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Cloud-Native versus Edge-Native: know the difference

by Thomas Bittman
May 22, 2020
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Editor's note: Interest around cloud computing quickly grew on the back of digital transformation initiatives. Then realization quickly followed that user experience isn't up to par as the number of users expanded - how often do you see the buffering icon on your screen, phone, or laptop? So now we have edge-computing as becoming the topic of the day. Gartner's Tim Bittman clarifies the complementary difference between the two. Applications or parts of applications that operate near the edge are not the same as applications that thrive in the hyperscale cloud. In the same way that lifting and shifting a [...]

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Thomas Bittman is a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst with Gartner Research. Bittman has led the industry in areas such as cloud computing, virtualization, and edge computing. He was an early pioneer for the concept of private cloud computing and invented the term "real-time infrastructure" in 2002 (a precursor to private cloud computing). Bittman served for three years as a member of Gartner's Senior Research Board. In 2005, he earned Gartner's Analyst of the Year Award. He has served as Gartner's Lead Analyst covering IBM, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. His primary focus of research is edge computing and the future of infrastructure.

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