Company launches comprehensive edge platform
to integrate operational and information technology into a cloud
operating model with an entry-point appealing to a broad array of
companies across various industry sectors and sizes.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 16,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Expedient today announced a
comprehensive end-to-end platform combining built-for-purpose
hardware with unprecedented visibility and monitoring, designed to
integrate remote environments with an organization's central cloud
operations. Expedient Edge brings together close to a dozen
consumption-based managed services along with remote management.
Services include virtual machines, containers, backup, licensing,
security, patching and disaster recovery, all in a package built to
be set up and deployed by non-IT remote staff.
Expedient Edge is poised to impactfully
help organizations across size and sector, achieve their business
outcomes.
Expedient Edge is built in partnerships with Hewlett Packard
Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), VMware (NYSE: VMW) and other leading IT
innovators. "Data is increasingly being processed and created at
the edge, and by collaborating with industry leaders like
Expedient, we are helping organizations efficiently and securely
manage data in any environment," said Gerald Kleyn, vice president and general
manager, HPC Solutions & Hardware Platform Engineering, HPC
& AI at HPE. "By delivering the HPE Edgeline EL8000 Converged
Edge System in Expedient Edge, Expedient's customers gain a rugged
and compact system designed to power a range of workloads in harsh
edge environments."
Expedient Edge delivers the following
capabilities:
- Highly available – The platform is deployed with a
minimum of three nodes for N+1 redundancy, ensuring your workloads
will be available when needed.
- Built for anywhere – Smaller than a carry-on suitcase,
Expedient Edge is built to drop into clean computer rooms,
not-so-clean wiring closets, and anything in between.
- Fully managed – Expedient handles day-to-day
maintenance, patching, and break-fix repair of the
infrastructure.
- Simplicity – Expedient Edge is simple enough for
non-IT staff in remote locations to install with minimal
instruction. Smart-hands install is also available to
perform deployments. Simply plug in power and internet cable – and
remote site is online.
- Single management plane – Manage your sites from one
single location to make deploying and maintaining your workloads a
breeze.
- Extend your cloud – Expedient services like Multi-Cloud File Storage, Cloud Data Protection,
Push Button Disaster Recovery, Multi-Cloud Firewall and Operations
CTRL are all available on the Expedient Edge platform.
- Consolidated networking – With integrated
switching, your only network requirements are two switch ports and
internet connectivity.
- Integrated storage – Shared storage is integrated
with the platform, so your workloads are available even in the
event of a host failure.
- Multi-Cloud Enabled – As an integral part of the
Expedient CTRL family of Universal Multi-Cloud Services, Expedient
Edge can integrate with infrastructure across the cloud operating
model including On-Prem, Expedient Enterprise Cloud, and Hyperscale
Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
- Powerful – Expedient Edge can be scaled for small
deployments for a handful of workloads to powering 100+
servers
Organizations are increasingly looking at edge as a priority
for their long-term IT and business strategy. In fact, a recent
analyst note published by 451 Research summarizing survey results,
cited1 that "almost all respondents (89%) agree
with the notion that their digital transformation objectives depend
on building efficient and performant edge computing
architecture."
"Many organizations that are intrigued by a cloud model at
the 'edge' turn to hyperscale cloud providers and are oftentimes
shocked at the barriers to entry," said Expedient CEO Bryan Smith. Optimizing the "edge" is an
essential element of many organizations' digital transformation
initiatives. "But solutions available till now have been too
expensive, too complex, or too limited in functionality. With
Expedient Edge, we flip the script. At less than a 10th
of the entry price of comparable offerings, yet packing the
essential cloud service organizations seek, Expedient Edge is
poised to reshape the edge, unify OT (Operational Technology) and
IT (Information Technology), and help organizations achieve their
business outcomes."
Expedient Edge will come to market via direct and indirect
channels, the latter offering proven industry expertise to maximize
value and impact. "Connection's Manufacturing Practice helps
thousands of manufacturing clients integrate, automate, and
transform manufacturing processes at the edge every day," said
Ryan Spurr, Manufacturing Strategy
Director, at Connection. "We're excited to partner with Expedient
on their newly released Expedient Edge platform. Through an
affordable and simple-to-deploy business model, we'll deliver
valuable business outcomes with high performance, low latency,
high-resiliency applications, and advanced capabilities. Expedient
Edge makes operational business initiatives easy to deploy, scale,
and deliver quick time-to-value, a must for modern manufacturers
looking to grow, differentiate, and reduce costs."
Expedient Edge is available immediately through Expedient and
a national network of value-add solution providers. For more
information, visit www.expedient.com/services/edge. Starting at
$2,000 per site per month, Expedient
Edge is poised to disrupt the market where hyperscale cloud vendors
options are priced 10X more.
About Expedient
Expedient is a full stack cloud service provider, helping
companies transform their IT operations through award-winning
multi-cloud solutions and managed infrastructure services including
enterprise cloud, disaster recovery, virtual desktop
infrastructure, data center colocation, edge computing, security
and compliance, and more. The company's Cloud Different™️ approach
provides an on-ramp to the cloud, supporting the optimization and
delivery of all applications (both core essential and cloud
native). Named VMware's Americas Cloud Partner of the Year and
acknowledged in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a
Service, Expedient eases a customer's transition to the cloud by
providing curated and bundled best of breed solutions backed by
"white glove" services and support. Expedient data centers are
compliant with a variety of regulatory mandates, including the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as well
as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
service.
1 Edge initiatives are driving new spending and
new vendor relationships – Highlights from VotE: Edge
Infrastructure & Services by Tiny
Haynes, Brian Partridge, 451
Research, December 13, 2022
For more information, press only:
Tim Kounadis, SVP Marketing,
Expedient
508.962.5100
tim.kounadis@expedient.com
www.expedient.com
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