Large enterprise IT suppliers are determined that the hyperscale companies will not have everything their own way in the edge cloud value chain. IBM, Google, HPE and others aim to leverage their existing position in corporate technology markets to target pole position at the edge. That could help enterprises achieve a more consistent experience across different private and public environments, which could help constrain the power of the webscale giants by making a multicloud option easier for companies to adopt. But it presents another set of important partnerships that operators need to forge, if they are to leverage their high value connectivity, especially 5G, to take a strategic position in the enterprise edge, rather than being ‘bit-pipes’. HPE timed the…