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The binary choice of on-prem computing or shipping data and workloads to hyperscale cloud datacenters is now becoming an inhibitor to resource optimization, business innovation and compelling new use models. As a result, one area of intense focus of such innovation is on “edge computing”. Edge computing is the placement of data center or network-class compute and storage resources away from centralized hubs and closer to the endpoint devices in order to improve service capabilities, optimize TCO, comply with data locality requirements, and reduce application latency. This session will provide an overview of the market dynamics driving the growing interest in edge computing models and concepts. It will cover some of the critical use models and attributes likely to drive the transition and it will highlight some of the core technologies and providers that will help open and enable the deployment of IT resources dynamically when and where they are needed—from core to edge to endpoint. More about our speakers: James Greene is the Sr Industry Marketing Manager, Network Products Group at Intel Corporation. James is co-author of the book: Intel® Trusted Execution Technology for Servers: A Guide to More Secure Datacenters and contributed to the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Interagency Report 7904 - Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud: A Proof Of Concept Implementation. He has been a speaker, panelist or presenter at a number of public venues, such as the International Forum on Cyber Security, SecureTech Canada, Intel Developer Forum, OpenStack Conference and Design Summit, InfoSec World 2011, vmworld, ENSA@Work, RSA in US and Europe, CSA Congress, HP Discover and other industry forums. Ben McCahill is the Director of Strategy and Business Planning at Intel Corporation.