Getty Images/iStockphoto By Tom Nolle, Andover Intel Published: 21 Jul 2025 The tech space continues to fill up with buzzwords and loosely defined terms, so it's not surprising that enterprises have questions about the relationship between cloud and edge computing. Today, more edge computing messages are processed per week than traditional transactions are processed in a year. A single mass retailer generates one and a half billion edge messages per day, for example.