The edge-native software platform simplifies
development, deployment and management of edge AI
applications.
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC):
What’s New: At MWC 2024, Intel announced its new Edge
Platform, a modular, open software platform enabling enterprises to
develop, deploy, run, secure, and manage edge and AI applications
at scale with cloud-like simplicity. Together, these capabilities
will accelerate time-to-scale deployment for enterprises,
contributing to improved total cost of ownership (TCO).
“The edge is the next frontier of digital
transformation, being further fueled by AI. We are building on our
strong customer base in the market and consolidating our years of
software initiatives to the next level in delivering a complete
edge-native platform, which is needed to enable infrastructure,
applications and efficient AI deployments at scale. Our modular
platform is exactly that, driving optimal edge infrastructure
performance and streamlining application management for
enterprises, giving them both improved competitiveness and improved
total cost of ownership.” – Pallavi Mahajan, Intel corporate vice
president and general manager of Network and Edge Group
Software
Why It Matters: The amount of compute happening at the
edge is growing fast because that is where data is generated. In
addition, many edge computing deployments are incorporating AI. At
the edge, businesses need to automate for many reasons: to achieve
pricing competitiveness, to relieve the effects of labor shortages,
to expand innovation, to add efficiency, to improve time to market
and to deliver new services.
However, working at the edge is often complex and challenging
for a variety of reasons:
- Difficulty building performant edge AI solutions with high
return on investment (ROI) across a range of use cases in a
specific industry.
- The diversity of hardware, software and even power requirements
at the edge.
- Lack of secure and cost-effective methods to move and utilize
high data volumes required by AI at the edge while maintaining low
latency.
- Increasingly complex operations management of distributed edge
devices and applications at scale.
Use cases – with examples including defect detection and
preventive maintenance in industrial facilities, frictionless
checkout and inventory management in retail, and traffic management
and emergency safety in smart cities/transportation – typically
require advanced networking and AI analytics at the edge with low
latency, locality and cost requirements to meet stringent
real-world needs. Additionally, a mix of on-premises analytics with
aggregation and placement of some AI processing in the cloud to
manage global deployment locations is common. These hybrid AI
scenarios require a software platform built to handle them.
And while custom solutions to challenges are available today,
they are often built on closed systems and specialized hardware.
This makes integrating legacy systems and adding new use cases both
costly and time-consuming.
How Intel’s Edge Platform Empowers Enterprises: The open,
modular platform will enable ready-made solutions across
industries. By leveraging Intel’s edge experience and broad
ecosystem to make the most in-demand edge use cases available,
enterprises can purchase a complete solution or build their own in
existing environments. Enterprise developers can build edge-native
AI applications on new or existing infrastructure, and they can
manage edge solutions end-to-end for their specific use cases.
The platform provides infrastructure management and AI
application development capabilities that can integrate into
existing software stacks via open standards.
About Edge-Native Infrastructure: The platform’s edge
infrastructure has built-in OpenVINO™ AI inference runtime for edge
AI as well as a secure, policy-based automation of IT and OT
management tasks. Intel’s OpenVINO has evolved over the past five
years to help developers optimize applications for low latency, low
power and deployment on existing hardware specifically at the edge,
enabling standard hardware already deployed to run AI applications
efficiently without costly upgrades or refactoring.
The platform has a single dashboard that enables IT and DevOps
personnel to provision, onboard and manage a fleet of edge nodes,
including edge servers, industrial controls, HMI devices and
others. This is accomplished securely and remotely with zero touch,
across day 0/1/2 operations.
Furthermore, closed-loop automation enables operators to
leverage policies and observability to trigger business logic from
operational alerts at the edge, optimizing operations across the
network and improving TCO.
Deep, heterogeneous hardware awareness gives best-in-class
capabilities to allocate resources for optimal efficiency, as well
as zero-trust security features co-developed for Intel
architecture.
