Power Digital Transformation at the Edge

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Stratus® ztC Edge (1)
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Zero-Touch Edge Computing for up to 10,000 I/Os in Pharma Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, Specialty Chemicals, Oil & Gas, and other industrial verticals

Across industries, business, operations and IT leaders want to harness Industry 4.0 opportunities to gain new insight, achieve operational excellence, and operate more efficiently and safely. Edge Computing solves the inherent challenges of bandwidth, latency, and security at edge locations to enable IIoT devices and data acquisition.

ztC Edge provides teams with a zero-touch, secure, and highly-automated Edge Computing platform, purpose built for edge environments. Its self-protecting and self-monitoring features drastically reduce unplanned downtime and ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications.

Across industries, business, operations and IT leaders want to harness Industry 4.0 opportunities to gain new insight, achieve operational excellence, and operate more efficiently and safely. Edge Computing solves the inherent challenges of bandwidth, latency, and security at edge locations to enable IIoT devices and data acquisition.

ztC Edge provides teams with a zero-touch, secure, and highly-automated Edge Computing platform, purpose built for edge environments. Its self-protecting and self-monitoring features drastically reduce unplanned downtime and ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications.

Key Benefits

  • Greater efficiency: With built-in virtualization supporting Windows and Linux guest operating systems, industrial interoperability, and field serviceability, ztC Edge simplifies and shortens the time it takes to deploy, manage, and maintain your critical edge applications, saving you time and effort.
  • More flexibility: ztC Edge’s rugged, compact, industrial form factor performs equally well in the control room, control panel, shop floor, or inside machines, giving customers more choice. Automated capabilities make it suitable for unmanned stations, or remote, decentralized locations with limited IT resources.
  • Simplified security: With restricted USB ports, secure communication protocols, secure and trusted boot, role-based access controls, and easy-to-configure host-based firewall, you do not need to be a security expert to secure your ztC Edge platform.
  • Less downtime: ztC Edge’s self-monitoring and self-protecting features help reduce unplanned downtime. And because its operating environment can be updated while it is still running (without requiring a system reboot), customers also experience less planned downtime
  • Simplified management: RESTful API available in the ztC Edge offers interoperability with your preferred system management tools.

Enable High Availability or Fault Tolerance with Dual Node Deployment

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Stratus ztC Edge Features

Stratus ztC Edge is a secure, rugged, highly automated computing platform that enables the rapid and efficient delivery of reliable business-critical applications in remote, understaffed locations at the edge of corporate networks. Features like its built-in virtualization, simplified security, industrial interoperability, OT manageability, rugged form factor, automated protection, field serviceability, and complementary services help companies increase productivity, while minimizing risk of downtime.

Built-in virtualization

ztC Edge ships with its own operating environment called Stratus Redundant Linux. It contains a virtualization host that supports both Windows and Linux guest operating systems, and OVF files and OVA images, including third-party templates. An intuitive management console makes it easy for local and remote staff to set up, configure, import, and manage their virtual machines.

Simplified security

ztC Edge is designed to help OT or IT more easily secure their Edge Computing environment. A host-based firewall, restricted USB ports, role-based access controls with Active Directory integration, secure communications protocols, and secure and trusted boot all work together to minimize your security exposure.

OT and IT manageability

ztC Edge ships with its own management tool, the ztC Edge Console, that simplifies system and software management. With it, administrators can remotely access their systems, set thresholds and alerts, check for updates, backup and restore system settings and preferences, and easily manage their VMs. In addition, administrators can leverage ztC Edge’s RESTful API calls to enable interoperability with third-party systems management tools, allowing local or remote monitoring and management on a single pane of glass.

Rugged redundant nodes

Designed for the harsh conditions typically found in industrial locations, ztC Edge nodes are UL Class I Div 2 certified and IP40 rated for deployment anywhere from the control room or control panel to machines on the shop floor, closer to your devices that are generating data. More durable than standard servers or workstations, ztC Edge offers customers greater reliability and deployment flexibility.

Industrial interoperability

ztC Edge is designed to help OT or IT more easily secure their Edge Computing environment. A host-based firewall, restricted USB ports, role-based access controls with Active Directory integration, secure communications protocols, and secure and trusted boot all work together to minimize your security exposure.

Field serviceability

When deployed as a redundant pair, ztC Edge platforms are hot-swappable and auto-synchronizing, making field repairs quick and easy. Maintenance or repairs to individual computers can be completed while the node is running and without a system reboot, ensuring service continuity. This allows OT or IT staff to plan and complete a system repair when it is convenient.

Automated protection

When deployed as a redundant pair (dual deployment), ztC Edge provides instant protection for your workloads. Data is automatically replicated across platforms. VMs running on one platform will automatically restart (in High Availability mode) or resume (in Fault Tolerant mode) on the other machine in the event of a failure. If ztC Edge detects a networking or disk failure on one computer, it automatically re-routes traffic or uses data on the other computer, with no operator intervention. Platforms can even be deployed across physical distances for automated local site recovery.

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