The “Intelligent Edge” and how we can use it

These days, we all have mobile devices in our pockets. We take them everywhere, performing a large number of productive tasks and enjoying entertainment. Our telephones have sensors and constantly absorb large amounts of information. If we exercise, they can measure the distances we run and record our times, so we can better plan our workouts. If we use them as personal assistants, they use our information to suggest activities, routes and remind us of different tasks on our calendar. This is what the cloud's “Intelligent Edge” looks like.

An evolving perspective

Now, we are moving from a world where the main focus is on mobility and the cloud, to a new one consisting of a smart cloud and its “Intelligent Edge”. This evolution is defined by three main factors.

The first relates to multiple devices, as is evident in personal computing and the devices we use on a daily basis. It is also seen in the proliferation of sensors and IoT devices in industries such as manufacturing and hospitals, which require platforms that connect them and make use of the huge amount of information they generate.

The second factor has to do with Artificial Intelligence, which uses, and takes advantage of, the large amount of data generated by those multiple devices in order to apply reason to the data and convert it into knowledge.

The third is about the generation of new ways to administer resources in order to manage this highly complex computing. This is where serverless computing comes into play, transforming the nature of the new applications built specifically to provide answers to events that arise.

Opportunity

We are talking about hundreds of millions of mobile devices supported by graphics, artificial intelligence and Cortana. The end goal is an infrastructure that allows us to use the potential of the Internet of Things, mobility and artificial intelligence, on the edge of the cloud.

Today's digital transformation offers greater opportunity by allowing organizations to be impacted by technology in a new way, breaking preset models to our benefit and that of our customers.

For our societies, the Intelligent Cloud and “Intelligent Edge” are enormous billion-dollar opportunities and what we want is for the notion of digital transformation to be democratized such that every type of business and organization can work hand in hand with the innovation and creativity of every person, especially that of our youth.

There is a huge opportunity, in several areas, for our region to be more creative, to work collaboratively and to apply the technology that transforms and drives our communities.