SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- LF Edge, an
umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation that aims to
establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing
independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system, today
announced continued ecosystem momentum with the addition of four
new general members (FII, HCL, OpenNebula, and Robin.io) and one
new Associate member (Shanghai Open Source Information Technology
Association). Additionally, Home Edge has released its third
platform update with new Data Storage and Mult-NAT Edge
Device Communications (MNDEC) features.
"We are pleased to see continued growth among the LF Edge
ecosystem," said Arpit Joshipura,
general manager, Networking, Edge and IOT, the Linux Foundation.
"Open edge technology crosses verticals and is poised to become
larger than the cloud native ecosystem. We are honored to be at the
forefront of this budding industry and welcome all of our new
members."
Approaching it's two-year mark as an umbrella project, LF Edge
is currently comprised of nine projects – including Akraino,
Baetyl, Fledge, EdgeX Foundry, Home Edge, Open Horizon,
Project EVE, Secure Device Onboard (SDO) and State of the Edge –
that support emerging edge applications across areas such as
non-traditional video and connected things that require lower
latency, and faster processing and mobility. LF Edge helps
unify a fragmented edge market around a common, open vision for the
future of the industry.
One of the project's newest general members, FII, plans to
sponsor a Smart Agriculture Special Interest Group (SIG) within the
Open Horizon project and soon, an LF Edge Smart Agriculture End
User Solution Group (EUSG). Open Horizon SIGs are designed to
identify use cases within an industry or vertical, develop
end-to-end reference solutions, and promote the solutions, use
cases, and the group itself. LF Edge EUSGs gather user
requirements through cross-project discussion with end users and
generate demos, white papers, and messaging in order to prioritize
project features and inform project roadmaps.
Home Edge Issues Coconut Release
Home Edge's third release, Coconut, is now available. Coconut
includes new features such as Multi-NAT communications (which
enables discovery of devices in different NATs) and Data
Storage. In collaboration with EdgeX Foundry, a centralized
device can be designated as a primary device to store the data from
different devices. Home Edge expects its next release will be
available in 2021 and will include real time data analytics
features. More information on Home Edge Coconut is available here:
https://wiki.lfedge.org/display/HOME/Release+Notes+for+Coconut
.
Open Networking and Edge Summit Sessions, Project Webinars
Available On-Demand
LF Edge sessions from the 2020 Open Networking and Edge Summit
(ONES) virtual experience are available on-demand:
https://bit.ly/2JPAyOd.
LF Edge's "On the Edge with LF Edge" webinar series, launched
this year, has produced seven episodes to date, with overview
discussions of each of the projects. Episodes are available for
viewing on-demand here:
https://www.lfedge.org/news-events/webinars/
More details on LF Edge, including how to join as a member,
details on specific projects and other resources, are available
here: www.lfedge.org.
Support From New LF Edge Members
"HCL Technologies is excited to join the Linux Foundation Edge
community. We look forward to collaborating with industry leaders
to help create and promote Edge Computing frameworks for wider
adoption, leveraging our expertise and investments in IoT, 5G and
Cloud technologies," said GH Rao, President, Engineering R&D
Services, HCL Technologies.
"We are delighted to join the LF Edge community as part of our
ONEedge initiative," said Constantino
Vazquez, Chief Operations Officer, OpenNebula. "OpenNebula,
which has traditionally been used for Private Clouds, has now
become a True Hybrid Cloud platform with a number of powerful
features for making deployments at the edge much easier for
organizations that want to rely on open source technologies and
retain the freedom of being able to use on-demand the providers,
locations and resources that they really need."
"Robin.io is excited to join the Linux Foundation Edge," said
Partha Seetala, CEO and founder of
Robin.io. "Open edge technologies is a large and exciting
opportunity for Robin technology and cloud-native ecosystem;
we are honored to be at the forefront of the enabling and promoting
of Kubernetes-based Edge Computing frameworks for wider
adoption."
"The Shanghai Open Source Information Technology Association has
joined LF Edge to implement open source innovation in China, promote the establishment of an open
source ideological and cultural system that is compatible with the
innovative application of the Digital Economy, and promote the
design of laws, regulations and institutional frameworks that are
conductive to the ecological development of open source."
About The Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than
1,000 members and is the world's leading home for collaboration on
open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware.
Linux Foundation's projects are critical to the world's
infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and
more. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on
leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors,
users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open
collaboration. For more information, please visit us at
linuxfoundation.org.
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