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The Cutting Edge: 8 Trends Future-Minded Solution Providers Should Watch
Gina Narcisi
Solution providers with an eye toward the future know that edge computing is going to impact every corner of our lives, and they also know that the time is now to get in on the action. Here are eight key opportunities solution providers can leverage, from security to IoT as a service to distributed storage and more.
1. Continued IoT Market Growth
For enterprise adopters, edge use cases with the largest investments in 2022 include manufacturing operations, production asset management, smart grids, omni-channel operations, public safety and emergency response, freight monitoring and intelligent transportation systems. Use cases that will see the fastest spending growth from 2020 to 2025 include public infrastructure maintenance, network maintenance, anatomy diagnostics and augmented-reality-assisted surgery, according to IDC.
What’s more, the research firm expects hardware and services spending will account for 85 percent of all edge spending in 2022 with the remainder going to software. Hardware spending will be led by investments in edge gateways, which require low-power components designed for running limited or single functions in environments where power and cooling availability is limited. In other words, this is the perfect gear for many IoT environments.
For CSG, IoT is a big part of its future, Pittman said. The solution provider is launching a sensor division and an IoT endpoint management platform, which Pittman said is crucial for getting actionable data into the hands of customers. And that’s just the beginning, he added.
“We’re developing the platform, and we are absolutely bundling solutions around it every day,” he said.
