The OS platform needs to be adaptable and consistent across various operating environments. It should include a set of APIs and services that abstract away the details of the underlying hardware infrastructure to make it possible to write applications that can work with the widest range of architectures, servers, storage, and network options available. As a result, you can easily deploy and transition business-critical workloads across onpremises and public cloud environments. How that’s enabled and simplified determines how we measure the adaptability of the platform

Edge computing is a distributed model in which computing takes place near the physical location where data is being collected and analyzed, rather than on a centralized server or in the cloud. This new infrastructure involves sensors to collect data and edge servers to securely process data on-site while connecting other devices to the network.