CRN Intelligent Edge Special Issue November 2021 - Issue 1407 by The Channel Company

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Check out 10 game-changing devices and services PAGE 9

EDGE COMPUTING 100 NEWS, ANALYSIS AND PERSPECTIVE FOR VARs AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATORS

Innovation is key to managing today’s explosion in data PAGE 10

Guarding The Edge As millions of employees bring the corporate edge right into their home oﬃces and the number of devices used to access company resources increases, the attack surface has grown to the point that security at the edge can’t be an afterthought. PAGE 6

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Guarding The Edge As the home office has become the edge for millions of workers worldwide and as the number of mobile devices connecting to the edge grows, solution providers and their vendor partners know that security needs to be top of mind to protect all of these new endpoints. Here’s how they are standing guard.

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6 Product Blitz Edge computing devices, software and platforms ensure a zero-touch distributed computing environment for applications and data processing at or near the edge. Check out these 10 new oﬀerings.

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CRN shines the spotlight on 50 companies paving the way for edge computing with hardware, software and services, 25 driving innovation around IoT and 5G, and 25 addressing the security challenges in edge environments.

A Letter From The Editor As offices closed and schools sent students home in March 2020, few of us could have predicted the wide-ranging impact the COVID-19 global pandemic would have on so many facets of our lives. Yet here we are 21 months later with many of us still working remotely or on a new hybrid schedule that sees us sitting in our cubicles and offices just a few days a week. Meanwhile, many road warriors have just recently begun to rack up frequent flyer miles once again. The near-instantaneous need to support and secure work-from-home, learn-from-home and telemedicine paradigms was surely a challenge, but the speed, creativity and technical acumen displayed by solution providers around the globe showcased just how critical the IT channel is in keeping the economy running. It also put the importance of guarding the edge in the limelight. As employees dispersed to their home offices and IT infrastructure became more distributed, the attack surface at risk for exploitation by hackers and other bad actors grew exponentially. “We’ve seen an explosion in customers reassessing and reinvesting in security tools and technologies,” said Manak Ahluwalia, president and CEO of Waltham, Mass.-based Aqueduct Technologies, in our cover story on p. 6. Ahluwalia goes on to say that as more applications move to the cloud, coupled with the proliferation of employees accessing corporate tools via the internet and mobile devices, “many customers are starting to consume security at the edge.” Serving as the building blocks of secure edge solutions are many of the technology vendors featured in our second-annual Edge Computing 100 list, which honors the key suppliers of edge hardware, software, services, IoT, 5G and security. You’ll find the list starting on p. 10. We’ve also spotlighted some of the key products and services that solution providers are incorporating into edge solutions. That roundup is on p. 9. I hope you find something useful in this issue to help you tackle the bountiful edge computing opportunity!

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Jennifer Follett Executive Editor jfollett@thechannelcompany.com

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Guarding The Edge BY GINA NARCISI & MARK HARANAS

It’s not a question of “if,” it’s a matter of “when” a business will be hit by ransomware or a devastating security attack. That’s because for most businesses the attack surface is larger than ever before due to increasingly distributed IT infrastructures as edge computing momentum takes oﬀ, said Aqueduct Technologies President and CEO Manak Ahluwalia. “We’ve seen an explosion in customers reassessing and reinvesting in security tools and technologies,” said Ahluwalia, whose Waltham, Mass.-based company is seeing a 300 percent spike in cybersecurity revenue this year. “Through COVID, customers have moved to a much more hybrid workforce where users are all over the world. Pre-COVID, they were able to really surround and protect their key applications and data at their own locations.” With more applications now moving to the cloud, a company’s ability to protect those applications is not the same because they’re not located within its own boundaries, according to Ahluwalia. “Their employees are coming in from the internet or on personal devices and at locations that organizations are unable to protect. The amount of bad actors that have access or try to get access is now exponentially greater. … Many customers are starting to consume security at the edge,” he said. Research firm IDC predicts that by 2023, more than 50 percent of new enterprise IT infrastructure deployed will be at the edge rather than inside data centers, up from less than 10 percent in 2020. IDC predicts the global edge computing market will reach $250 billion by 2024, with a compound annual growth rate of 12.5 percent over the next four years. Solution providers say that security can’t be an afterthought at the edge as ransomware and cyberattacks continue to make headlines across the globe. One-third of all businesses worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach over the past 12 months, according to a 2021 IDC study. Vendors and solution providers are investing millions in launching new edge security offerings to combat the growing attack surface spurred by the global COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the uptick in public awareness of

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ransomware attacks. These offerings include new innovation around Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), SD-WAN with built-in security, and threat detection, response and prevention capabilities. “We’re fighting back with SASE solutions, zero-trust security, multifactor authentication, stronger-than-ever identity access and authorization technologies and tools,” said Ahluwalia. “We’re seeing significant boosts in our Cisco and Palo Alto Networks security stacks. We’re seeing companies [like Lacework] pop up to solve issues that have been driven by the flight to the cloud and digital transformation. We’re making good inroads with companies like Arctic Wolf in managing threat detection and response for customers.” Smart edge security solutions like Cisco’s SD-WAN Viptela fabric and Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform are excelling at thwarting attacks. In addition, solution providers are building their own Security Operation Centers as a service, cloud access security broker offerings, threat detection services and 24/7/365 incident response. Solution provider Sentinel Technologies recently helped a customer that wanted better edge security as it migrated to the cloud. The solution it deployed consisted mainly of Sentinel’s own CloudSelect as-a-service and hosting offering, Cisco Viptela and Cisco Umbrella, and Oracle Cloud. “They now essentially have an intrusion prevention system with detection capabilities and then policy-based segmentation of their wide-area network,” said Robert Keblusek, CTO of Downers Grove, Ill.-based Sentinel. “Users get the secure internet gateway, which is going to give us more cloud capabilities and more capabilities to do SaaSbased controls, and that’s running wherever the user is.” Having an intelligent edge wrapped in security tools and channel services is key to a successful edge deployment, Keblusek said. “It’s giving them the advantage of an intelligent edge that’s able to say, ‘Oh, this is [Microsoft] Azure traffic, so let me get a direct path because that’s the policy you’ve put in place. This is Oracle traffic, let me get a direct path to

