example

-first there were mainframes with glorified type-writes as terminals

-then we had personal computers

-then we had thin clients

-then we had thick clients

-etc

Basically this has happened before, will likely happen again, yet people (or maybe just tech reporters) always seem so surprised when the pendulum swings back the other way

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Re:Forget 'the Cloud'; 'the Fog' Is Tech's Future by jlarocco on Monday May 19, 2014 @01:26PM (#7768607)

I'm not sure anybody is surprised here.

The fact that the pendulum is swinging back the other way is news, though maybe not very exciting news.

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