Rugged Automated Zero-Touch Edge Computing Platform
Designed for both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT), ztC Edge is a zero-touch, secure, highly automated edge computing solution built for edge environments—easy to deploy and secure, easy to manage locally and remotely, and easy to maintain and service.
ztC Edge is a secure, rugged, highly automated computing platform that helps understaffed organizations improve productivity, increase operational efficiency, and reduce downtime risk at the remote edge locations of their corporate networks.
Self-monitoring, self-protecting, and self-synchronizing, ztC Edge saves companies time and money—by drastically reducing unplanned downtime and ensuring continuous availability of business-critical applications.
With its built-in virtualization, automated protection, industrial interoperability, OT manageability, and field serviceability, ztC Edge enables the quick, easy delivery of both highly available and fault tolerant virtualized edge applications.
Teams across manufacturing, oil & gas, critical infrastructure, retail, and life sciences are transforming how they acquire and manage data at the operational edge.
Key Benefits for Operations Teams
Built for the operational edge, ztC Edge is easily deployed into existing architectures without the need for IT resources.
Easy to install, deploy, and manage across applications and existing infrastructure as well as scale to new areas of operation.
Mitigates operational, financial, and reputational risk by ensuring “always on” availability and securing data from cyber threats or data loss.
Reliable, rugged, proven zero-touch technology to run in any environment without human monitoring, maintenance, repairs, or support.
Services for ztC Edge
Stratus Support provides a range of the essential set of “wrap around” support services—from basic support to proactive uptime monitoring—that ensure the health of Stratus platforms and free customers’ resources for other value-add activity.
To fulfill our promise of continuous availability, we’ve built our Edge Computing platforms to be serviced and maintained while in operation, without disruption or downtime.
ztC Edge Key Features
These key features help companies increase productivity and operator efficiency, reduce technical staff dependence, and minimize risk of downtime.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ztC Edge supports common OT and IT protocols, making integration into existing industrial automation environments easier. SNMP requests and traps can be used to configure notifications and alarms.
Customers can use OPC UA attributes, or a RESTful API, to present relevant system data within most third-party systems management tools and dashboards.
ztC Edge platforms are hot-swappable and auto-synchronizing when deployed as a redundant pair, 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.
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