How is technology shaping the future of neurosurgery? In this episode, Bill sits down with Dr. Lawton, President and CEO of Barrow Neurological Institute, Robert F. Spetzler Endowed Chair for Neurosciences, and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery. Dr. Lawton discusses the ways he is bringing new technologies and innovation to neurosurgery, as well as how it could improve patients outcomes and broaden the field’s scope of impact.---------Key Quotes:“If we're able to have these huge datasets where we can take all the brain tumor patients and then go back 10 years before they were ever diagnosed and see what was abnormal then, it might open up these ways to predict or diagnose or even prevent some of these diseases before they get started.” “It's a technological revolution that has all of a sudden allowed us to envision things in neurosurgery that incorporate this tech in ways that we never had 20 years ago… I think probably the best example of that is the brain computer interface. There's the perfect example  of how technology and engineering brought into neurosurgery is going to change the world.”“Instead of taking just six variables, we can take a hundred variables and we can feed them into the black box of AI, and we can look at way more than just those six. And maybe our decision making will be better. Maybe our predictive powers will be different.”--------Timestamps: (02:26) Integrating technology in neurosurgery(06:37) Brain-Computer Interfaces (09:56) Expanding neurosurgical training(19:09) AI in neurosurgery: Diagnostics and beyond(29:16) Mysteries of the Mind and understanding the mind(34:35) Future of neurosurgery in emotional and cognitive interventions--------Sponsor:Edge solutions are unlocking data-driven insights for leading organizations. With Dell Technologies, you can capitalize on your edge by leveraging the broadest portfolio of purpose-built edge hardware, software and services. Leverage AI where you need it; simplify your edge; and protect your edge to generate competitive advantage within your industry. Capitalize on your edge today with Dell Technologies.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Watch Dr. Lawton share his vision for how AI and edge solutions can be used to transform neurosurgeryFollow Dr. Lawton on X and InstagramLearn more about Barrow Neurological Institute and neurosurgeryGet to know Barrow President and CEO Michael T. Lawton, MDDiscover more about Barrow Neurological Institute's newest research quest to solve the mysteries of the mindWatch Dr. Lawton operate in this collection of neurosurgical operative videosFind out what it's like to be a neurosurgeon by watching three seasons of Barrow Neurosurgery Base CampFollow Barrow Neurological Institute on YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and FacebookFollow Bill on LinkedIn

How are digital cities transforming the future of urban living? In this episode, Bill chats with Bai Lu, Senior Technologist for Global Digital Cities at Dell, to explore the evolution of digital cities and how they're redefining traditional urban frameworks. Bai Lu shares her journey from engineering to leading digital transformation while exploring how edge computing reduces latency, boosts security, and powers digital twins for smarter city planning. They also dive into the challenges of building digital city projects and highlight innovations like Toyota’s Woven City, offering a glimpse into the future of more connected, sustainable urban landscapes.---------Key Quotes:“One way that we can help the city planners using a digital twin platform is to actually help the city planners to predict. What will be the potential issue that is affecting their sustainability plan, like city traffic or air pollution or noise pollution, when they actually want to build a new project?”“The thing that I'm really looking forward to is this equality of using technology for everyone. There will be no limit to anyone because of location, connectivity, or because of age. I believe the future is not far.”--------Timestamps: (01:23) Bai Lu's journey into technology(05:17) Edge computing in digital cities(09:02) Digital city projects and use cases(12:44) Understanding digital twins(15:47) Bai Lu's favorite digital cities deployment(21:04) Sustainability in digital cities(27:42) Breaking down the complexities of digital city projects(35:23) Toyota Woven City: A futuristic vision(40:59) Future of digital cities and edge computing--------Sponsor:Edge solutions are unlocking data-driven insights for leading organizations. With Dell Technologies, you can capitalize on your edge by leveraging the broadest portfolio of purpose-built edge hardware, software and services. Leverage AI where you need it; simplify your edge; and protect your edge to generate competitive advantage within your industry. Capitalize on your edge today with Dell Technologies.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Learn more about Dell Technologies Smart City SolutionsCheck-out Bai Lu’s recent blog on Forbes Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Bai Lu on LinkedIn

How is AI transforming security at the edge? In this episode, Bill sits down with Inna Ushakova, Co-Founder and CEO at AI EdgeLabs, to explore the evolving landscape of edge security and its unique challenges compared to cloud and data center security. They discuss the constraints and risks specific to edge environments, the need for lightweight, AI-driven security solutions, and the current state of edge security across various industries. Together, they offer insights into how proactive and automated security measures are reshaping security practices at the edge.---------Key Quotes:“If you talk about adopting AI and machine learning, me personally, I don't really consider this as a huge revolution because it's already a must-have for us. It's not something that we have the privilege to implement or not to implement. It should be already done. You should have it already.”‘There should be some shift from reactive to proactive security.”--------Timestamps: (01:54) Inna's journey into tech(02:17) Understanding security across environments(04:48) Challenges in edge security(06:45) Current threats and vulnerabilities(09:04) Implementing effective edge security(14:05) AI-driven cybersecurity(27:48) Security regulations at the edge(32:40) Edge security across industries(38:59) Future of edge security--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Inna on LinkedIn

What makes data lakehouses a game changer in modern data management? In this episode, Bill sits down with Alex Merced, Senior Tech Evangelist at Dremio, to explore the evolution of data lakehouses and their role in bridging the gap between data lakes and data warehouses. Alex breaks down the components of data lakehouses and dives into the rise of Apache Iceberg.---------Key Quotes:“I love just get really deep into technology, really see what it does. And then scream at the rooftops how cool it is. And basically that was my charter. And [Apache] Iceberg, the more I learned about it, the more I realized this is really interesting.”“Interoperability and data. Basically, a lot of the things that kept data in silos is now breaking apart.”"So here we're talking about something that's going to be a standard. And that's when I think of the highest levels of openness matter because if it's something that a whole industry is going to build on, it should be something that the whole industry has to say in its evolution…And that's the beauty of openness that it does create these nice sort of places where we can collaborate and compete together.”--------Timestamps: (01:32) How Alex got started in his career(03:54) Breaking down data lakehouses(07:08) The idea behind an open data lakehouse(10:10) Alex's involvement with Apache Iceberg(15:13) Key components of a data lakehouse(23:41) The growth of Apache Iceberg(32:07) Dremio's Apache Iceberg crash course(38:43) Explaining self-service analytics--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Alex on LinkedIn

How will we feed the growing population while making agriculture more sustainable? In this episode, Bill sits down with Vikram Adve, to discuss. Vikram is an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and Director of the AIFARMS National AI Institute for Agriculture.Vikram highlights the growing importance of digital agriculture, and how data and technology will play crucial roles in addressing global food production challenges, sustainability, and climate resilience. He also discusses AI's pivotal role and offers insights into optimizing machine learning at the edge.---------Key Quotes:“The sustainability and the environmental constraints that we have to impose to increase productivity is a very, very difficult set of challenges. And so technology is becoming increasingly important in order to meet those challenges."“All of these technologies are becoming important because agriculture faces some major challenges worldwide. Probably the biggest and simplest one to understand is that we have to increase food production over the next 25 to 30 years by as much as probably 60 percent.”--------Timestamps: (01:30) How Vikram got started in tech (03:37) Defining digital agriculture (07:14) How does AI impact sustainability?(19:51) Optimizing machine learning in agriculture (31:30) Near data processing (37:34) The future of data processing at the edge --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Vikram on LinkedInEdge Solutions | Dell Technologies 

What’s the real state of AI adoption, and how can edge computing play a crucial role in driving innovation? In this episode, Bill is joined by Nick Brackney, Senior Consultant of Generative AI Messaging at Dell. Nick has 20 years of experience across a variety of technology domains, spanning startups, tech giants and consulting work. The two discuss the true state of AI adoption and how inferencing and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) will unlock new business opportunities at the edge.---------Key Quotes:“I think AI is going to be synonymous with edge at some point, right? It's going to be that the only applications out there are AI-enabled applications.”“Especially for the folks here who like the edge, RAG is the only way to do real-time, because fine-tuning, there's always going to be this delay. If I want to take my data from the edge, and I want to retrain my machine, that's going to take cycles, hours of GPU time to do. But if I want to just side load it into the generative AI using RAG, that could be instantaneous.”--------Timestamps: (01:10) How Nick got started in tech (04:09) What is the state of AI adoption?(09:48) Understanding Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)(14:11) Generative AI at the edge(23:57) Achieving results with custom models(24:41) Applications and benefits of synthetic data(32:44) Advancements in chip development(38:20) AI, PCs, and the tech refresh cycle(40:07) Data sovereignty and edge AI--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Nick on LinkedIn

How will AI at the edge reshape how we interact with our devices? In this episode, Bill sits down with Nicole Reineke, Distinguished Product Manager - AI Strategy at N-able to dive into the future of AI, discussing distributed AI, the shifting interaction paradigm and the future of large action models. Nicole argues that this is the most exciting time in edge device management in her career, diving into how AI can revolutionize device management, drive creativity, and spark business innovation.---------Key Quotes:“This is seriously the most exciting time in edge device management that I've ever witnessed. And I've been in edge device management for three decades.”“You have this offline capability that understands and can control all of your device behavior and can understand your intent or your natural language request. And it's going to completely change the paradigm of how our devices operate. It's going to change how we interact with them.  It's going to be huge and it's going to be fast.”“Large action models… can be seen as an extension of a language model. It's the ability to take a set of inputs and use those inputs to create a trigger and that trigger can perform an action against something.”--------Timestamps: (01:40) How Nicole got started in tech (06:27) Edge devices and the shifting interaction paradigm(18:03) Distributed AI and its implications (23:29) Role of humans in AI and automation(27:12) Choosing the right AI model for your data(34:40) What's the next great skill in AI? (38:10) Ways to stay ahead--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Nicole on LinkedIn

What is the future of private wireless and what role will the edge play? In this conversation, Bill sits down with David de Lancellotti, Executive Vice President - Global Head of Enterprise Campus Edge Business at Nokia to discuss private wireless in depth. The two dive into different use cases, across stadiums and manufacturing, and discuss when private wireless could be preferable to 4G, 5G or WiFi. Key Quotes:“There's a lot of customers that need privatization…. I don't think commodity is such a bad word  in the sense that at some point, I really see it coming, where, whether it's a brownfield or a greenfield application that you're building for, a port, mine, stadium, what have you, that private network is just like one of the boxes you check.”“More than one utility in California had to literally shut off the grid. They had to turn people down to make sure that these wires that would, because of wind, knock a wire down and start a fire.  So what if that wire broke? And what if, by the time it hit the ground, it knew to turn itself off?”--------Timestamps: 01:05 How David got started in tech02:03 Defining Campus Edge and understanding private wireless07:44 Worker safety and applications14:41 The challenges of global projects 16:26 Private 4G/5G vs. Public Networks26:40 Private wireless in stadiums--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow David de Lancellotti on LinkedInEdge Solutions | Dell Technologies

