The Edge business case
Investors want to spend money on the Edge - but first they need to see it work
Investors want to spend money on the Edge - but first they need to see it work
Banning Huawei from mobile infrastructure might cripple the Edge rollout - unless governments can give real support to the open alternatives
Edge data centers can’t rely on regular visitors. They may have to become robotic
Don’t prescribe every sector with the same course of treatment
Edge applications aren’t the same as cloud ones, so they don’t need the same hardware
What’s the most remote IT system in everyday use right now? The Perseverance rover on Mars
The rise of online retail and the Covid-19 pandemic are driving store closures, so retailers need to get smarter about how they use technology at the Edge.
Forget 5G, the IoT, and micro data centers at cell towers (for now) - DartPoints CEO Scott Willis says the Edge opportunity is small facilities in Tier 3 cities
Cashierless shopping requires tons of cameras, and even more compute to track it all
Keeping 5G infrastructure running 24x7 will require new approaches to remote management and maintenance
5G is power hungry - but telecoms operators may have some answers to keep it supplied with energy
DCD exclusive: Microsoft’s underwater data center experiment employed wave energy and post-quantum cryptography on the seabed off Scotland. But the big lessons could be learnt on land
5G infrastructure is being built from the ground up to support larger numbers of smaller data centers at the network edge