ZPE Systems launches smartphone-size cloud gateway for IoT, OT, & IoMD applications - businesswire.com

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZPE Systems announces the Mini SR, a smartphone-size, cloud-orchestrated gateway that solves the operational challenges of moving information and connectivity astatine the web edge.

Organizations indispensable lick evolving concern needs by deploying applications and devices astatine locations including subdivision offices, third-party manufacturing sites, powerplants, exigency effect locations, and urgent attraction facilities. Even with unreality SaaS-based applications, organizations inactive necessitate equipment, and they typically outsource to MSPs and MSSPs who tin negociate the SLA and operational challenges presented by this carnal stack. These providers request a elemental level to big 3rd enactment applications, alteration distant operation, and guarantee security. The Mini SR solves this problem.

Roughly the size of an iPhone, this cloud-managed, out-of-band gateway collapses aggregate boxes. The Mini SR delivers wired and wireless connectivity, hosts third-party information apps and captious tools, and provides centralized unreality orchestration. Its fanless, ruggedized plan tin beryllium tucked distant and extends absorption capabilities via carnal Gigabit Ethernet and USB interfaces, offering distant entree via ZPE Cloud™.

The Mini SR is perfect for MSPs/MSSPs and for pursuing usage cases:

1. Out-of-band borderline rack absorption with biology sensor support
2. SASE/SSE on-ramp for Netskope, Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access, and Zscaler connectors
3. Secure IoT/OT gateway with elemental unreality orchestration
4. Secure work-from-anywhere gateway (home, car, temp office)
5. Police/emergency effect (in-vehicle borderline compute router)
6. SCADA concern OT/IoT zero-trust, pico segmentation gateway
7. Medical and concern instrumentality cloaking to forestall detection and exploitation during hacker reconnaissance scans
8. SaaS applications requiring a container to big agents for vulnerability scanning, acquisition monitoring, and captious DDI (DHCP/DNS/IPAM) services

The Mini SR was designed aft collaborating with manufacture tech giants, who during the pandemic needed a unafraid resilience solution for their sprawling IoT and OT infrastructures. This compact gateway connects, controls, and isolates captious assets via out-of-band (OOB) management. This unafraid way uses the Mini SR’s Wi-Fi, LTE, oregon Ethernet connections to found a passageway oregon link to zero spot destinations, keeping absorption postulation abstracted & secure.

Joe Quenneville, CEO of information work supplier CyberGRC, states, “The Mini SR is cleanable for managing distant manufacturing equipment, SCADA systems, aesculapian imaging devices, and adjacent lipid & state instrumentality sensors. It lets my IT squad get wrong their distributed systems without having to physically beryllium connected site.”

Matt Robinson, CTO of Rahi, says, “The Mini SR makes beingness casual for MSPs and VARs managing distant subdivision offices oregon concern locations. It gives actionable observability into the situation for speedy troubleshooting and betterment without requiring an on-site resource. The Mini SR's out-of-band and hosted tools fto teams remotely rebuild full stacks of infrastructure, making businesslike usage of astute hands resources. We expect savings ranging from $600 to $4,000 connected each astute summons incident.”

Koroush Saraf, ZPE Systems’ VP of Marketing and Product Management, explains: “Anyone considering Raspberry Pi oregon Intel NUC needs the Mini SR instead. Many IT usage cases and SaaS services necessitate a carnal instrumentality connected premises to enactment arsenic the hosting level oregon unreality gateway, and this instrumentality needs to beryllium regularly updated with the latest patches. The full Nodegrid SR fleet, including the Mini SR, tin beryllium upgraded and orchestrated from ZPE Cloud conscionable similar iPhone users person updates from the App Store. The Mini SR connects to ZPE Cloud via out-of-band to support its OS and impermanent applications up to date.”

The Mini SR uses the Intel^® x86 CPU and is preloaded with Nodegrid OS™, which combines unafraid unreality out-of-band absorption and an unfastened level with the quality to tally your preferred VMs, Docker containers, and LXC applications. The instrumentality besides accommodates Nodegrid’s environmental sensors and feeds information to Nodegrid Data Lake™ for analytics. These integrations summation uptime by giving visibility into infrastructure heat, moisture, dust, instrumentality tampering, idiosyncratic experience, and hidden instrumentality log data. On apical of this the SR household incorporates encrypted disk and unafraid footwear to forestall tamper and proviso concatenation risks are detected and thwarted. Organizations tin present chopped downtime by 50% oregon more, predictably configure and standard sites successful hours, and support borderline users connected without interruption.

Visit our announcement webpage for further details astir Mini SR.

About ZPE Systems

ZPE Systems’ Nodegrid frees enterprises from today’s networking challenges.

Nodegrid’s Intel-based serial consoles & modular services routers service arsenic foundational automation infrastructure for information center, colocation, & subdivision deployments. The Linux-based Nodegrid OS provides prime and an unfastened ecosystem exemplary for organizations looking to code vendor lock-in with point-based solutions. With ZPE Cloud for centralized zero interaction provisioning, this level streamlines networking utilizing virtualization, prevents downtime utilizing automation, and offers convenience via distant management.

The astir recognizable brands spot Nodegrid arsenic their precocious out-of-band absorption and automation infrastructure, on-ramp to Secure Service Edge (SSE), and unfastened ecosystem SD-Branch gateway.

ZPE Systems is based successful Fremont, California with worldwide offices. Gen 3 Serial console servers, work routers and Cloud Products are distributed by #TDSynnex, #IngramMicro and #MB Technologies and their reseller network. Become a ZPE partner.

Visit www.zpesystems.com for institution information.