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Oracle because you put that policy in place.’ So the previous network would have had to carry everything home and then it would have hit a traditional firewall, which had very little application knowledge. Whereas now, their intelligent edge gives people both local and cloud-based security parameters that they can do different things with.” New edge security innovation from vendors combined with solution providers’ managed security services are preventing countless bad actors from gaining entrance. “So if an incident were to arise, now customers are alerted and we’re alerted in real time, but our teams can act within minutes to basically block the attack on their behalf,” said Aqueduct’s Ahluwalia. “We’ve seen that countless [times] over and over again in the last year of just our ability to mitigate that risk and block that event, in some cases before customers even get out of bed.” The Distributed Workforce The home office has become the edge over the last 21 months for millions of employees around the world. If solution providers didn’t have edge security as part of their repertoires, they do now, according to Faisal Bhutto, president of cloud and cybersecurity at Houston-based solution provider Computex Technology Solutions. “It’s about protecting that remote branch that didn’t exist a year and a half ago,” he said. “If you have 4,000 employees, that’s roughly 4,000 edges.” And many more network edges could be “ticking time bombs” for customers if security isn’t addressed, Bhutto said. At the same time, the number of mobile devices and connected endpoints has increased dramatically, making the attack surface at the edge much larger, he added. “There’s plenty of opportunity and more dollars to be made in providing assistance to customers,” Bhutto said. Solution provider giant Presidio has a nearly $1 billion cybersecurity practice with more than 300 security practitioners handling professional and managed security services for customers. Presidio is baking security into the full IT stack at the software level, especially now with help from cloud consulting specialist Coda Global, which Presidio acquired in 2020. “We’re making sure we have security bolted down before we even get into a development environment,” said Dave Trader, Presidio’s field CISO. The conversation around edge security is vital, Trader said. “We’re trying to tell the story that the architecture of the network has to start with edge devices. It’s really how you architect and build up the network,” he said. SASE, which has come onto the scene in the past two years, is helping businesses tap into the hybrid cloud and distribute their networking and security closer to their users at the edge. It’s an approach that Presidio is taking with the help of Cisco, which has put engineering resources toward SASE with its Cisco SD-WAN, Meraki next-generation firewall, Umbrella for Domain Name System-level security and ransomware protection, and Duo Security offerings for two-factor authentication, Trader said.

The edge requires a multidisciplined approach to security because it’s not about protecting one data center or physical boxes. Rather, it’s about users and devices that can be located anywhere in the world that need to be secure, he said. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York-based Presidio was working with an architecture firm whose architects, now working from home, were spending close to eight hours downloading massive documents because they were backhauling to the data center to pull down the files to their local systems in their home. “SASE is the next phase in how we get data closer, more securely, to the end user,” he said. “To enable them to do their job, we really needed to move that data from wherever it was sitting closer to them,” Trader said. It wasn’t as simple as using the cloud, which still requires edge devices, he said. Presidio worked with Cisco to bring the data closer to the users while also layering on security, including identity access management. “Edge computing helped us architect all of that,” Trader said. SASE is also helping solution providers take a platform approach to security at the edge. “I don’t like to go in and say [to a customer]: ‘Here are 12 security products you need,’” he said. “I need all these tools to sing in harmony, and I get that from a platform perspective with SASE.” Edge security took on a new shape as the pandemic unfolded, Trader said. “At the onset of the pandemic, [the security industry] tried to do it the old way where everyone came in through this one particular drawbridge. But we don’t do it that way anymore.” Like Presidio, Sayers, a Vernon Hills, Ill.-based IT consulting firm, is taking a platform approach to security at the edge with SASE, the “underpinning” of any distributed infrastructure conversation, said Joel Grace, senior vice president of IT infrastructure and cloud. “There’s a big push for SASE right now, but if you look at how you would traditionally address these dynamics at the edge, it would involve several different products and solutions to slice up the different risk scenarios,” he said. The process, he added, becomes very complex very quickly. “Whether it’s users or IoT devices, customers are looking at how to solve this overall challenge with a platform, as opposed to a bunch of disparate vendor solutions, like WAN solutions and firewall appliances,” he said. “Complexity is the killer of uptime and security.” The Surge In Ransomware Attacks Many attribute the rise in ransomware attacks to the fact that users are no longer behind a corporate firewall, but in their homes, on the road or in coffee shops. That’s leading to a significant uptick in ransomware attacks that start with compromised credentials originating from remote desktops, Sayers’ Grace said. To protect its customers’ edge environments, Sayers is relying on Hewlett Packard Enterprise-owned Aruba’s secure network access control offering ClearPass and its SD-WAN, powered by Silver Peak, and on Palo Alto Networks’ security technology. “You don’t have any control of where [employees] are

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working from in some cases or what public networks they’re connecting to,” he said. “Certainly, the more companies that adopt remote work … it’s just a numbers game. You’re going to see more impact in terms of security incidents.” Sentinel’s Keblusek said ransomware threats at its customers are up 3X in 2021 compared with 2020. “We’ve done hundreds of customer responses,” he said. “You can have the most intelligent and secure edge, but you are still going to get bad actors inside. Customers who have our SOC and detection solutions have been in luck.” Sentinel’s overall security business is up nearly 200 percent in 2021 year over year, thanks to roaring sales in edge security solutions like SASE and its SOC services.

