Edge Computing

For those ready to say “Yes” to the virtual workplace, but who need some guarantees.

Companies are increasingly asking how we can make their transition to a mobile, virtual workplace more secure, efficient, and cost-effective in the long term. The answer, says Jacques Bonifay, Transatel CEO, is it’s all in the (cellular) connectivity.

Breed Reply, a European investor in early-stage Internet of Things (IoT) businesses, has increased its investment in Dutch agritech company, Connecterra. As part of its Series B funding round, Connecterra has secured €7.8 million from existing investors, Breed Reply and Sistema, alongside new investors including AgTech specialists ADM Capital, French food safety enterprise Kersia Group and Dutch impact investor, Pymwymic.

Verizon has joined forces with Digital Catapult, the UK-based advanced digital technology innovation centre, to launch an immersive accelerator programme to develop innovative 5G solutions for enterprises.

Olea Edge Analytics, an intelligent edge computing platform for the water utility industry, has released EdgeWorks Platform 2.0. This combines blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in a solution for water billing, delivery and conservation.

We’ve been in the process of transitioning to Industry 4.0 (aka the fourth industrial revolution) ever since the German government coined the term in 2011. It’s proven to be a long and complex journey, and by 2025, the World Economic Forum has estimated that the worldwide impact of Industry 4.0 will reach UK£2.7 trillion(€2.9 trillion) in value. Report by Nigel Moulton, global CTO, Dell Technologies.

What is edge computing?

Edge computing is a new computing model which promises to radically alter how businesses interact with the physical world, says Tom Urquhart, SVP, global edge solutions at IOTech.

Intel has introduced its 3^rd generation Xeon Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio. These are designed to enable customers to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads running in data centre, network and intelligent-edge environments. 

The amount of data that is generated, communicated and manipulated in modern industries is truly staggering. For instance, over a terabyte of data is saved each day in power production alone, and this is quickly increasing as time marches on. Here, George Walker, managing director of industrial automation specialist Novotek UK & Ireland, discusses what goes into these multi-terabyte data handling systems.

Small Cell Forum (SCF) published research setting out how edge computing will impact the future of small cell networks, with particular focus on private cellular networks.

Finnish-Russian digital solutions provider for heavy industries, Zyfra has developed a comprehensive product to significantly reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19 at the industrial and other facilities.

Mobility is now vital for any enterprise looking to stay competitive. For many organisations, enterprise mobile applications are a key factor for success. Today’s companies, says Stephan Fabel, director of product at Canonical, especially those with field and remote workforces, rely on a large number of enterprise mobile applications to ensure employees remain productive and business operations running smoothly.

A strategic partnership has been announced by Pod Group, a provider of platforms, software and connectivity services for the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected enterprises working with Expeto, a platform provider of disruptive cloud and edge IoT Connectivity technology.

IBM, at its Think Digital conferenceannounced new services and solutions backed by a broad ecosystem of partners to help enterprises and telecommunications companies speed their transition to edge computing in the 5G era. This effort combines IBM’s experience and expertise in multicloud environments with Red Hat‘s open source technology, which became part of IBM last year in one of the biggest tech acquisitions of all time.

Visual commerce leader Chris Beaudin of ATLATL Software tells the US manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler how COVID-19 is now affecting our buying processes.

Verizon Business has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BlueJeans Network, an enterprise-grade video conferencing and event platform. Terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed by the New Jersey-based telco, but The Wall Street Journal which broke the story, put the price at “less than $500 million (€460 million)”.

Seamster, the global edge computing initiative dedicated to enterprise use case exploration and adoption, has been launched with support from the end-to-end edge value chain.

New research suggests the hyperscale community should remain in a strong position amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, says Chris Burden, chief commercial officer at Memset.

Microsoft has IT business all over the globe. It is equipped with a comprehensive product portfolio ranging from Azure platform to Microsoft 365 Dynamics that cover a significant part of business applications.

A new study from Juniper Research found that the total number of IoT connections will reach 83 billion by 2024, rising from 35 billion connections in 2020. This represents a growth of 130% over the next 4 years. The research identified the industrial sector as a key driver of this growth. It forecast that this expansion will be driven by the increasing use of private networks that leverage cellular networks standards.

Networking, collaboration and security technology specialist, Nowcomm has formed two new partnerships in the cybersecurity sector. The company is partnering with AT&T Cybersecurity, previously AlienVault, and human cyber risk management platform Cybsafe. This adds to the Cisco Gold partner’s existing portfolio, which includes cybersecurity solutions such as Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Meraki.

Councils in the UK expect to save over £195million (€221 million) in 2020 by introducing artificial intelligence technology techniques, according to a national survey of local authorities.

The severity of cyber-breaches has become more and more intense in recent years. As a result, security experts at Specops Software have conducted research into which Western European countries are the most cyber-insecure for citizens.

In common with other regions, companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) continue to view hybrid cloud as their ‘ideal’ IT model. But, according to the annual Enterprise Cloud Index from Nutanix, specialists in enterprise cloud computing, moving applications out of the data centre to implement this approach is taking longer than anticipated.

People have been talking about the connected car for years, but the reality is far from the hype, warns Bill Leisenring, CTO at Aptiv Connected Services.

For years, companies have been collecting data about all the factors that make up their business. By employing tech stacks to systematically gather and analyse data, many organisations have been able to optimise their businesses.