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Speaking at Dell Technologies World 2021, the company’s CEO, Michael Dell, said data processed outside the datacentre was due to increase from 10% currently to 75% by 2025, with edge computing generating much of that data. His prediction built on an earlier forecast by Gartner that more than 50% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside the datacentre or cloud by next year. Dell’s comments garnered a lot of attention, but his sentiments regarding edge computing were not exactly surprising or novel. In 2017, Canalys CEO Steve Brazier told attendees at the Canalys Channels Forum in Venice: “The next phase of the computing industry will be around the computer at the edge.” At the same event, Martin Mayr, senior vice-president at German IT partner Cancom, remarked that there had been “very little talk about edge computing”, but that like cloud computing seven years ago, it was “really a game-changer” and will “make a big difference”. So assuming everyone is right about the impact of edge computing, what does...