‘You don’t have any control of where [employees] are working from in some cases or what public networks they’re connecting to. Certainly, the more companies that adopt remote work ... it’s just a numbers game. You’re going to see more impact in terms of security incidents.’ JOEL GRACE, SVP, IT Infrastructure and Cloud, Sayers

The company’s incident response sales are up more than 300 percent year over year in 2021, while SOC revenue has increased over 200 percent. With offerings from Cisco StealthWatch to security artificial intelligence specialist Darktrace, Sentinel is striving to turn the tide for customers against edge security threats. “We’re able to segment that corporate edge thanks to smart devices that can now look at the different types of traffic and say, ‘OK, here’s the policy that you want enforced on that. Here are the types of logging, alerting and alarming that you want on that to go to your SOC. By the way, there are certain types of traffic that we want to go direct to cloud,’” he said. “It also enhances the user experience because they may not have to go through different tunnels and channels that add a bunch of unnecessary latency. Smart devices are key when you talk about the workplace level of edge enforcement.” ‘The Success Factor’ For Data Insight The largest infrastructure and cybersecurity vendors have been creating tailor-made hardware, software and services to improve security at the edge. In just the past few weeks, Dell Technologies has launched a slew of new offerings laser-focused on edge environments with built-in security features. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell unveiled a new line of PowerEdge servers, a 5G-enabled Edge Gateway to securely connect multiple edge devices across IT and operational technology environments, VxRail satellite nodes to bring hyperconverged infrastructure efficiencies to the edge, and a pair of ruggedized Latitude PCs meant

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to withstand harsh environmental conditions at edge sites. Bobbie Stempfley, Dell’s vice president and business unit security officer, said the edge plays a critical role in “the success factor for actuating the data.” As the amount of data continues to increase exponentially, gaining insight from data is becoming one of most valuable assets for any company. “Making sure we have the ability to process and actuate that data securely as close to where it’s collected is sort of the whole premise of the edge, which means that we really need to think about security intrinsically for edge solutions,” said Stempfley. Data center power infrastructure companies are also heavily focused on securing the edge. “[Researchers] claim that most of the breaches happening at the edge have to do with products coming from the OT side of the equation. [With] IT products, people take security very seriously; companies coming from the OT side … they’re not as used to it,” said Hervé Tardy, vice president of marketing and strategy for the Critical Power and Digital Infrastructure division at Eaton, Dublin, Ireland. Even though Eaton provides a lot of industrial products, they all have security embedded, “not only for UPSes and PDUs—the products that our partners are used to dealing with on the IT side—but also all the upstream power distribution,” he said. Vertiv, meanwhile, has launched its Avocent series of IT management devices and software built upon a secure common architecture that seamlessly integrates and scales to create a resilient management fabric at the edge. “We’re making it so customers don’t have to take some legacy products and try to make it fit in an edge situation,” said Angie McMillin, vice president and general manager of IT systems at Columbus, Ohio-based Vertiv. “Avocent is plug and play, designed to work wherever they are, but it also has the latest security features in it. … Channel partners are so key and pivotal to our growth at that edge.” Boston-based Schneider Electric recently launched its Smart-UPS Ultra, dubbed an industry first in 1U 3W UPSes. It is 50 percent smaller and lighter than the company’s traditional batteries, meaning there’s more rack space inside edge environments for networking gear. Smart-UPS Ultra also utilizes Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure remote monitoring, management and servicing offering that channel partners can leverage. Solution providers, in turn, are looking to their vendor partners to simplify security at the edge. That’s because they are the ones battling the massive complexities sprouting up as businesses begin putting more IT budget toward accommodating new remote workforces and remote sites. “We’ve been working on simplifying and reducing the complexity from a security toolset perspective,” said Aqueduct’s Ahluwalia. “Because of this, for a lot of our customers that are getting hit by ransomware today it’s a relatively minimal amount of impact. They’re down to a single user being impacted versus having an enterprise-level event because we’ve made their systems and tools really sound. … Customers are really thanking us for putting them in that type of position because it’s not a matter of ‘if’—it’s a matter of ‘when.’” 

On The Cutting Edge: 10 Hot Devices And Services BY MARK HARANAS

Edge computing devices, software and platforms enable a zero-touch, distributed computing environment for applications and data processing at or near the edge. CRN breaks down the hottest edge computing devices that are making waves in 2021 and driving the ever-expanding edge market.

AWS IoT Greengrass AWS IoT Greengrass is an edge computing offering that helps customers build, deploy and manage device software at the edge. Customers use the open-source edge runtime and cloud service for their IoT applications on millions of devices across verticals and business units.

Cisco Catalyst IR8100 Cisco Systems’ line of 5G-enabled industrial edge routers and an IoT gateway series for edge computing extends its enterprise network and SD-WAN to the edge. The IR8100 Heavy Duty Series is a multi-access router delivering public and private 5G and LTE and is IP67-rated for dust and water protection. From its manufacturing process to physical locking design to vast software security features, the IR8100 aims to bring enterprise-grade security to the edge.

Dell PowerStore 500 Dell’s PowerStore 500 is a container-based, all-flash array addressing a full range of storage needs—from block and vVol data to multi-platform file storage—and can be the foundation of an edge computing environment. PowerStore’s adaptable design is ideal for edge-based IoT data analytics and remote oﬃce applications where ease of deployment and advanced replication are required.

Eaton 5P UPS The Eaton 5P UPS is an enterprise-class backup power offering available as a tower, wall-mount or rack-mount UPS—specifically made for the edge. Customers pair it with an Eaton Gigabit Network card—the first in the industry to comply with the UL and IEC cybersecurity standards—and the Eaton Intelligent Power Management platform for seamless management of connected equipment.

HPE Edgeline EL8000 The HPE Edgeline EL8000 is a rugged converged system used by U.S. armed forces on the digital battlefield. As the flagship oﬀering in the HPE Converged Edge System portfolio, the EL8000 is purpose-built for the extreme conditions found at the edge. Leveraging built-in AI and machine learning capabilities enables the EL8000 to deliver immediate insight from data generated at the extreme edge of the network.

Lenovo ThinkEdge SE30 And ThinkEdge SE50 Lenovo’s ThinkEdge SE30 and ThinkEdge SE50 edge devices are rugged and powerful enough to meet the needs of enterprise data processing, security and scalability. The SE30 includes Intel Core i5 vPro processors for industrial computing to improve power and accelerate AI workloads. The SE50 is designed for versatile applications that require higher analytics and data processing at the edge.

Microsoft Azure Pro R A key product inside Microsoft’s Azure Stack Edge portfolio is the rugged Pro R edge computing device that’s delivered as hardware as a service. The cloudmanaged device acts as a network storage gateway with a built-in Nvidia Tensor Core T4 GPU that enables accelerated AI-inferencing. The 1U edge device is contained in a portable transit case that allows analysis, processing and filtering of data supporting VM and containerized workloads.

