Dell makes $1bn bet that IoT at the edge can kill cloud computing takeover

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Dell is going full tilt into the Internet of Things market, setting up a new division and promising to invest $1bn in IoT R&D over three years to build the business.

At a New York announcement event, Dell said it foresaw an Internet of “intelligent” Things – devices from phones to cars to oil rigs to robots to heart monitors – located at the edge of the internet. All of them generate data, some collected by sensors, which will be used to help them and the systems which use them to operate better.

It presumes there will be a Distributed Core model of computing where edge devices and systems need to respond in real time to operate effectively. …………………………….