AI is revolutionizing building energy management. In this episode, Bill sits down with Jean-Simon Venne, Co-Founder and CTO at BrainBox AI at BrainBox AI about their cutting-edge AI solutions for energy efficiency. They dive into current AI challenges, the critical need for defining AI's purpose, and the impact of predictive and preemptive control. Additionally, they discuss how to balance AI power consumption with efficiency gains.Key Quotes:“The bottleneck is now on your capacity to find the right mix of technology to assemble a new solution.”"You could very rapidly deploy AI in thousands and thousands of buildings, without any bottleneck, and get the first layer of 20, 25 percent energy reduction.”“I think where the future is going in terms of optimizing is not only the building at the building level but optimizing the behavior of the building. So the grid could be optimized.”--------Timestamps: (01:48) Jean-Simon's career journey(04:22) Current bottlenecks in AI(07:07) Bias in AI models(13:22) Understanding the complexities of building operations(20:44) Factors influencing AI predictions(25:20) Energy consumption in buildings(28:12) Clustering buildings for grid optimization(35:00) Developing specialized LLMs for building management--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Jean-Simon on LinkedInEdge Solutions | Dell Technologies

5G technology is revolutionizing enterprise computing by enhancing data movement and connectivity. In this episode, Bill sits down with Jim Brisimitzis, Founder and General Partner at 5G Open Innovation Lab, to explore his career from Nortel to Microsoft and the transformative potential of 5G technology. Jim discusses the evolution of private 5G networks, enterprise use cases, and the critical role of connectivity in driving innovation.---------Key Quotes: “My belief is this moment of AI, the evolution of 5G, the emergence of private networks, and edge as opportunities is truly a transformation point for the industry.”“The network is evolutionary, but the use cases on the backend of those networks that they're now enabled is revolutionary.”“I've seen these major waves of technology evolutions that got me really excited about 5G and Edge.”--------Timestamps: (02:00) Jim’s career journey(05:48) What is the 5G Open Innovation Lab?(19:41) Private 5G vs. Wi-Fi in Enterprises(25:02) The private 5G network: Evolutionary or revolutionary?(31:42) Automation and workforce resistance(34:30) Addressing the silver tsunami(37:02) The role of technology in knowledge transfer(40:26) Jim’s key lessons learned--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Jim on LinkedInEdge Solutions | Dell Technologies

How will progress at the edge change our homes, cars and the electrical grid? In this conversation, Bill sits down with Kai Hackbarth, Senior Tech Evangelist at Bosch Global Software Technologies for a wide ranging discussion around Kai’s work at the OSGI foundation, and the complexities of smart homes, smart vehicles and the challenges posed to the electrical grid. ---------Key Quotes:“Electricity is not the answer for cars. to call it like this. So, if everybody drives an electric vehicle, no grid can manage this.”“The grid was never designed for renewable energy sources.”“I think hydrogen will come, right? It's not yet ready for cars”--------Timestamps: (00:00) How Kai got started in tech (06:28) Kai’s definition of edge (13:06) Smart homes and smart assisted living facilities(20:39) Kai’s work with the OSGI25:29 Challenges and innovations in smart grid technology28:49 The future of electric and hydrogen vehicles32:51 Software-defined vehicles and industry challenges39:00 Developments in edge tech and sustainability--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Kai on LinkedInEdge Solutions | Dell Technologies

Organizations need access to digital infrastructure and communications networks to leverage AI in a cost effective way. In this episode, Bill sits down with Greg Cudahy, Global Leader of TMT and Global Industries AI Leader at EY, to discuss digital infrastructure in an emerging AI world. The two talk about the judgment calls we will have to make about AI and how culture impacts AI use. ---------Key Quotes:“The people part of generative AI is every bit as important to get traction as the technology is.” “All the forecasts are saying that roughly 75 percent of the data over the next 10 years that we see, that's acted upon for AI or any other business use, is going to come from edge computing. It's a groundswell. This is a huge trend.”“As edge computing rises, you're creating more points of entry for bad actors. So the importance of cyber has never been higher.”“Moving all this data that AI requires means huge investment in communications networks, even more than we've got today…. People don't think about moving the data. They think about what I'm going to do with it. They don't think about what this gigantic swell of volume of data is going to go….Enabling communications infrastructure has got to be a priority for virtually every nation state right now.”--------Timestamps: (01:25) How Greg got started in tech(09:38) AI shifting from a feature/function to a focus business outcome (14:35) Bespoke models at scale (19:00) What bandwidth do we allow AI to work within?(32:59) How corporate and geographic cultures impact the use of AI (34:46) Navigating regulation and security concerns with AI at the edge (41:29) The need to invest in communications networks to move data--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Greg on LinkedIn

“How can you take the trust that you have in the data center when you deliver data, and how can you stretch that from the far edge, to a gateway, to an edge server, to the core, to the cloud?” Steve Todd, Fellow & VP of Data Innovation and Strategy at Dell Technologies, predicted 25 years ago that the problem of data trust on the edge would be important today. In this conversation, he discusses the long process behind building a solution. ---------Key Quotes:“The light bulb went on; there's an intersection, I believe, between distributed ledgers and delivering trusted data.” "The other thing I think that is happening at just the right time, is the importance of AI, the importance of model building and deployment of inference towards the edge. Everybody's investing in that right now and there hasn't been a corresponding level of investment into knowing that the data is trustworthy."--------Timestamps: (01:35) How Steve got started in tech and his career journey (08:16) The intersection between distributed ledgers and delivering trusted data (11:04) How can you take the trust you have in the data center and stretch it to the edge? (14:11) The power of open sourcing Project Alvarium, a community building Data Confidence Fabric(22:11) How did Steve predict this need years ago? (29:43) What does Steve see coming next? (34:35) What is the Hedera network? --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Steve Todd on LinkedInBumpy Landing: Distributed Ledgers In A Centralized World Building Data Confidence at the Edge

Are we in the age of bespoke models? How long will that last? In this conversation, Bill sits down with Jaxon Repp, Field CTO at HarperDB, a globally-distributed edge application platform. They discuss solutions to managing distributed data, customized AI models and bringing the east of cloud to the edge. ---------Key Quotes:“I think that we are in the age of bespoke models now. But I think like all things, unless you're flying a remote drone armed with missiles, you probably will be able to make do with a model that just handles the basics.”“There's a lot of upside to still having the horsepower to do the cool things and not necessarily pushing out all the way to the edge.”“If I can train on a set of averages, some sort of compressed nature, I can dramatically reduce the amount of data that I have. If I can train on summaries as well as I can train on the raw data, then I'm not going to hold on to that raw data for anything other than, you know, super emergency cases.”--------Timestamps: (01:17) How Jaxon got started in tech and to HarperDB(07:25) Determining product market fit (13:18) How do we bring the ease of cloud to the edge? (18:37) Solutions to distributed data (25:50) The future importance of bespoke models --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Jaxon Repp on LinkedIn

How will generative AI impact the factory floor? In this conversation, Bill sits down with Jason Nassar, who is responsible for Dell Technologies’ global strategy for manufacturing edge products and solutions as a Senior Consultant Product Manager. The two dive into the future of generative AI on the factory floor, musing about the role of robots and small language models.---------Key Quotes:“I think as the technology improves itself and it's going to happen faster than we think, there will likely be robots and even humanoid robots that are going to be performing tasks that in the past people performed.”“At the end of the day, these LLMs or large language models, they're best put in the cloud right now, large data centers actually processing this. But this is quickly going to move directly to the edge. And that means that this technology is going to be utilized on the factory floor.”--------Timestamps: (02:00) How did Jason get started in tech? (02:40) IT and OT in manufacturing (06:45) Evolution of customer needs in manufacturing (20:54) What is possible with traditional AI?(14:54) The potential of generative AI in manufacturing (19:00) Hallucinations and human error(20:50) The future of work and education (33:32) Robots on the factory floor--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Jason Nassar on LinkedInRead Jason’s latest blog on CIOLearn more about https://edgeresources.dell.com/?industry=manufacturing

What is a mirrored consumer and how can digital twins be used in retail? In this conversation, Bill speaks with Deepak Chaudhary, Lead for Intelligent Edge Solutions at Accenture, where he is focused on driving digital transformation, modernization, and platform development, particularly emphasizing intelligent edge computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence at the edge. Deepak and Bill dive into mirrored consumers, digital twins in the retail space that mimic consumer behavior. They also discuss the complexities of digital transformation and some of the challenges being tackled with edge technologies in retail. Key Quotes:"Mirrored consumers are the digital representation of our customer's profile persona. And that profile is being derived from first- or third-party data points. Maybe it can be variables, it can be sensors, it can be history, haptic technologies we are using. And by understanding the consumer through a mirrored consumer, we can understand what will be the next step of the consumer journey in daily life?"--------Timestamps: 01:15 How Deepak got started in tech 05:18 Why do customers turn to Accenture?09:43 How have customer needs evolved in recent years? 12:02 What is a mirrored consumer?14:34 How is technology changing the consumer landscape? 19:23 Creating digital twins 23:12 Digital twin examples 30:00 Hyper-personalization in retail and dynamic pricing 33:50 Generative AI at the edge and small language models --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Deepak Chaudhary on LinkedIn

How can we create a “digital nervous system” and how will this change the edge? In this conversation, Bill speaks with David Sprinzen, the VP of Marketing at Vantiq, an application development platform for real-time edge-native applications. David and Bill discuss how modern technology can pull inspiration from the human nervous system, and dive into the future of generative AI at the edge. They also talk about data privacy, hallucinations, and small language models.  Key Quotes:“In the new world what we're looking at with technology is effectively creating a digital nervous system. That means, how do you take data in from sensory inputs from cameras, from sensors, from IOT devices, from humans, and how do you make sense of it? How do you react to it? How do you store it?”“Data is not value in and of itself, data is a mechanism by which you derive value.”--------Timestamps: (01:20) How David got started in tech (07:37) What drives people to the edge? (12:08) What does edge native mean to David(20:30) What does naturally distributed mean?(22:11) How Vantiq thinks about “low code”(28:33) Data management needs more attention (30:40) The role of generative AI(33:42) The future of small language models at the edge (36:08) AI at the edge in healthcare (40:08) Digital twin city project (42:26) How does Vantiq identify the best projects? --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with David Sprinzen on LinkedIn

