Omdia Survey Finds High Interest in 5G and Edge Computing

A survey conducted for Google Cloud by Omdia suggests North and South American; Asia and European enterprises and mid-market firms are planning on using at least one 5G or other edge computing element within the next year. 

Though we are accustomed to suppliers issuing such forecasts (“demand for our product is skyrocketing”), in another sense it would be odd indeed if virtually any business was not already using  some form of edge computing (local processors), or planning on adopting 5G to some extent. 

Edge computing is what a PC, smartphone, tablet or a router does, for example. By definition, a 5G smartphone does some amount of edge computing on the device. 

Of course, that is not what Omdia and Google Cloud were looking to explore. Instead, they were looking at a shift of business computing from some on-premise mode to remote computing at the edge. And buying of edge computing services and infrastructure is planned by close to 70 percent of survey respondents.

source: Google Cloud 

Some use cases already are common among edge computing adopters. Video and other data analytics, as well as storage, are key use cases. 

source: Google Cloud 

Managed edge computing was preferred by respondents. About 70 percent of the respondents say they are considering a managed service rather than “do it yourself.”

source: Google Cloud