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IOTech, the edge software company, announced the general availability of Edge Manager v3, its end-to-end solution for managing edge systems with new features purpose-built to address challenges related to multi-tenancy, workflow automation, integrated tooling and application upgrades. IOTech Edge Manager provides a comprehensive, flexible, and open solution that simplifies and automates the management of edge systems at scale. IOTech has been working with several key partners on the development of Edge Manager v3, including market-leading companies in the Energy, Manufacturing, and Building Automation sectors.
Edge Manager intends to reduce the operational costs of maintaining large-scale edge environments throughout the system's lifetime by providing light touch provisioning and complete lifecycle management for edge nodes, their applications, and any connected operational technology (OT) devices. Edge Manager also supports the deployment and management of a range of different edge workloads, including containerized applications, native binary applications, and scripts.
These systems are managed from a centralized Edge Manager controller that can be hosted on-premise or in the cloud. Platform independence for both the managed nodes and the hosting environment on which the controller is deployed ensures flexibility and choice for Edge Manager users.
Edge Manager v3.0 offers several important new features to address the evolving needs of edge systems and edge management at scale, including:
Multi-tenancy, which enables users to add additional organizations to their Edge Manager instance. Organizations are accustomed to separating edge management activities and associated data for groups of users. Multi-tenancy is critical to companies offering edge management as a service across multiple projects, business units, or customers.
Workflow automation capabilities increase productivity by reducing the need for manual intervention. With this release, users can automate critical edge management tasks, such as running an application update at a specific time of day, by defining actions (operations to be executed) and rules (describing the conditions that trigger said action). These rules can be set based on timing or the specific labels associated with an edge node.
Application updates to help reduce the time and complexity of upgrading a system. With Edge Manager v3, an application can easily be updated to a newer version without removing the current version, including the removal of any data stored in one of its volumes. This update mechanism also allows users to easily roll back to previous versions of an application as needed.
Integrated tooling features allow IOTech's Edge Central UI to become a fully integrated part of Edge Manager's integrated toolchain. These UI enhancements provide users with the ability to manage and monitor Edge Central or EdgeX deployments and their connected OT devices/sensors from one centralized Edge Manager instance.
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