This week has seen at least three announcements from software players looking to take control of IoT data and analytics at the network edge. It’s a vibrant market, that is slowly realizing that the volume of data generated by IoT devices can’t be backhauled to the cloud for analysis every time. By processing data at the edge, application latency could be vastly improved, as long as there is sufficient computational power to ingest the various data points and spit out the correct answer. Doing so would greatly reduce the volume of data that needs to be sent back to the cloud too – useful for applications in locations where a robust and fast enough internet connection is hard to come…