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Extend your cloud strategy with Edge Cloud.

There’s nothing more important than protecting data. And when you need to meet the highest levels of security, sovereignty, compliance, and performance, edge cloud services may be the best answer.

Edge Cloud is Lightedge’s fully managed infrastructure as a service that enables your cloud stacks to be deployed outside of our data center.

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Bring enterprise-grade cloud closer to your operations, wherever you need it.

Lightedge Edge Cloud brings enterprise-grade cloud capabilities closer to where data is generated and consumed. Built on Dell VxRail and powered by VMware, this fully managed solution enables you to deploy and operate infrastructure outside of traditional data centers—without the need to refactor workloads. Whether at a remote office, manufacturing site, or retail location, Edge Cloud minimizes latency, ensures data sovereignty, and simplifies operations.

Performance Where It Matters Most

Edge Cloud brings compute, storage, and networking closer to your business operations, delivering reliable performance for latency-sensitive workloads. Process data locally to improve responsiveness, reduce data transfer times, and optimize user experiences, whether you’re managing IoT devices, running branch office applications, or enabling edge analytics.

Simplified Hybrid Cloud Integration

Extend your VMware environment to the edge without re-architecting workloads. Edge Cloud seamlessly integrates with private and public cloud environments, allowing you to unify operations, ensure workload portability, and scale resources as needed.

Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance

Edge Cloud secures sensitive data at the edge, complementing private and public clouds in a unified hybrid strategy. Process data locally to reduce exposure, ensure compliance, and maintain operational flexibility. This balanced approach delivers cloud efficiency without sacrificing security or control.

Future-Ready Design

Edge Cloud offers scalable options to meet your workload demands, from compact Edge Lite deployments for remote sites to high-performance Edge Pro configurations for intensive applications. Powered by VMware, including vCenter and NSX capabilities, our solutions ensure seamless hybrid cloud operations with reliable 10/25 GbE networking and RAID-protected storage

Discover the benefits of Edge Cloud.

Bring cloud capabilities to the edge, reducing latency and enhancing performance. With flexible configurations, built-in protection, and fully managed services, Lightedge delivers secure and reliable infrastructure where you need it most.

High-performance hardware

Run workloads with low latency and high reliability on enterprise hardware designed for demanding environments. Each configuration is optimized for memory, compute, or I/O performance, ensuring efficiency wherever you deploy.

Best-in-class security and compliance services

We deliver enterprise-grade security with 24/7 SOC monitoring, managed detection and response (MDR), and proactive threat hunting. Our solutions meet the strictest standards, including HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI DSS, to keep your cloud environments protected and compliant.

Hybrid-ready integration

Seamlessly integrate with private and public clouds to create a unified hybrid environment. Use familiar VMware tools to scale capacity, migrate workloads, and enhance operations without disruption.

Localized performance and reliability

Process data closer to end-users and devices to reduce latency, improve responsiveness, and minimize bandwidth usage. With built-in backup and disaster recovery, you ensure data availability even under challenging conditions.

Expert 24/7/365 managed services

Lightedge provides proactive monitoring, intuitive dashboards, and ITIL-aligned operations to ensure your infrastructure runs smoothly. Our team is always available to resolve issues and optimize performance.

Choose the Edge Cloud configuration that’s right for your workloads.

Lightedge Edge Cloud offers two configurations—Lite and Pro—designed to meet your business needs. From cost-effective solutions to enterprise-grade scalability, Edge Cloud delivers reliable VMware-based infrastructure anywhere, without refactoring workloads.

Edge Cloud Lite

Streamlined for small and medium businesses

Cost-Effective: Ideal for businesses seeking a budget-friendly cloud presence.

Simplified Set-Up: Get up and running quickly with minimal hassle.

Reliable Foundation: Built on a military-grade VxRail 4000 chassis for durability.

Low Maintenance: Requires minimal ongoing maintenance for continued operation.

Edge Cloud Pro

Complete solution for enterprises

Comprehensive: Unlocks the full potential of VMware Cloud Foundation, including NSX and Aria Suite products.

Centralized Management: Gain full control with Lightedge cloud director for streamlined administration. 

High Availability: VMware Cloud Director availability ensures continuous operation and minimizes downtime.

Scalable Backups: Secure your data with Veeam bare metal server backups.

Powerful Expansion: Scale performance to meet your needs, starting with 128 cores.

How Edge Cloud compliments your workloads.

Our edge cloud solutions bring together the advantages of cloud deployment with the performance and security of on-prem workloads.

For hybrid cloud

Extend your private and public cloud environments with VMware-based infrastructure at the edge for seamless hybrid operations.

For remote workloads

Run branch office or retail applications with localized processing for greater responsiveness and reliability. Edge Cloud ensures secure, consistent operations even in distributed environments.

