Edge Platforms Deliver 3 Key Business Benefits
CIO, Friday, May 12,2023
How does the evolution from traditional CDN to an Edge platform help businesses and improve consumer experiences?
Traditionally, content delivery networks (CDNs) were used to cache files close to consumers, enabling media publishers to stream video and gaming software to customers as quickly as possible, and allowing high-stakes web application providers to deliver web pages equally fast.
Eventually, application and content owners found these networks had use beyond caching that enabled digital experiences to be better, safer, and more personalized and profitable. The market responded with edge platforms, an evolution of CDNs that can handle the compute and data workloads that were historically the domain of data centers and clouds. Edge platforms are now a fundamental part of every consumer-facing business's digital stack.
How does this evolution from traditional CDN to an Edge platform help businesses and improve consumer experiences?