The Need for Open Source at the Edge (eBook)

The report finds that edge computing offers variety of benefits, including improved speed, reduced latency, enhanced data security, and enhanced reliability.

Lower latency services such as IoT, 5G, and video streaming are behind much of the edge data center market’s growth.

Manufacturers need to develop smart home products built upon a foundation of genuine intelligence and independence. Distributed intelligence imbues devices with these qualities almost by design, helping developers to accelerate the journey into an exciting new era.

A new study by the ITU found 2.9 billion people are without internet access worldwide, with a majority of them located in developing countries.

Enterprise delivery is entering a phase where AI agents operate with autonomy, making decisions, initiating workflows, and even coordinating across functions without waiting for human approval.

The IBM acquisition of Confluent is indicative of the tech world’s fixation on real-time data streaming. However, the more pressing issue is the overwhelming volume of unstructured documents that hold the critical context that real-time AI often overlooks.

Small businesses should focus on AI’s strengths, explore how it can boost employee performance, and avoid letting the technology have the last word in any area of operations.

In this week’s real-time analytics news: The European Commission prods the creation of frontier general-purpose AI systems.