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 ...

Fog computing which sometimes also referred as the Edge computing is the process of the doing the computations locally and then passing over the results to Cloud processes. The need arises when IoT ...

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 ...

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 ...

The differences between general cloud computing and its “edge” and “fog” computing offshoots have stymied even many professionals since their introduction. But when it comes to general consumers, IT ...

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 ...

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 ...