Sunlight.io announced the availability of Sunlight NexVisor HCI Stack and
Infrastructure Manager (SIM) version 4.0. The new release has been designed to
make management of large, distributed edge deployments simpler and ensure data
is protected across the whole estate.
Sunlight's hyperconverged stack is the world's fastest and
thinnest hyperconverged infrastructure stack - enabling applications to be
deployed on both x86 and Arm - all the way from tiny edge servers up to data
center servers. The subscription-based edge HCI platform, centralised
management tools, and application marketplace make it easy to deliver a real
‘as a service' model for edge deployments across 1000s of locations.
The key new features in this release include:
- Manage your edge
deployment from any cloud - Sunlight's centralised management dashboard - The
Sunlight Infrastructure Manager (SIM) allows enterprises to manage 1000s
of NexVisor edge clusters in geographically distributed locations from a
single pane of glass. SIM is now available not only from the AWS
marketplace, but can now be installed on-premises, and is also available
in beta running in Equinix, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and
Oracle Cloud. This flexibility gives enterprises more choice when it comes
to designing their Edge Management infrastructure.
- Automatically backup
edge clusters to S3 or any NFS target - Sunlight gives enterprises the ability to back up
their edge clusters to S3 storage on an automated schedule. This new
release introduces Sunlight's Open Backup Provider Interface, which
enables backup to an NFS target, giving more choice and flexibility.
- Pluggable network driver
support -
Sunlight has added pluggable driver support for a wide variety of network
devices. This includes support for new fast networking options from
Mellanox and Intel, as well as for certain highly integrated edge hardware
devices.
"The edge is exploding - driven by new
applications that both generate and consume vast amounts of data. But the new
challenge at the Edge is that, while in the data center everyone is
consolidated around Hyperconverged Infrastructure - or HCI - that same
infrastructure doesn't work on the small devices that run in retail stores,
factory floors or oil rigs. Neither do the management tools which were designed
for big data centers, not thousands of small edge locations. This is what
Sunlight has cracked, and this new release makes manageability of large scale
edge deployments even simpler.", said Athanasios Zografos, VP of Engineering,
Sunlight.