IBM outlined their vision for telco and edge cloud in a series of informal analyst roundtables in London recently. Solving a difficult edge problem “Historically, the industry didn’t really solve the PC management problem, and the edge management problem is 1000 times bigger.” – Rob High, IBM Edge Computing Rob High focused his talk on the challenge of managing and securing the edge computing – devices and clusters. With potentially 150B edge devices by 2025 this is a major challenge. Edge devices are not heterogeneous, have fixed and limited processing power, and will be provided by large numbers of OEMs. IBM believe that edge native programming will be founded on existing cloud native programming, and particularly containers. Using this foundation, IBM is seeking to put in place the building blocks to solve the edge device management problem at scale, enabling new applications to run efficiently across edge devices and clusters. Example areas where this could be used were described: A car today has over 50 CPUs. Whilst some of these will remain closed systems like braking systems, some will in the future become open to application programming, enabling novel applications like driver fatigue monitoring or condition based servicing. A manufacturing plant […]