This episode features an interview between Bill Pfeifer and Arnaud Langer, Global Managing Partner Edge and IoT at Atos. At Atos, Arnaud is focused on helping customers navigate their legacy-to-edge or cloud-to-edge transformations, leveraging the power of 5G, Edge, and IoT technologies.They dive into Arnaud’s work in the energy industry and the complexities of digital transformations in that space. They also discuss sustainability, optimization, and forward looking edge trends.---------Key Quotes:“When you think about the inertia of a power plant, think about a gas or oil based power plant, you've got about a 24-hour inertia on it. So, that means that you need to plan ahead 24 hours how much power will be consumed. A nuclear power plant is about a week and solar is about 10 seconds. If you've got a cloud your solar array shuts down. So we're definitely looking at a different type of management for the grid.”--------Timestamps: 01:15 How Arnaud got started in tech05:53 The complexity of the tech stack needed to solve business problems09:22 The intricacies of edge and IoT in the energy industry13:26 Coordinating energy consumption and use 17:02 Modernizing old tech 19:36 The OT mindset in the energy industry and refresh cycles 26:02 The surprising cost of sensors 30:13 Forward looking edge and IoT trends36:12 Advice for companies on edges strategies --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Arnaud Langer on LinkedInLearn more about Atos and Dell Technologies collaboration on the NativeEdge platform to unlock new business value across edge environments (Case Study / Video)  Learn more about Atos

Why are vector databases important at the edge? In this episode, Bill sits down with Dr. Vivien Dollinger, CEO at ObjectBox, to discuss the growing significance of vector databases in the AI tech stack and how this will impact the future of edge computing. They dive into the future of edge AI data management and why more data isn’t yet stored at the edge.---------Key Quotes:“Vector databases are an essential piece of the AI tech stack and will become even more so.”“We will see more infrastructure software for edge computing coming up to empower the market to really make the edge as easy as the cloud.”“I believe there will be more data staying in the edges, residing in edges, than on the cloud. But this is going to take time.”“This whole terminology around edge computing and edge is not doing edge computing a favor.”--------Timestamps: (06:54) What are vector databases? (excel ata similarity search)(11:30) What makes it an edge vector database?(16:43) Data sync and future of data management at the edge (20:05) What are people doing with the data (24:30) connections between edge computing and sustainability(28:30) The future of edge AI data management(36:00) What’s exciting about edge over the next couple of years?--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Dr. Vivien Dollinger on LinkedIn

Where do multi-cloud and edge intersect?  What is the dividing line between them? In this episode, Bill sits down with Jeff DeVerter, Chief Technology Evangelist at Rackspace Technology, to dive into relationships between edge, multi-cloud, managed hosting, and colos. They discuss the never-ending decisions that have to be made regarding where to host data.---------Key Quotes:“I don't like thinking about things from the angle of how can I save money? What I do like on the fin-up side, is how do I ensure that every dollar, every peso, every euro I'm going to spend on technology is going to drive meaningful business outcomes?”“What excites me about the future of edge computing? First of all, because it is a first class citizen today and not a buzzword. That one gets me excited, that it is a core component of most enterprise architectures these days and a first-class citizen there.” --------Timestamps: (01:00) How Jeff got started in tech(06:43) The lin between edge, cloud, and colos(12:43) IT has to understand the business side (14:51) Views on multi-cloud(26:36) Managed hosting at Rackspace (28:12) Navigating egress fees(32:08) Is moving to the cloud the riskiest thing a company will do? (38:08) Do customers care about edge as a term? (41:20) What excites Jeff about the future of the edge?--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Jeff DeVerter on LinkedIn

How will edge technologies and AI shape the future of our cities? In this episode, Bill sits down with John Lockhart, Lead Sustainability Technologist, Global Digital Cities at Dell, to discuss all things digital cities. They dive into how city leaders can approach digital transformation and tackle the problems in their cities, and discuss digital twins and the impact of AI. ---------Key Quotes:“What's happening at the edge from an IOT perspective, as well as what's happening in the data center, they're able to really drive insights from the value they're gaining at the edge. And then that in turn delivers on the outcomes that leaders are providing their, whether it's constituents from a city perspective or whether it's shareholders from an enterprise perspective."“Cities have really been dealing with a lot of different technology challenges as they come across a problem over the past 30, 40 years, they'll apply a solution that solves a particular problem. But that's really like putting a band-aid, rather than trying to find the root cause and see how they can drive different results.”--------Show Timestamps:(01:05) How John got started in tech (03:26) Applied IOT in digital cities (05:46) What makes a smart city smart? (08:56) Where can city leaders begin?(10:23) What obstacles do city leaders face? (13:53) John’s work at the live lab incubator (16:48) How do cities decide what problems to tackle? (20:45) Greenfield versus brownfield(26:31) Digital twins in cities (29:57) Understanding ROI in digital cities (38:42) How will AI change our cities? --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko and Eric Platenyk.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with John Lockhart on LinkedInArtificial Intelligence and Gen AI in Smart Cities, white paper by John Lockhart

What is the future of edge computing in the space age? In this episode, Bill sits down with Elizebeth Varghese, Partner / Principal, Space Economy Acceleration Leader at Deloitte to discuss her work on bitcoin and the spacefaring economy, and how it relates to the future of edge computing. They dive into space as the ultimate edge computing use case and how space technologies will change society.Key Quotes:“In combining that aspect of edge computing and the blockchain aspect, you can manage digital identities. Individuals can have control and self sovereign control over their individual identities because they can control what's shared, they can control how it's shared, and that's not something that they need to rely on a third party.”“Lots of IT folk are going to have to understand the non-terrestrial aspect of data management... I think IT leaders and technologists are going to have to understand this intersection with data that gets piped from somewhere else.”“I'd expect edge computing to decentralize space data marketplace where users could buy and sell data directly from satellites.”--------Show Timestamps:(01:15) Elizabeth’s work and background (05:56) The human side of blockchain (16:56) What is the space economy? (20:16) Primary non-terrestrial use cases(23:30) Managing space-based data (28:59) What comes next? --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko and Eric Platenyk.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Elizebeth Varghese on LinkedIn

What is the future of IT and how does it affect careers at the edge? In this episode, Bill sits down with Brad Maltz, Senior Director of the DevOps Portfolio and DevRel at Dell Technologies to discuss DevRel, EdgeOps and how IT can adapt to the momentum of edge technologies. They explore how people in IT should navigate their careers at this technology juncture, and whether the terms edge, cloud and data center will remain relevant.Key Quotes:“Do you truly need to designate that physical destination as an edge versus cloud versus data center? I don't think you do.”“The DevOps movement is well positioned to help the edge going forward.”“DevOps to me is an operating model. It's all about IT technology-oriented folks needing to become more agile to partner and satisfy their end users.”--------Show Timestamps:(01:10) How Brad got started in tech (02:47) What is DevRel and why is it important? (06:28) How should IT adapt to growth at the edge?(09:39) Who is IT at this point? (12:24) How can IT prepare and stay relevant?(24:56) If Brad were starting in tech now, what would he focus on?(28:50) The role of platform engineering (31:15) Will the terms data center, cloud and edge matter in the future?(37:43) What is Brad looking forward to in Devrel and IT?--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko and Eric Platenyk.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Brad Maltz on LinkedInCheck out Brad’s DevOps Thought Leadership vlog and Webinar

Once a boutique operation, New Belgium Brewing is now producing millions of barrels of beer. In this episode, Bill sits down with Adam Little, who has been with the company for nearly nine years and currently serves as Senior Manager, Enterprise Security and Compliance. They dive into how New Belgium has used edge technologies to scale their production to meet increasing demand and to improve their distribution processes.---------Key Quotes:“As we've grown over the years, we said look, the only way we can do this is looking at the data and really using our power of IT to drive that business forward. How can we save time in the brewing process? How can we get a couple more cans off the line? How can we get a couple more cases out the door? Are we brewing the right things at the right time so that we're prepared for demand?”“One thing's for sure, if you never collect the data you can't make the right decision with it.”--------Show Timestamps:(02:05) How technology supports beer production (06:15) Scaling production through automation(07:03) What data do they collect, and how do they collect it? (13:03) Using data to support distribution (19:03) Increasing canning speed and capacity (23:47) The process of automating (26:37) Processing data and determining what to keep (30:37) Identifying the business problem (37:23) What is next for New Belgium? --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko and Eric Platenyk.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Adam Little on LinkedInLearn more about what New Belgium Brewing is doing at the edge: Video, Case Study

Visual AI at the edge is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, even reaching some traditionally lower tech sectors like gas station convenience stores. In this conversation, Bill sits down with Sridhar Sudarsan, the CTO at SparkCognition, to discuss their visual AI products and how they have been deployed at scale throughout gas stations and how they are using visual AI to enhance school safety. They dive into ethical considerations of visual AI at the edge and how SparkCognition thinks about operations in addition to model training.---------Key Quotes:“These AI systems are really a tool that helps the human, who then helps the AI systems, who then helps the human. And we're constantly pushing the barrier to raise the bar.”“From an industry perspective, Murphy's Law continues to apply and I think we continue to find hardware getting less and less expensive, more processing happening at lower costs.”--------Show Timestamps:(01:18) How did Sridhar get started in technology? (02:16) Sridhar’s time at IBM(10:45) Visual AI use cases at gas stations (18:13) Using existing camera infrastructure (20:43) Developing an economic model to deploy edge AI(25:11) ROI calculator (29:02) Privacy and visual AI in schools (34:32) Training ethical AI (40:46) Sridhar’s favorite deployments --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko and Eric Platenyk.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Sridhar Sudarsan on LinkedIn

How is AI being used at the edge, and what possibilities does this create for businesses? In this episode, host Bill Pfeifer sits down with the co-authors of the book AI at the Edge, Jenny Plunkett, Senior Developer Relations Engineer and Daniel Situnayake, Head of ML at Edge Impulse. They discuss how to determine which problems can actually be addressed through AI at the edge, how to think about effective AI, and unexpected use cases in generative AI and synthetic data generation. Plus, they cover how AI can support data distillation efforts and how to build teams that can successfully navigate this landscape. ---------Key Quotes:“We're going to be using generative AI to help us build a synthetic data set to train other AI models to deploy to edge devices.” - Jenny“One of the things that's really cool about synthetic data and using generative AI for that, is it potentially reduces the cost of training a model because instead of having to spend huge amounts of money labeling all this data, if you create the data yourself, you can have it implicitly be labeled.” - Dan --------Show Timestamps:(01:49) How did they get started in tech? (03:14) What brought them to AI?(08:12) What brought them together to write their book?(13:26) Determining which problems can be addressed with AI at the edge(15:51) What possibilities does AI at the edge create for businesses? (20:41) Synthetic data and generative AI (24:15) Using AI for data distillation (31:00) Building a skilled and interdisciplinary team (39:30) AI’s transition from a career path to a tool (43:06) Effective AI (46:46) Edge / wildlife conservation case study (49:37) What are they excited about moving forward? --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko and Eric Platenyk.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Jenny Plunkett on LinkedInConnect with Daniel Situnayake on LinkedIn and TwitterDaniel’s substack