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN Palo Alto Networks’ SASE and WAN edge offering, Prisma SD-WAN, enables application-defined SDWAN policies and provides a secure, cloud-delivered edge computing offering. It is a cloud-delivered service that implements app-defined, autonomous SD-WAN to help customers secure and connect edge sites, data centers and large campus sites without increasing cost and complexity.

Schneider Electric APC Smart-UPS Ultra Schneider Electric’s APC Smart-UPS Ultra was designed to deliver more power, flexibility and intelligent monitoring in the smallest footprint to address many of the challenges with deploying IT infrastructure in distributed edge computing environments and at the edge. It delivers more power in less space to free up room for edge applications by being 2.4 times more power-dense and half the weight and size of other comparable oﬀerings.

Vertiv Avocent ADX Ecosystem Vertiv recently launched the Avocent ADX Ecosystem, a building block of devices and software designed for hybrid network architectures at the edge. The platform includes several individual components, each of which can be deployed independently or in tandem for a more robust customer experience. 

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Cradlepoint, Part of

Ericsson

George Mulhern Chairman, CEO

Cradlepoint, which was acquired by Ericsson in 2020 for $1.1 billion, is bringing its wireless edge networking chops to the telecom equipment giant. The company has been focused on unlocking the power of LTE and next-generation cellular technologies and in August unveiled its E3000 Series 5G Enterprise Router.

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EDGE HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND SERVICES

From the explosion of data being created and the analytics needed to manage data closer to where it’s gathered to the ever-growing cybersecurity issues for distributed enterprises, it’s no wonder that vendors are investing heavily in new edge computing oﬀerings. Edge computing provides improved latency, reduces WAN bandwidth and costs, and is often an ideal solution for many Internet of Things and 5G use cases. The largest IT hardware, software and cloud companies on the planet—from Dell Technologies and Intel to Microsoft and Amazon Web Services—are betting big on the edge, while edge startups like EdgePresence and Edgeworx are sprouting up to fill any gaps. CRN highlights 50 companies paving the way for edge computing with hardware, software and services, 25 that are driving innovation around IoT and 5G, and 25 that are addressing the security challenges associated with edge computing.

Adapdix

Adlink Technology

Anthony Hill Founder, CEO

Jim Liu CEO

Adapdix’s “edge-optimized” platform, dubbed EdgeOps, uses machine learning and AI analytics. It allows for ultra-low latency and adaptive maintenance to reduce unplanned downtime while providing automated control for self-correcting and self-optimizing actions on equipment.

Adlink’s goal is to make it easier to deploy AI in edge devices for machine vision applications. In September, the company unveiled edge vision analytics software that lets users build a proof of concept for AI-enabled machine vision solutions without having to have AI expertise.

BMC Software Ayman Sayed President, CEO

The BMC Helix Edge platform delivers visibility and actionable insight across IT and OT products. It is deployed at the edge of the network and interacts with devices, sensors, actuators and other industrial IoT objects to enable anomaly detection, predictive maintenance and asset life-cycle management.

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Amazon Web Services Adam Selipsky CEO

AMD

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard

Lisa Su President, CEO

Phil Mottram President, HPE Intelligent Edge Business

Enterprise company

AWS IoT Greengrass helps customers build, deploy and manage device software at the edge. Customers can use the open-source edge runtime and cloud service for their IoT applications on millions of devices across verticals and business units.

AMD is bringing the performance gains of its PC and server processors to edge computing. Its latest offerings include the Ryzen Embedded V2000 Series, which combines AMD’s Zen 2 architecture and Radeon graphics to deliver high-performance compute and display capabilities plus key security features.

Cato Networks

Cisco Systems

Citrix Systems

ClearBlade

Shlomo Kramer Co-Founder, CEO

Chuck Robbins Chair, CEO

Bob Calderoni Interim President, CEO

Eric Simone Co-Founder, CEO

Cato Net work s combines SD-WAN, security and its Zero Trust Network Access technology into a cloud-native SASE platform. Customers can migrate from MPLS to SD-WAN, optimize connectivity to on-premises and cloud applications, and integrate cloud data centers and mobile users into the network.

Cisco offers hardware, software and services for edge computing, including its new line of Catalyst industrial edge routers. Cisco’s Edge Series devices deliver consolidated computing and wired and wireless access, while its Edge Intelligence orchestration software simplifies getting IoT data to the correct applications.

Citrix’s Secure Access Service Edge offerings tie together SD-WAN, zero-trust access and cloud-delivered security into a single, centralized architecture. Its SASE offering provides secure remote access to applications and the internet to ensure users can get the tools they need easily from anywhere.

ClearBlade’s edge software platforms enable enterprises to rapidly engineer and run secure, scalable IoT applications. ClearBlade provides bundled offerings for asset monitoring and a no-coding-required application that offers edge-native processing and edge artificial intelligence.

Aruba has been prioritizing edge networking in recent years, including last year’s purchase of SD-WAN standout Silver Peak for $925 million. Aruba’s Edge Services Platform analyzes data across domains and identifies any issues or abnormalities and self-optimizes—all before users notice any impact.

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Dell Technologies

Eaton

EdgePresence

Edgeworx

Equinix

Michael Dell Chairman, CEO

Craig Arnold Chairman, CEO

Doug Recker Founder, President

Kilton Hopkins Co-Founder, CEO

Charles Meyers President, CEO

Dell has a slew of hardware and software targeting the edge, including PowerEdge servers, ruggedized laptops, edge gateways and storage infrastructure such as PowerStore. Dell is becoming a leading innovator with new releases of versions of its flagship products tailor-made for the edge.

Eaton provides power management off erings for distributed edge environments to keep mission-critical applications and devices running longer and prevent servers from data loss. Eaton provides UPSes, gateways and enclosures as well as intelligent power management software.

EdgePresence is deploying purpose-built edge data centers that are designed to include power, distribution, physical security, cooling and interconnection. EdgePresence can deploy a network of edge data centers without the added capital expense and operating complexity.

The Edgeworx ioFog edge platform provides a standardized way to develop and remotely deploy secure microservices to edge devices. Edgeworx enables the same software to run on any device by allowing developers to package and deploy their applications using containerization technologies.

Equinix is one of the world’s leading colocation and edge data center providers. Equinix’s Network Edge offers virtual network services that run on a modular infrastructure platform, optimized for instant deployment and interconnection of network services.

