EDITOR ’ S QUESTION
HOW SHOULD LATIN AMERICAN CIOS PREPARE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EDGE COMPUTING IN DIVERSE INDUSTRIES ?
As machines increase their autonomy and ability to make decisions , the demand for more data storage and processing capacity becomes necessary to power the Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) of the millions of devices added to networks .
One of the main challenges in this regard is latency . That is , the time it can take for the network to turn information into actions . The lower the latency , the more responsive the machines are to environmental stimuli .
According to a study held by IDC , The Digitization of the World From Edge to Core , the volume of data and enduser connectivity through technological devices such as the Internet of Things ( IoT ) will be 175 zettabytes and 21 billion by 2025 , respectively – and this scaling is not afraid to maintain its growth throughout the decade .
Latin America , in particular , has shown interest in adopting Edge Computing to improve different processes and operations , from transportation and logistics to industrial plants , utilities , Smart Cities and hospitals .
According to the 2022 Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Survey of 316 executives in six LATAM countries ( Brazil , Mexico , Peru , Argentina , Chile and Colombia ), 90 % of executives in the region ’ s emerging technologies are extremely or very important to an organization ’ s future success . A similar proportion ( 87 %) say they have leveraged emerging technologies extremely well or very well over the past two years .
Compared to cloud computing , this is the most widely used emerging technology among Latin American organizations , cited by 65 % of respondents . The study concludes that by migrating computing and storage from a centralized data center to a location closer to where data is collected , Edge Computing can provide better speed , reliability and scalability .
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