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An Edge Towards Cloud
Season 5, Ep. 9
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Welcome to another episode of Softcat’s Explain IT podcast.
We are here to Explain IT. Our team of experts will be here to talk tech in simple, jargon free language. We’ll be discussing new trends and ideas as well as solutions to everyday problems in this fascinating and ever changing world of tech.
An edge towards cloud, dramatic huh?
To share insights and answers, regular podcast guest Adam Louca, Softcat’s Chief Technologist for Security joins us today. So does our very special guest, Author, Engineer and currently CTO at Cloudflare, John Graham-Cumming.
What is an edge location?
Are edge locations different from a Cloud platform?
Are datacentres closing or evolving into edge locations?
Should edge be factored into an organisations IT strategy as cloud is today?
Join us as we answer these and much more on another episode of Explain I.T.
This episode is hosted by Dean Gardner, Field CTO at Softcat .
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