Dell NativeEdge Platform Empowers Secure Application Delivery
Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:31:00 -0000
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Introduction
With an ever-evolving digital landscape and most edge use cases built around brownfield applications, IT operations have become a challenging matter for many organizations, particularly when bringing workloads to the enterprise edge.
These edge operational challenges include:
- Security of data and assets—Many of these assets have no user or identity awareness.
- Proliferation of solution silos—Many solutions have a bespoke implementation.
- Supporting distant locations—Many of these locations have no skilled IT staff.
- Latency requirements—Many of these locations have limited bandwidth or are even completely disconnected.
- Fragmented technology landscape—Many of these solutions have been implemented over years of technology evolution.
- Environmental constraints—Many of these solutions require extended temperature, vibration, and shock resilience and have use-case specific regulatory requirements.
Edge lives outside data centers in the real world where we live. It is located where data is captured close to devices or endpoints, to generate immediate and actionable insights.
We are experiencing a perfect storm of innovation driven by an explosion of data (IoT, telemetry, video, and streaming data), technology capabilities (multicloud, AI/ML, heterogeneous computing, software-defined, and 5G), and the resulting business challenges (security, compliance, productivity, and customer experience).
Security that is required at these locations needs a different approach:
- Security breaches can have a major effect on human well-being as they often impact essential infrastructure and services, such as power grids, housing, retail, transportation, schools, and hospitals.
- These failures can have a direct impact on everyday business operations and equipment, such as point of sales, advanced optical inspection (AOI), overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), energy efficiency, telco base station monitoring, and patient care.
- Edge infrastructure requires the highest level of data security. Network devices are often located at dark sites without Internet access and require the highest level of data confidentiality, such as patient records which are bound to compliance and regulatory constraints.
Dell is committed to assisting customers with the simplification of edge operations as the demand for secure and efficient application delivery has become paramount. The Dell NativeEdge platform leverages the power of edge computing to revolutionize application delivery in a secure environment.
NativeEdge provides a unique set of assets in an edge operations software platform which allows IT operations to deliver application orchestration, multicloud connectivity, zero-touch onboarding, a zero-trust security approach, and infrastructure management.
Application Orchestration
NativeEdge provides a standardized framework for defining and deploying applications. This simplifies the management and scalability of complex edge environments while ensuring consistency and reliability in application orchestration.
Zero-Touch Provisioning
NativeEdge zero-touch provisioning is a feature that allows for the automatic and seamless deployment of NativeEdge Endpoint (OptiPlex, Gateways, and PowerEdge) without manual intervention. It enables quick and effortless setup by leveraging order and manufacturing preconfigured settings, eliminating the need for on-site configuration, and reducing deployment time and effort.
Multicloud
NativeEdge multicloud capabilities allow NativeEdge Endpoints to connect and integrate with multiple cloud platforms. It enables organizations to leverage various cloud services and resources, such as storage, computing power, and analytics, across different cloud providers, which enhances flexibility and scalability in edge computing deployments.
Infrastructure Management
NativeEdge infrastructure management capabilities provide a comprehensive set of tools and features that enable centralized control and monitoring of NativeEdge Endpoints. It includes functions such as remote device management, software updates, configuration management, and performance monitoring—all of which enhance efficiency and simplify the management of edge computing infrastructure.
Zero Trust
Zero trust is a security framework according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication (NIST SP) 800-207 that challenges the traditional perimeter-based approach. It assumes that no user or device should be inherently trusted, requiring continuous verification and authentication of every access request. It aims to improve cybersecurity by minimizing risks and enforcing strict access controls regardless of location or network. A zero-trust solution starts with the seven pillars of security as defined by the Department of Defense (DoD), such as device trust, user trust, transport and session trust, data trust, software trust, the two layers that provide the visibility and analytics, and automation and orchestration. Each pillar has 45 capabilities, and each capability has 152 zero-trust activities.
Conclusion
NativeEdge is a powerful and secure edge computing application delivery solution that combines features like zero-touch provisioning, multicloud capabilities, and robust infrastructure management. It provides seamless edge, core, and cloud deployment, integration with multiple cloud platforms, and centralized control, which brings scale to edge operations.
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Curious to know more about NativeEdge capabilities? See Edge Security Essentials: Edge Security and How Dell NativeEdge Can Help, or visit Dell.com/NativeEdge and Dell Technologies Solutions Info Hub for NativeEdge.