Scale Computing adds cloud fleet management software to edge platform
Scale Computing announced the addition of Fleet Manager, a cloud-hosted monitoring and management tool for edge computing and information technology (IT) infrastructure at scale, to its edge computing platform.
Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing, says that while cloud computing accelerated the digitization of business with greater availability and scalability without the burden of managing infrastructure, it also led to a problem where not all applications are meant to run on the cloud due to latency and bandwidth limitations. That in turn may necessitate moving the applications closer to end users for more reliable performance.
“These challenges reveal the need for a new class of computing,” he says. “The promise of edge computing is to bring applications closer to the people and things interacting with them without sacrificing cloud-like ease of use, scalability, and high availability.”
To remedy this problem, Fleet Manager is said to grant a wide view of an enterprise’s fleet that can check connectivity and cluster health through a cloud-based console. As a result, Scale Computing says Fleet Manager allows IT managers to identify areas of concern at a scale of one to over 50,000 clusters.
Scale Computing also unveiled updates to its HyperCore to orchestrate and automate the deployment of applications across customers’ distributed edge computing fleet to ensure consistency in change control and across sites. It consists of a REST-API to boost the speed and ease of deploying virtual machines and containers at scale using open-source technology cloud-init.
The company also listed a litany of updates to its Platform.
Most recently, Scale Computing signed a memorandum of understanding with Intel to deliver their enterprise edge computing platform for Intel distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and end users.
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application management | edge orchestration | edge platform | Intel | Scale Computing
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