OT/IT transformation will drive the market for public industrial edge cloud

Public industrial edge clouds will be needed in future to support new edge-native use cases such as drones and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) but the business case is elusive. Edge providers and technology vendors should tap into the emerging operational technology (OT)/information technology (IT) transformation trend to identify operational application functionality that can migrate to a public rather than a private industrial edge cloud.

Information provided in this report

• Insights into OT/transformation trends that are driving enterprise demand for private industrial (on-premises) edge and eventually public industrial edge and why OT applications are not going to follow IT applications into the public cloud
• Identification of key drivers for OT application modernisation
• Recommendations for edge cloud providers and technology vendors on how to use the OT application modernisation opportunity to drive the business case for public industrial edge cloud
• How OT application modernisation can augment demand coming from emerging, completely new edge-native use cases that involve mobility, such as drones and AGVs
• A detailed and thoughtful taxonomy for edge locations and a categorisation of use cases that are driving edge cloud demand