Edge computing made easy

With its pre-installed virtualisation platform and availability layer, support for common industrial communications protocols, and intuitive, user-friendly configuration and management tools, ztC Edge simplifies the process, and shortens the time it takes to get critical applications up and running, saving users time and effort.

Because it’s a hardened system with restricted USB ports, default secure communications settings, and easy-to-configure security features such as a host-based firewall, even those that aren’t security experts can quickly and easily secure their ztC Edge environment.

With automated data protection and application recovery, ztC Edge customers experience less unplanned downtime. Because the host environment can be updated while the system is still running (without requiring a system reboot), customers experience less planned downtime as well.

ztC Edge’s rugged form factor gives it the flexibility it to be deployed outside of traditional data rooms or data centres, such as on manufacturing plant floors. Its self-monitoring and self-protecting capabilities make it ideal for unmanned stations, or decentralised locations with limited resources. Support for both highly available and fault tolerant workloads lets customers match the level of availability to the criticality of their application.

ztC Edge ships with Stratus Redundant Linux, which combines a virtualisation host with broad guest OS support, and an availability platform with unique checkpointing capabilities. Easily import and launch your OVF appliances, including vSphere images. Instantly improve the reliability of your virtualised industrial control or IoT applications. Select fault tolerant or high availability mode. And do all this without relying on your IT staff.

ztC Edge’s compact, rugged design means that it can be used in a wide variety of locations and industrial settings, giving users greater flexibility. Its hot-swappable design makes it possible for plant operators and technicians, rather than specially trained IT admins, to repair ztC Edge when necessary. Choose from two models – the 100i and the 110i.

ztC Edge systems are inherently secure, with restricted USBs, default security settings and secure communications protocols. Easy-to-configure host-based firewall, active directory integration and trusted boot, further secure your ztC Edge environment. You don’t need to be a security expert to secure your ztC Edge.

A ztC Edge system is comprised of two nodes that automatically mirror all data in memory and all data written to disk, for greater protection. In the event of a node failure, the system automatically restarts any VMs running on that failed node to its other node, to ensure continuity of service – even nodes on another floor or building. And it does all this automatically, without any user intervention.

ztC Edge systems support common industrial protocols, making them easier to integrate into, and work with existing industrial automation environments. Use OPC UA attributes, or SNMP requests and traps, to monitor, visualise and notify systems and users. A REST API offers customers another way to retrieve relevant system health and performance information, and present them to third party systems management tools and dashboards.

Stratus’s cloud-based system health monitoring and management services ensures that applications on users’ ztC Edge systems are always running, with minimal user effort.