Category Archives: Edge Computing

Adam Kranitz on the Convergence of Edge and IaaS with Business Analytics for the Big Picture

Joining the podcast this week is Adam Kranitz from CloudCheckr.

Adam is a New York-based marketing communications director focused on enterprise SaaS and media technology brands. As head of social media marketing at one of the largest media technology companies in the world, Avid Technology, he built the global storytelling platform AvidBlogs.com and helped to launch the film, video, audio, and music creation software used by the biggest names in entertainment. Prior to that, Adam co-founded BrandingStrategyInsider.com, the global thought leader in brand strategy and brand education. Today, Adam runs communications at CloudCheckr—the most comprehensive Cloud Management Platform (CMP) for finance, security, and compliance teams—leading brand strategy, events marketing, creative services, analyst relations, public relations, community, and social media programs.

Mike D Kail on Cloud being in the 1st Inning and Kubernetes as the Kleenex of orchestration

Joining us today is Mike D Kail with fantastic thoughts on Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, and Edge.

Mike D Kail- CTO, Everest.Org and Former CIO, Yahoo and VP, Netflix

Currently Everest’s CTO, responsible for the technical implementation of the scalable identity and payment solution platform. Recently named by the Huffington Post as one of the “Top 100 Most Social CIOs on Twitter”, Mike was the former CIO/SVP of Infrastructure of Yahoo!. He also served as VP of IT Operations at Netflix.

Matt Caulfield explains how the Edge is No Man’s Land

Joining us this week is Matt Caulfield, Co-Founder and CEO Oort.io.

Matt is currently co-founder & CEO at Oort, an early-stage startup focused on the intersection of Cybersecurity and Edge Computing. Previously he led the award-winning Boston Center of Excellence team at Cisco, taking new product ideas from concept to production through a customer co-development pipeline. He studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Cornell University with a concentration in distributed systems and networking.

Sam Nagar of Pixeom talks how the Edge is Dirty

Joining us this week is Sam Nagar, Co-Founder and CEO Pixeom. He provides insight into the history of his company and how they are already deployed in sizable production environments.

About Pixeom

Pixeom is a five year-old company that’s changing the way enterprise manages cloud resources. Pixeom is the market leader in this emerging category based on revenue, number of deployments and number of experts within the company. Pixeom’s enterprise software platform delivers all the power of the cloud with the speed of on-premise edge computing.

Olivier Avaro on Democratizing Gaming

Joining us this week is Olivier Avaro, Founder & CEO Blacknut.

About Blacknut

Blacknut aims to fundamentally change the video game industry by creating a service where users can access a vast catalog of curated games, play without limit across all devices, and no longer have the need for dedicated hardware, all for a simple subscription.

Using the latest cloud computing technology, Blacknut digitizes video games, delivering them through the cloud directly to smart devices such as televisions, tablets, and phones or through devices like set-top boxes and dongles.

Highlights:

  • Working at a Gaming Company
  • Game Streaming and Experience
  • Elimination of H/W Limitations for Modern Games
  • Delivery of Game from Cloud vs Edge
  • More than 50% of 5G traffic expected to be Gaming
  • Edge/Cloud Infrastructure Requirements
  • Virtualized Game Platform
  • Challenges in Building the Blacknut Platform

 

Time Tracking

  • 1 min 18 sec: Introduction of Guest
    • Background on Olivier and Blacknut
  • 3 min 01 sec: Gamers and Gaming Companies
  • 4 min 21 sec: Game Streaming Platform Overview
    • Elimination of Various H/W for Simple Gaming Access
  • 5 min 48 sec: Virtual Desktops for Games?
    • Processing power in the cloud and not locally
    • Stream is a video stream
    • Issues: Latency, Jitter, Bandwidth Issues
  • 7 min 48 sec: Changes Power of Device for Gaming
    • Everything can be a gaming console
    • No Downloads, installs – Just Click and Play
  • 12 min 10 sec: Latency and Distance for Gaming Servers
    • Networks always remain a challenge for hard-core games
    • 60% of Europeans playing games online (access, discovery and game options are primary concern)
    • How manage backend to meet scale?
      • Either build own cloud and leverage public clouds
    • 16 min 30 sec: Platform Neutral or Specific Vendor?
      • Select best cloud provider by country so don’t lock in to one vendor
    • 19 min 57 sec: What makes an infrastructure attractive for an edge?
      • Capability, Global, and Cost
      • Distribution Networks and Bandwidths
    • 23 min 42 sec: Blacknut providers service (SaaS) – Is tech available outside service?
      • B to C only w/ over 300 games
      • Looking into additional services for B to B as well
    • 25 min 30 sec: Technology Challenges
      • Optimization across various clouds/edges
      • Density – # of games on given infrastructure
      • Distributed Storage? Game distribution AI
    • 30 min 09 sec: Wrap-Up

