Zededa Drives Edge Application Management at Scale
Michael Maxey, Manny Calero and Jason Grimm from Zededa shared their vision for the edge today at Edge Field Day 3. Zededa was founded in 2016 with a mission to deliver a cloudlike experience for the edge and most notably began delivering Edge Application Services last year.
Their investors have guided their initial use cases, and with Chevron and Porsche on board, they’ve targeted oil and gas implementation and automotive as well as agriculture, renewable energy, manufacturing and more.
Unpacking the solution, Zededa delivers an open-source operating system based on Linux, a cloud control for edge app management, and a global marketplace for partner applications. They also have a broad ecosystem of supported infrastructure they support from the industry from the usual suspects. Expounding further, their cloud gives central management of all apps at the edge with built-in security, policy-based management, and pull updates for edge to address the unique environmental challenges of managing this fleet of devices.
The LF Edge operating system supports workloads across virtual machines, containers, K8s clusters, VNFs, CNFs, and custom runtimes, giving incredible flexibility to organizations. It is uniquely designed for the edge, providing unique security control given the challenges of maintaining data protection with remote devices. It’s an API-only system - meaning there is no log-in at the edge, which seems like the right choice given relative technical skillsets in edge environments.
The configuration has flexibility for Linux distributions as well as embedded hypervisors and supports partitions to allow for staging of workloads prior to activation. This also means that configurations can be rolled back to ensure reliability and continued uptime.
Zededa has invested in unique edge control in the automotive arena, and Manny walked us through details on a massive deployment they’ve driven with the second largest automotive manufacturer on the planet.
The challenge within automotive? We’ve covered the electrification of automobiles on the TechArena through Robert Bielby’s series, and there are many targets for “data center on wheels” deployment across system control, infotainment, autonomous control and more. Zededa has focused on system control aspects of the automobile to drive secure transfer of data for service activation at the dealership. They’ve delivered a platform that offers the scale required to support millions of vehicles across 70,000 dealerships with an open-source foundation enabling the customer to avoid lock-in to one specific application.
Zededa delivers this configuration with support for all major platforms across x86, ARM and RISC-V. With this configuration, you can expect dealers to improve customer support while increasing high-margin service revenue and grow likelihood for repeat sales in the process.
Zededa also walked through a rail freight use case, and Jason walked us through the details in this space. Their solution has achieved 12 fortune 500 deployments with tens of thousands of nodes in production with zero trust oversight and a host of connectivity options for delivering the solution. The solution was deployed as a bungalow connected via cellular and satellite connected to edge cameras capturing images of train movement. This resilient solution protects against connectivity failures and provides central control via the Zededa cloud controller.
So what’s the TechArena take? What marked Zededa’s session was the scale of deployments they’ve been able to achieve, the real world use cases that they described, and the broad scale of options customers have at every layer of the stack. I’m impressed with their team’s deep knowledge of customer challenges and ability to transform this knowledge into deployed solutions, solving real world business challenges. If companies are evaluating edge orchestration and application management alternatives, Zededa should be on the short list.
Michael Maxey, Manny Calero and Jason Grimm from Zededa shared their vision for the edge today at Edge Field Day 3. Zededa was founded in 2016 with a mission to deliver a cloudlike experience for the edge and most notably began delivering Edge Application Services last year.
Their investors have guided their initial use cases, and with Chevron and Porsche on board, they’ve targeted oil and gas implementation and automotive as well as agriculture, renewable energy, manufacturing and more.
Unpacking the solution, Zededa delivers an open-source operating system based on Linux, a cloud control for edge app management, and a global marketplace for partner applications. They also have a broad ecosystem of supported infrastructure they support from the industry from the usual suspects. Expounding further, their cloud gives central management of all apps at the edge with built-in security, policy-based management, and pull updates for edge to address the unique environmental challenges of managing this fleet of devices.
The LF Edge operating system supports workloads across virtual machines, containers, K8s clusters, VNFs, CNFs, and custom runtimes, giving incredible flexibility to organizations. It is uniquely designed for the edge, providing unique security control given the challenges of maintaining data protection with remote devices. It’s an API-only system - meaning there is no log-in at the edge, which seems like the right choice given relative technical skillsets in edge environments.
The configuration has flexibility for Linux distributions as well as embedded hypervisors and supports partitions to allow for staging of workloads prior to activation. This also means that configurations can be rolled back to ensure reliability and continued uptime.
Zededa has invested in unique edge control in the automotive arena, and Manny walked us through details on a massive deployment they’ve driven with the second largest automotive manufacturer on the planet.
The challenge within automotive? We’ve covered the electrification of automobiles on the TechArena through Robert Bielby’s series, and there are many targets for “data center on wheels” deployment across system control, infotainment, autonomous control and more. Zededa has focused on system control aspects of the automobile to drive secure transfer of data for service activation at the dealership. They’ve delivered a platform that offers the scale required to support millions of vehicles across 70,000 dealerships with an open-source foundation enabling the customer to avoid lock-in to one specific application.
Zededa delivers this configuration with support for all major platforms across x86, ARM and RISC-V. With this configuration, you can expect dealers to improve customer support while increasing high-margin service revenue and grow likelihood for repeat sales in the process.
Zededa also walked through a rail freight use case, and Jason walked us through the details in this space. Their solution has achieved 12 fortune 500 deployments with tens of thousands of nodes in production with zero trust oversight and a host of connectivity options for delivering the solution. The solution was deployed as a bungalow connected via cellular and satellite connected to edge cameras capturing images of train movement. This resilient solution protects against connectivity failures and provides central control via the Zededa cloud controller.
So what’s the TechArena take? What marked Zededa’s session was the scale of deployments they’ve been able to achieve, the real world use cases that they described, and the broad scale of options customers have at every layer of the stack. I’m impressed with their team’s deep knowledge of customer challenges and ability to transform this knowledge into deployed solutions, solving real world business challenges. If companies are evaluating edge orchestration and application management alternatives, Zededa should be on the short list.
