A new product offering from Pittsburgh-based IT services and consulting provider Expedient will look to simplify operational and informational technology applications for organizations by offering the management of these services in a cloud-based setting.
Expedient Edge, announced on Thursday, is a product that unites nearly a dozen consumption-based managed technical services that organizations might need, which can all be controlled remotely and by a staff that is not technically savvy. Some of these services included with Edge are backups, containers, disaster recovery, security and virtual machines, among others. Expedient will also cover the day-to-day maintenance, patching, and break-fix repair of the infrastructure for Edge, which, due to its cloud-based nature, is as small as a carry-on suitcase and can be deployed at an organization that has space-constraints.
Pricing for the product starts at $2,000 per site per month. An Expedient spokesperson said a comparable competing product from a well-known provider starts at $25,000 per site per month.
"Many organizations that are intrigued by a cloud model at the 'edge' turn to hyperscale cloud providers and are oftentimes shocked at the barriers to entry," Expedient CEO Bryan Smith said in a prepared statement. "With Expedient Edge, we flip the script. At less than a 10th of the entry price of comparable offerings, yet packing the essential cloud service organizations seek, Expedient Edge is poised to reshape the edge, unify OT and IT, and help organizations achieve their business outcomes."
The company said it worked with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware Inc., makers of virtual machines, to build Expedient Edge.
Edge's launch marks the first product shipped by Expedient under Smith's leadership, who took on the role of CEO in January after succeeding long-time president and CEO Shawn McGorry.
