When edge data is needed, networks provide the pipes to transfer edge data to the cloud, and the cloud services the data to the applications.

This approach is problematic. For example, KubeArmor analyzes telemetry data to understand application behavior for container/node forensics. With thousands of nodes deployed (using Open Horizon), sending event streams to a centralized node is not a viable option.
To address the need, Open Horizon was extended by AnyLog:
1) By services to store the KubeArmor data on the local nodes.
2) By a network protocol that is able to query the distributed data.
These functionalities allow KubeArmor to extract real-time insight without centralizing the data.

This approach transforms the network to be a data service provider: With Open Horizon extended functionalities, the network delivers the distributed edge data to the applications (by satisfying SQL queries) without centralizing the data.

This talk details this approach, including a live demo of distributed edge data that is serviced (using a network protocol) as a unified collection of data to edge and cloud applications.