Sunlight.io launched its Sunlight
Infrastructure Manager (SIM) and Marketplace to make it simple to deploy
and manage infrastructure and applications in highly distributed Edge
environments as well as in the Cloud - enabling true Edge ‘Software as a
Service' models. The SIM joins Sunlight's NexVisor HCI to provide a
complete software-defined Edge computing stack at a fifth of the cost of
trying to deploy the leading data center hyperconverged solution at the
Edge.
COVID-19
has accelerated digital transformation and specifically Edge computing
projects for many industries. One of the biggest challenges in this ‘new
world' is automating deployment of applications and their supporting
infrastructure. CIOs are no longer managing 2-3 data center or cloud
locations but hundreds or thousands of Edge locations with a small
amount of compute power at each. To further add to the complexity, many
of the key Edge use cases, such as quick service retail chains, don't
have the technical skillsets at each site to configure hardware or
deploy applications.
The Sunlight Infrastructure Manager (SIM) and Marketplace have been designed to solve this exact problem through automation.
The SIM is a centralised dashboard and API providing a ‘single pane of glass'
onto your entire Edge-to-cloud infrastructure. Enterprises and Managed
Service Providers (MSPs) can securely deploy and manage Sunlight
clusters across multiple distributed Edge locations, the cloud, and the
data center from a single place. Sites can even continue to operate in a
disconnected mode when subject to intermittent network connections.
Other SIM features include a disaster recovery portal to migrate
workloads from one cluster to another, role-based access control, and
the central storage of workload backups.
The
Sunlight Marketplace allows Enterprises and MSPs to automate the
deployment of applications across Edge locations with a single click.
The Marketplace contains ‘recipes' for deploying many common
applications out-of-the-box, and other applications can be added using
an Ansible-based framework. Both virtual machine-based and cloud-native
applications are supported. This significantly cuts the time and cost of
deploying and updating applications across a large Edge infrastructure.
Sunlight
founder and CEO, Julian Chesterfield said, "Cloud has made it really
easy to deploy infrastructure and applications in just a few clicks.
However, until now, edge deployments have been horrendously complex. Our
new SIM combined with our ultra-thin Edge hyperconverged infrastructure
platform - NexVisor - and commodity Edge hardware, makes it possible to
deliver edge applications with the simplicity we're used to in the
cloud - making SaaS models possible at the edge."
"The Sunlight Infrastructure Manager and Marketplace allows for automated deployments of the Altos BrainSphereTM server
range to Data Centers and distributed Edge locations," said Jackie Lee,
President at Altos Computing, an Acer company. "Our partners and
customers are finding the management of these disparate locations, from
Edge to core to cloud, seamless and simple."
Sunlight
NexVisor and SIM are available as a bundle from $120 per month per Edge
node and can be deployed in a Highly Available mode on just two nodes.
Full pricing for the Sunlight NexVisor and SIM are available on the Sunlight website.