Dell is a good example of a big player from the IT industry which sees edge computing and the Internet of Things as ways to grab a bigger share of the telecoms market. It targets variants on its server and storage products at the edge; it was a founder of the Open Edge Computing initiative. When the company set up a heavily edge-focused IoT division three years ago, it looked set to work directly with its familiar enterprise customers to bring a high-grade connected edge solution to their premises. But since then, it has been warming to the idea of partnering with operators in order to spread its net wider and provide a greater range of connectivity options. Last May,…