AWS and Siemens team up for easier industrial edge-to-cloud configuration

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the preview of AWS IoT SiteWise Edge on Siemens’ Industrial Edge marketplace to help create a more seamless experience for sending industrial equipment data to the AWS cloud.

AWS IoT SiteWise Edge is software which ‘makes it easy to collect, organise, process and monitor equipment data on-premises’, as the company puts it. It is most closely associated with the AWS Snow family of rugged devices, for extremely large and infrequently...

1 December 2023 | Cloud

Edge Impulse: On the rise and rise of embedded and edge ML

When ChatGPT was launched, and the seemingly limitless potential of large language models (LLMs) became apparent, enterprises across industry wanted a piece of the action. The problem was: how could an industrial manufacturer, for example, truly integrate this potentially game-changing technology into their processes and machinery?

The answer lies in the application of embedded and edge machine learning (ML). “The core concepts of machine learning are much easier to get to...

29 November 2023 | AI

Kingston Technology: How data centres are evolving to meet edge use cases

Ahead of the Edge Computing Expo in London on November 30 and December 1, Edge Computing News caught up with Ann Keefe of Kingston Technology to discuss innovations in edge, customer use cases and demands, and convergence of technologies such as 5G in enabling the edge stack.

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Can you introduce yourself, your role at Kingston Technology and give a short overview of what Kingston does?

My name is Ann Keefe and I am Regional Director for UK & Ireland at...

14 November 2023 | 5G

StackPath adds NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances to its stable

Edge computing platform provider StackPath has announced the addition of NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances to its virtual machine (VM) and container product offerings.

The new instances utilise NVIDIA’s A2 tensor Core and A16 GPUs and are focused around AI, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality workloads; deep learning algorithm and intense graphical processing specifically.

The instances will be available in StackPath’s Dallas, San Jose and Frankfurt...

26 October 2023 | AI

Accenture: “Now is the time for every enterprise to adopt edge”

Speed

A new report from Accenture has argued that businesses need to act now to avoid falling behind with edge computing – yet integration with cloud, data and AI will be ‘essential’ to accelerate innovation affordably.

The study, titled ‘Leading With Edge Computing: How To Reinvent With Data And AI’, polled 2,100 C-suite executives globally and found more than four in five (83%) see edge as ‘essential’ to remaining competitive in the future. A similar number (81%) agreed...

13 September 2023 | Cloud

Edge AI will soon be here – but not with the boom that many expect

The wait is almost over for the promise of artificial intelligence at the edge to become a reality – but a new market research report has warned that predicted growth would be ‘anything but steady.’

Market research firm IDTechEx, in its recent report, ‘AI Chips for Edge Applications 2024-2034: Artificial Intelligence at the Edge’, has predicted that the global market opportunity for AI at the edge will touch $22 billion USD (£17.4bn) by 2034.

The company cites...

1 September 2023 | AI

Edgio looks to protect API threats at edge with latest offering

5G Edge

Distributed edge platform provider Edgio has announced the availability of its new API security solution which utilises machine learning to protect enterprise APIs from evolving threats at the edge.

The company explains its rationale for such a product thus: “The rapid growth of APIs used to build microservices in cloud-native architectures has left many enterprises in the dark when it comes to knowing where, how many, and what types of APIs they have. With multiple teams...

3 August 2023 | Applications

Enterprises trust edge for business challenges – but will infrastructure keep up?

A majority of organisations are investing in edge computing to solve critical business challenges – yet two in five respondents to an NTT survey are concerned that infrastructure won’t be able to keep up with the promise.

The findings appear in NTT’s Edge Advantage Report, which surveyed 600 enterprises around their motivations for adopting edge technologies, as well as the environments in which they operate.

More than 80% of respondents said they expected their...

6 June 2023 | Edge Computing

Edge computing and Kubernetes: Understanding the landscape

Edge computing differs from cloud computing in that information is processed nearer to the source of data. Yet the need for greater speed and efficiency in maximising resources as ever-increasing amounts of data get utilised are a common source of pain in both technologies.

It's not just the data, either. In edge use cases, which range from a security video camera to a remote oil rig, conditions may not always be optimal. As a result, the complexity needs to be managed....

23 May 2023 | Cloud

Ron Haberman, market CTO, Platform9: How edge ‘reinforces’ always-on company vision

Looking to the future of any industry through the lens of its foundational technology is very exciting. Yet getting from the idealistic vision to a workable reality requires a major leap – an operational management layer.

Retail is an example. How will edge computing revolutionise the retail industry? Examples range from the theoretical to the tangible. Brick and mortar retail stores contain a lot of data such as inventory, supply chain, transaction, and customer data. Decades...

16 May 2023 | Edge Computing