Fog World Congress
The ‘Minutes’ Are In: OpenFog Consortium Members’ Meeting
What a great experience last week. OpenFog members descended on Cupertino, California from the U.S., Europe, and Asia to attend our second members’ meeting of the year. I kicked off the session with the new “This is Fog” video, created by the OpenFog Marketing Committee. It provides a 2-minute…
Year in Review: Charting a Path Through the Fog
Fog computing is the distributed cloud technology that enables many of the real-time, data-intensive capabilities of the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G mobile technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. 2017 was a banner year for this emerging technology, reflected in the work that Cisc…
New Fog Standards Initiative Will Accelerate Digital Transformation
To truly be transformative, the Internet of Things (IoT), needs to be able to handle massive amounts of data in near-real time for advanced use cases such as drones, self-driving vehicles, and embedded artificial intelligence (AI) applications. It also needs to be completely interoperable—from end-u…
New Reference Architecture Is a Leap Forward for Fog Computing
On February 8th, the OpenFog Consortium released the OpenFog Reference Architecture (RA). This 162 page document represents more than a year’s work from our global membership of 55 organizations. The OpenFog RA is a mid-level guidepost document, full of invaluable architecture recommendations for a…