The sheer volume of data generated by the Internet of medical things (IoMT) and mobile devices in today’s healthcare organizations is overwhelming the traditional datacenter. Devices send an enormous backhaul of data to be processed and stored on a central network server located in a datacenter, which may be located on premises or in the cloud. Healthcare organizations are seeing two primary issues with this approach:
- Latency. Data may have to travel thousands of miles between the devices and the datacenter, resulting in latency. Even though this latency may only be measured in microseconds, the cumulative effect is the degradation of network and application performance.
