Fog computing OpenFog Consortium, to promote interests and development in fog computing. Cisco Sr. Managing-Director Helder Antunes became the consortium's first chairman and Intel's Chief IoT Strategist Jeff Fedders became its first president. Both cloud computing and fog computing provide storage, applications, and data to end-users. However, fog computing has a closer proximity to end-users and bigger geographical distribution. Cloud Computing – the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Cloud Computing can be a heavyweight and dense form of computing power.
Insurance Data Processing computer-based data processing. In 1961, the name of the corporation was changed to Insurance Data Processing, Incorporated. In 1967, IDP was acquired by Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (Guy Carpenter & Co., Inc.), and in 1985 it became a part of the Carlino Financial Group. In 1997, ownership evolved into a Carlino/Gilbert partnership. Today, Insurance Data Processing, Inc, is known as IDP, or IDP::Insurance Data Processing, Inc. In addition to the corporate headquarters in Wyncote, PA, IDP also has facilities located in Solon, Ohio. IDP’s software is divided into two product platforms: IDP::Vision, a policy processing application hosted by IDP (Software