Edge software firm Stratus Technologies is currently showcasing its second-gen ztC Edge platform along with a number of pre-validated control architectures at the 26th annual ARC Industry Forum.
Taking place in Orlando, Florida from June 6-9, the event will also see a number of...
Japanese operator SoftBank has opened its first 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC) site in the Kanto region as part of its national deployment of MEC servers.
SoftBank 5G MEC provides a low-latency and high-quality network leveraging the company's 5G standalone (SA) services that...
The digital footprint and increasingly distributed IT infrastructures of edge computing are larger than ever.
According to IDC, more than 50% of new enterprise IT infrastructure will be deployed at the edge instead of through data centres by 2023. The global edge computing market will...
Verizon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have expanded their 5G mobile edge offering to two more US metro areas with the addition of Nashville, Tennessee and Tampa, Florida.
Combining Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Wavelength, the companies joint offering now spans 19 metro areas, meaning 75...
Edge computing and hyperconvergence specialist Scale Computing has released its Fleet Manager for edge and managed service providers.
The Scale Computing Fleet Manager (SC//Fleet Manager) is a cloud-hosted monitoring and management tool for distributed IT infrastructure that can scale...
Edge cloud platform provider Fastly has acquired Glitch, a developer platform for creating and sharing full-stack web apps with nearly two million active users.
Glitch will continue to operate under Fastly, with the acquisition focused on expanding the platform’s team as well as...
Open source solutions provider Red Hat has launched new enhancements across its hybrid cloud solutions portfolio to accelerate edge adoption in enterprise.
The set of cross-portfolio capabilities focus on supporting customers migration to edge computing by limiting complexity,...
Edge AI computing firm Blaize has partnered with biometric solutions company Innovatrics to develop a low power, edge-optimised facial recognition technology.
Running on Blaize’s edge devices, Innovatrics SmartFace Embedded has been designed for access control and public security...
Edge solutions firm Scale Computing has entered into a strategic partnership with Intel to offer a fully integrated platform designed for deploying and managing applications at the edge.
The Indiana, USA-based company is known for its hyperconverged infrastructure solutions that...
Vodafone has partnered with data analytics firm Cardinality.io and Google Cloud to build a pan-European network performance platform that will improve connectivity for customers.
The platform is being implemented across eleven European countries with the goal of transforming the way...
Edge Delta, a platform that uses distributed stream processing and machine learning for data observability at the edge, has raised $63 million (£50.9m) in a Series B led by Quiet Capital.
“It’s clear that traditional approaches for collecting and analysing data fall short against...
The United States’ Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is collaborating with Microsoft to explore how commercial technologies like edge computing can be applied to challenges facing the US Navy and Marine Corps.
Nestled in California’s Silicon Valley, NPS provides graduate education...
New market research from Informa’s Omdia predicts that revenue from the enterprise edge services market will reach $214 billion (£171bn) by 2026.
That’s more than double the current size of the market, which Omdia forecasts to reach $97 billion (£77.5bn) in...
Canada’s largest telco provider, Bell Canada, has launched the country’s first public multi-access edge computing (MEC) alongside Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Expanding on the two companies’ 2021 collaboration agreement, the Bell 5G network is helping to power the first AWS...
Google Cloud has launched a new multimedia content delivery network (CDN) – aptly named Media CDN – that allows businesses to take advantage of Google’s YouTube network.
According to Sandvine’s ‘The Global Internet Phenomena Report’, video streaming accounted for 53.7% of...
Dell Technologies is expanding its edge portfolio with a number of solutions aimed at helping retail generate more value from their data.
Edge technologies have improved retail customer experiences in recent years through solutions such as curbside pickup and frictionless...
BrainChip, the first commercial producer of low power neuromorphic AI chips, and SiFive, a RISC-V hardware producer, have combined their technologies to bring optimised AI/ML compute to the edge.
BrainChip’s Akida is an advanced neural networking processor architecture that brings...
Telco giant Verizon has inked a deal to acquire a 9.9% stake in mobile infrastructure company Casa Systems for $40 million (£30.8m) as part of a multi-year purchase contract.
Whilst the investment does not give Verizon a direct seat on Casa Systems’ board of directors, former...
Maxis, one of Malaysia’s largest telecoms providers, has teamed up with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to build the country’s first multi-access edge computing (MEC) solution for enterprises.
Multi-access edge computing is a technology that enables ultra-fast, single-digit...
Nokia and Etisalat UAE, the telecoms pillar of e& in the UAE, have partnered to deploy 5G private wireless networks to support enterprises across Abu Dhabi.
The agreement will help drive digital transformation through smart city and AI use cases across industries such as oil and...
NVIDIA has set new records in AI inference and per-accelerator performance at the edge with its on-chip system based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture, the NVIDIA Orin.
Debuting its MLPerf benchmarks, the Orin accelerator showcased the highest performance and largest base for running all...
Spectro Cloud, a Kubernetes management platform provider, has closed a $40 million (£30.5m) Series B funding round.
The round, which was led by New York-based investor Stripes, sees Spectro Cloud’s total funding to date reach $67.5 million (£51.5m) as enterprises are increasingly...
Syntiant, a leading edge AI chip developer, has closed $55 million (£42m) in a series D funding round, bringing total investment in the company to $120 million (£91m) since its founding in 2017.
The Silicon Valley-based firm bagged five new investors including Renesas Electronics,...
SK Telecom, South Korea’s dominant telecoms operator, has launched an enterprise multi-access edge computing (MEC) solution called Petasus in partnership with US tech specialist Dell Technologies.
Through Petasus, SK Telecom’s MEC solutions, which range from network virtualisation...
NEXCOM has partnered with edge solutions provider Telco Systems to release a commercial-ready solution for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) looking to run virtual workloads at the network edge.
The joint solution is based on network appliance supplier NEXCOM’s DTA 1164W, a...
Quadric, developers of an edge processing platform optimised for on-device AI at the network edge, have raised $21 million (£16m) in a Series B funding round.
Led by NSITEXE, the round also saw major new investment from MegaChips alongside existing investors Leawood VC, Pear VC,...
Edge solutions provider Lumen Technologies doubled the number of Latin American customers that acquired its edge services in 2021.
The continent’s growing interest in Lumen’s services came from industries requiring low latency such as content creation, entertainment, e-commerce,...
IT standards company ETSI is moving forward with its Phase 3 plans for multi-access edge computing (MEC).
Since the start of the year, an ETSI MEC industry specification group (ETSI ISG MEC) has been working on the plan to accelerate and enable more effective collaboration between...
The Azure Stack Edge Pro 2 server is now commercially available on Microsoft’s Azure Edge Hardware Centre.
Described as an “AI-enabled edge computing device offered as a service”, the Pro 2 brings compute and processing power to edge locations such as retail and remote office...
DataBank, a connectivity and managed services provider, has closed its acquisition of four existing Houston, TX area data centres from CyrusOne for $670 million (£590m). The transaction makes Houston the 28th metro market in DataBank's US portfolio, expanding what is already the largest...
