When Gartner recently looked into its crystal ball, it saw, "By 2025, more than 50% of enterprise-managed data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud." So where will it be then? It will be on edge computing, and chances are excellent that you'll be using the newest version of StarlingX, StarlingX 7.0, the open-source edge computing and IoT cloud platform there.

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Why? Because rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, the OpenInfra Foundation's StarlingX uses best-of-breed open-source programs to deliver a complete edge computing stack. This starts with Ceph. This Red Hat-sponsored do-it-all, open-source software-defined storage platform can work with object-level, block-level, and file-level storage. For cloud management, it uses the tried and true OpenStack. And, for container orchestration, StarlingX uses, of course, Kubernetes.

It comes as no surprise then that StarlingX is used in industrial Internet of Things (IoT), telecom, video delivery, and so on. In short, if you need ultra-low latency and all the resources a full cloud stack can bring you, StarlingX is probably for you. Such Telecom companies as Docomo, NTT, Verizon, and Vodafone are already using it for their 5G deployments.

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