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These investments empower organizations to provision enterprise workloads at edge locations in support of innovative edge use cases.
Accordingly, a symbiotic edge and core to workload relationship is needed to enable workloads based at the core that support the edge, workloads based at the edge that support the edge, and workloads at the edge that support the core.
Because data management and analysis-related workloads have and are expected to have a major or secondary role in nearly all significant edge use case development, it will be one of the primary areas of investment at the edge.
In contrast, business application workloads are not as critical to the development of any major enterprise edge use cases, especially for newer developing areas of edge networks.
"Using digital technologies to improve the safety of people and communities and to increase the resilience of operations are being adopted the most rapidly. Industries such as manufacturing are already recognizing the impact that edge resources are having on operational efficiency and improved product quality," said Jennifer Cooke, research director, Edge Strategies at IDC. "As these platforms become more readily customized and adapted for broader use, the need for more IT infrastructure at the edge will escalate."
"As edge technology continues to expand in usage in a variety of workplace environments, we are seeing growing interest in expected concurrent workload growth in areas such as business intelligence and analytics, AI/ML-related workloads, and content workloads. While organizations should expect these workloads to be the main areas of edge-related growth, workloads across the spectrum will have critical influence even in minor roles within edge use cases."