Schneider Electric and Cisco
unveil new HyperFlex Edge
Computing solution
Continued innovation for Edge
Computing applications
“Cisco and Schneider Electric have
been Alliance Partners for more than 15
years,” said Rob McKernan, Senior Vice
President, Secure Power Europe. “As
part of that collaboration, we continue
to innovate and build on the integration
capabilities between our companies.
This helps partners to deliver best-in-
class, pre-integrated systems, safe in the
knowledge that the solution will work
predictably, as planned from the minute
it is operational. At the edge, reliability
is essential and with interoperability
between EcoStruxure and Cisco
Intersight, partners can manage multiple
Edge sites on behalf of their customers,
while generating new service revenues.”
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EcoStruxure ready and fully compatible
with Schneider Electric’s award-
winning next-generation Data Center
Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
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software EcoStruxure IT, the next
evolution in the Cisco HyperFlex product
set meets the Edge Computing challenges
of connectivity, speed of deployment
and space constraints, with simplified
installation across remote and distributed
locations, including retail, manufacturing,
automotive and telco environments.
Edge Computing presents customers with
a number of new challenges including
greater numbers of distributed systems
deployed in environments not optimised
for IT, which are often unstaffed, placing
new physical and cybersecurity demands
on the solution. With live demonstrations
at Cisco Live, Barcelona, 2020, the
system showcased new physical and
cybersecurity features, including a
high-performance image recognition
application and the recent Device Security
Vulnerability Assessment now available in
EcoStruxure IT Expert.
With greater interoperability between the
IT and physical infrastructure, customers
can specify their system utilising
components from different vendors with
the reassurance it will work predictably as
planned from the moment it is deployed.
Schneider Electric’s 6U Wall Mount
is designed for Edge Computing
environments where space is at a
premium and reliability is a must. It allows
large, heavy Edge servers, networking
equipment and UPS to be safely mounted
on a wall. Consuming zero floor space, it
is 60% less intrusive than traditional wall
mount enclosures. Cisco certified shock
packaging also enables channel partners
and systems integrators to pre-install IT
for quick and standardised deployments,
with secure, ruggedised options, perfect
for light industrial environments. ◊
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chneider Electric, a leader of
Digital Transformation in energy
management and automation,
has unveiled with Cisco a new Edge
Computing solution, integrating Cisco’s
HyperFlex Edge, hyperconverged
infrastructure (HCI) within Schneider
Electric’s industry-first 6U Wall Mount
EcoStruxure Micro Data Center. The
solution brings resilient, secure and
localised computing capabilities closer
to where the data is created, processed
and stored. HyperFlex is a complete,
engineered HCI solution built on the Cisco
UCS platform, enabling customers to
extend the power and simplicity of HCI
from data centres to critical IT systems at
the edge of the network.
Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Micro
Data Center meets customer demands
for manufacturers, suppliers and systems
integrators to provide standardised,
pre-tested and pre-integrated IT systems
that reduce time to market and building
complexity for IT professionals.