EDITOR’S QUESTION
WHAT IS EDGE
COMPUTING AND
WHY WILL IT IMPACT
THE ENTERPRISE?
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T
he BroadGroup has announced
Schneider Electric as the founding
partner for EDGE Congress, its brand-
new series of innovative and interactive
global events focused on edge computing’s
transformative impact on technology,
business and society.
With strong market drivers and demand
for more distributed IT architecture to
support emerging technologies, the shift to
edge represents one of the most profound
opportunities to modernise today’s legacy
infrastructure and data centre ecosystem.
EDGE Europe will take place in Amsterdam
on the January 31, 2019.
“Partnering with BroadGroup to bring
these events to a global audience will
have a significant impact in driving the
edge conversation to the next level,” said
Dave Johnson, Executive Vice President, IT
Division, Schneider Electric.
“There is no question that edge computing
presents the biggest opportunity for
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organisations today to transform and
elevate their technology infrastructure and
ultimately, the way they do business and
deliver value to their customers.
“Through this forum, IT and business leaders
will gain valuable and practical insights that
can be applied to hone their edge strategies
from deployment to management to
security and much more in order to derive
the greatest business value.”
“Edge represents the most metamorphic and
profound change for decades, connecting
things everywhere and enabling new ways
of analysing and managing the data needed
to alter society, drive change and prioritise
information critical to local infrastructure
operations enabled by 5G and AI,” said Philip
Low, the Chairman of BroadGroup.
“We are proud to collaborate with Schneider
Electric for this transformative chain
of events bringing on board the global
specialist in energy management and
automation,” continued Mr Low.
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