Processing and storing data in the local network in combination with the cloud (the Internet). The fog model pertains to the massive amounts of data generated by sensors in machine-to-machine ...

Oh, how we love our buzzwords. By now, I’m certain you’ve heard at least a few whispers about the latest piece of jargon that’s been floating around; a technological development with a close ...

That's where companies rent shared software, computers, and storage instead of buying and installing it all themselves. They pay for their usage via subscriptions, accessing it over the internet. So ...

Editor’s note: This is the 39 th article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series about how real words become empty words and stifle technology progress. This “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series is ...

The OpenFog Consortium developed IEEE 1934, a standard shaped by ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Princeton University, to handle the massive data generated by IoT, 5G and artificial ...

Fog allows data to be processed, analyzed, stored, and acted upon more quickly through the use of more local devices. This leaves the cloud free to do what it does best. The cloud has been in the news ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Fog computing refers to a decentralized computing structure, where resources, including the data and applications, get placed in logical locations between the data source and the cloud; it also is ...

Ah, the '80s. Valley girls haunted like, totally awesome malls, Star Wars struck back and distributed processing was the latest in cutting-edge technology. Going distributed is a vivid memory for ...