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.
Continue readingManaging & Scaling Edge Infrastructure
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.
Continue readingneXt Curve Insights – May 2023
This is the May 2023 edition of the neXt Curve Tech Insights newsletter. This edition covers new and takes on the topics of generative AI, 5G, IoT, industry 4.0, cloud and edge computing, and telecom tech. Subscribe for the tech and industry insights that matter.
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This is the April 2023 edition of the neXt Curve Tech Insights newsletter. This edition covers the NAMM Show, NAB Show 2023, RSA Conference and more. Subscribe for tech and industry insights that matter.
Continue readingGenerative AI at The Edge
The hype that is generative AI continues to rise and with it what is and will be and inevitable realization of the risks and the limitations of the technology, its rapidly growing range of applications, and investments in capitalizing on the ever-expanding landscape of theories of its revolutionary impact on society, industry, and civilization as we know it. We are also starting to see calls for responsible and confidential Gen AI. The “edge” may have some answers that we seek for safe and valuable use of generative AI technologies.
Continue readingEdge Native
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 readingSASE and Edge Computing
SASE is probably the coolest acronym for a reference architecture ever. It’s fun to say and brings back memories of Phil Hartman’s SNL character and skit, Russel Clarke, senior editor or Sassy Magazine. All silliness aside, SASE is quite sassy of a concept that is driving the next level thinking in enterprise networking and security.
Continue readingHow the Hybrid Cloud Has Inspired Edge Cloud Computing
What is hybrid cloud? It’s the idea of a unified environment of at least one public cloud and one private cloud. Simply put, it’s about integrating and blending a cloud service provider managed environment with an enterprise-managed IT environment or environments.
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