Edge Computing

Hampshire, UK. 23rd May 2022 – A new study from Juniper Research has predicted that global MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) spend will grow from $8.8 billion (€8.25 billion) in 2022, to $22.7 billion (€21.28 billion) by 2027. This growth of 260% will be driven by increasing requirements for on-premises machine learning and low-latency connectivity; enabled by 5G technology.

London, United Kingdom. 17 May, 2022 – ThreatQuotient, a security operations platform innovator, announced that Comcast has selected the ThreatQ platform and ThreatQ investigations to meet their cybersecurity operations needs. A full customer success story detailing this engagement can be downloaded here.

Innodisk, a global specialist in industrial storage and embedded peripherals, is delighted to announce its latest business strategy. Together with its subsidiaries, Innodisk will make every effort to promote Edge AI computing technologies to the world.

Belfast and London, UK. 26 April 2022 – Digital technology company, Kainos, has partnered with slow news organisation, Tortoise, to investigate how business leaders should respond to challenges around trust in AI now.

Sydney, Australia. 28 April 2022 – Enterprises and government agencies in Australia are migrating to the cloud at a rapid pace that is expected to increase significantly over the next five years, according to a new research report published by Information Services Group, a global technology research and advisory firm.

Seattle, 26 April 2022 – Sequitur Labs announced that it has been selected by Lenovo as the technology vendor of choice for protecting edge AI computing applications utilised as part of the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 platform.

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) has created the shift in retail payments since contactless technology, says Vince Graziani, CEO, IDEX Biometrics, having finally been enacted in full across Europe as of March 14^th. 

New York City, USA. 16 March 2022 – Outsourcing for software development at start-ups is expected to increase by 70% between 2022 and 2023, according to new research from Commit, the global tech services company focused on custom software and IoT solutions. Furthermore, 99% of senior technology and HR leaders recognise the benefits of remote teams, with 3 of every 4 (75%) seeing an increase in productivity from their remote staff, a clear indication that concerns about remote teams are all but gone.

Sophia Antipolis, 15 March 2022 – Since the beginning of 2022 the ETSI MEC Industry Specification Group (ETSI ISG MEC) has moved forward with the on-going Phase 3 work, which is foreseen to help accelerate and enable more effective and fruitful collaboration with other organisations.

Sunnyvale, CA., USA, and Helsinki, Finland. 28 February 2022 – Google Cloud and Finnish telecommunications and digital services provider, Elisa, announced a strategic partnership to accelerate Elisa’s cloud transformation journey and work together on joint innovations in several areas. 

What is edge computing? If you asked five different people that question, you’d probably get five different answers, says Perry Krug, director shared services at Couchbase.

With the world endeavouring to get back on an even keel as the pandemic slowly recedes, businesses are looking at the effects of the past two years on their own organisations’ health and considering the future. While some undoubtedly will need to rethink expansion plans, the need for enhanced connectivity remains top of the agenda, and for enterprises that largely means the Internet of Things (IoT), says Rohit Maheshwari, head of strategy & products at Subex.

Taipei, Taiwan. 3 February 2022 – Advantech, a global provider of intelligent systems and industrial edge computers, is excited to announce that its MIC-770 V2 modular fanless edge IPC, and the IPC-200 series Industrial PC that is widely used by equipment builders, are qualified for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Internet of Things (IoT) Greengrass an IoT open source edge runtime and cloud service.

A survey by Yokogawa found that more than half of decision makers from global process industries are increasing their investments in industrial autonomy. Following recent analysis of how its customers are using its visual drag and drop Flow Studio, Goran Appelquist, CTO at edge analytics software company Crosser, provides insight into the five most popular analytics modules being used to create data flows in its platform.

Laguna Hills, Calif. USA. 18 January 2022 – BrainChip Holdings Ltd, a provider of ultra-low power high performance artificial intelligence technology and the commercial producer of neuromorphic AI chips and IP, announced that it has begun taking orders for the commercially available Mini PCIe board leveraging its Akida advanced neural networking processor, rounding out its suite of AKD1000 offerings.

Researchers at the University of Surrey in the UK have reportedly demonstrated proof-of-concept of using their multimodal transistor (MMT) in artificial neural networks, which mimic the human brain. This is an important step towards using thin-film transistors as artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and moves edge computing forward, with the prospect of reducing power needs and improving efficiency, rather than relying solely on computer chips.

In the last five years, web searches for edge computing have increased by a colossal 473%. Clearly, there’s an appetite for understanding the edge but the technology has yet to be widely deployed in industrial applications. Here are some misconceptions and barriers of edge computing, as well as the strong case for manufacturers to embrace the edge now, says Nevzat Ertan chief architect & global manager for digital machining architecture at Sandvik Coromant.

Amaro, Italy – Eurotech, an enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT) in mission-critical applications, and WaterView, a company specialised in computer vision and AI for meteorology, hydrology, and environmental modeling, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a strategic partnership to enable real-time weather condition monitoring applications.

Seattle – With significant growth projected in the global IoT market over the next 6 years, the need to subsequently secure devices at the edge from attacks, safe and secure through the manufacturing process, and managed securely throughout the life of the product will follow a similar trajectory, predict experts at Sequitur Labs.

London, UK. 30 November 2021 – Analysys Mason a specialist telecoms, media and technology consulting and research firm has released its annual industry predictions on the major trends it expects to make an impact in 2022.

RALEIGH, N.C. 22 November, 2021 – Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source solutions, announced the availability of Red Hat OpenShift Data Science as a field trial, as well as an expanded partner ecosystem focused on this new cloud service offering.

Edinburgh, UK.17 November, 2021 – IOTech, the edge software company, announced five predictions for edge computing in 2022. Among its forecasts, the company foresees a proliferation of AI and machine learning at the IOT edge and edge-cloud architectures as the norm. 

Unterschleissheim, Germany. 21 October 2021 – Moxa Europe GmbH and Crosser, a provider of edge analytics for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announce their cooperation. Together, Crosser’s edge analytics platform and Moxa’s reliable network, connectivity and edge computing solutions will help manufacturing companies to connect their devices to offer better collaboration between systems, processes, and people.

Gartner predicts that around 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed at the edge by 2025. Edge computing is a rapidly evolving market, and while there are many benefits, there are still some hurdles to adoption.

Laserfiche announced the availability of Laserfiche Cloud in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation’s cloud offering delivers an innovative and trusted system for securely managing content and automating business processes across the enterprise.

Upon taking a “small step” onto the surface of the moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong uttered what would become one of history’s most famous phrases. It’s easy to dismiss taking small steps as a lack of real progress but starting small can often lead to those “giant leaps” later in time.

Pulsant, the UK’s hybrid cloud specialists, announced that Antin Infrastructure Partners has acquired Pulsant from Oak Hill Capital and Scottish Equity Partners. The comnpanies have owned Pulsant since 2014. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.