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Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced HPE Edge Orchestrator, a SaaS-based offering that enables telcos to deploy innovative new edge computing services to customers via IT infrastructure located at the edge of telco networks or on customer premises. HPE Edge Orchestrator enables telcos to monetize the 5G network and telco cloud while bringing lower latency, increased security and enhanced end-user experiences to their customers.
OpenNebula 5.12 "Firework" is the seventh update release of the OpenNebula 5 series and takes a monumental leap in providing the lightest comprehensive open source management platform to build private, hybrid and edge clouds. Now OpenNebula provides the enterprise engine to administer and provision these serverless resources, offering the security and isolation of traditional VMs with the agility of containers, and permitting the combination of different workloads on the same OpenNebula instance.
In response to customers' needs, StarHub is now a one-stop service provider partner to enterprise customers seeking an innovative digital network management solution. Delivering the Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform, StarHub offers an end-to-end smart solution to help customers gain centralised control and full visibility over their entire network operations across distributed locations.
In the coming years, poor implementation of edge computing solutions will leave organizations open to attack.
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, introduced Aruba ESP, the industry's first AI-powered, cloud-native platform that predicts and resolves problems at the network edge before they happen. Aruba ESP is designed to deliver a cloud experience at the edge and can be consumed either as a service in the cloud or on-premises, as a managed service delivered through Aruba partners, or via network as a service through HPE GreenLake.
IOTech, the Intelligent Edge Software company, announced the general availability of Edge XRT, a new software platform for time-critical and resource-constrained applications at the IoT Edge. Edge XRT greatly simplifies the development of time-critical IoT systems at the Edge and enables application portability, improved supportability and faster time-to-market for new IoT edge applications.
Security concerns remain prominent across all network environments, with some unique to the network edge, SDN, and other services. Securing subnets, switches, routers, and firewalls is a fairly traditional field, but security gets a lot tricker with such concepts as the network edge, software-defined networking and other newfangled services.
Infoblox identified the challenges Communication Service Providers face in transitioning to distributed cloud models, as well as the use cases for multi-access edge computing, 5G New Radio, and 5G Next Generation Core networks. "Distributed cloud models such as 5G and multi-access edge computing networks have the potential to drastically change the CSP industry, delivering high-bandwidth, low latency services to network customers," said Dilip Pillaipakam, Vice President and GM of Service Provider Business at Infoblox.
VMware announced the availability of the second generation of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, a cloud service that combines the simplicity and agility of the public cloud with the security and control of enterprise-grade on-premises infrastructure. "Today's IT teams are under constant pressure to deliver the advantages of a cloud operating model-namely, speed and agility-while still accounting for key security and compliance assurances," said Fidelma Russo, senior vice president and general manager, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. "VMware Cloud on Dell EMC further enables IT teams to transform the operation, management and protection of their on-premises infrastructure to a cloud model. Organizations can migrate existing VMware-based workloads immediately to this cloud service, eliminating any re-development, re-factoring, or architectural rework and related costs."
New Relic, the industry's largest and most comprehensive cloud-based observability platform built to help customers create more perfect software, introduced New Relic Edge with Infinite Tracing. New Relic Edge with Infinite Tracing observes all of a workload's trace data, and then forwards the most relevant data to New Relic for easy visualization in order for teams to find errors faster.