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From Warehouse to Enterprise with Edge Computing

In response to the increasing demand for hand sanitizer in 2020, Emerald 66 Enterprises (E66) set up shop in an empty denim processing plant in Seminole, Okla. In only three months, with the help of system integrator Northeast Automation Company Inc. (NACI), E66 had automated packaging lines producing up to 1 million bottles of hand sanitizer a week in a cGMP-compliant facility; and the company continues to expand its core capabilities at a rapid clip.Let’s examine the technologies and techniques used to achieve competitive advantage in a challenging market environment.A rotary filler/capper unit at Emerald 66.Getting down to businessWhen E66 hired NACI to automate its bottling and packaging process, the company understood it was competing against low-paid, high-volume workforces operating manually and believed it could use technology to do more...

18 May 2021

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IBM Cloud Leader Howard Boville Is Writing Cloud Computing Chapter Two: Enterprises Should Take Note

I like to think that I have a knack for identifying companies making waves in specific technology areas. One such company is IBM with cloud technology. Yes, IBM making waves with cloud technologies. I have written several articles tracking the progress and evolution of the IBM Cloud offering. When I attach the Red Hat acquisition and the industry's transition to hybrid, the real magic could happen. I believe IBM needs to get there, get there fast, and tell everybody about it at the top of its lungs about why it’s the better cloud for certain circumstances. Recently I was fortunate to speak with IBM’s hybrid cloud leader, Howard Boville (Senior Vice President of IBM Hybrid Cloud), to hear his thoughts on the evolution of IBM Cloud, which he refers to as "cloud chapter 2". Howard Boville, Senior Vice President, IBM...

6 May 2021

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Hands On With Campfire’s New Holographic Computing Enterprise Headset And Platform

I’ve been aware of San Diego-based XR company Campfire since CES last year, where I swore to secrecy in order to gain access to its first AR demos. Since then, Campfire has quickly matured into a complete solution for professional 3D design and collaboration —one that explicitly seeks take advantage of existing platforms to advance and improve AR and VR. Campfire has already raised $8M in seed funding and its platform is on pace for commercial availability before the end of this year. However, while Campfire could easily be mistaken for just another AR or VR headset, it is much more than that. Let’s take a closer look. The headset If Campfire’s headset looks familiar, that’s because a lot of the headset’s IP comes from the defunct Meta View AR headset which shut down in 2019 and sold to what would become Campfire. While Meta View’s...

30 April 2021

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes aim at edge computing

Credit: Dreamstime With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, Red Hat is emphasizing edge computing deployments, with the addition of container deployment and management capabilities geared to edge usage. RHEL 8.4 will become generally available in the coming weeks.Announced April 27, RHEL 8.4 helps maintain standardisation and control across Linux container images, beginning with updates to Red Hat’s Podman container engine, for managing containers across the hybrid cloud from a single point. Additionally, the Image Builder tool has added support for creating installation media tailored for bare metal, helping IT teams maintain a common foundation even when dealing with disconnected edge environments.Also getting...

29 April 2021

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes aim at edge computing

Credit: Dreamstime With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, Red Hat is emphasizing edge computing deployments, with the addition of container deployment and management capabilities geared to edge usage. RHEL 8.4 will become generally available in the coming weeks.Announced April 27, RHEL 8.4 helps maintain standardisation and control across Linux container images, beginning with updates to Red Hat’s Podman container engine, for managing containers across the hybrid cloud from a single point. Additionally, the Image Builder tool has added support for creating installation media tailored for bare metal, helping IT teams maintain a common foundation even when dealing with disconnected edge environments.Also getting...

29 April 2021

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes aim at edge computing

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With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, Red Hat is emphasizing edge computing deployments, with the addition of container deployment and management capabilities geared to edge usage. RHEL 8.4 will become generally available in the coming weeks.Announced April 27, RHEL 8.4 helps maintain standardization and control across Linux container images, beginning with updates to Red Hat’s Podman container engine, for managing containers across the hybrid cloud from a single point. Additionally, the Image Builder tool has added support for creating installation media tailored for bare metal, helping IT teams maintain a common foundation even when dealing with disconnected edge environments.[ Also on InfoWorld: Red Hat’s crime against CentOS ]Also getting attention in the upgrade is the Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI). For the edge, UBI now is available in...

28 April 2021

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 arrives and take Linux to computing’s edge

Arpit Joshipura, The Linux Foundation's general manager of networking, once said "edge computing will overtake cloud computing" by 2025. By edge computing, Joshipura meant open compute and storage resources that are five to 20 milliseconds away. That used to be common. They were the computers in our server room. Now, we often rely on cloud computing instead. But, Red Hat, primarily a hybrid-cloud company now, is reminding us that its latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is also great for your local and edge servers. They have reason to remind IT leaders of this. A recent Linux Foundation study, 2021 State of the Edge, predicts that by 2025, between the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and edge-related devices we'll need to deal with about 90 zettabytes of data. That's a heck of a lot of data! To...

27 April 2021

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 doubles down on edge computing

Red Hat, Inc. stretched the tentacles of its operating system further out to the edge with a new version that makes edge deployments easier, along with a new Linux container and a handful of management capabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4, which will serve as the foundation for the Red Hat Edge initiative, delivers the capabilities of several products and services in the company’s portfolio to edge applications. The new release aims at a handful of vertical markets including transportation, enterprise devices and smart automobiles, particularly the telecommunications market. The focus on telecommunications doesn’t come as a surprise to most analysts. "Red Hat is going after users in several verticals with this version, but it's strongest vertical has been the telecommunications industry," said Judith Hurwitz, president of...

27 April 2021

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Cloud Computing Is Becoming the Default Setting for Enterprise Business

It is a reasonable argument that the only reason millions of workers have been able to successfully work remotely over the past year is because cloud computing has reached a level of maturity that now makes working without the cloud unthinkable. It's also been made possible because of the number of products that have appeared over the past year that supply business computing tools through a subscription service. Among those tools, Microsoft 365 is arguably the most widely used. Launched by the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant in 2017, Microsoft 365 brought together a line of subscription services, creating a superset of Office 365 with Windows 10 Enterprise licenses and other cloud-based security and device management products. In 2020, Microsoft rebranded Office 365 subscription plans oriented towards consumer and small business...

21 April 2021

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Informatica Speeds Cloud-Native Enterprise Data Management with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management leader, today announced the availability of its serverless, Spark-based Cloud Data Integration engine that offers accelerated performance using the NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark with NVIDIA accelerated computing. For the first time users have access to end-to-end machine learning operations (MLOps) capabilities by operationalizing machine learning models, and to the power of data management with the scalability and speed delivered by RAPIDS data science software and NVIDIA infrastructure. This is a big milestone on the road toward data democratization and a critical step to scale up digital transformation efforts. According to Gartner, "Forty-one percent of employees outside of corporate IT are no longer just 'end users' of...

15 March 2021

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