FEATURE : EDGE COMPUTING
NTT ’ s Edge Advantage Report surveyed 600 enterprises leveraging
Edge to enable data-driven decision-making . The findings reveal the industries tapping into Edge and reaping the benefits are manufacturing , healthcare , transportation and logistics , energy and utilities and financial services .
NTT , a leading global IT infrastructure and services company , has launched its Edge Advantage Report , which found that although two-thirds of enterprises investing in Edge are solving real-world business challenges and more than eight-out-of-10 organisations expect their dependency on thirdparty Edge services to grow over the next two years , nearly 40 % of those planning Edge deployments are concerned that current infrastructure capabilities won ’ t be able to support the promise of Edge .
Enterprises around the world are discovering the Edge advantage , benefitting from digital technologies that accelerate data-driven decision-making , secure physical and virtual assets and control sustainably resilient operations . But while more than 80 % of technology decision-makers say their Edge investment expectations have been met or exceeded , many fear that the rapid pace of technology evolution could cost them in the long term .
Infrastructure capabilities
Current adopters see the fragmented management of compute , connectivity and IoT devices as a hindrance to realising the potential of Edge . As such , those organisations that are combining private 5G and Edge technologies report the highest benefits over enterprises who have adopted a legacy segregated approach , or none at all .
The report also revealed that though most organisations believe their network infrastructure can handle their current Edge requirements , almost 40 % of enterprises planning Edge deployments acknowledge a need to upgrade their network in order to support the expected spike in connected devices and applications . In fact , nearly two-thirds of enterprises that already deployed Edge have coordinated a wide area network refresh .
In light of this , many organisations are planning to turn to partners to help them on their Edge journey . So much so that 88 % believe their organisation ’ s dependency on third-party Edge services will grow in
Enterprises are accelerating Edge adoption to get ahead of the competition
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