What can IT learn from OT and vice versa? How are these two groups collaborating and where is it difficult for them to see eye-to-eye? In this episode, Bill sits down with Jeroen Mackenbach, Engineering Technologist for the Edge Portfolio at Dell Technologies, who has extensive experience on both the IT and OT side, and who has been writing and speaking about the ways the two groups can relate to one another to work together. They dive into the various perspectives each group brings and how this will influence the edge.Key Quotes:“What I see is that OT and IT, they aren't getting along because there's a lot of very different areas that they're interested in. It's a tough equation.” “OT is doing a lot of innovation to make sure that they can actually utilize all of those resources in a deterministic way. And we now need IT to actually adopt it to make sure that we have the capabilities to actually run these virtualized workloads.“It's a lot of interaction between the OT and the IT world, which is happening. And that allows us to also do a lot of innovation, together with these partners which is a good thing because we're making a lot of progress there.”--------Show Timestamps:(01:20) How Jeroen got started in technology (02:37) Why did he move into IT?(04:55) IT versus OT(06:20) How can we remove friction between IT and OT?(10:41) Tech cycles in IT, OT and at the edge (13:03) Why Jeroen wrote a blog about IT and OT  (15:55) Is automation at the edge bringing IT and OT closer together?(19:12) Operating at an IT scale with OT level security (21:40) SCADA networks and security (28:07) Collaboration between both ways of thinking(34:13) What IT and OT learn from each other (40:00) What is Jeroen focused on next? --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko and Eric Platenyk.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Jeroen on LinkedInHear more from Jeroen: Dell NativeEdge: Securing your edge environments with zero trust technologyHow to Protect Your Edge Estate and How NativeEdge Can Deploy ItDell NativeEdge Speeds Edge Deployments with FIDO Device Onboard (FDO)

How has computer vision evolved and what is its potential at the edge? In this conversation, Host Bill Pfeifer sits down with Wayne Arvidson, Global Director, Market Development & Strategy at Dell Technologies, to discuss in depth. They dive into five key themes in computer vision use cases, discussing personnel and facility safety, operational efficiency, personal experience, sustainability and revenue enhancement. They also consider whether we will have data marts down the road, and the role of generative AI. ---------Key Quotes:“The thing that people are looking for from computer vision, they're looking for real time situational awareness. Whether that's from a safety perspective, whether it's from an operations perspective, doesn't matter. And the only way to do that is it's got to sit at the edge. I've got to be ingesting it, processing it, managing it there at the edge. I've got to be where that physical world meets the digital world.”“There's a lot of information in there that's untapped. As we see the power of edge compute increase, as we see this federated approach to how we work with these edge-based solutions, we're going to start seeing a lot more integration of that information together.”--------Show Timestamps:(01:10) How Wayne got started in technology (04:51) Wayne’s experience through three technology inflections (13:49) Wayne’s move into computer vision (16:17) Defining computer vision (18:00) Computer vision and the edge (20:18) Five key themes in computer vision use cases (20:30) Personnel and facility safety use cases(22:55) Personal experience use cases(24:13) Operational efficiency use cases (26:20) Sustainability use cases (27:32) Revenue enhancement use cases (30:14) Making computer vision enhancing, instead of an invasion of privacy(35:10) Value in data that we may not have thought of yet (38:36) Will we have a data mart? (42:40) Generative AI and the edge (45:23) The next five years --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Credits:Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko and Eric Platenyk.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Wayne on LinkedInLearn more from Wayne: Seeing The Bigger Picture: Transforming Data Insights into Increased Profitability and Growth - VlogBeyond the Platform: An Outcome Driven Computer Vision Strategy - Webinar

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Bill Pfeifer and Dan Cummins, Dell Technologies Fellow / VP of Edge Computing. The two sit down to discuss the challenges and constraints at the edge, and the associated obstacles to building edge solutions. Dan dives into NativeEdge, a new edge operations software platform that centralizes deployment and management of edge infrastructure, sharing the thought process behind its creation.---------Key Quotes:“Solving for the edge is really solving for distributed computing. And then you need to understand the constraints on each of those locations based on the vertical that you're in.”“The thing that most excites me is the ability to federate your processing at these edge locations, right? I mean, the only way the world is going to scale is by federating this processing where the data is being generated.”--------Show Timestamps:(01:10) How Dan got started in technology (03:19) Dan’s journey to Dell (05:54) What prompted Dan’s move into edge technologies (08:24) The evolution of the edge and the need for a horizontal platform (17:53) Cloud-out versus edge-in (21:18) The process of building NativeEdge (25:58) The connection between edge and multicloud (27:52) Challenges with orchestrating across the edge (33:29) Challenges the edge still needs to evolve to address(36:17) Silicon diversity and hardware at the edge/core(39:10) Possibilities that Dan is excited about at the edge (42:05) Edge’s impact on business and society --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Bill Pfeifer on LinkedInConnect with Dan Cummins on LinkedInYou can learn more about NativeEdge through these resources: NativeEdge website, NativeEdge Vlog and NativeEdge webinar 

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Bill Pfeifer and Jeff Necciai, CTO of Duos Technologies. Bill and Jeff dive into how Duos’s railcar inspection portals collect and process data at the edge, then use AI to quickly detect defects. They discuss how this reduces dwell times when trains are sitting for repair and increases the safety of railway workers. They also cover the other transportation industries that Duos has their eyes on and the challenges they continue to work on in the railway industry.Key Quotes:“Our cornerstone product is the Railcar Inspection Portal, where we take 360 degree views of trains at track speed. And we provide the ability to do a remote visual inspection on those, a very detailed remote visual inspection, and we also provide AI around that to automatically detect defects and anomalies on those rail cars.”“When we're acquiring data from a train that's moving 125 miles an hour, we're capturing over 80 gigabytes of data per second.”--------Show Timestamps:(01:15) Jeff’s journey and how he got to Duos Technologies(03:39) Overview of Duos Technologies(05:19) Collecting rail data at the edge (07:21) What do they use the data for? (08:46) How were railcars inspected before Duos’s technology? (12:39) Benefits of remote inspection for the workers (15:10) Can improving the rail industry reduce carbon footprint? (17:57) Processing data at the edge railside (20:23) What data is most valuable?(22:23) AI and using human-in-the-loop(25:13) Environmental challenges on the railways (29:05) Applying this technology to cars and planes (33:11) The excitement of the railcar engineers (36:11) The speed challenge (38:39) New tech that Jeff is excited about (41:26) Sharing rail safety data with the industry --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Jeff Necciai on LinkedInDuos Technologies Delivers Near Real-Time Defect Identification Automation

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Bill Pfeifer and Dr. Ayotunde Coker, the CEO of Open Access Data Centres. Dr. Coker joined the company in June 2022 and has moved rapidly, deploying over 35 data centers across South Africa and Nigeria to address the data center deficit in Africa, accelerating the continent’s digital transformation. In this conversation, Dr. Coker discusses edge as a continuum, the opportunities in Africa and the impact of AI.---------Key Quotes:“What's the edge? The edge is a continuum.”“The core essence of what we do is bringing this core, open, converged digital infrastructure together that actually is changing the narrative in Africa. It's bringing digital infrastructure penetration into the continent and transforming economies in the continent.”--------Show Timestamps:(01:20) How did Dr. Coker get started in technology?(02:40) What brought Dr. Coker to Open Access Data  Centres(07:22) OADC’s edge data centers (13:27) The edge as a continuum (16:23) How OADC is investing in infrastructure in Africa (19:48) The large market in Africa of the “young, content-rich demographic”(21:17) What are OADC's customers doing at the edge? (28:14) Overcoming lack of power (32:06) How OADC thinks about sustainability (37:42) How is AI impacting their work?(46:28) What comes next for OADC?--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInConnect with Dr. Coker on LinkedIn

In this episode of Over the Edge, Matt Trifiro sits down with Bill Pfeifer, Edge Portfolio and Thought Leadership Director at Dell Technologies, to go over a special announcement. The two dive into the creation and history of the Over the Edge podcast, as well as the future of the show. Matt shares what he has learned so far on the show and some of his favorite episodes.---------Key Quotes:“This is a huge technology swing, right? This is like cloud was 15 years ago, but we're still at the very opening acts of edge computing and what it's going to do to the world, the impact it's going to have.” - Bill Pfeifer “It's fascinating the different points of view that you come across and the different perspectives. I know what my perspectives on edge are and they're changing all the time but it's a single perspective and everybody else has radically different perspectives on this.” - Bill Pfeifer“One of my favorite definitions of the edge, and I agree there are lots of them, is where the digital world meets the physical world, and I think there's some truth to that.” - Matt Trifiro “My current fascination is artificial intelligence. And again, I'm coming at it from a perspective of sort of a naive user, right? It's like the tricorder. I see a future where every object in our lives, even the most mundane objects like coffee cups and sports coats might be connected to the internet or a network and might have either AI on board or be able to tap into AI that's delivered through a network.” - Matt Trifiro---------Show Timestamps:(02:00) Announcement from Matt(02:47) Introduction to Bill Pfeifer(04:01) The different perspectives on edge (13:43) Matt’s reasons for starting the show (15:41) Edge topics that Bill is interested in (24:15) Matt’s takeaways from the show up to this point (28:05) Some of Matt’s favorite episodes (34:43) What is Matt interested in moving forward? (36:23) Edge questions that Matt still hasn’t gotten answers to --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Bill on LinkedInFollow Matt on LinkedIn Referenced Past Episodes:Three Decades of Vision for Edge with Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya) of Carnegie Mellon UniversityStateful Computing, Continuous Intelligence, and Edge AI with Simon Crosby, CTO of SWIM.AIThe Genesis of Edge Computing with Victor Bahl, Technical Fellow at Microsoft ResearchSolving the Fundamental Problems of the Cloud with Chetan Venkatesh, CEO & Co-founder of MacrometaThe Future of Edge is Messier Than You Think with Dean Bubley, Founder of Disruptive AnalysisBringing American Manufacturing into the Fifth Industrial Revolution with Walker Reynolds, President and Solutions Architect of 4.0 SolutionsHow Standards Drive Adoption and Enable the Intelligent Edge with Alex Reznik, Distinguished Technologist at HPE and Chair of ETSI MECBrewing Beer at the Edge with Matthew Steinberg, Co-Founder of Exhibit 'A' Brewing, and Pierluca Chiodelli,Vice President Engineering Technology & Edge Portfolio Product Management and Customer Operations, Dell TechnologiesDell and Exhibit 'A', Continued with Matthew Steinberg, Co-Founder of Exhibit ‘A’ brewing, and Pierluca Chiodelli,Vice President Engineering Technology & Edge Portfolio Product Management and Customer Operations, Dell Technologies

