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STATE OF THE EDGE 2018

September 6, 2018

Over the last couple of years, edge computing has emerged from relative obscurity to become one of the most talked about trends in internet infrastructure. Some critics believe that there is no need for edge computing, but I firmly believe it will be one of the most significant technology disruptions in my lifetime—building upon and exceeding the massive transformations of the public cloud. The disruptive potential of edge computing is fueled by the unprecedented growth of data, the
imminent impact of 5G networks, the growing importance of latency and regulation in dealing with data, and the emergence of a distributed computing architecture that favors specialized hardware like GPU’s and offloads. As a result, infrastructure is starting to evolve at “software speed" – iterating rapidly and attracting a wide array of contributors

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Corvil

Corvil provides the streaming machine-time analytics platform to run business in a machine world. As companies adopt faster and smarter machine technology, our solution allows business to operate with full transparency, assured performance, and continuous cyber surveillance of their users, infrastructure, applications, and services. We do this by tapping directly into what the machines are saying to each other. Our unique approach captures, decodes, and learns from network data, transforming it into streaming machine-time intelligence for business, security and IT teams to operate efficiently and securely in this new machine world.

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whitePaper | December 13, 2022

The Accenture-Cisco Center of Excellence is an international center integrated with ACIC+ and its catalogue with a hub in Rome in the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center and one in Milan, in the Cisco Cybersecurity Co-Innovation Center as well as a Demo Center at Equinix’s datacenter ML5. The Center will leverage Market leader software-defined solutions for DC, WAN and LAN, Security for both corporate and industrial sites, to establish, based on Equinix Fabric and network edge catalog, a direct and low latency cloud interconnection through its resilient facilities to main cloud providers (MAG). The benefits of having Equinix in this architecture are numerous in terms of lower IT costs thanks to consumption-based billing, faster time-to-market and rapid innovation that supports large scale-up with fluid and real-time service enablement, plus monitoring from a single portal.

STATE OF THE EDGE 2018