The edge is the new Wild West of tech
The players that don’t own a cloud should lay out a vision of how they will create a new abstraction layer on top of the public cloud.
There’s the edge and that’s a wildcard. But it seems that, the cloud players are well-positioned to innovate with custom silicon, programmable infrastructure, capex buildouts at the edge and new thinking around systems architectures.
Not every workload will or should live in the cloud. Hybrid is real and the big cloud players know it. And they’re positioning to bring their stacks on-prem and to the edge.
To win in hybrid, the legacy vendors must embrace the cloud and build on top of the giants and add value where clouds aren’t, can’t or won’t. They must find places where they can move faster than the hyperscalers.
https://siliconangle.com/2021/05/14/debunking-myth-cloud-repatriation/