Edge computing allows a business to place infrastructure in remote locations that lack IT staff to deliver new applications that take advantage of locally generated data to improve operations, services, experiences and products. 

The challenge: Building and managing distributed compute infrastructure for IoT and HPC applications 

A common use case for edge computing arises from Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In these situations, sensors produce large amounts of data at remote locations that need to be processed in real time and acted on. Typically, these applications can't tolerate the network latency involved in sending data back to the cloud or other location for processing.

Another use case for edge computing occurs in applications for High Performance Computing (HPC), where computing clusters have resources located in distributed geographical regions near data sources that may span a city, a country or the globe.

In both cases, organizations find themselves needing to deploy, manage and monitor these distributed computing resources efficiently and effectively, often without the benefit of local IT staff. The solution is to deploy and centrally-manage these resources as a single clustered infrastructure.

The Bright Solution for Edge Computing 

Bright Edge is a feature of Bright Cluster Manager that allows organizations to deploy and centrally manage computing resources in distributed locations as a single clustered infrastructure, from a single interface. The distributed computing nodes deployed and managed by Bright Cluster Manager can be imaged to support any workload, re-imaged on the fly to support different workloads when desired, and are monitored to ensure that you always know precisely what’s going on. And when you need to add more computing capacity at any location, bring additional nodes online is quick and easy.

Edge Security

Bright Cluster Manager ensures security for the entire distributed cluster using a combination of security technologies including SSL authentication, and by encrypting the management and provisioning data traffic. Additional security can be implemented using virtual private networks (VPNs).

Easy to Deploy and Cost Effective 

Bright Edge provides the means to deploy edge servers securely over a network, or from local media. No onsite personnel are needed for network deployment, and for local media deployments, no special expertise is required. What's more, Bright Cluster Manager's deployment method allows for smooth installations everywhere, even to sites that are only reachable over low bandwidth connections.

Benefits of Bright Cluster Manager with Bright Edge

• Simple deployment procedure does not require highly-skilled local IT staff
• Reduces the cost of managing distributed edge nodes and clusters
• Promotes standardization across locations
• Works in low bandwidth locations
• Edge nodes can be imaged for containerized and traditional workloads
• Secure by design