“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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