HPE has had IoT appliances on the market for several years, but at HPE Discover this year they are announcing the EdgeLine OT Link Platform, software that combines OT and enterprise grade IT functionality in the same box, which will make it easier to manage massive amounts of devices at the edge.
HPE has beefed up their edge IoT devices with more storage capacity, and announced validation of the ability of these devices to run high capacity solutions at the edge, by software vendors ranging from industry titans to high-flying startups
Citrix has announced the Citrix Ready HCI Workspace Appliance Program, with Atlantis and HPE collaborating with Citrix on the first offering in it, the HPE Intelligent Edge Workspace. It is a turnkey virtual workspace appliance with mid-market simplicity and pricing.
In what is likely the most exciting of the announcements so far at HPE Discover, HPE announces two converged EdgeLine devices, as well as the ability to use their Vertica Big Data solution and functionality from their Aruba secure wi-fi system in IoT devices. New IoT partnerships and IoT Innovation Labs were also announced.
HPE’s first IoT offerings include Edgeline devices that bring compute to the network edge, and an Aruba offering for managing location-based services.
