Edgeworx launched out of stealth today, announcing funding from
Samsung NEXT, Sequoia Seed and CloudScale Capital Partners. The company aims to
disrupt the edge computing market, announcing the availability of its
open-source ioFog platform. Edgeworx ioFog allows users to "bring their own
edge" by enabling any device or hardware to become a secure software
platform.
Targeting developers, ioFog makes it simple to deploy and manage
any application or containerized microservices at the edge. As security is a
big concern for customers in production, Edgeworx is the first to design
security for both hardware and software at the edge rather than repurposing
security models originally designed for the cloud.
"Edgeworx is solving the most critical challenges faced when
attempting to deploy secure applications at the edge without re-inventing
existing cloud apps," said Dr. Hossein Eslambolshi, technical advisor to
Facebook and an Edgeworx investor with CloudScale. "Edgeworx is doing for the
edge what Android did for mobile phones," added the former CTO and CIO of
AT&T.
"At Samsung NEXT, we believe the trend towards
decentralization will have a profound effect on vertical markets by
accelerating adoption of edge computing and IoT technology in industries,"
said Raymond Liao, a managing director of Samsung NEXT Ventures.
"Edgeworx's edge computing platform builds on this belief, enabling the
ioFog open source developers to transform their own vertical markets. With this
comes great potential for those industries to be at the forefront of the next
computing paradigm."
In development and usage for nearly four years, ioFog has been
released under the banner of the Eclipse Foundation. Leveraging ioFog's
container-based architecture, the vibrant ioFog developer community contributed
hundreds of microservices to the ioFog marketplace, which have been deployed
more than 40,000 times.
Available today, it focuses on three foundational technologies for
developers:
- Intelligent:Edgeworx
ioFog Engine turns any compute hardware into an intelligent edge device capable
of remotely deploying and managing microservices. Edgeworx monitors the health
and resources, so users can operate their edge effectively at scale.
- Connected:Edge-To-Edge
Mesh Network creates a private connection between all of a user's edge devices.
No trips to the cloud required and no more VPNs and NAT layers to deal with, so
communication and data migration become simple.
- Secure:Pure
Edge Security, designed from day zero for the edge,utilizes everything from
hardware root of trust to microservice verification to create a peer-to-peer
secure edge. Now every device secures the edge network. Instead of increasing
the attack surface, users get a dramatically increased defense surface. The more
devices at the edge, the more secure it becomes.
"A long time in the making, we are pleased to announce the
availability of our ioFog platform. With the Eclipse brand behind us and its
five-million developer community, we are now able to provide a horizontal
application platform that works in any industry, for any solution, on any
device, while developers build the vertical applications," said Kilton Hopkins,
co-founder and CEO of Edgeworx. "ioFog makes it so simple that any developer
can write and deploy microservices for the edge in an afternoon."
"We believe that our
open-source strategy is a differentiator at the edge. We break down the
traditional IT/OT vertical silos, empowering a wave of domain experts to build
and deploy novel edge applications. We are already seeing wide-scale traction
with both customers and OEM partners in industries such as telecommunications,
smart home, manufacturing, autonomous vehicles and oil and gas," said Farah
Papaioannou, co-founder and president of Edgeworx.