Edjx offers integrated edge server, power supply for “sustainable” edge deployments
EDJX has announced its launch of EdjBlock, a pre-integrated edge computing infrastructure enabling rapid deployment and monetization of distributed CDN and edge computing services for EDJX customers and partners on the EDJX platform.
EdjBlock comes to market through partnerships EDJX has established with ITRenew and Virtual Power Systems (VPS). ITRenew is equipping the platform with Sesame by ITRenew rack-scale compute and storage solutions, optimized for edge computing and ready to plug-and-play. Sesame solutions utilize technology from leading hyperscalers for maximum efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability. EdjBlock systems also include Software Defined Power control from VPS to optimize uptime and efficiency.
“To process data at the edge, the future of IoT is going to require more compute infrastructure than the industry has ever conceived, which will have a profound impact on the planet in the form of industrial manufacturing and e-waste,” explains John Cowan, EDJX founder and CEO. “EDJX is building a sustainable edge; a software-enabled planet-scale platform that combines the EDJX serverless platform with integrated rack-scale server solutions by ITRenew, equipped with VPS Ice Switches, enabling software defined power that will run in any data center.”
“The real value of a server does not evaporate with accounting depreciation. We have packed industry leading technology and capabilities into EdjBlock to deliver maximum performance at a price point that is unmatched,” adds James Thomason, EDJX co-founder and CTO.
According to the announcement, EdjBlock enables EDJX customers and partners to quickly deploy and provision edge points-of-presence and immediately begin monetizing CDN and edge computing services. The EdjBlock offering comes at a moment when the growth of data and the need to build real-time capabilities is driving unprecedented demand for computing capacity at the edge. Scaling efficiently is more important than ever, as is a sustainable approach. ITRenew’s circular economic model brings compute & storage solutions to the platform that reduce TCO, e-waste and CO2 impact, and require no assembly, guesswork, or engineering to deploy.
“Sustainable data center models, implemented in the right way, can reduce complexity, accelerate growth and deliver significantly better edge computing economics,” says Ali Fenn, President, ITRenew. “Cost-efficient and flexible solutions, purpose-built to maximize performance, compute density, and energy efficiency are exactly what customers need to accelerate and scale their new applications. Together with EDJX, we have the opportunity and the imperative to make turn-key edge infrastructure solutions broadly available.”
“The most sustainable data center is one that is never built,” notes Dean Nelson, CEO, VPS. “We all want every click to improve the future. The Intelligent Control of Energy (ICE), enabled through the VPS ICE Switch in the EdjBlock, unlocks stranded power capacity in data centers. By partnering with EDJX and ITRenew we are not only realigning the IT supply chain toward inherent environmental sustainability, we are enabling existing data centers to increase the utilization of the power they have already built.”
EdjBlock customers will realize significant hardware TCO advantages averaging 50% or more over conventional infrastructure and improve time-to-production for IoT applications. The EDJX software platform federates each EdjBlock in to private or public edge computing on P2P basis, featuring Serverless, CDN, DNS, and Object Storage capabilities. Each EdjBlock ships with a pre-integrated rack of servers and VPS Ice switches (rack model only). Customers plug them in and, when connected to a network, form a peer-to-peer mesh to deliver cloud-like services to developers and users.
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edge PaaS | EDJX | ITRenew | power management | server | sustainability | Virtual Power Systems
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