Extreme Networks

Gigamon

Google Cloud

Paul Hooper CEO

Thomas Kurian CEO

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hitachi Vantara

Ed Meyercord President, CEO

Extreme delivers edge networking hardware and software along with a broad list of edgefocused services. Its Extended Edge Switching lets customers deploy and oversee a more versatile and easily managed switched infrastructure that seamlessly extends advanced network services to the edge.

Gigamon provides network visibility and analytics for the edge along with edge traffic aggregation nodes. The GigaVue TA Series consists of edge visibility nodes that run GigaVue-OS, incorporating core intelligence packet-brokering capabilities to improve the effectiveness of monitoring tools.

Google Cloud’s Edge Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a purpose-built ASIC designed to run AI at the edge. Edge TPU complements Cloud TPU and Google Cloud services to provide a cloud-to-edge hardware and software environment for facilitating the deployment of AI-based solutions.

HP Inc.

IBM

Enrique Lores President, CEO

Arvind Krishna Chairman, CEO

HP’s new Engage Edge is designed to accelerate edge deployments. Powered by the EdgeX Foundry, HP Engage Edge sof tware supports a sensor- and cloud-agnostic open framework that facilitates easier data ingestion for edge on-site processing.

IBM’s hybrid-cloud-to-edgecomputing road map enables the co-creation of edge-enabled AI solutions, applications and platforms built on Red Hat OpenShift. Its Edge Application Manager offers common management and orchestration across clusters and the edge.

Antonio Neri President, CEO

Gajen Kandiah CEO

HPE is one of the top providers of servers, storage, hyperconverged infrastructure, services and security targeting edge use cases. HPE’s Edgeline Converged Edge systems can bring a data centerlevel compute and management environment to the edge with nearly autonomous operations.

Hitachi Vantara’s Lumada Edge Intelligence software offers real-time insight at remote sites to enable data management at the edge. Hitachi’s Edge Gateway provides connectivity to IoT and edge devices through configurable and ruggedized hardware to enable data-driven solutions.

IGEL

Intel

Juniper Networks

Jed Ayres CEO

Pat Gelsinger CEO

Rami Rahim CEO

IGEL’s edge services address securing endpoints and managing desktops to deploying virtual desktop infrastructure. IGEL’s OS was created as an edge OS for cloud workspaces and is built on Linux to help customers secure digital workspaces and worry less about securing endpoints.

The chip giant has built processors for heavy edge workloads and high-bandwidth applications with integrated AI accelerators. Intel also provides its Smart Edge portfolio of software to optimize networking and application workloads at the edge.

Juniper provides hardware and sof t ware net working offerings for the edge with improved scaling capabilities and built-in security. Juniper’s Mist Edge extends its microservices architecture to the edge, bringing resilient operations while enabling new edge applications.

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Lenovo

LogicMonitor

Microsoft

Mimik Technology

Mutable

Yang Yuanqing Chairman, CEO

Kevin McGibben CEO

Satya Nadella Chairman, CEO

Fay Arjomandi Founder, CEO

Antonio Pellegrino Founder, CEO

Lenovo offers edge applicationfocused ThinkSystem servers, including the ThinkSystem SE350, an Intel Xeon D processorbased server in a 1U, half-width and short-depth case. It can be deployed almost anywhere without the need for networking points or specialized power supplies.

LogicMonitor offers a fully au to mate d, c lo u d - b a s e d infrastructure monitoring and observability platform. It provides IT insight, seamless data collaboration and visibility into networks, the cloud, applications and servers from the core to the edge.

Microsoft’s Azure Stack Edge is a purpose-built Azure managed device bringing Azure compute, storage and intelligence to the edge, while Azure IoT Edge is a fully managed service built on Azure IoT Hub for deploying cloud workloads on IoT edge devices via standard containers.

Mimik develops edgeCloud, a platform for decentralizing the cloud by enabling all computing devices via its edgeEngine to act as servers. This increases efficiency and processing while helping decrease the latency, cost and energy consumption of edge computing.

Mutable is the developer of what it calls the Mutable Cloud Platform for deploying the public edge cloud across multiple server and provider locations and transforming them into micro data centers. It provides multitenant cloud isolation and continuous delivery via remote containers.

Nebulon

NetApp

Nutanix

Nvidia

Ori Industries

Siamak Nazari CEO

George Kurian CEO

Rajiv Ramaswami President, CEO

Jensen Huang Founder, President, CEO

Mahdi Yahya CEO

Nebulon’s smartInfrastructure is server-embedded infrastructure software that is delivered as a service, offering the benefits of the public cloud on-premises for any application regardless of whether it is containerized, virtualized or bare metal.

NetApp is a pioneer in developing technology for transparent migration and management of data from data centers to the cloud and to the edge. It offers software-defined technologies for managing data wherever it is, including at the edge, as well as storage hardware designed specifically for edge deployments.

Nutanix has designed systems specifically for edge deployments. The company’s Nutanix Enterprise Cloud is a private cloud built on its HCI technology that can be consistently deployed across data centers, remote offices, public clouds and edge computing sites.

The Nvidia EGX platform combines high-performance GPU computing and high-speed, secure networking in Nvidiacertified systems built by multiple partners. The platform brings accelerated AI computing to the edge with a cloud-native software stack and a range of validated servers and devices.

Ori Global Edge is a distributed cloud platform for deploying and orchestrating applications across multi-cloud, telco edge and enterprise edge environments. It provides the manageability capabilities of the cloud—including consolidated networking, security and application delivery—but are specific to the edge.

Pensando Systems

PTC

Pure Storage

Red Hat

SAP

Prem Jain Co-Founder, CEO

Jim Heppelmann President, CEO

Charles Giancarlo Chairman, CEO

Paul Cormier President, CEO

Christian Klein CEO

Pensando’s platform delivers highly programmable software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage and security services to wherever data is located. The company said its platform improves performance and scale up 5X to 9X versus current architectures with no lock-in.

PTC specializes in developing technology for edge-optimized industrial IoT. Its ThingWorx Industrial IoT platform provides prebuilt applications and developer tools for connecting edge devices and then implementing remote monitoring and services and asset optimization.

