Edge computing is a market transition, John Chambers believes. And, for that reason, edge computing also represents opportunities for new leaders to develop. "When you go to a market transition, almost never does the leader in the prior transition lead in the next," Chambers--chairman of Pensando, said.
Compute is migrating to where the data is, says Pensando, an edge computing firm whose mission in life is to create a platform and ecosystem supplying computing as a service without lock-in to Amazon Web Services or any other major cloud computing supplier. And Pensando believes edge computing will allow many new contestants a chance to enter the computing as a service business at the edge.
Pensando aims to focus on an ecosystem of software supporting edge computing, featuring highly-programmable software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage, and security services wherever data is located, the company says. “This unique capability means that cloud providers can now gain a technological advantage over the current market leader, Amazon Web Services Nitro, delivering five times to nine times improvements in productivity, performance, and scale when compared to current architectures with no risk of lock-in.”
Coming out of stealth mode, Pensando had gotten partnerships with HPE, Goldman Sachs, NetApp, and Equinix. In at least some instances, the Pensando platform appears likely to be used to support server-to-server (east-west traffic) rather than client sensor to server operations.
“The foundation of the Pensando platform is a custom programmable processor optimized to execute a software stack delivering cloud, compute, networking, storage and security services wherever data is located, all managed via the Venice Centralized Policy and Services Controller,” Pensando says.
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