THIS IS DRAFT AND NOT TO BE USED AT THIS TIME. This is in DEVELOPMENT.

What is _________ and why use it?

____ is an open source, plug and play architecture to enable you to 

_____

• Is between IoT devices or sensors, and Enterprise data storage and enterprise analytics or intelligence engines
• Collects data from “south side” devices/sensors
• Provides a small amount of intelligence or analytics (rule engines, CEP, limited machine learning) at the edge to provide early (edge) detection and warning capability
• Transforms and packages data for “north side” Enterprise systems and services
• Is a microservice-based architecture that enables third parties (partners, vendors, customers, and so forth) to provide, replace, or augment their own solutions within the stack

At this time, other companies' and groups' open source projects exist that are targeting the Internet of Things (IoT).  Why use ______ and what are the advantages?

• Flexibility.  ________ is polyglottic enabling Developers to develop components in any software language and not be limited to only one language, such as Java.
• We provide the SDK to provide scaffolding.
• Dell is a large, stable, experienced, reliable presence in the world, and in high tech industries

Architectural Tenets

• Hardware independent (Intel, Arm, ...)
• OS independent (Windows, Linux, *nix, ...)
• Flexible deployment models (virtualization, containerization, local, cloud, ...)
• Microservices everywhere for everything--independently developed, deployed, updated modules of the gateway software and reduce single points of failure
• Productivity over technology--select your language (polyglot), select your framework
• Best practices solutions, and supports the ecosystem (any microservice can be replaced by a better service or one that better supports a particular use case)