Pure Storage late last year acquired Kubernetes container pioneer Portworx, a containernative storage engine that gives customers the ability to run modern container-based applications on-premises, in the cloud or at the edge, either as stateless or stateful microservices.

Updates to Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes improve flexibility and management when deploying workloads from the data center to the cloud to the edge. The company also unveiled Red Hat-validated patterns for simplifying deployment of edge stacks as code.

SAP Edge Services enables microservices with local compute and persistency to extend the processing power of the digital core to the edge. It provides autonomous business processes at low latency, streaming analytics of IoT data, predictive models and the ability to throttle data volumes.

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Scale Computing

Schneider Electric

Section

Splunk

Vapor IO

Jeﬀ Ready Co-Founder, CEO

Annette Clayton North America President, CEO

Stewart McGrath CEO

Douglas Merritt President, CEO

Cole Crawford Founder, CEO

Schneider Electric is driving edge hardware and software innovation with its Smart-UPS Ultra tied to its EcoStruxure edge remote monitoring, management and service offering. It is pushing partners to offer edge managed power services via its Edge Software and Digital Services partner program.

Section provides what it calls Edge as a Service to access, control and manage distributed edge or multi-cloud environments from a centralized and secure control plane. Its Section AppSpace runs container, serverless and Node.js applications with on-demand edge security and performance modules.

The Splunk Cloud is a cloud platform that provides insight into IT operations for security, fraud, compliance, business and user behavior analytics, machine learning, IoT and more. It has access to over 200 applications for visibility, security and operational insight across cloud and edge environments.

Vapor IO’s Kinetic Grid platform and Kinetic Edge architectures deliver critical infrastructure in a consistent fashion across thousands of edge locations. Its edge-to-edge networking, colocation, interconnection and intelligence connect micromodular data centers across markets with fiber backbones.

Veeam Software

Vertiv

VMware

Wasabi Technologies

Zededa

William Largent Chairman, CEO

Rob Johnson CEO

Raghu Raghuram CEO

David Friend Co-Founder, President, CEO

Said Ouissal Founder, CEO

Veeam’s technologies protect data in remote office and branch office environments and at the edge. Its Kasten Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery technology currently protects millions of containers in production in financial, 5G and edge computing environments.

Vertiv offers a host of hardware, sof t ware, analy tics and ser vices for running critical applications via its portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure products and services. Vertiv’s portfolio extends from the cloud to the edge of the network.

The VMware Telco Cloud lets cloud service providers deploy cloud applications from core data centers to the telco edge. It runs virtual network functions and cloud-native network functions. VMware also offers the VMware Edge Compute Stack to build and manage edge-native applications.

Wasabi provides low-cost cloudbased storage capacity that forms the back end of many data protection vendors’ software. It partners with Equinix and Flexential to offer on-demand edge computing as a service featuring Wasabi’s hot cloud for storing massive datasets at the core of a smart system.

Zededa provides cloud-based orchestration for edge virtualization to deliver visibility, control and protection for distributed edge gateways, applications and networks. It works at the enterprise edge as a cloud-based service to deploy and manage any edge compute node and unlock IoT data.

Aarna Networks

Adaptiv Networks

AT&T

Cambium Networks

Celona

Amar Kapadia CEO

Bernard Breton CEO

John Stankey CEO

Atul Bhatnagar President, CEO

Rajeev Shah Co-Founder, CEO

Aarna delivers 5G and edge computing application automation software. Its open-source, vendor-agnostic Multi Cluster Orchestration Platform provides life-cycle management and policy-driven control loop automation of 5G services and edge applications.

Adaptiv Networks provides cloud-managed SD-WAN via a Network-as-a-Service license. Its product licenses let enterprises target new applications and users at the edge. In June, Adaptiv released an SD-WAN offering for remote and mobile workers.

Telecom giant AT&T’s MultiAccess Edge Computing offering ties together cellular network architecture for real-time highbandwidth, low-latency access to latency-dependent mobile applications. The company is helping businesses harness LTE and 5G at the network edge.

Cambium first went to market as an offering for telecoms and ISPs, but after acquiring Xirrus, its wireless technology became even more of an option for the enterprise. The company is focusing on bringing 5G connectivity to the masses and going after industrial IoT use cases.

Celona came onto the 5G edge scene in 2020 with a platform that lets enterprises create 5G/4G LTE private networks, filling a major gap in the connectivity market. Today, Celona said its 5G O-RAN, edge and core offerings can all be integrated with thirdparty vendor components.

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Scale Computing develops a number of hyper-converged infrastructure appliances, including its HC3 Edge line that brings edge computing with high availability and disaster recovery to remote locations. They feature self-healing to manage and enable IT applications outside central data centers.

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Comcast Business

CommScope

William Stemper President

Charles Treadway President, CEO

Cradlepoint, Part of

Edge Intelligence,

EdgeConnex

George Mulhern Chairman, CEO

Kate Mitchell CEO

Randy Brouckman Co-Founder, CEO

Comcast comes to market with edge offerings that play into its core competencies: telecom and voice. The company is touting Comcast Business VoiceEdge, a cloud-based PBX, mobility and collaboration offering that works wherever users are and scales to meet the needs of any business.

CommScope, with its Ruckus portfolio, has played a vital role in connecting enterprises and people worldwide. Its 5G and LTE wireless network offerings are deployed in stadiums, campuses and public spaces, and it is delivering Network-as-a-Service offerings to address edge computing use cases.

Cradlepoint, which was acquired by Ericsson in 2020 for $1.1 billion, is bringing its wireless edge networking chops to the telecom equipment giant. It has been focused on unlocking the power of LTE and next-generation cellular technologies and in August unveiled its E3000 Series 5G Enterprise Router.

Edge Intelligence’s software processes data in real time to give customers insight into distributed data at the edge from servers, routers and threat intelligence platforms. Its big data and analytics architecture provides centralized management and access to geographically distributed data.

EdgeConnex delivers purposebuilt data center offerings for the edge, including small cells, points of presence and customized data centers in remote locations. Its EdgeConneX multi-access edge computing infrastructure is used to test 5G networks and power virtual reality platforms.