 

Podcast Guest: Olivier Avaro, Founder & CEO of Blacknut

Olivier began his career at Orange where he researched on video compression technology. Olivier has been instrumental in managing the MPEG Systems standardization group in ISO. His outstanding contribution ultimately paved the way for the MP4 file format, one of the most popular outcome of his work. Olivier then spun-off technology from Orange and co-founded Streamezzo. The company published an Open Mobile Development platform that allows to easily create Rich Mobile Applications working on all major mobile operating systems. The company was successfully acquired by Amdocs in 2010. As the new Vice President at Amdocs, Olivier initiated a number of intrapreneurial projects, out of which several new companies and business units were created. In 2014, Olivier launched his own private equity fund ‘Skyrods’ which financed a number of innovative start-ups. One of them captures his full attention today: Blacknut, a leading cloud gaming service provider created in 2016.

Mark Thiele Rants on IT Monopolies and Impact of Edge

Joining us this week is Mark Thiele, Director Engineering Edge Computing, Ericsson and Host of IDCA Podcast.

About Ericsson
Ericsson is one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to service providers, with about 40% of the world’s mobile traffic carried through our networks. We enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt and scale, making our customers successful in a fully connected world. For more than 140 years, our ideas, technology and people have changed the world: real turning points that have transformed lives, industries and society as a whole.

About IDCA Podcast
To Infinity Paradigm and Beyond – a community driven podcast series by the industry veterans that you trust. Stay for revealing interviews, expertise and education. Enjoy the light hearted conversations about life in and out of the industry. https://www.idc-a.org/idca-podcast    

Highlights:

  • Monopolies in IT
  • Restrictions in Innovation as everyone has same Cloud tools
  • Monopolies are not Good for Customers
  • Edge Push from Public Clouds
  • Learnings from Edge Research
  • Will Edge Save us from Cloud Monopolies?
  • Telcos at Edge

Time Tracking

  • 0 min 12 sec: Introduction of Guest
  • 3 min 12 sec: IDCA Podcast Overview
  • 4 min 04 sec: Rant on Monopolistic Culture
    • Running risk of Monopoly in IT
      • Small group of centralized cloud providers
    • Monopolies have less interest in innovation for niche opportunities ~ not enough revenue to make it worth it for them
    • Service delivery issues (e.g. SaaS vs On-Premise/Self-Managed)
    • On-Premise still needs innovation
  • 10 min 56 sec: Are we missing innovation?
    • Jevon’s Paradox Podcast – Efficiency can be Disruptive
    • All using same base components
    • What happens in future when everyone is standardized on a few platforms?
    • Future opportunity in On-Premise
  • 15 min 33 sec: More Vendors is Better than a Few Giant Clouds
    • Pushback from Clouds is they would respond unlike previous monopolies
    • We forgot Microsoft is a Monopoly just not a cool company
  • 18 min 18 sec: Edge Push from Public Cloud Providers
    • Attempting to “Scare” the Market to Prevent Innovation?
    • AWS Outpost Announcement – First time AWS talking about solution at least a year away
  • 20 min 56 sec: Research on Edge via LinkedIn – What did you Learn?
    • There is an Edge Vision: People need the Edge or still at start of journey?
    • Large % of respondents buy into Edge marketplace that is a true opportunity
    • Most thinking of Edge based on their viewpoint/need without thinking about entire opportunity for everyone: could be a legacy IT environment added on
      • Not scalable model
      • Do we have to wait for AWS to tell us how Edge works?
    • Patchwork Edge – not waiting for AWS to show up; people building it now with available technology
    • Railroad History of Monopoly Power – US vs Tokyo Organization
      • We ignore the costs and losses of what could have been
    • 34 min 16 sec: Is Edge going to Save us from Monopoly?
    • 37 min 03 sec: Can Telcos respond to Edge demand?
    • 37 min 03 sec: Wrap-Up