For IoT and manufacturing

Process and analyze IoT data closer to its source to improve real-time decision-making and reduce data transfer costs. Ideal for factory floors, logistics hubs, and industrial operations needing reliable performance.

For regulated industries

Edge Cloud keeps sensitive data local, helping you meet compliance requirements while reducing latency and transit risks. It ensures secure, auditable workloads in remote locations, aligning with standards like HIPAA and PCI DSS.

Frequently Asked Questions

Edge cloud means running cloud infrastructure at or near the place data is created rather than in a distant data center. The reason is usually physics or policy: some workloads can’t tolerate the round-trip latency to a central facility, some sites generate more data than it’s economical to ship, and some data isn’t permitted to leave a location or jurisdiction. Edge cloud keeps compute local while retaining central management, so distributed sites don’t each become an independently administered island.

Lightedge Edge Cloud is fully managed infrastructure deployed at your location – a branch office, factory, retail site, or campus — and operated remotely by Lightedge. It is built on Dell VxRail appliances running VMware, so existing VMware workloads move without refactoring and your team uses the tooling it already knows. Unlike every other Lightedge infrastructure service, the hardware sits in your facility rather than a Lightedge data center, while monitoring, patching, and support remain Lightedge’s responsibility.

The hardware is similar; the operating model isn’t. With Edge Cloud, Lightedge owns the design, the lifecycle, and the day-to-day operations (monitoring, patching, updates, incident response) and the site is managed as part of a consistent estate rather than as a one-off. It also arrives as a validated VMware Cloud Foundation configuration on Dell VxRail rather than something assembled and integrated locally. The practical difference shows up at remote sites with no dedicated IT staff, where an unmanaged server tends to drift out of patch compliance until something breaks.

No. Edge Cloud is fully managed, so Lightedge monitors the hardware and the environment continuously and you do not need technical staff at the location watching it. Most issues are identified by Lightedge before anyone on site notices them. When a service interruption does require hands on the equipment, Lightedge provides a runbook to your on site staff and works with them through the troubleshooting steps, so the person at the location is following a defined procedure with Lightedge support rather than diagnosing the problem themselves. This is worth planning for when you evaluate sites: no one needs to be there day to day, but someone should be reachable and able to follow instructions at the equipment if a fault occurs.

Hybrid cloud addresses four recurring problems. First, workload fit: some applications like legacy ERP, IBM i and AIX environments, latency-sensitive systems run poorly or expensively in public cloud. Second, regulatory constraint: some data must stay in a known physical location with auditable controls. Third, cost predictability: public cloud egress and always-on compute can be significantly more expensive than dedicated infrastructure for steady-state workloads. Fourth, resilience: distributing workloads across environments provides recovery options that a single environment cannot. The trade-off is operational complexity, which is the specific problem a managed hybrid cloud service is meant to absorb.

Lightedge uses Dell ProDeploy for every Edge Cloud installation, so the hardware arrives configured and is deployed to a consistent, validated standard rather than assembled and integrated on site. Once the environment is live, Lightedge takes over ongoing operations: virtual infrastructure maintenance, monitoring, and patching are handled remotely by Lightedge engineers. Your team does not configure the platform, and does not need VMware or VxRail expertise at the location to keep it running.

Pro is the full VMware Cloud Foundation environment, including NSX for network segmentation, VMware Aria for management, VMware Cloud Director for administration, Cloud Director Availability for high availability, and Veeam-based backup, starting at 128 cores. Lite is a smaller, simplified deployment for sites that need a reliable local cloud presence without the full management stack.

Keeping data local means it is processed and stored where it is generated rather than transiting to a central facility, which shortens the path an auditor has to trace and reduces exposure in transit. That supports requirements to keep certain data within a facility, a country, or a jurisdiction, and helps with HIPAA and PCI DSS obligations at distributed sites.

Edge Cloud integrates with private and public cloud through the same VMware tooling, so workloads move between the edge, Lightedge data centers, and public cloud without re-architecting, and the whole estate is managed as one environment rather than several. This is the usual reason organizations choose a VMware-based edge platform over a standalone appliance: consistency of operations across locations is worth more than any individual site’s specification.

Consider it when latency to a central data center is measurably affecting operations, factory floor control, real-time analytics, point-of-sale; when a site generates more data than it’s economical to backhaul; when data can’t leave a location or jurisdiction for regulatory reasons; when remote sites need to keep operating through a connectivity outage; or when you have distributed locations each running unmanaged infrastructure that nobody is maintaining consistently. It is generally not worth it for sites whose applications run acceptably from a central data center. Edge adds hardware and locations to manage, and that overhead needs a reason.

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