EdgeMicro Mike Hagan Co-Founder, CEO

EdgeQ

For2Fi Andrew Gregoire Co-Founder, CEO

Geoverse, a subsidiary of ATN International

Infiot

Vinay Ravuri Founder, CEO

EdgeMicro entered the market at the perfect time as it specializes in edge colocation data centers and pandemic-related business challenges, validating the need for distributed content and compute. Its technology facilitates local IP access between cellular radios, cached data and compute services directly at the towers.

EdgeQ, which bills itself as a 5G systems-on-a-chip company, emerged from stealth mode in 2020 with plans to bring AI to the edge of the network with 5G. The company is now letting enterprises buy its feature-rich chips for 5G and AI workloads.

For2Fi got its start when MSP-owner-turned-wirelessspecialist Gregoire noticed a hole in the market around business LTE. The company now brings wireless LTE and 5G to customers exclusively via the channel, targeting retail, hard-to-reach businesses and those that need connectivity immediately.

Next-generation connectivity startup Geoverse has been designing, deploying and operating private LTE core and edge networks for business customers since 2017. Its private 5G/LTE wireless network offering lets users and devices roam across public carrier networks seamlessly and securely.

Infiot burst into the market in 2018 with a new approach to edge networking and connectivity. Backed by $15 million in Series A funding, the company in May expanded its portfolio with innovative cloud-delivered cellular gateways as a service, which allow customers to deploy wireless cellular WANs.

Lumen Technologies

Macrometa

MobiledgeX

Qualcomm

Jeﬀ Storey President, CEO

Chetan Venkatesh Co-Founder, CEO

Jason Hoﬀman President, CEO

Cristiano Amon President, CEO

Samsung Electronics North America

Lumen offers a secure platform for next-generation applications with the help of its partners to harness data at the edge. The company in April joined forces with T-Mobile to help enterprises build, manage and scale applications across highly distributed environments.

Edge compu ting s t ar t up Macrometa believes that edge computing’s shorter latencies, strong security, responsive data collection and lower costs will create a more fluid experience for 5G network users. Macrometa in June raised $20 million in a Series A funding round.

MobiledgeX comes to market with its software platform, MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud 3.0, which connects carriers, developers and cloud providers to edge resources. The startup today is par tnering with T-Mobile, British Telecom and Telefonica.

Qualcomm is leveraging its mobility expertise to give its IoT business an edge over the competition, working to develop technologies that transform how businesses connect, compute and communicate. In May, Qualcomm unveiled a purposebuilt 5G modem for industrial IoT environments.

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Ericsson

an Adapdix company

Rod Nelson CEO

Parag Thakore Co-Founder, CEO

KS Choi President, CEO

Along with helping to get 5G off the ground as an early producer of 5G-capable devices, Samsung has a number of other initiatives related to edge computing. The company last year partnered with network operators to introduce a commercial 5G service in Canada and the U.S.

SECURITY

Edge Computing 100

Sierra Wireless

Telstra U.S.

T-Mobile

Verizon

Versa Networks

Phil Brace President, CEO

Andrew Penn CEO

Michael Sievert President, CEO

Hans Vestberg CEO

Kelly Ahuja CEO

Sierra Wireless is focusing on IoT software and managed services thanks to its purchase of M2M Group, a series of companies focused on IoT connectivity. Sierra Wireless makes small embedded 5G-capable wireless modules for IoT applications.

Australian-based carrier Telstra has built up its U.S. presence over the past 25 years. Notably in the IoT arena, the company has a partnership with Cisco to provide advanced connectivity management for IoT services with Telstra Control Center powered by Cisco for global enterprises.

T-Mobile, now the third largest wireless provider in the U.S. having absorbed Sprint, has been focused on next-generation connectivity needs and growing its network footprint in the U.S. The carrier giant is seeing high levels of customer satisfaction thanks to its mix of Extended Range and Ultra Capacity 5G.

Verizon has been going strong in edge computing with a little help from a few technology partners, including AWS. In August it debuted Verizon 5G Edge with Microsoft Azure Stack Edge, a cloud computing platform that brings compute and storage services to the edge of the network at the enterprise premises.

SD-WAN-turned-SASE-specialist Versa Networks is helping enterprises tackle challenges around security and connectivity in light of the advent of 5G. Specifically, the company believes that secure SD-WAN can simplif y management across an expanding mobile footprint.

Akamai Technologies

Appgate

Barracuda Networks

Bitdefender

Bitglass

Tom Leighton Co-Founder, CEO

Barry Field CEO

Hatem Naguib President, CEO

Florin Talpes Founder, CEO

Nat Kausik President, CEO

Akamai in February reorganized its operations to strengthen it s edge technology and $1 billion security business. The company in June debuted Account Protector, which uses Akamai Insight combined with behavioral analytics to shield users from account takeover at the edge.

Appgate updated its softwaredefined perimeter offering to extend frictionless protection to contractors, vendors and other trusted third parties. The company in September said it will deliver its Zero Trust Network Access tool as a service to U.S. government entities via Rackspace Government Cloud.

Barracuda’s cloud-native SASE platform enables modern security architectures by allowing security inspection and policy enforcement in the cloud, at the branch or on the device. The platform brings together its Secure SD-WAN, Firewall as a Service, Zero Trust Network Access and Secure Web Gateway technology.

Bitdefender has expanded its cloud workload security offering with runtime support for containers and Linux kernel independence. It delivers threat prevention, extended endpoint detection and response, and anti-exploit protection for containers running in private and public clouds.

Bitglass’ SmartEdge Secure Web Gateway for Branch Offices extends the benefits of SWG from remote workers to hybrid deployments across campus networks. The company agreed in October to be sold to Forcepoint to enable more uniform security policies for accessing the web, cloud and private data centers.

Broadcom

Check Point Software Technologies

Cloudflare

Forcepoint

Fortinet

Matthew Prince Chairman, CEO

Manny Rivelo CEO

Ken Xie Founder, Chairman, CEO

Cloudflare in July began offering zero-trust cybersecurity to the federal government to help agencies modernize their infrastructure. Two months later, the company debuted plans to deploy its equipment directly into over 1,000 of the world’s most populated office complexes and multidwelling units.

Forcepoint in May purchased emerging remote browser isolation vendor Cyberinc to give administrators granular controls that allow them to minimize risk without impeding user productivity. A month later, the company bought Deep Secure to eliminate threats from some of the most common attack vectors.

