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The 2021 Tech Innovator Awards
Kyle Alspach
From among 373 applicants, CRN staff selected products spanning the IT industry—including in cloud, infrastructure, security, software and devices—that offer both strong differentiation and major partner opportunities.

Edge Computing
Winner:
Scale Computing HC3 Video Surveillance
With the Scale Computing HC3 Video Surveillance solution, edge computing specialist Scale Computing offers a system that is purpose-built for meeting the demanding requirements of modern digital video surveillance systems. The system leverages Scale Computing’s new HyperCore for Video Surveillance technology and high-availability appliances to meet the data storage and processing needs of digital, IP-based video surveillance. The solution enables simplified management of video storage and analytics workloads in a single system, as well as automatic scale-out capabilities as resource needs grow. The offering ultimately brings the high availability and scalability of the company’s HC3 infrastructure platform to video surveillance running at the edge.
Finalists:
Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure
A ruggedized edge device for running workloads in remote locations, Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure ships configured with customer applications and enables data collection and processing near the data source. The portable devices, which can be synchronized to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, offer the advantage of rapidly delivering insights from edge data.
Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IT Expert-enabled Dispatch Services
An added service for Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure IT Expert cloud-based software, EcoStruxure IT Expert-enabled Dispatch Services enables partners to monitor customer IT in edge computing environments that they normally wouldn’t be able to access. The service provides visibility into distributed IT and on-site remediation for critical remote IT infrastructure.
StorMagic ARQvault Active Intelligent Repository
With a focus on enabling data to be gathered from anywhere, stored and searched easily, StorMagic’s ARQvault Active Intelligent Repository brings together distributed storage resources into an integrated system that is shared across a network. The solution also brings secondary storage and policies for automatically moving data to varying storage tiers, while creating low-resolution proxies of data for rapid search.
Zadara Federated Edge
Zadara’s Federated Edge enables MSPs to deploy cloud workloads anywhere by offering a global shared edge cloud network and on-demand portal for provisioning resources such as compute, storage and networking. The on-demand resources can be easily provisioned with Zadara’s Edge Cloud Services for locations worldwide.
ZEDEDA
The ZEDEDA cloud-based orchestration solution provides a simplified and scalable approach to distributed edge computing—delivering control, visibility and security. The solution also offers the flexibility of deploying apps on any hardware, as well as enabling connections to on-premises or cloud environments.