Technology Magazine March 2020 | Page 121

AWS re : Invent 2019 : William Giard , Intel
AWS re : Invent 2019 : William Giard , Intel
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by artificial intelligence ( AI ), and , most importantly , security .
Security is of paramount importance to both customers and the tech industry as a whole . With ransomware incidents and insider threats infiltrating even the most hermetic of organisations , such as the US Federal Government , it ’ s becoming all too clear that traditional firewalls and perimeter-based controls can no longer adequately protect the digital world . Recognising it as , perhaps , ‘ the ’ central challenge of 2020 , Giard has decided to make security solutions the keystone of Intel ’ s product development . “ It can ’ t be bolted on after the fact ; it ’ s got to be built in from the start . And enabling that work , where we ’ re trying to perform computing at the edge , I think is critically important to our business strategy .”
Owing to the necessity for latencysensitive applications and the emergence of 5G , which is ushering in the possibility of real-time solutions , ‘ edge computing ’ is a paradigm taking on great precedence in the industry . Instead of sending data from a device to a server where it can then be
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