About Edge AI + Applications Capabilities: The platform
will provide enterprise developers with access to powerful AI
capabilities and tools, including:
- Finely tunable application orchestration for remotely placing
latency-sensitive workloads on exactly the right device for best
application performance.
- Powerful low-code to high-code AI model/app development with
hybrid AI capabilities from the edge to cloud.
- A range of horizontal edge services like data annotation
services that leverage Intel® Geti™ to build AI models, as well as
vertical industry-specific edge services to improve results in
common industrial use cases using video and time series information
and digital twin capabilities to track and manage
environments.
About Intel’s Role in Proven Partner Ecosystem: Intel’s
Edge Platform will come to market with industry leaders and broad
ecosystem support that includes Amazon Web Services, Lenovo,
L&T Technology Services, Red Hat, SAP, Vericast, Verizon
Business and Wipro.
Customers on Intel’s Edge Platform
Lenovo: “Intel’s new Edge Platform integrated with Lenovo
Open Cloud Automation, Lenovo XClarity suite of solutions, and
deployed on Lenovo’s ThinkEdge servers enable enterprises to
develop, deploy, run and manage edge applications at scale with
cloud-like simplicity,” said Charles Ferland, vice president and
general manager, ThinkEdge and Communication Service Providers.
“The integrated solution delivers a seamless experience combining
truly edge-native capabilities for security, near zero-touch
provisioning and management, with Intel and Lenovo’s deep industry
experience and unrivaled ecosystems. And, with built-in OpenVINO
runtime, it enables businesses to adapt edge and hybrid AI
solutions across industry verticals – from finance to healthcare to
smart cities and retail.”
L&T Technology Services: “LTTS is delighted to
partner with Intel on the launch of their new Edge Platform, which
promises to democratize access to edge-AI solutions. By running
seamlessly on standard hardware and featuring built-in edge-native
AI runtime powered by OpenVINO for inferencing, this platform
embodies innovation and efficiency,” said Abhishek Sinha, chief
operating officer and board member at L&T Technology Services
(LTTS). “With deep-root hardware optimization at its core, our
enterprise customers can trust Intel's Edge Platform to propel them
into a future of unparalleled performance and possibilities.”
SAP: “By partnering with Intel on the new Edge Platform,
we are able to bring the transformational capabilities of SAP
Business Technology Platform® (SAP BTP) and SAP business
applications together with Intel to make edge-AI computing more
accessible for our customers,” said Drew Leblanc, head of Strategic
Alliances, SAP SE. “This effort is a testament to our ongoing
commitment to deliver value for our customers, and we look forward
to working with Intel in delivering new use cases for the
edge.”
Vericast: "Physical retail is on the verge of a major
transformation by merging digital media with physical experiences.
Intel's new Edge Platform is a key piece of our value chain
bringing this exciting trend to market,” said Hans Fischmann, vice
president of Digital Product Management, Vericast. “Together, we're
revolutionizing the digital advertising landscape, seamlessly
integrating edge AI capabilities with immersive customer
experiences that run on standard hardware. We’re able to run a
zero-trust security profile in highly public environments with a
scalable, modular platform that can work from a single store to the
largest retail chains."
Wipro: “The partnership between Intel and Wipro centers
on making edge and AI solutions more accessible for our customers,”
said Ashish Khare, general manager and global head for IoT, 5G, and
Smart Cities at Wipro. “Intel’s new Edge Platform helps us solve
the challenges of edge complexity on standard hardware and enables
Wipro to deliver the most compelling use cases to drive business
results.”
More Context: Intel’s Edge Platform is an evolution of
the solution first introduced in late September 2023 at Intel
Innovation under the code name Project Strata.
Even More Context: Intel Brings AI Everywhere Across
Network, Edge, Enterprise | Intel Unleashes 2.7x Performance per
Rack Improvement for 5G Core | Intel at MWC Barcelona 2024 (Press
Kit)
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