IBM and Exium enter edge-focused partnership for hybrid cloud environments applications
IBM and Exium have announced an edge-focused partnership that will concentrate on hybrid cloud environments applications. As part of the new collaboration, Exium will become one of IBM’s network-as-a-service partners.
Companies using the IBM cloud to analyze data from edge devices spread across enterprise data centers and remote locations will now be taking advantage of Exium’s 5G network via the IBM Edge Application Manager (EAM).
For context, EAM is centralized software designed to deploy and manage analytics workloads on edge nodes across several facilities, including warehouses, factory floors, and offices.
Exium, on the other hand, provides companies with a cloud connectivity option (essentially wireless LANs) based on private 5G networks.
“With computing done in so many places—on public and private clouds and the edge–we believe the challenge that businesses face today is to securely connect all these different elements into a cohesive, end-to-end platform,” explained Exium CEO Farooq Khan.
“Through our collaboration, Exium plans to integrate with IBM Edge Application Manager to offer edge solutions at scale for our clients,” Khan added.
Following the beginning of the partnership, Exium’s technology will connect EAM to edge nodes and the IBM public cloud, allowing the system to perform computing-intensive tasks on the edge.
“We look forward to collaborating with Exium to help clients deploy, operate and manage thousands of endpoints throughout their operations with IBM Edge Application Manager,” commented Evaristus Mainsah, GM at IBM Hybrid Cloud and Edge Ecosystem.
“Together, we can help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation by acting on insights closer to where their data is being created, at the edge,” Mainsah added.
IBM has been at the forefront of edge technologies’ development for some years now, entering a number of edge-focussed partnerships.
In the last three months, for example, the company has furthered its collaboration with Equinix, entered one with Scale Computing, and one with Vantiq to manage low code applications at the edge.
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5G | application management | edge application | edge cloud | Exium | hybrid cloud | IBM | network management
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