FortiOS 7.0 delivers consistent security for all networks, endpoints and clouds via SASE and zero-trust network access. The company has updated its FortiGate and FortiExtender tools to deliver security for 5G networks and provide connectivity for SD-WAN and SASE solutions.

Hock Tan CEO

Broadcom’s Adaptive Protection endpoint security offering provides key protection and automated policy configuration with no end-user productivity loss. The company’s enhanced endpoint protection is automated and customized for each customer’s environment and reduces costs.

Gil Shwed CEO

Check Point ’s CloudGuard Application Security secures cloud-native applications against known and zero-day attacks via contextual AI technology. CloudGuard Workload Protec tion, meanwhile, automates security across applications, APIs and microservices.

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Iboss

Imperva

Infoblox

Kaspersky

McAfee Enterprise

Paul Martini Co-Founder, CEO, CTO

Pam Murphy CEO

Jesper Andersen President, CEO

Eugene Kaspersky CEO

Bryan Palma CEO

Iboss’ license package allows organizations to turn on an unlimited number of core platform features on the company’s SASE Cloud Platform. New features have expanded the Cloud Access Security Broker functionality, security and data leakage protection abilities available on the iboss platform.

Imperva’s data-centric security platform protects organizations’ diverse database environments and dramatically simplifies the security and compliance of cloud data. The company bought CloudVector to help customers discover, monitor and protect all API traffic in any environment from exploits and breaches.

Infoblox’s updated Network Identity Operating System provides support for advanced security, additional cloud integrations and DevOps automation. In June, the company unveiled Infoblox 3.0 to drive on-premises, virtual, cloud and hybrid deployments tailored to customers’ network modernization needs.

Kaspersky’s updated Endpoint Security Cloud includes endpoint detection and response capabilities for SMBs. The company has rolled out a new version of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux that hardens defenses from exploits and ransomware attacks and extends protection for DevOps.

McAfee’s MVision Extended Detection and Response with cloud and network telemetry optimizes threat detection and response beyond endpoints. It was later enhanced with correlating telemetry from McAfee’s endpoint security offering, Secure Access Service Edge offering and threat intelligence tool.

Menlo Security

Netskope

Palo Alto Networks

Perimeter 81

Proofpoint

Amir Ben-Efraim CEO

Sanjay Beri Founder, CEO

Nikesh Arora Chairman, CEO

Amit Bareket Co-Founder, CEO

Gary Steele Chairman, CEO

Menlo Securit y ex tended its cloud-based Secure Web Gateway with web isolation for mobile devices to eliminate malware and phishing attacks when users access the internet and email from their smartphones and tablets. Mobile isolation provides data loss prevention and read-only phishing protection.

Netskope in January partnered with Silver Peak to enable enterprises to identify, classify and steer cloud application traffic for verification through its cloud security stack. It also enhanced Netskope Security Cloud, which leverages a common management console, unified client and AI/ML intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks launched SaaS security, advanced URL filtering, DNS security, a cloud identity engine and ML-powered firewalls to drive zero-trust architecture adoption. It also brought together Prisma Access and Prisma SD-WAN to ensure customers stay secure while at branch or home offices.

Perimeter 81 is partnering with Microsoft to ensure Azure users have secure, policy-based resource access via zero-trust and software-defined perimeter models. As a result, Azure users have access to key networking and security tools in a single platform.

P r o o f p o i n t ’s e n h a n c e d Information Protection and Cloud Security Platform provides data loss prevention, insider threat management, cloud app security broker, zero-trust network access, remote browser isolation and web security.

Radware

SonicWall

Sophos

Bill Conner President, CEO

Kris Hagerman CEO

WatchGuard Technologies

Zscaler

Roy Zisapel President, CEO

Radware upgraded its Cloud DDoS Protection Service capacity to absorb DDoS attacks of up to 8 Tbps. The company is partnering with Involta to deploy Radware’s DDoS Protection Service to meet security requirements across health care, manufacturing and financial services.

SonicWall’s cloud-native management and analytics transform threat data into defensive actions to mitigate hidden risks across networks, applications and users. Its virtual offerings and cloud services are paired with on-premises deployments to solve security issues for SMBs, enterprises and governments.

Sophos’ new extended detection and response platform synchronizes native endpoint, server, firewall and email security. The company in July acquired startup Capsule8 to provide runtime visibility, detection and response for Linux production servers and containers covering on-premises and cloud workloads.

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WatchGuard in February unveiled a centralized interface for delivering and managing network security, advanced threat detection and multifactor authentication. The company in June finished integrating the Panda Security acquisition into WatchGuard Cloud.

Jay Chaudhry Founder, CEO

Zscaler bought Smokescreen Technologies to proactively hunt for emerging adversary tactics using deception technology. It is partnering with CrowdStrike to extend zero-trust protection to internal and external applications by leveraging CrowdStrike’s Zero Trust Assessment scores for access policy configuration.

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Edge computing infrastructure will not act as a substitute for cloud. The total number of edge sites is estimated to grow by 226% 1 from 2019 to 2025. Equally, cloud will continue to grow at a CAGR of 10%2 .

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The United States is leading the way with edge initiatives and is estimated to be the largest market for edge computing3 , driven by key industries such as manufacturing.

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The most developed edge computing deployments are those aligned with the Human-Latency Sensitive edge archetype (e.g., cloud gaming) followed by Data Intensive (e.g., video analytics) and Machine-to-Machine Latency Sensitive (e.g., stock trading). Use cases from the Life Critical archetypes (e.g., autonomous cars) are still mainly at an exploration or proof of concept stage.

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Most Life Critical archetype use cases will use the Device Edge infrastructure model in the medium term, whereas Data Intensive, Human-Latency Sensitive, and Machine-to-Machine Latency Sensitive use cases will accelerate the transition from Regional Edge Data Center to Micro Edge and Distributed Edge Data Center infrastructure models in the near term.

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Coordinating the many elements of edge computing (software, hardware, infrastructure, etc.) is challenging and requires an ecosystem of partners to support the 66% of enterprises that prefer to have an entire edge solution coming from a single lead vendor.

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