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It's time to retire 'edge' from our IT vocabulary

sketharaman

"...we describe servers by their function — storage, compute, GPU,..."

I've never heard a storage device being described as server. SAN comprising hard disks is called storage but hard disks integrated with the server are not - although both perform the same function of storing programs and data. SAP India website says RISE for SAP includes only the Public Edition of SAP S/4HANA where SAP India instructors giving training to RISE with SAP partners say RISE for SAP includes both Public Edition and Private Edition of SAP S/4HANA.

I could go on and on but this shows that there's a lot of ambiguity in terminology even inside the datacenter. But nobody is suggesting that we retire the terms storage or ERP from our vocabulary.

Likewise, just because there's ambiguity in edge devices doesn't mean that the term should be retired.

Besides, sensors, zigbee "transmitters", and barcode scanners are just a few examples of devices for which the term "edge" is clearly applicable.

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