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Mike Conlow, Director of Network Strategy at Cloudflare. Mike started his career in political technology and was the deputy CTO for Obama for America, later joining Cloudflare in 2021. Matt and Mike discuss the future of the internet, closing the digital divide, and the work that Mike is doing at Cloudlflare to build a faster, more resilient internet. They also get into why there is a lack of wired broadband competition and network security solutions.Key Quotes:“Once you have a very complete edge network globally, all of a sudden running that logic about what is attack traffic and what is not, we can deliver that in a very performant way from our edge network. And we don't need to have a whole bunch of very expensive, very, very fancy on-premise boxes doing that work. We can do it with computing power on our edge.”“We should make part of the story about 5G and about edge computing just the whole internet is going to get a lot faster to the point where it should feel mostly instantaneous.”“12 million people in the United States don't have access to adequate internet, meaning that they don't have a wire outside of their house or a wireless way to connect to really good internet.”---------Show Timestamps:(02:00) How Mike got started in tech (04:13) Mike’s current role at Cloudflare (05:04) The range of services at Cloudflare (07:36) Defining SASE(08:35) The Cloudflare network (16:12) How Mike thinks about edge(25:00) The future of faster internet(30:00) The digital divide (34:00) Why is there a lack of wired broadband competition?(39:00) What should we do to improve the internet?(44:43) Magic Transit and denial of service protection(47:41) What Mike is excited about in the future--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt on LinkedInConnect with Mike on LinkedInConnect with Mike on Twitter

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Keith Basil, GM, Edge Business Unit at SUSE. Keith is an expert in cloud compliance, Kubernetes, OpenStac, cloud, edge, and decentralized architectures, among other specialities. In this conversation, he and Matt discuss K3s, the tiny edge, and the impact that SUSE hopes to have at the edge. They dive into real world examples of how the edge is being used in retail and discuss other use cases that are driving demand for SUSE’s technologies.Key Quotes:“And then within that far edge location, we have what we call the tiny edge. And this is basically the industrial IOT space, right? Or the fourth industrial revolution is happening at the tiny edge space.”“We expect Kubernetes to be everywhere. We expect it to be fully commoditized.”“The industrial IoT space, we think, is gonna represent the most significant amount of growth for the edge ecosystem in total.”“In reality, distance doesn't really matter to us. I know some early people defined edge by latency, which I thought was a total fallacy.”---------Show Timestamps:(02:10) How Basil got into technology (03:11) How Basil moved into the industry (04:37) Basil’s path into SUSE (06:35) What is K3s?(07:25) How does K3s and other tech from SUSE help at the edge? (09:19) How do Basil and SUSE think about the edge? (09:43) The tiny edge(10:14) Near edge and far edge(11:47) The difference between on-premises and edge (12:56) Real world retail example(13:28) Applications running at the edge at a retail store(14:58) Other use cases driving demand (16:16) How are their customers navigating data center trends?(19:55) Where does Basil see SUSE going?(34:32) SUSE’s view towards open source (39:17) Akri project(45:13) What would Basil like to change to accelerate progress at the edge? --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt on LinkedInConnect with Basil on LinkedInInformation on Akriwww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Leonard Lee, Executive Analyst and Founder of neXt Curve, a global research advisory firm focused on emerging technology research. Leonard discusses how converging technologies are creating new opportunities at the edge and the interesting trends he is observing.  This conversation spans across edge versus on-premises, failed digital transformations, edge tech in retail, digital twins and more.Key Quotes:“As these cloud native technologies come closer or start to infiltrate the vast expense that is the edge, it's challenging everyone's assumption because you take the hyperscaler mindset, you try to apply it to the edge, it does not work. The edge is totally a different beast. And we're seeing that realization in the industry start to play out.”“The interesting stuff happening at the edge for retail is localizing the personalization, being able to close the loop on customer interactions. Now it sounds easy, but it’s not.”“So if you look at something like edge computing, the reason why it's exciting is because we're looking at a lot of the things that are happening on endpoint devices and how they're becoming more capable intersecting with cloud technologies, and it's creating a whole new realm of possibilities across what we call quote unquote, the edge.”“When we talk about edge computing and edge, what we're not talking about is the paradigm that has dominated our thinking for the last 15 years, which is you have a client at the edge and it's talking to a, and communicating and relying on, a central hyperscale data center.”“Modernization is a huge opportunity because if you can't modernize and you don't modernize, you can't really pull through a lot of these aspirational applications and visions that we have for these technologies.”---------Show Timestamps:(02:19) How did Leonard get his start in technology? (4:13) Leonard’s work as an analyst(5:22) What is Leonard looking at within edge technology?(8:54) The difference between edge and on-premises(15:13) What Leonard tells his clients to pay attention to(18:42) Cloud native technologies at the edge (20:47) Digital transformation and modernization at the edge (23:20) Can companies wait to modernize? (25:59) Example of a failed digital transformation effort(29:54) Opportunities with edge in retail (36:38) How will the digital twin evolve?(39:35) Looking to the future, what is Leonard excited about?--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt on LinkedInConnect with Leonard on LinkedInwww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Jay Limbasiya, Global AI & Data Science business Development Lead at Dell Technologies. With a background in the United States Intelligence Community, Jay specializes in AI, data science, analytics, and data management. Matt and Jay discuss why we should care about the edge, the complexities of deciding where to treat data and the last mile problem. They also talk about the benefits of data lakehouses and the current debate around the dangers of AI. ---------Key Quotes:“You can use this data maybe ten years down the road for something else, right? You can use it for a completely different type of use case you never even thought of. And that's why the data is so valuable. It's not so much the algorithm itself, it's can you capture this data and even save this data for maybe technology that hasn't even come out yet?”“It definitely doesn't make sense to me to completely say, Hey, the data's too large at the edge, so we're just not gonna consume it… that obviously doesn't make sense. I think there's a efficiency play out here as well. And that efficiency play is, obviously it costs money to store data, so let's make sure we store the right data.”“What's the value of the data that you're collecting and how can these pieces of data enhance the algorithm at the edge? Because even though you deploy something on the edge in order to refine it for future trends, maybe four years down the road, or three years down the road, you still need data to be able to kind of do that R and D work.”“The core is actually where you identify, is there data I'm missing? Is there something I haven't even collected?”---------Show Timestamps:(02:30) Jay’s start in technology(07:01) Working in U.S. intelligence(09:00) Why we should care about edge?(13:26) How to make decisions about managing and treating data(18:45) The Last Mile Problem (26:00) Data cleansing(29:00) Data analysis at the edge (30:00) Training the models and pushing them towards the edge(35:14) Data lakehouses(44:42) Jay’s thoughts on the dangers of AI--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt Trifiro on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtrifiroFollow Matt Trifiro on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/mtrifiroConnect with Jay Limbasiya on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaylimbasiya/www.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Keith Bradley, Vice President Information Technology at Nature Fresh Farms. Keith is leveraging Edge technology in Nature Fresh Farm’s automated greenhouses. In these highly controlled environments, Keith’s team is able to monitor plant weight, growth, irrigation, nutrient absorption, and more. This allows them to automate systems that get plants what they need, exactly when they need it, to help increase their yield. In this conversation, Keith explains how this makes them resilient to changes in weather and climate, and outlines the many metrics they monitor during the planting and growing process. Keith also provides predictions on the increased focus on technology in agriculture, taking into account climate change, as well as land, water and food scarcity.---------Key Quotes:“It's the exact opposite of farming how you usually think of it, where you've always got the farmers waiting on rain and hoping for more rain, or hoping for less rain. We basically control our environment top to bottom.”“We have to control everything, from how much nutrient the plant gets, how much light it gets, how much CO2 it gets, the biocontainment of it. We control and monitor every aspect of that plant's life.”“That's always been my goal is to eventually get to the point where now a grower isn't proactively doing something to the greenhouse, the AI is proactively telling them, this is what you should do.”“I find the more that we can do analyzing data at the edge, the better we get. It is when we're waiting for information to get from the edge to the core, to the cloud, and you're waiting for it to get up there to analyze it, that we missed that opportunity.” “We don't get affected by weather change. The average weather goes up by a couple degrees, it doesn't affect us the same way as it does a field farmer. Drought doesn't affect us the same way. All those things just don't affect us. In about three or four more years, I can see it starting to get more of a highlight, and more of a ‘we need this and we need to focus on this.’”---------Show Timestamps:(02:30) Keith’s start in technology(03:41) Inside Nature Fresh Farm’s greenhouses(07:19) Technology around the plants (08:14) Automatic functions in the greenhouses(10:30) Data they collect and where it goes(12:59) Amount of data they collect (14:00) Using data to improve business(16:25) Measuring taste factors(18:00) Empowering the growers to use data(20:36) Digital transformation in agriculture(21:47) Experiments in the greenhouses (23:11) Tracking products after they leave the farm (26:00) The edge and product consistency(28:41) Creating a unique taste as a competitive advantage (30:48) IT and grower collaboration(32:00) Keith’s approach to edge and the cloud (37:00) Keith’s technology wishlist (40:00) Where Keith wants to see innovation in greenhouses(42:00) How far are we from a fully automated greenhouse?(43:54) Emerging importance of tech in agriculture --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:To learn more about how Nature Fresh Farm’s is leveraging Edge technology, please visit: Nature Fresh Farms / Dell Case Study: https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/case-studies-customer-stories/index.htm#sort=%40desfirstpublishdate%20descending&numberOfResults=15&pdf-overlay=%2F%2Fwww.delltechnologies.com%2Fasset%2Fen-us%2Fsolutions%2Fbusiness-solutions%2Fcustomer-stories-case-studies%2Fnature-fresh-farms-cultivates-the-future-of-agriculture-at-the-edge.pdfNature Fresh Farms / Dell Customer Stories Video: https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/case-studies-customer-stories/index.htm#sort=%40desfirstpublishdate%20descending&numberOfResults=15&video-overlay=6311527828112Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtrifiroConnect with Keith on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-bradley-76105049/ www.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Walker Reynolds, President and Solutions Architect of 4.0 Solutions. Walker’s mission is to save and create middle-class jobs by helping manufacturers become more efficient through successful digital transformation efforts. Walker dives into the fourth and fifth industrial revolutions, and how he approaches digital transformation within an industry where many companies have fallen behind. He explains how 4.0 Solutions evaluates digital capabilities within their clients’ companies and what factors indicate that a company is capable of improving. This conversation gives insight into technology applications across the manufacturing plant floor and into the ways that Walker thinks the industry could solve its biggest problems.  ---------Key Quotes:“It is the convergence of artificial and human intelligence. That's what the fifth industrial revolution is. And when we talk about industry 5.0 or the fifth industrial revolution, that's what we're talking about. We're talking about being able to take the best person you have in your organization and put them on the biggest problem, no matter where in the world that biggest problem is.”“Do the people at the helm of your organization understand what digital transformation actually is?... Well, it's about unlocking potential on the plant floor to start. The smartest people in any manufacturing organization, they are the people who do the actual work on the plant floor.”“And what I realized was, holy cow, if you could unlock that potential in all these operators, you could solve the manufacturing exodus problem in the United States overnight. If you could suddenly be able to figure out how to tap into the operator's knowledge and enable them to solve the business's problems, you would solve manufacturing in the United States overnight. And that's what digital transformation does.”“If everyone in your organization can't recite from memory what the digital strategy is, you don't have one because every person in the organization is a node in an ecosystem. If they don't know how they're inter-operating in that ecosystem, well then you don't have a strategy. Or you didn't communicate it.”---------Show Timestamps:2:36 Walker’s start in tech 6:45 Understanding industry 4.0 and 5.0 10:10 How advanced are most manufacturers in the U.S.? 11:21 The top digital manufacturer 14:44 How does Walker determine whether an organization can improve? 17:00 Solving the manufacturing exodus problem 20: 35 How Walker gets leadership buy-in?23:46 Intellic Integration and 4.0 Solutions 33:08 Factory floor examples / Kepware 39:12 Defining HMI, OPC, PLC41:45 IoT and the Internet in the industrial world44:40 The two steps of digital transformation46:30 Example of how data supports consumables 48:30 Factories leveraging cloud 54:00 Digital and human advantages to using data to react in real time 57:22 What is Amazon doing right? 61:04 Data centers as factories 1:02:02 Speeding up the revlitalization of the manufacturing industry 

