Spectro Cloud and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) have announced the launch of an integrated “Edge-in-a-box” solution.
The solution features the HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server and will use Spectro Cloud’s Palette Edge Kubernetes management platform.
The enterprise-ready Edge-in-a-box solutions for Kubernetes are purpose-built for Edge computing and will help organizations deploy, secure, and manage demanding applications for Edge locations.
The companies said the solution will solve problems in “far Edge” environments, such as large scale of endpoints, limited on-site IT skills, intermittent connectivity, and increased security risk.
“While Kubernetes is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, its complexity, shortage of related skills, and the need for better management that is optimized to specifically address today’s needs to support modern applications and AI at scale have given rise to the need for a purpose-built “Edge-native” platform,” said Dave Cope, Spectro Cloud’s chief revenue and marketing officer.
“With the distributed nature of far Edge environments, the unique challenges and requirements needed must span a tightly coordinated set of capabilities delivered by both hardware and software elements. Spectro Cloud is delivering an Edge-in-a-box appliance that makes deploying and managing these environments powerful and cost-effective.”
Phil Cutrone, HPE’s senior vice president and general manager of OEM, service provider, and telco, added: “HPE recognizes that no two customers are ever the same, and by giving Spectro Cloud the ability to deliver a massively distributed edge workload on our secure, easy-to-manage HPE ProLiant servers, they can offer customers the freedom to deploy applications anywhere, while meeting their unique workload and use case needs.”
Spectro Cloud was co-founded in 2019 by Tenry Fu, Gautam Joshi, and Saad Malik. The company provides solutions to enable companies to deploy and manage Kubernetes in production at scale. In November, the company secured $75 million in a Series C funding round.
The company is backed by Alter Venture Partners, Boldstart Ventures, Firebolt Ventures, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, NEC and Translink Orchestrating Future Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Stripes, T-Mobile Ventures, TSG, and WestWave Capital.
HPE launched its ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server earlier this year in September. At the time, the company said the server had been designed for diverse Edge locations. Some of the company’s ProLiant Gen11 servers are manufactured at a new ‘majority female’ facility in Saudi Arabia.
