Edge computing where the constraints get real.
Over The Edge treats edge computing as practical infrastructure, not a buzzword. Recent conversations move from Tour de France telemetry and retail camera silos to data center cooling, robotics latency, AI models, and digital city planning.
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Over The Edge is an interview-driven technology show about edge computing, AI, and the infrastructure that makes modern data useful. It treats the edge as a working layer of the internet. The conversations are rarely abstract for long. A discussion of AI becomes a comparison between human learning, expert systems, model limits, and business-focused deployment. A Tour de France episode turns into a lesson in low-power sensors, intermittent connectivity, live statistics, and prediction at the roadside. Data centers are treated as part of the edge story, especially as AI changes power density, cooling, and deployment choices. The show spends time on liquid cooling, immersion cooling, and the messy physical realities behind compute capacity. Retail episodes focus on operational pain. Cameras, refrigerators, point-of-sale tools, and people-counting systems create data, but the value often stalls when each system lives in its own silo. That practical frustration gives the show much of its shape. Guests also bring edge computing into robotics, private 5G, smart buildings, digital cities, surgical training, and sustainability projects. The range is broad, but the center stays consistent: data has to be processed where timing, cost, safety, or connectivity make the cloud alone insufficient. The pacing is conversational and technical. Bill Pfeiffer often follows a guest’s example into the engineering tradeoffs behind it, then pulls the thread toward wider consequences. That can mean store automation one moment and technological feudalism the next. The show is best for listeners who already care about infrastructure, enterprise technology, or AI deployment and want more than surface trend talk. It is sponsored and industry-facing, so the perspective often comes through executives, technologists, and practitioners close to large-scale implementation. Its value is in those constraints. Over The Edge makes edge computing feel less like a category label and more like a series of hard, specific decisions made in stores, cities, races, hospitals, networks, and data centers.
Made for: Built for technology leaders, infrastructure builders, AI practitioners, and curious operators who want grounded conversations about edge systems. It especially suits listeners interested in enterprise deployment rather than consumer gadget talk.
What sets it apart: The show ties edge computing to concrete deployment problems: race telemetry, retail silos, robotics latency, cooling density, neurosurgical training, and digital city systems. Its interviews connect business goals, physical infrastructure, and AI limits in the same conversation.
Over The Edge is a podcast about edge computing and those in the industry who are creating the future of the internet. On the show we talk to corporate leaders, open-source experts, technologists, journalists, analysts, and the community at large, to discuss technological innovations, trends, practical applications, business models, and the occasional far-flung theory.Over the Edge is brought to you by the generous sponsorship of Dell Technologies.
From fridge alarms to servers in oil, Bill Pfeiffer gives your infrastructure curiosity somewhere to go.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded comparison of human learning, expert systems, and practical AI at the edge.
Human learning sits at the center of this discussion of artificial intelligence, framed around a useful question: what changes when brain-based learning is set beside systems built for specific tasks and data types?
A practical look at how AI is reshaping data center power, cooling, density, and edge deployments.
AI is making data centers a power and cooling story as much as a compute story, and Bill Pfeiffer's conversation with John Boncik keeps that pressure in view.
Tour de France tracking becomes a grounded case for AI built to work at the edge.
Tour de France tracking makes a clean, practical case for edge computing as Shahid Ahmed explains the limits of gathering data from bikes that cannot carry much gear.
A grounded retail-tech conversation about using edge computing to turn scattered store alerts into action.
Retail's tangle of cameras, sensors, and store systems gives Over the Edge a clear lane: how AI and edge computing can turn scattered signals into useful action.
A retail robotics problem shows why compute sometimes has to move closer to the moment of decision.
Edge computing comes into focus as Paul Saville walks through a large retail robotics project that could not depend on the nearest hyperscaler cloud location for control systems.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Ananta Nair tells Bill Pfeiffer that her path into AI came through psychology, neuroscience, and computational cognitive neuroscience, not a straight engineering track.
Bill Pfeiffer interviews John Boncik of 1547 Critical Systems Realty about how edge data centers are being reshaped by AI, liquid cooling, and utility power constraints.
["Shahid Ahmed says the Tour de France is an edge case where bike sensors, helicopter feeds, and motorcyclist video have to support live stats with about 99% prediction accuracy.", "Bill Pfeiffer, host of Over The Edge, interviews Ahmed, NTT's EVP for New Ventures and Innovations, about private 5G, edge AI, and industrial IoT.", "Ahmed traces his path from Centel and Sprint to Accenture, PwC, and two startup attempts in blockchain and 5G before arriving at NTT.", "He ties those constraints to factories, Chicago, the EU, and California, arguing for small local models that stay inside edge hardware instead of sending data to the cloud."]
["Over The Edge interviews Omer El Gohri of ServiceNow about why a supermarket shopper can go from a 75% return chance to 25% and then to zero after repeated stock misses.", "He traces his start to a CPG production line, where analog machines were digitized with PLCs and CCTV and output reportedly doubled while rejects fell.", "The conversation keeps returning to practical retail ROI, including food-waste tracking, low-hanging automation, and store workflows that help staff instead of burden them.", "El Gohri says ServiceNow's edge approach links cameras, sensors, point of sale, and workflow automation while keeping non-essential video data local and using narrowly scoped Gen AI for specific operational checks."]
Paul Saville says retail robotics can need five- to ten-millisecond latency, which is why edge compute has to move close to the store.
Over The Edge's interview with Ed Henry centers on the current state of AI and how it will impact society, with Bill Peiffer pushing on model drift, retraining, and platform power.
Bill Pfeiffer interviews Dr.
Bill Pfeiffer interviews Bai Lu, Senior Technologist for Global Digital Cities at Dell, about how edge computing, CCTV analytics, and urban digital twins fit into city operations.
Bill Pfeiffer interviews Ina Ushakova, co-founder and CEO of AI Edge Labs, and she traces her path from IT in 2009 to entrepreneurship in 2012 and 2017.
["On Over the Edge, Alex Merced explains how Dremio's open data lake house keeps data in the lake, uses Nessie for cataloging, and avoids a second warehouse copy.", "Bill Pfeiffer interviews Merced, Dremio's senior tech evangelist and co-author of Apache Iceberg, The Definitive Guide, and Merced traces his path from GeoCities fan sites to software and data advocacy.", "Merced defines a data lake as a distributed hard drive and says lakehouses add consistency, isolation, durability, and the ability to analyze one shared copy of data.", "He then walks through Apache Parquet, Apache Iceberg, Tabular, and Polaris, arguing that the July announcements made Iceberg look like an established standard."]
An interview about using data and edge computing to address climate change, featuring Matt Yarger of DigitalMRV.
This episode explores how edge computing and Dell Technologies' solutions help a brewery optimize its brewing process through data monitoring and connectivity.
An interview about how Dell Technologies and National Geographic Explorer Mike LeBecky deploy edge technology in remote regions for humanitarian missions.
Interview with Rika Nakazawa about edge computing, sustainability, and the future of technology.