How HPE can help small and mid-sized businesses excel at the edge

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The global data boom is driving organizations of all sizes to drastically change where they process data. As data becomes more essential to daily operations, small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) need to create a strategy for gathering, storing, and analyzing all data. That makes using edge computing to collect and process data where it’s created instead of at the data center a critical element of digital transformation for SMBs.

 

These solutions are positioned at the edge of your network where you collect data, overcoming the latency challenges of a centralized data center.

For SMBs, edge computing can be game-changing. Building out edge IT environments helps prepare SMBs for a future of real-time data analysis where it’s needed most: with the customer. Liberating analytics and decentralizing the approach to collecting, analyzing, using, and storing data enables real-time, actionable business analytics. For example:

• Healthcare. In edge environments like clinics, Internet of things (IoT) provides new data that can be used in real time to assist in triage, reduce wait times, and quicken medical diagnosis and treatment. It can also be used to track health information to ensure patients receive the best care.
• Retail. Stores can use video data to ensure customers get the help they need at the right moment. With real-time analytics and floor robots, stores can also ensure that their inventory is accurate and automate restocking.
• Logistics. Edge technologies can take in data from multiple sources—from traffic maps to weather data—to help provide intelligent routing and help dispatch keep better track of their fleet and delivery statuses.
• Financial services. Bank outlets and ATMs can use edge technologies to improve security with high frame-rate cameras. Edge computing and data storage can also reduce the risks of moving personal information in and out of public cloud.
• Manufacturing. Real-time data can help keep track of the manufacturing floor to avoid costly downtime and slowdowns. Automation can rapidly address equipment issues to avoid shutdowns.

Of course, edge computing is not a single solution. To reinvent the way your business works with data, IT will need to deploy and monitor compute resources across edge environments. In addition, many edge environments require fitting IT into a smaller space. So, an optimal edge architecture needs to account for the unique demands of managing connectivity, security, and performance in every environment. When it comes to deploying technology to an edge environment, the technology you choose has an impact.

HPE can help make sure your IT infrastructure is designed for innovation, and the success that results from it. Experts from HPE can help SMBs find solutions precisely designed to fit for business needs and budgets.

A new eBook delves into what it takes for SMBs to develop competitive edge solutions for handling complex data. It also explores the benefits SMBs have experienced by deploying an edge-centric infrastructure.

To learn more about this topic:

• Read the technical paper Teetering on the edge of innovation.
• Explore HPE Edge Solutions.