Stratus and FogHorn Partner to Bring Real-time Analytics and Continuously Available Edge Infrastructure to the Industrial Automation Market

Combined offering enables manufacturers to simultaneously power and protect their mission-critical IIoT infrastructures

MAYNARD, Mass., and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — September 27, 2017 — Stratus Technologies, a global leader in continuous availability solutions for mission-critical applications today announced a technology partnership with FogHorn Systems, a leading developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial Internet of Things applications. The partnership will bring highly reliable, continuously available, and operationally simple edge computing analytics and infrastructure to the growing IIoT market. As part of this agreement, Stratus and FogHorn will offer a combined solution of the Stratus ftServer and FogHorn Lightning ML platform that will enable manufacturers to power and protect their mission critical IIoT compute infrastructures and fully capitalize on their IIoT data.

The global IIoT market is growing at an astounding rate. In fact, Accenture predicts that IIoT could add $14.2 trillion to the global economy by 2030. However, these evolving industrial environments not only present challenges to traditional methods of data collection and analysis, but the criticality of real-time processes and data analytics also results in the need for 100 percent availability at the edge for decision making and optimal operations. The combination of Stratus always-on solutions with FogHorn’s analytics platform addresses these concerns with advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and operational intelligence, protecting and optimizing today’s 24×7 industrial automation systems.

“FogHorn’s customers require high-performance edge processing for their advanced IIoT deployments, optimized analytics and heterogeneous applications to be hosted as close as possible to the control systems and physical sensor infrastructure,” said David King, CEO of FogHorn Systems. “For us to partner with Stratus and benefit from its industry-leading, continuously available edge infrastructure, our customers have the assurance that their FogHorn platform is always on.”

According to Dave Laurello, CEO at Stratus, “The more automated and connected applications become, the more critical it is for customers to have a highly reliable, continuously available and operationally simple edge infrastructure to drive true IIoT business value. By bringing our proven, always-on edge infrastructure together with FogHorn’s analytics, our mutual customers not only benefit from the power of real-time data processing at the edge, but also, they benefit from running these applications without the risk of downtime, making insightful business decisions the new normal. Stratus is excited to take its unmatched experience and apply it to the transformative nature of the edge, which will require a new architecture to meet the global industrial automation needs that traditional data center and cloud models cannot today.”

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About FogHorn Systems

FogHorn is a leading developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s Lightning software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as Smart Grid, Smart City, Smart Building and connected vehicle applications.

About Stratus Technologies

Stratus takes the complexity out of keeping business critical applications running 24/7. Stratus’ technologies proactively prevent instances of unplanned downtime both in the data center and at the edge, and our services ensure any issues are addressed before customers need to. Global Fortune 500 companies and small medium sized businesses in a wide range of industries across the globe have been relying on Stratus for operationally simple, continuous availability for more than 35 years. For more information, please visit www.stratus.com or follow on Twitter @StratusAlwaysOn.

Press Contacts

Stratus
Sally Comollo
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FogHorn
Caitlin Haskins
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+1 415-800-5369