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Paul Howarth, Senior Director of Business Development and Product Commercialization at Rogers Communications. At Rogers, Paul leads a team that designs, builds, launches and sells world leading IoT products that leverage the power of 4G and 5G networks.In this episode, Paul describes why powerful networks are so important in heavy industries. He elaborates on how autonomous tech can not only increase efficiency, but also safety. Paul and Matt discuss the difference between 4G and 5G, what works best, where it works best, and look forward to what might be coming next.----Key Quotes:“Heavy industries have challenges getting data offsite. You'll see some pretty amazing things. I've seen fiber get built down in some very remote locations. I've seen microwave links being built over hundreds of kilometers because it's worth it. That data is so important to get back.”“Think of sitting in your gamer chair with a joystick and being able to operate a drill. It's already hitting the mine face, drilling into the rock, and then maybe you switch screens and use the same joystick. But now you're operating a truck in another area. So now you've got someone who's highly skilled, operating multiple pieces of equipment, and doing it away from the danger.”“With a highly available cellular network, you can actually pull people away from a dangerous work area, one that's not a great place to work. And they can do remote drilling, controlling vehicles, really helping also drive a diverse workforce, right? It's very difficult to get employees to go work in some of these places. And if you can tell a remote operator, you're able to pick up a lot of employees that might not want to live in a camp.”“I'm really excited about what can happen and how we can bring software to the masses. Like it's incredible. How a lay person can now just say, I have this idea, I'd like it to do this. And these tools can now produce a lot of code.”“When I think about the future, I've always had a principle that when you see new emerging technologies, brute strength and bandwidth is gonna win. So that's what makes me excited about 5G. It's just a lot of bandwidth they're able to drop on top of it.”---------Show Timestamps:(02:15) How Paul got into tech(03:44) All about Rogers(04:35) What is heavy industry?(06:07) Heavy industries and wireless(08:30) How data drives the industry(09:00) What is the edge?(10:59) What mining customers need(14:58) Autonomy in heavy industry(18:52) Autonomy and safety(19:51) Deciding between 4G and 5G(23:08) How Paul uses Edge(28:04) The challenge of consolidating servers(29:39) How fast should we make performance?(31:51) How to build a network(36:13) Rogers’ use cases(39:33) What the future might hold(41:21) What Paul’s looking forward to(42:17) What Paul wants to accelerate--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt on TwitterConnect with Paul on LinkedInwww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Mat Yarger, co-founder of DigitalMRV. At Digital MRV, Mat develops strategy and solutions around the use of data for environmental and energy systems, including smart cities and critical infrastructure.In this episode, Mat describes how data can help us overcome climate change, what systems need updating, and the future we can work towards together.---------Key Quotes“With data, there are just so many different things you can do. It applies to every sector as we're transitioning into digitization and automation. We see the huge uptick of AI right now and everything around that. But data security and trust in data is really paramount to building the right systems moving forward.”“One area that was the most open to [new tech] because there is a high, high need for transparency right now, is climate. What I'm doing is still very tied to everything I've done in the past:  like cybersecurity, protecting the data, compartmentalizing it, enabling trust in the data, those kinds of things. But the space that is the most ready to scale that out is climate and environmental impact.”“The big problems are how we can take that analog process, and look at the standards that are out there. Let's digitize all those different standards, or pick the ones that have the most impact and progressively digitize them. How do we implement them into the facilities that are getting built or ready to transition and earn these carbon credits or new incentive models?”“I'm sure you're familiar with the cyberpunk future of how things can go and Blade Runner and all that kind of stuff. But I think if we do this right, we've got this really cool solar punk future where it's super high tech, super futuristic, we've got trees growing on all of our buildings and we're sharing data, and I'm giving you energy from the energy that I'm creating from my solar panels, and it's just a really fluid utopian society like I know that's super optimistic and positive, but I think if we do it right and we get the right people involved and we don't step on the common person and their data, then it's achievable.”---------Show Timestamps:02:18 Mat’s journey into tech05:27 How Mat got into his field07:46 How tech ties into climate09:45 The problems Mat’s trying to solve12:57 What is the carbon market?13:54 Circular emission tracking14:52 Why data is useful18:38 About Project Iota24:48 About Project Alvarium29:06 How Mat’s business was formed35:17 What Mat sees for the future37:30 The climate we’re striving for--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt Trifiro on TwitterFollow Matt Trifiro on LinkedInConnect with Mat Yarger on LinkedInFollow Mat Yarger on Twitterwww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features a continuation of our interview between Matt Trifiro and Matthew Steinberg, Co-Founder of Exhibit ‘A’ brewing, and Pierluca Chiodelli, Vice President Engineering Technology & Edge Portfolio Product Management and Customer Operations, Dell Technologies. Matthew and Pierluca come together to continue their conversation on Dell Technology’s work with Exhibit ‘A’ brewing. They discuss why the partnership is essential, and what makes it work as well as it does.Matthew describes how tech influences his brewery. Pierluca explains why Dell Technologies works with small businesses to implement edge technology. Together, they’ve built a successful project where Dell works at new scales, and Exhibit ‘A’ produces high quality beer with higher speed.---------Key Quotes:Matthew:"We can't just start spending money on technology without having a real ROI. This is just a really amazing opportunity for us to look at a lot of these pain points and challenges that we have as a small business and work with edge technology and Dell to really find the sweet spot to make us the most efficient we can be, creating the best products we can, and adding a value to our business."Matthew:"Because we don't fully understand the technology, we rely on Pierluca and his team to share with us what that technology's gonna do for us. I'm not looking for a fit, I'm looking for an add. You know, I want this to improve what we do, not just kind of like status quo. So that's really important for us. And obviously just the straight value that it adds to our small business."Pierluca:"Having the connection with Dell that can scale and can breed the technology to all type of people,  from a small business, like Exhibit A, to large implementation. And so having an ecosystem, and that ecosystem can run in a platform like we are building, then allow you to bring them to multiple people. Not only to the very large one that they can permit themselves to have an army of people coming there and develop their own solution."Pierluca: "That's exactly one of the challenge that we took upon when we decide to go to the edge. And when we decide to go to the edge, not just with the fact that we go in and place the normal compute. It's to understanding, right? And Dell is embarking in this adventure that we start about three years ago with very few people and now we have an entire bu, right, that is looking at this stuff. So what is intriguing is really, that point that,  At the edge, you need to understand how you input the things that someone is doing, right? Their core processes, their outcome. Right? It's all about the outcome."---------Show Timestamps:02:25 How tech fits into the brewing industry 03:22 Measuring the success of implementing edge05:13 Dell’s goal with Exhibit A07:19 How small businesses can deploy edge technology10:46 The tech learning curve14:04 Scaling technology for everyone 15:37 Weighing cost vs. ROI17:30 How Matthew manages his cashflow20:17 Dell’s shifting business model--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Matt on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtrifiro/Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-steinberg-26b96ab/Connect with Pierluca on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierluca-chiodelli-3b743a4/Learn More about Exhibit A - https://www.exhibit-a-brewing.com/Follow Dell Technologies Edge on social media at https://www.linkedin.com/company/delltechnologies/posts/?feedView=allhttps://twitter.com/Dell_EdgeLearn about Dell Technologies edge solutions - https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/solutions/edge-computing/index.htm#collapse&tab0=0&tab1=0Learn more about how Dell Technologies is using edge for good -  https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/corporate/about-us/who-we-are.htm#video-overlay=6213824626001www.CaspianStudios.com

