State of the Edge and Edge Computing World Present the Second Annual Edge Woman of the Year Award Edge Computing Industry Seeks to Recognize Women Shaping the Future of Edge and Invites Nominations for 2020 July 01, 2020 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–State of the Edge, an open source project under the LF Edge umbrella dedicated to publishing free research on edge computing, and Edge Computing World, an event that brings together the entire edge ecosystem, have announced they are accepting nominations for the Second Annual Edge Woman of th ..read more

On April 8, 2020, State of the Edge became part of The Linux foundation. This extends a long-standing relationship between the two organizations, which began in 2018 when we contributed the Open Glossary of Edge Computing to the foundation and it became a top-level project within the LF Edge umbrella. Founded in 2017 by industry pioneers Vapor IO, Packet by Equinix, Edge Gravity by Ericsson, Arm, and Rafay Systems, the State of the Edge organization has published three major edge research reports, all offered free-of-charge under a Creative Commons license: the landmark 2018 State of the Ed ..read more

In honor of International Women’s Day, we wanted to again celebrate our first ever Edge Woman of the Year, Farah Papaioannou, Co-Founder and President of Edgeworx, Inc. This award was created by  State of the Edge in partnership with Edge Computing World. Teams from both organizations worked with a panel of judges to select Papaioannou from ten impressive finalists and presented her with the award at Edge Computing World 2019 conference last December.  The judges recognized Papaioannou for her outstanding impact on the edge computing industry and her multidimensional leadership in th ..read more

Last December, State of the Edge and Edge Computing World presented edge industry leader Farah Papaioannou with the First Annual Edge Woman of the Year Award 2019.  It was a great honor to present Papaioannou, Co-Founder and President of Edgeworx, Inc., with a trophy at the Edge Computing World on December 11, 2019, hosted in Silicon Valley.  Listen to Papaioannou discuss edge computing and women in the industry in this exclusive  IT Visionaries interview.  Matthew Trifiro (State of the Edge), Farah Papaioannou (Edgeworx), Gavin Whitechurch (Edge Computing World) The Edge ..read more

By Vineet AnshumanCo-founder, Cloudlyte & Vikram Balimidi Director Of Product and Marketing, SD-WAN Services Major strides have been made in the last few years in making Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) more accessible and affordable, enabling the market to move towards mass adoption. What’s also becoming apparent is that enterprises and industries can really benefit from these technologies (for a primer on the differences between these technologies, click here). According to IDC, the AR/VR market spend was around $17.8 billion in 2018 and growing at ove ..read more

by Mike Capuano CMO at Pluribus Networks 5G is the first upgrade to the cellular network that will be justified not only by higher speeds and new capabilities targeted at consumer applications such as low latency gaming but also  by its ability to support enterprise applications. The Internet of Things (IoT) will become the essential fuel for this revolution, as it transforms almost every business, government, and educational institution. By installing sensors, video cameras and other devices in buildings,  factories, stadiums and in other locations, such as in vehicles, enterprises ..read more

By Lance Crosby Founder & CEO at Stackpath As the founder and CEO of SoftLayer (what is now IBM Cloud) I had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the cloud era since before anyone really knew what the “cloud” even was. With all the market confusion and rapid, drastic changes that are happening, it feels like 2009 all over again. And I can tell you that development of the “edge”—though, technically, a part of the cloud — is leading to as dramatic a revolution.  And a revolution is called for, if only to meet changes happening in the media industry. Video on demand, over-the-top m ..read more

By Peter Christy Independent Analyst The last decade has seen a remarkable and rapid transformation of consumer and enterprise IT alike, triggered by the introduction of the smartphone and fueled by the growth of the public cloud and broadband wireless connectivity.  Technologists tend to view the last decade’s evolution from an infrastructure perspective. Because we see the vast amounts of compute, storage and networking resources that come into play to deliver the services on our devices, we often emphasize the back-end infrastructures that power our apps. We think largely in terms of ..read more

By Mahdi Yahya CEO & Co-founder, Ori I spent my twenties in data centers around the world, plugging in cables, building networks, and chomping on tuna sandwiches with engineers in the breakroom—all while I was coming from or going to my next Meisner class or a Coriolanus rehearsal.  Living between the damp, smelly backstage hallways of London theatres and the cold and noisy ones of Telehouse was probably the most formative time of my life. Both are hidden, distant worlds, unacknowledged by the general public, yet continually evolving to produce a better show to the masses. There is n ..read more

By Jim Davis Principal Analyst, Edge Research Group Since last year’s State of the Edge Report I’ve presented at conferences in Mexico City, Toronto, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Richmond, San Francisco, and San Jose. I’ve hosted over one hundred phone calls with people from the US, Japan, UK, Spain, and Brazil, and I’ve engaged in conversations with folks worldwide in other mediums. What I’ve learned: edge computing is happening, and it is enabling the transformation of companies. Edge computing is appearing in many forms, and not all of them are what might be strictly termed edge com ..read more