Market Assessment and Forecasts 2017-2022

This report evaluates Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) technology, architecture and building clocks, applications, solutions, and deployment challenges. Download the report today to learn about industry initiatives, leading companies, and solutions across the edge computing ecosystem...

Edge Computing Set to Grow with Convergence of Five Technologies

Download this exclusive report from Omdia Distinguished Analyst, Infrastructure Solutions, Michael Azoff. In this report, he looks at defining edge computing and focuses on what edge technology looks like across different industries including cloud providers and car manufacturers.

Last week, the GSMA announced an initiative to standardise the edge, with Telefónica, KT, China Unicom and Telstra the first to step up to lead the way. In signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the four telcos the aim will be to test Edge Computing functionality and interconnection capability, as well as verifying the ease and simplicity of a MEC platform for application developers to leverage.

IBM’s AI and edge computing technologies are going to guide a crewless boat to chart the same route the Pilgrims did 400 years ago. I was at an IBM analyst event when I met Don Scott, CTO of Marine Ai, a venture that is working on an automatic boat, named “Mayflower”, which will sail from Plymouth, England, where the Marine Ai is based, to Plymouth, Massachusetts in September this year, 400 years after the original ship carried the Pilgrims across the Atlantic Ocean.

The best-articulated and industry-accepted definition of cloud native comes from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) which defines the term as follows: Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization...