IoT and Edge Computing: What You Need to Know | Sunlight.io's Julian Chesterfield

How do IoT and edge computing work together? Julian Chesterfield, Founder and CTO of Sunlight.io, joins Ryan Chacon on the IoT For All Podcast to discuss everything you need to know about IoT and edge computing. They explore the difference between IoT and edge computing, the IoT challenges that edge computing solves, the cost benefits of edge computing, the role of AI and ML in edge computing, the challenges of edge computing, adding edge computing to legacy infrastructure, computer vision, the real-world use cases of IoT and edge computing, and the future of edge computing.
Julian Chesterfield has worked in the cloud and virtualization industry for over 15 years. After completing his PhD at Cambridge University, he became involved in writing a technology called Xen, which became the foundation of the public cloud back in 2007 when it was adopted by Amazon and most of the emerging public cloud infrastructure providers of the day.
Julian began Sunlight.io as an incubation project in 2013 to build a lightweight hypervisor for low-power ARM processors. On seeing its value for data-intensive applications at the Edge, Julian and the founding team built it into a full hyperconverged infrastructure stack - Sunlight. Sunlight secured $6M in Series A funding in December 2020 and has gone on to launch new products, including the Sunlight Infrastructure Manager (SIM) and Marketplace. Julian previously held positions at OnApp, as Chief Scientific Officer, and Citrix, as Storage Architect.
Sunlight.io is the thinnest, fastest HyperConverged Infrastructure platform built for applications that run at the edge. They make running and managing applications and infrastructure at the edge as easy as “in the cloud” across 100s to 1000s of edge devices. Sunlight works with efficient, ruggedized edge hardware - so you can consolidate all your in-location edge applications with centralized management, high performance, and high availability.
Their flagship product is the Sunlight HyperConverged Edge which is a full-stack, bare-metal virtualization platform that combines the computing, storage, and networking of one to multiple servers into a single system or cluster. Each cluster, deployed in a remote location, can consolidate multiple instances of Windows, Linux, or containers on x86, AMD, Arm, and NVIDIA Jetson.
Sunlight NexCenter is the centralized console and API that provides a single pane of glass to manage and monitor edge resources, take backups, move workloads, and deploy new remote clusters. A core feature of NexCenter is the AppLibrary which allows customers to build and access playbooks (images & recipes) for deploying applications and the supporting infrastructure to 100s or 1000s of remote clusters with a single click.
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Key Questions and Topics from this Episode:
(00:00) Welcome to the IoT For All Podcast
(00:44) Introduction to Julian and Sunlight.io
(02:09) What is the difference between IoT and edge computing?
(03:55) What IoT challenges does edge computing solve?
(05:53) Cost benefits of edge computing
(07:07) Role of AI and ML in edge computing
(08:55) Challenges of edge computing
(11:11) Can edge computing be added to legacy infrastructure?
(12:42) What is computer vision?
(15:14) Real-world use cases of IoT and edge computing
(18:47) Future of edge computing
(21:17) Learn more and follow up
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[@noonalewinsky1325]

Amazing talk! Thank you for this wonderful podcast

[@ryangagliano7141]

Great content! Nice job!!