IBM has unveiled a series of software solutions and applications designed to help telcos and enterprises develop and execute their edge computing strategies. The new edge portfolio is heavily driven by 5G, said the company at its Think Digital conference last week, where new CEO Arvind Krishna boasted of how the OpenShift Kubernetes platform from Red Hat (which IBM acquired last year) can be used in distributed architectures as well as centralized data centers. The new offerings include: IBM Edge Application Manager – a tool for the remote management of AI, analytics and IoT workloads at up to 10,000 edge nodes. This is the result of work that IBM has contributed to the Open Horizon project under the auspices of Linux…