June 19, 2017
Service providers have a critical role to enhance architecture at the edge. With widely distributed networks and increased network innovations in central offices and mobile telephone switching offices (MTSOs), leveraging advancements in NFV and SDN can better handle the dynamics of meeting the needs of reliability, resiliency and failover intelligence in edge models.
October 28, 2016
An established system integrator required operations-side hardware to implement an IIoT solution that converted data at the PC Gateway to pass upstream to the enterprise/cloud. With as many as 6 machines involved for a single process step, the system must compile and map the client’s IoT data from each machine to the application side, and ensure a secure network.
October 4, 2016
Insights from as the MINExpo 2016 show in Las Vegas, detailing the technology innovations to come in the global mining industry. It was clear that the coming advancements will spurn adoption of cloud services that enable the Connected Mine to aggregate data from a variety of operational technology systems, providing mine management with the flexibility and visuals that will bring about new economic models for the US mine industry upswing.
April 14, 2016
Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) was first conceived to bringing operational data up to IT management from the view of the plant floor up. At the automation side, it is best for edge devices, or IoT gateways, to handle some analytics tasks and send tagged data to a repository for internal teams to subscribe to.
November 19, 2015
The market is full of 1U choices for VARS and System Integrators designing UTM appliances. But an underlying dense architecture of I/O is required for future networks, beyond a simple web appliances. Advantech’s network platform provides the ideal base for design.
October 07, 2015
Setting defined metrics and their routine monitoring is part of a successful VDI pilot phase. Proper assessment of compute and storage needs is also outlined.
August 27, 2015
As real-time analytics requires data access across scaled infrastructure, the amount of memory lookups increase exponentially. The solution is a software layer to access RAM and storage volume as a common virtual resource.
June 02, 2015
The enabler of hyper-convergence is virtualization and the management layer. This approach is decoupled from the building block approach that offers hardware resource flexibility.
April 08, 2015
Businesses can control and reduce their overall operating costs with a flat-fee billing model for Cloud services, while benefiting from their established infrastructure investment and local storage access.
