The origin of edge computing can be traced back to the 1990s, when Akamai launched its content delivery network (CDN). The idea back then was to introduce nodes at locations geographically closer to the end user for the delivery of cached content such as images and videos.
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Microsoft announced $5billion of investment over four years in IoT and edge computing in 2018 and continues to ramp up its edge efforts, while HPE announced it will fund edge computing tech with $4billion over 4 years starting in 2018. Google and AWS will be doing the same .
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