This week we spoke to Opengear, a maker of remote network management appliances that is transitioning from the datacenter to the network edge. Selling hardware that will increasingly be used to control connected devices and infrastructure, we spoke to Derek Watkins, Opengear’s VP of Sales, to learn more about the impact that IoT is having on business. Founded eleven years ago Bob Waldie, a serial Australian entrepreneur, according to Watkins, who added that Opengear is essentially an amalgamation of previous ventures. With annual growth having never dipped below 50%, Opengear has been ticking along nicely and is still privately held. Opengear sees the IoT as a means of expanding out of its traditional business line – providing datacenter equipment that…