In this episode of Over the Edge, Matt Trifiro interviews Matthew Steinberg, co-founder of Exhibit 'A' brewing, and Pierluca Chiodelli,Vice President Engineering Technology & Edge Portfolio Product Management and Customer Operations, Dell TechnologiesMatthew has been brewing beer for almost 20 years. After brewing a wide variety around Massachusetts, including Belgian styles, highly hopped ales, and barrel aged offerings, he founded his own brewery: Exhibit 'A'. Here, he creates his own modern takes on traditional beer styles. Pierluca has been with Dell Technologies since 1999, and is currently VP Engineering Technology & Edge Portfolio Product Manager and Customer Operations. He’s responsible for Edge Enterprise Dell Technologies roadmap, and strategic technical partners engagement across Dell Technologies. Matthew and Pierluca represent a partnership between Dell Technologies and Exhibit 'A' brewing to bring edge computing and complex technology to small, locally-owned businesses.In the first segment of this interview, Matthew dives into the details of beer making, from start to finish. He describes how edge technology has helped Exhibit 'A' gather data and monitor processes for a more perfect brewing process, and how it can fix problems and save money (and beer) for the brewery. In segment 2, Pierluca gives his definition of the edge, describes the importance of connectivity in a setting like Matthew’s brewery, and explains how Dell Technologies is using this project as an example of their core value of promoting human progress.---------Key Quotes:Matthew Steinberg“The exciting part for me is actually beyond this first project, which is to really dig deep into our pain points as a brewery and what we can do to add to this technology. Not just make better beer, but create better processes, create more consistency, give our staff the tools they need to do these jobs, right? And so it's incredible. Like for a small craft brewery like us, that's like producing you know the equivalent of maybe 70,000 cases a year, to be able to have this technology is ridiculous. I mean, it's kind of a dream.”Pierluca Chiodelli“There is no necessity to have all these different silos because with our experience, we can run multiple things on the same infrastructure. We can manage that infrastructure in different way, but what we are doing is basically also simplify the edge. There is no reason why certain application, they cannot run with other applications. So that's the technology we bring, with the security and with the simplification. So basically, it's democratize the edge and make sure that people can manage from one to thousands of devices with always security in mind and with zero touch capability.”Matthew Steinberg“We have this art that is like my creative outlet for making, conceptualizing a beer. Whether it's the ingredients or the process or even what the label looks like. There's a lot of that art that goes into its. Science is like the yeast doing its thing, the malt being delivered properly, and it's, and I thought about it as like, the great, the art of the beer  relies on the science to do what it's supposed to do. The technology actually allows us  to control it. It allows us to, what was the word I used? Uh, you know, The tech helps us realize and observe the connection between the art and the science.”Matthew Steinberg“So all of this temperature probes and, and controllers and the interface that Dell has installed here is allowing us to study that to just make better beer. I mean, that's literally the simplest way I can put it.  The exciting part for me is actually beyond this first project, which is to really dig deep into our pain points as a brewery and what we can do to add to this technology. Not just make better beer, but create better processes, create more consistency, give our staff the tools they need to do these jobs.”Pierluca ChiodelliOne of the core value of Dell  is really about human progress. It's very humble goal. It's also very difficult to connect you to directly to human progress. Now, when I start to look at the edge, I can say that because it's based on outcome, most of the things that we do are most impactful. Pierluca Chiodelliwe've been selling at the Edge for many years. Uh, about 30 years. But, um, what is new at the edge is the data. Um, so I think, um, If you look at, so the brewer example, there are a lot of data that they've been collected. What is changing from the past is that everything needs to be connected now. What is changing also that the data they are producing at the edge, they need to be accessed at the edgePierluca ChiodelliYou don't have an army of people and so you need to optimize. Optimize is important and have the ability to connect things and access those data immediately is very important. So the shift really why you need more compute, why you need more things at the edge is because the data are there. More data need to be processed there and the edge is different, is outside of the normal data center. So to me, that was the excitement to enter in the space that was not a familiar space, understanding the constraint of that space and understanding what we can do---------Show Timestamps:[03:41] Matthew’s entrepreneurial start[07:41] How beer begins[09:55] How beer is made[14:38] The art of balance in beer[17:26] The fermentation process[19:56] Why cans are the best package[23:12] How to store your beer[23:32] How Matthew maintains quality[25:31] What does beer have to do with edge computing?[28:29] How Matthew uses data to solve problems[33:17] Pierluca’s start in technology[36:09] Dell and Edge[40:06] The edge is about constraint[41:52] The edge and security[44:29] Helping everyone understand edge[49:08] Dell’s goal of advancing progress[53:20] Constraints of the edge[56:40] How Dell and Exhibit A work together--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Matt on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtrifiro/Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-steinberg-26b96ab/Connect with Pierluca on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierluca-chiodelli-3b743a4/Learn More about Exhibit A - https://www.exhibit-a-brewing.com/Follow Dell Technologies Edge on social media at https://www.linkedin.com/company/delltechnologies/posts/?feedView=allhttps://twitter.com/Dell_EdgeLearn about Dell Technologies edge solutions - https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/solutions/edge-computing/index.htm#collapse&tab0=0&tab1=0Learn more about how Dell Technologies is using edge for good -  https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/corporate/about-us/who-we-are.htm#video-overlay=6213824626001www.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Mike Libecki (National Geographic Explorer, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, Dell Ambassador, and Adidas Athlete) and Bill Pfeifer (Edge Messaging and Thought Leadership Director at Dell Technologies).Bill has worked in IT for over twenty years. Hel is an expert expert on the latest details of AI, 5G, IoT, and all the other emerging technologies. At Dell EMC, Bill works on research studies, talks to analysts, and helps shape how the company interacts with the market every day. Mike Libecki has an obsession with exploring and the world's most remote corners of the planet to climb world class first ascents, support science, conservation and humanitarian projects, and bring these powerful, emotional stories back with hopes to inspire us all to take care of our Mother Earth. Mike has completed more than 90 major expeditions, from Afghanistan to Antarctica, to Greenland and Guyana, and everywhere in between, taking him to over 100 countries. He is a producer, director, videographer, humanitarian (has his own 501c3 nonprofit), conservationist and leads science teams. He is also a math and tech nerd at heart, and uses the latest technologies (Virtual Reality, 3D, Artificial Intelligence etc.,) on his expeditions to succeed on and share the magic, power and beauty of our planet. In this episode, Mike and Bill describe the relationship between Dell Technologies and Mike’s expeditions. Mike brings Dell technology to the most remote corners of the world; he uses the technology himself, and he gives it to the people he encounters. In an effort to give back, Dell and Mike work hand-in-hand to bring technology, education, and innovation to communities across the globe. Mike and Bill describe how they deploy edge technology in far-away regions. Bill discusses the future of the edge, while Mike explains how it ties into his humanitarian missions and nonprofit. ---------Key Quotes:Bill: “I could tell you a couple of like high tech wizbang cool things that we see coming with the edge, in terms of home automation and car automation and farm automation and things like that. But then when you're talking about natives who are farming for a living and hunting for a living and don't have any technology, what can they do with just a little bit that's specifically applied to help the trajectory of their village? Or, you know, get their kids into maybe mainstream life, maybe just doing their life better.”Mike: “One small point that I see when I'm out in the field that you know, this edge technology come in and understand how much water, what's going here, how's the fruit looking? I mean, there's, there's real issues out there that they don't know how to contend with, they just go with what Mother Earth gives them. And to think about edge technology and what Bill understands in his team that I don't, that can be efficient, that can make things metaphorically and literally fruitful, and for them to take that to the markets. I mean, there's so much going on here that it's a whole new excitement of this mystery for me to be connecting with this kind of technology that I don't understand. Because my goal is how do we make the lives better for these people in Bolivia, for the world, for the, you know, to be part of this global family.”Bill: “We have our view of the edge,and it's technological. Looking at data centers, looking at clouds. How do we help rebalance that technology so it's closer to people? So, it's providing new types of value? [Mike’s] going farther out. And so, that's kind of pushing the definition of the edge. It's taking technology out of the data center and putting it close to where the people are.”Mike: “When I'm working with Bill and hearing about Edge, the stuff that I've learned that creates that new enthusiasm is that it takes some time, but the impossible takes longer. I feel like there's some impossible things that this edge technology is gonna unfold or unravel. I'm just fascinated.”---------Show Timestamps:(3:38) How Mike became an adventurer(4:35) Mike’s partnership with Dell Technologies(7:23) How to define an expedition(10:29) Pushing the definition of Edge(11:28) Dell’s field mission(14:08) What technology does in remote places(15:01) Mike’s mission to give back(16:41) The start of Mike’s nonprofit(18:45) Making expeditions sustainable(23:10) Painting a picture of an expedition(25:57) Investing in the future of Edge(28:47) Dell’s definition of Edge(31:50) Making technology fruitful in the field(34:45) Mike’s Joyineering Fund(38:40) The importance of giving back(40:07) Why does Dell prioritize this work?(45:47) Questions technology can help us with(47:21) What makes Dell unique(50:06) The future potential of Edge--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Host and Guests Connect with Matt on LinkedInConnect with Bill on LinkedInFollow Mike on LinkedInFollow Mike on InstagramMike and Dell ProjectsEdge For GoodMercy ShipsProject Alvarium Learn more about how Dell Technologies is using edge for good: Dell Technologies - Who We Arewww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge was recorded live at Edge Computing World in October 2022. It features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Rika Nakazawa, Group Vice President, Connected Industry & Sustainability for Americas at NTT. Rika is a global applied innovation and sustainability senior leader advancing business where digital transformation drives the greatest value. As a senior leader in the New Ventures & Innovations group, she’s building NTT's Connected Industry team, advancing how part of Edge as a Service delivers business transformation outcomes. Rika is a frequent conference speaker and chair, with more than 15 years of business development, partnership management, innovation, design-thinking, and strategy deployment experience. She was featured on the CRN "Women Power 70" List and is on the advisory board for VR/AR, AI / Machine Learning, and IoT startups, and advancing initiatives for women in technology and leadership. Rika received her Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from UCLA in 1997.In this episode, Rika tells her story of becoming a leader in tech and how she arrived at NTT, she defines the role that connected industry plays within sustainability, and provides her thoughts on the future of edge computing including private 5G, blockchain, and the metaverse. Rika also provides advice for aspiring women in tech.---------Key Quotes:“It's not just edge in isolation, it's about the ability for you to transmit data and relevant data at the edge and to be able to enable that processing to happen in real time. And, not just from one source, but multiple sources, and to be able to synchronize that.” “We have to think that sustainability fundamentally is about considering the causal links of the butterfly that flaps its swings on one side of the earth, creating a tidal wave on the other side. And, so there's a lot of good intentions that's happening within sustainability in the way that things are gonna be managed. But unless we use edge and collectively create a network of edge intelligence to demonstrate the impact that one action and initiative is gonna have for a group of stakeholders and where that happens downstream or upstream, then we're going to be in a worse place.”