Artificial Intelligence has reached a new level of public consciousness (and perhaps its own?) with the advent of easily accessible tools, portals and applications and breathless forecasts of utopia and doom that are washing over us like high tide on a Cape Cod Beach. The C-suite of the Fortune 500 are rapidly conducting workshops and offsites, startups are quickly editing their VC pitch decks and we’re all becoming a bit more educated on what AI could do, would do, and should do.
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In order for edge infrastructure to scale operationally and economically novel mechanisms and tools for managing services that are deployed across a fleet of edge cloud nodes. This is where the SMO or Service Management and Orchestration concept comes into play. Emerging frameworks from semiconductor, software, and increasingly OEMs are beginning to assume the important role of stitching together constellation of edge clouds.
Continue readingPlumbing, Electrical, HVAC… and 5G
Private 5G holds out a promise of ultra-low latency, secured and private, ubiquitous connectivity – across the campus, the factory floor, and across acres of commercial property – completely in the control of the IT department. Like any respectable tech, it had its own “mini” hype cycle. Every tradeshow had multiple a private 5G demos competing on speed, capabilities, coverage – you name it.
Continue readingThe Edge is a Team Sport
Edge Compute is arguably one of the most of exciting and innovative areas of promise for commercials businesses. As semiconductors increase performance and use less power due to ever- improving fab processes, networks improve their capacity, latency and reach, software development leverages cloud native capabilities, and AI inferencing leverage cloud-trained models, we’re at an inflection point on how these systems can transform business.
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Edge native is a challenging concept to explain because there are a growing number of vendor descriptions about what edge-native is. It’s typically used to tout the nuances and differentiations of a particular vendors offering. How will it matter and how will it impact the future of computing at the edge?
Continue readingIEEE Awards & VIC Summit 2022
The 2022 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and the venerable Honors Ceremony took place in San Diego presided by K.J. Ray Liu, 2022 IEEE President and CEO on May 6. The event was held at the San Diego Marriott Marina Hotel. I had the honor of being invited to attend in person and was the first IEEE event since becoming a member this year.
Continue readingIndustry Insight: Is It Time To Rethink Cloud Economics?
In the last two years, the three leading public cloud service providers, AWS, Google and Microsoft did something that may compel us to reevaluate our assumptions about the business of cloud. From an IT service provider’s perspective, the argument for adopting a cloud delivery model is its significant cost structure (economic) scalability advantage over legacy IT managed service and hosting models. This tenet has sustained an almost unquestioned advocacy for public cloud as the ultimate digital service business model and the inevitable destination of enterprise IT and industrial workloads and applications.
Continue readingThe Rise of the Edge Cloud
We have been doing edge computing for a long time, depending on who you ask. If that is the case, what is the big deal about edge computing? It really is the emerging edge cloud. Edge cloud can be defined as the rapid push of cloud computing out across the edge continuum between the central data center or public cloud megaplexes to the on-premise edge appliances supporting IoT (Internet of Things) applications or a base station at the edge of the mobile network.
Continue readingHuawei Connect 2021: Key Takeaways
September 23rd to the 28th. This year, it is all about cloud native. The growth of Huawei’s cloud business is impressive when you consider that it was only four years ago that Huawei launched their Cloud Business Unit (BU). The BU’s achievements in advancing cloud technologies and services toward the edge is also nothing to sneeze at.
Continue readingHuawei Annual Report 2020: A Year of Survival
neXt Curve was in Nice, France attending the premier global event for digital transformation in the telecommunications industry held from May 14th through May 16th and hosted by TM Forum. Leading vendors and operators converged to discuss what it will take help the telecom industry reinvent itself and aid telecom service providers in becoming digital service providers. Now that 5G has arrived in select markets around the globe, the pressure is on for telecom operators to transform their operating models to capture the value promised by the next generation network.
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