The edge computing use case landscape is broad and its early deployments have been highly customized. Infrastructure and operations leaders will need to develop a multiyear edge computing strategy that addresses the challenges of diversity, location, protection and data.

Some key findings from this Gartner report include:

• The variety of use cases and requirements can lead to a sprawl of first-of-a-kind edge computing deployments, without any synergy and complicating efforts to secure and manage them.
• The scale of distributed computing and storage required by edge computing, as well as deployment locations that usually have no IT staff, combine to create new management challenges.
• With processing and storage placed outside traditional information security visibility and control, edge computing creates new security challenges that need to be addressed in depth.
• Edge computing creates a sprawling data footprint across a distributed architecture that needs to be governed, integrated and processed.