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“ This partnership capitalises on the strengths of both companies ,” said ZEDEDA founder and CEO Said Ouissal . “ Agora has years of domain expertise in optimising operational efficiency and productivity in the oil and gas and renewable energy industry , while ZEDEDA ’ s infrastructure foundation delivers flexibility and interoperability for customers to future-proof their deployments .”
ZEDEDA ’ s cloud-based orchestration solution helps energy customers update their operations so they can run legacy workloads such as SCADA , DCS , HMI and Historian alongside modern containerised applications such as AI and ML . The solution leverages the open-source EVE-OS from the Linux Foundation , which prevents vendor lock-in and unifies an open ecosystem of hardware , software and services .
Security is at the forefront of every deployment , backed by ZEDEDA ’ s zero-trust security model spanning silicon to cloud . This gives customers the confidence to connect edge assets to Agora ’ s platform and any other required on-prem or cloud-based backend .
“ Together , Agora and ZEDEDA are enabling oilfield operators to increase the sustainability of operations by reducing the carbon footprint and minimising health and safety risks while also improving production and lowering operating costs ,” said Sujit Kumar , Director of Agora Venture . “ Using AI , data , and domain science , we ’ re creating an intelligent computing layer around legacy equipment on the operational site itself .”
As a preferred ZEDEDA partner , Agora will sell and deliver ZEDEDA ’ s leading orchestration solution through its Agora Marketplace , an ecosystem of oil and gas applications enabling operators to harness the power of edge intelligence from desktop or mobile-based devices .
Digital transformation drives system complexity Digital transformation is impacting the security of [ Operational Technology ( OT )] environments , states Fortinet . With today ’ s digital marketplace requiring faster response times to consumer demands than traditional OT processes can deliver , organisations are adding industrial IoT devices and real-time data collection and analysis to OT networks to automate traditionally static and manual processes , creating smart physical environments .
While this helps to create greater efficiency , digital transformation is driving system complexity brought about through the amalgamation of OT technology , says Fortinet ,
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