Expedient Edge End-to-End Platform Combining Built-for-Purpose Hardware with Visibility and Monitoring

Expedient announced an end-to-end platform combining built-for-purpose hardware with visibility and monitoring, designed to integrate remote environments with an organization’s central cloud operations.

Expedient Edge brings together close to a 12s consumption-based managed services along with remote management. Services include VMs, containers, backup, licensing, security, patching and DR, all in a package built to be set up and deployed by non-IT remote staff.

The company’s Edge is built in partnerships with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, VMware, Inc. and other 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, VP and GM, HPC solutions and hardware platform engineering, HPC and AI, 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 is poised to impactfully help organizations across size and sector, achieve their business outcomes.

Edge delivers following capabilities:

• Highly available – The platform is deployed with a minimum of 3 nodes for N+1 redundancy, ensuring your workloads will be available when needed.
• Built for anywhere – Smaller than a carry-on suitcase, it is built to drop into clean computer rooms, not-so-clean wiring closets, and anything in between.
• Fully managed – The firm handles day-to-day maintenance, patching, and break-fix repair of the infrastructure.
• Simplicity – 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 DR, multi-cloud firewall and operations CTRL are all available on the Edge platform.
• Consolidated networking – With integrated switching, your network requirements are 2 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, the company’s 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, cited ⁽¹⁾ 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 Bryan Smith, CEO, Expedient. “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 10^th 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, 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, Connection, Inc. “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 through the company and a national network of value-add solution providers. Starting at $2,000/site per month, Edge is poised to change the market where hyperscale cloud vendors options are priced 10x more.

⁽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

Resource:
Blog: Expedient Edge: Workloads at the Edge of Anywhere