The Interplay Between Core, Edge, and Endpoint is Key in All Industries While all industries have examples of waves of then distributed back out to the endpoints, the data traversing the core, edge, and endpoints, in greatest use of edge computing in the four which data collected at the endpoints is industries in the DATCON index is found in processed at the edge, propagated at the core, manufacturing and financial services (Figure 19). Question Does your organization utilize edge computing? Figure 19 – Use of Edge Computing 100% Don’t know Don’t know Don’t know Don’t know 90% 33% 38% % 62% 80% No No 45 No 70% No 60% % 50% 62 58% 40% YES 48% YES 30% YES % 20% 34 10% YES 0% Financial Services Manufacturing Healthcare Media and Entertainment Source: Data Age 2025, sponsored by Seagate, Nov 2018, n=1,081 IDC White Paper I Doc# US44413318 I November 2018 The Digitization of the World – From Edge to Core I 23