Has anyone got any good examples in healthcare where you would choose Edge over Cloud?
Here’s a good explanation, if you had to google it like I did!
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thanks Mary, I also came across a similar article.
Was wondering if anyone had got to the point where the discussion on using Edge over Cloud had occurred.
Maybe we need to discuss further and come up with some use cases on when and why you chose one over the other, perhaps?
So Edge is more like… ‘On-Prem’ as we would have looked at it… right?
The Government mandate for ‘Cloud First’ is clear that you can choose to not use Cloud, if it’s inappropriate to do so. I do sometimes feel we’ve gone ‘too far’ the other way and that ease of deployment and reduced direct responsibility for the mechanics of delivering the service (i.e. it’s someone elses machine, let them worry about hardware availability, etc) can make it easy for commercial vendors (who are, lets face it, driven by profit, as all for-profit businesses must be) to cut corners that someone doing their own deployment would not. We see this is people clinging to SLA’s and contract fine-print when things go wrong. When the customer (in our case, the health agency) is driven by having the tools required to get the job done, they’ll get frustrated if a longer-than-ideal outage is excused by ‘well you’re not paying for the level of availability you’ve come to expect, so tough!’
The link above talks about how ‘edge’ can be more reliable, it’s only more reliable in a comms context (less places for the ‘wire’ to break) but you do have to build in all the required redundancies if you want to deliver and maintain a predictable HA service.
Bottom line for me is that ‘edge’ or ‘on-prem’ is going to be selected where latency is an issue, where the local investment in sufficient infrastructure to meet availability requirements is not prohibitive, and where cloud vendors can’t be trusted to measure up to requirements, for whatever reason.
Our company is looking at two projects shortly, one being a medical use case, of combining edge, blockchain tech, and kubernetes on the 5G network. Eileen, I’ll be in WLG after next week if you’d like a catch up - we missed last time 
Sure, let me know which day. love to hear more about your upcoming projects
I’ll email you
So this is similar to the old distributed versus centralised saga…? Except in the old days, you still knew where your kit was even if distributed.
but now edge versus cloud