“How can you take the trust that you have in the data center when you deliver data, and how can you stretch that from the far edge, to a gateway, to an edge server, to the core, to the cloud?” Steve Todd, Fellow & VP of Data Innovation and Strategy at Dell Technologies, predicted 25 years ago that the problem of data trust on the edge would be important today. In this conversation, he discusses the long process behind building a solution.
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“The light bulb went on; there's an intersection, I believe, between distributed ledgers and delivering trusted data.”

"The other thing I think that is happening at just the right time, is the importance of AI, the importance of model building and deployment of inference towards the edge. Everybody's investing in that right now and there hasn't been a corresponding level of investment into knowing that the data is trustworthy."

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Timestamps:
(01:35) How Steve got started in tech and his career journey

(08:16) The intersection between distributed ledgers and delivering trusted data

(11:04) How can you take the trust you have in the data center and stretch it to the edge?

(14:11) The power of open sourcing Project Alvarium, a community building Data Confidence Fabric

(22:11) How did Steve predict this need years ago?

(29:43) What does Steve see coming next?

(34:35) What is the Hedera network?

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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Bumpy Landing: Distributed Ledgers In A Centralized World

Building Data Confidence at the Edge

Are we in the age of bespoke models? How long will that last? In this conversation, Bill sits down with Jaxon Repp, Field CTO at HarperDB, a globally-distributed edge application platform. They discuss solutions to managing distributed data, customized AI models and bringing the east of cloud to the edge.

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“I think that we are in the age of bespoke models now. But I think like all things, unless you're flying a remote drone armed with missiles, you probably will be able to make do with a model that just handles the basics.”

“There's a lot of upside to still having the horsepower to do the cool things and not necessarily pushing out all the way to the edge.”

“If I can train on a set of averages, some sort of compressed nature, I can dramatically reduce the amount of data that I have. If I can train on summaries as well as I can train on the raw data, then I'm not going to hold on to that raw data for anything other than, you know, super emergency cases.”

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Timestamps:
(01:17) How Jaxon got started in tech and to HarperDB

(07:25) Determining product market fit

(13:18) How do we bring the ease of cloud to the edge?

(18:37) Solutions to distributed data

(25:50) The future importance of bespoke models

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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How will generative AI impact the factory floor? In this conversation, Bill sits down with Jason Nassar, who is responsible for Dell Technologies’ global strategy for manufacturing edge products and solutions as a Senior Consultant Product Manager. The two dive into the future of generative AI on the factory floor, musing about the role of robots and small language models.

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“I think as the technology improves itself and it's going to happen faster than we think, there will likely be robots and even humanoid robots that are going to be performing tasks that in the past people performed.”

“At the end of the day, these LLMs or large language models, they're best put in the cloud right now, large data centers actually processing this. But this is quickly going to move directly to the edge. And that means that this technology is going to be utilized on the factory floor.”

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Timestamps:
(02:00) How did Jason get started in tech?

(02:40) IT and OT in manufacturing

(06:45) Evolution of customer needs in manufacturing

(20:54) What is possible with traditional AI?

(14:54) The potential of generative AI in manufacturing

(19:00) Hallucinations and human error

(20:50) The future of work and education

(33:32) Robots on the factory floor

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Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting dell.com/edge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.

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Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

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