The cloud revolution is at the edge, says Intel CTO Guido Appenzeller
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The cloud revolution is a stark transition from the client-server model, with as-a-service models also taking the stage and edging out dedicated data centers.
The cloud is evolving quickly as well, with the architecture changing and demanding that companies keep up with its infrastructural fluctuations.
“Initially, the assumption was it’s all one thing and now suddenly we’re starting to see a much cleaner separation of these different areas,” said Guido Appenzeller (pictured), chief technology officer of the Data Platforms Group at Intel. “A second major influence is that the type of workloads we’re seeing are evolving incredibly quickly — 10 years ago, things were mostly monolithic, but today most new workloads are microservices-based.” Microservices are loosely coupled, lightweight functions that can be strung together to build applications.