Predictions for Edge Computing in 2019 The edge is a new and important place to be. In 2019 edge and 5G related technologies will steadily improve. Here are a few predictions: 1. Hardware: More Important Than Ever Some edge deployments will be relatively small, as small as a couple of servers. With such limited resources...

100,000 Carrier Clouds Coming Online   Over the next few years, we expect to see a large number of data centers coming online. By 2030, we could see one hundred thousand new carrier cloud data centers. — CIMI Corp Edge Cloud In this context, a “carrier cloud” is edge computing owned by Communication Service Providers, aka Carriers.  Edge...

OpenStack Edge Hackathon   On the weekend before the 2018 OpenStack summit in Berlin, I attended a hackathon held at hub:raum, a German co-working and event space, and startup accelerator. The building where hub:raum is located is one of the key Internet locations in Germany, so it’s apt that the event was held there. We...