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L’edge computing sta trasformando il modo in cui giganti come Google e Microsoft gestiscono, elaborano e forniscono dati da milioni di dispositivi in tutto il mondo. Questo sistema diminuisce la distanza tra utente e server e riduce la latenza al minimo. Rispetto al cloud computing, l’edge computing è più «democratico» grazie alla sua natura distribuita e localizzata. Di conseguenza, si stima che l’elaborazione edge svolgerà un ruolo fondamentale nella prossima tecnologia avanzata. Il progetto ACCORDION, finanziato dall’UE, ritiene che associando l’edge computing a tecnologie avanzate quali il 5G, l’UE sia in grado di trarre vantaggio dalle proprie risorse e infrastrutture locali e apportare benefici alle PMI. Il progetto stabilisce un approccio pratico nel connettere le risorse e le infrastrutture di edge per supportare applicazioni di prossima generazione.
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There is an increasing number of signs that the edge computing concept is going to play a dominant role in the forthcoming technology developments, disrupting economies at a large scale. The big cloud providers promptly jumped in to get the lion’s share but edge computing is intrinsically more “democratic” than cloud computing. In fact, its distributed and localized nature can be an antibody for big trusts, if properly exploited. Synergistically employing edge computing with upcoming technologies such as 5G provides an opportunity for EU to capitalize on its local resource and infrastructure and its SME-dominated application development landscape and achieve an edge-computing-driven disruption with a local business scope. To this end, ACCORDION establishes an opportunistic approach in bringing together edge resource/infrastructures (public clouds, on-premise infrastructures, telco resources, even end-devices) in pools defined in terms of latency, that can support NextGen application requirements. To mitigate the expectation that these pools will be “sparse”, providing low availability guarantees, ACCORDION will intelligently orchestrate the compute & network continuum formed between edge and public clouds, using the latter as a capacitor. Deployment decisions will be taken also based on privacy, security, cost, time and resource type criteria. The slow adoption rate of novel technological concepts from the EU SMEs will be tackled though an application framework, that will leverage DevOps and SecOps to facilitate the transition to the ACCORDION system. With a strong emphasis on European edge computing efforts (MEC, OSM) and 3 highly anticipated NextGen applications on collaborative VR, multiplayer mobile- and cloud-gaming, brought by the involved end users, ACCORDION is expecting to radically impact the application development and deployment landscape, also directing part of the related revenue from non-EU vendors to EU-local infrastructure and application providers.
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