“Diversity, equity, inclusion will in some ways take care of itself. If we can help organizations really anchor around culture, I think culture is in a crisis. And, so I think that the way that organizations thrive is through culture and the way that you can align a purpose. Purpose driven business is a big topic as well, and I think that technology can really help us really create that point of light around key areas of purpose, what people want to rally around.”---------Show Timestamps:(04:30) Becoming a woman in tech(09:45) Arriving at NTT(11:45) Connected industry and sustainability(15:00) Overview of NTT(22:45) Important objectives for digital transformation(30:45) Sustainability as a service(45:15) Exciting future technology(55:45) Advice for aspiring women in tech--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Matt on LinkedinConnect with Rika on LinkedInwww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and David Holmes, GM of Energy at Dell Technologies. David is involved in advancing decarbonization and the transition to sustainable energy. He works to understand the problems that energy companies are facing, so that operators and regulators can be more aligned when reducing their carbon footprints. In this episode, Matt and David discuss the challenges of a global increase in energy consumption. David explains the need to advance energy systems and technology in order to reduce CO2 emissions. He dives into the importance of making energy not only sustainable, but abundant, affordable, and reliable. David also details how edge computing and use of certain technologies can help improve sustainability.---------Key Quotes:“As demand for energy is dramatically growing, we need to completely transform our energy systems to reduce CO2 emissions on a massive scale. And it's that tension that gets me out of bed every morning - understanding the role of technology in supporting the growth of supply of energy, whilst at the same time dramatically reducing carbon emissions.”“For me, a lot of what edge computing is really about is thinking: “How can we bring the best capabilities of operational technologists and informational technologists together to build a contemporary IT environment that supports the needs of the energy industry for national, critical infrastructure.”“It's the wild frontier of managing our energy systems, and solving some of these problems is going to be critical. But guess what? None of it is going to work without a huge amount of edge technology deployed at scale with much greater computational capability than is available today.”“There's two problems that the OT industry faces: reliability and resilience, which are absolutely critical. They have to keep the lights on. And in the current world in which we live, that means cyber resilience becomes one of the most important challenges that any energy company has to address.”“There is going to be compute and data across the entire continuum, right from that little valve all the way up to a hyperscale data center. And the people who are going to be successful are the people who work out the right technical and economic places to run all of these different workloads.”“I’ve got three goals. Number one, accelerate the energy transition. Number two, advance decarbonization. And number three, ensure global energy security. And I have the entire resources of Dell's engineering portfolio to help me build the solutions that are going to let me do those three things.”---------Show Timestamps:02:12 - David’s technology origin story06:58 - The increasing demand for energy08:08 - The climate consequences of technology11:07 - Applying technology to help reach sustainability goals19:47 - Edge computing in the power industry22:07 - The intersection of IT and OT24:02 - Challenges the OT industry faces24:48 - Taking a contemporary approach to edge computing33:18 - Aligning operators and regulators35:58 - The wild frontier of energy systems38:14 - Adopting realistic cloud computing principles40:09 - David’s team’s goals47:26 - Defining where the edge is52:05 - The future of computing53:22 - David’s daily motivation--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/edgefor more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Matt on LinkedInConnect with David on LinkedInLearn More: 5G and edge computing’s remarkable role in global decarbonization (2-minute video)Remarkable energy starts at the edge (eBook)Decarbonizing with data (infographic)www.dell.com/energywww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Dario Sabella, ETSI MEC Chairman.Dario drives new technologies and edge cloud innovation for new communication systems. At Intel, he helps create world-changing technology to drive business and society forward. Dario’s involved in standardizing tech ecosystems and coordinating internal alignment on edge computing across SDOs and industry groups. As a chairman of the ETSI MEC, he also helps oversee the standardization of an open environment allowing for efficient and seamless integration of applications across Multi-access Edge Computing platforms. In this episode, Matt and Dario discuss the importance of standardization as it pertains to MEC and the work of ETSI. Dario provides insight on different practices for  deploying processes and workload at the edge. He emphasizes why collaboration within the telecommunications industry is critical to best serve customers, and what’s necessary for the future of edge computing.---------Key Quotes:“The benefits of the coupling software and virtualizing everything, and doing so in this environment with virtual machines, containers, that's the power of this kind of cloud transformation, where MEC is a part of the journey. So, why not exploiting this flexibility, and then why not consider many kinds of deepness of the edge that are perfectly fine in principle? Of course, there are trade offs, but these are deployment choices, which depend, for example, on convenience, requirements, but also costs.”“The standard is there for a reason, for long term interoperability and stability. But the need and approach to standardizing is not to over-engineer everything because otherwise we are risking to close the market. This is going really against also your interest.”"To build end-to-end this kind of service, we have to collaborate, and everybody has to talk the same language in terms of data exchange practically. That's the role of the standard. So, restful APIs, data types, definitions, all the messages, everything should be in the standard. Otherwise, it's a mess. Well, in the competition, otherwise, there is no cake for anybody. Right? You talk about a total addressable market and then just having a portion of the cake of the market. If we compete and don't create a standard, there is no cake for anybody There is no market. So, the standard is enabling this entire cake and allowing them to work together because it is not actually competition, it's a collaboration."---------Show Timestamps:(02:50) Dario’s Path into Technology(4:10) Who sets the wireless communications standards?(5:42) ETSI’s role in the standards world(07:00) Why a customer-oriented approach is critical(08:09) Importance of industry specification groups in MEC(11:20) Significance of a standard’s body(13:20) Defining multi-access edge computing(16:05) Where is the edge?(20:55) How hyperscalers and MEC standards work together at the edge(24:35) Exploring the MEC Federation(27:23) Cloud and edge in everyday life(30:45) The importance of standards(33:20) The future of MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing)(38:50) Dario’s goals for the future of the industry and standardization--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Matt on LinkedInConnect with Dario on LinkedInwww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Dalia Adib, Director, Consulting at STL Partners. In her role, she manages and leads teams to help telcos and their technology partners evaluate new opportunities. Dalia founded the Edge Computing Practice at STL Partners in 2019, which included building their own proposition in the space and establishing the company as a leading adviser for those looking to grow business opportunities in the edge computing ecosystem. In this episode, Dalia explains what telecoms are doing to expand service through use of the edge. She defines and outlines where the edge is, and what it is doing to help enable companies to navigate the digital transformation. Dalia also talks about how organizations are thinking about the edge, and what might be some of the best future use cases for its implementation.------------------Key Quotes:“Where the edge becomes interesting is when it becomes really dynamic. In that, we'll have distributed environments where workloads and things can move across each other, and that will further emphasize what is true edge - what is just simply a, a static form of compute or some static compute with an application dedicated to it in an edge-like location.”“I think generally how we distinguish traditional, let's say data center infrastructure or on premise compute with the edge is at the software layer. Probably more than anything in that for it to be true edge computing, it should be using cloud native software infrastructure, things like containers. Not everything is yet container based, but it should definitely at least not be about monolithic systems that are inflexible.”“I think telecom operators are still figuring out their role. One thing that they are doing though, whether it's with edge or different services, they're trying to become more digital solution providers in general.”“There just needs to be more edge infrastructure out there. Otherwise, we're going to be stuck with either the chicken or the egg, whichever way you look at it.”---------Show Timestamps:(02:15) Getting into Technology(04:45) Journey to STL Partners(07:15) All about STL Partners(10:15) Starting the Edge Practice(13:15) Distinguishing On-premise computing from Edge Computing(16:45) How Companies are Thinking about Edge(25:15) Telecommunications Ecosystems(27:15) Defining Mobile and Multi-Access Edge Computing - enabling vs providing, mobile, etsi layer(33:30) What is Local Breakout(36:15) Use Cases for the Edge - video analytics  (43:15) Trends in Neutral Host and Shared Infrastructure(51:45) Important Edge Technologies to Push  --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Matt on LinkedInConnect with Dalia on LinkedInwww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Michael Sherwood, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Las Vegas. Michael has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of process improvement, technology, and innovation. He is extremely passionate about technology and believes that more sustainable communicates can be built through innovation, workforce development, and collaboration.In this episode, Michael explains how the city of Las Vegas is helping the community to be more efficient by providing new opportunities through innovation. The city is using technology to improve public safety, healthcare, transportation, education, and economic development. Michael discusses that by increasing connectivity and access for all communities, setting up innovation centers, and improving the city’s technological infrastructure, Las Vegas will continue to be a leader of municipalities as a destination not just for entertainment but also for business and progress. ---------Key Quotes:"One of the great things about doing all these innovation projects is that we get to meet a lot of great companies. They get to come to Las Vegas and see Las Vegas not just as a place for entertainment and hospitality, but they get to see as a great place for possibly relocating and doing business in the city of Las Vegas.""Las Vegas is innovative in nature. We always think of innovative and entertainment, entertainment and hospitality. But, Las Vegas is also becoming very innovative on the technology side and really working towards diversifying its economy and attracting these new types of technologies. And, so from everything from underground to above ground, you know, you're gonna see those things here. And, it really is a testament to the community of people that live here as well as the people that are in charge.""For us it's all about creating those new opportunities, creating those collisions that between our community and business, that hopefully leads to some really great things in the future.""Las Vegas recognizes that education is extremely important and we want to build on that. And so from a technology perspective, obviously while we're not the school district, we support them in their needs. But, if there's things we're doing in the innovation space that can help students, that's what we're doing." "To have intelligence in our roadways and in our communities, the grid really is where it's gonna happen. And, it's going to be game changing for communities." "The cloud is never going anywhere. It's just another puzzle piece that provides more capability than we've had before. The cloud opened the doors several years ago. This next door that's opening is really starting to get us to the point of people starting to think about the Jetsons and start thinking about the Matrix and the technology that you see in those movies, and in some of that you start seeing the underpinnings of some of that now is actually possible." "The capabilities of the future are going to be content or data driven where you're pushing data out into the community itself. Most businesses already have good internet connectivity. So, the next part of it is how do you marry that all together." ---------Show Timestamps:(02:10) History of Las Vegas(05:00) What it’s like to be the Chief Innovation Officer and CTO(07:00) Evaluating Technologies for Cities(09:00) Promoting Public Safety(10:00) Health Initiatives in Las Vegas(13:30) Vision for Las Vegas LTE Network(18:15) Transportation Trends(22:00) Making it Easier for Technology in Las Vegas(24:30) Economic Development and Jobs(27:45) Education Initiatives(33:15) Solidifying Sustainability(35:30) Bringing New Grid Technologies(40:30) Enticing People to come to Las Vegas(46:30) Importance of Connectivity--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Matt on LinkedInConnect with Michael on LinkedInwww.CaspianStudios.com