The case for smarter energy & utilities infrastructure

Energy and utilities have never been more coveted than they are right now. And demand for more sustainable and cost-effective ways to extract, manage and use the world's resources means that the industry is innovating at a rapid rate. Applications for predictive analytics and maintenance, surveillance, asset tracking, emissions testing, field management, employee safety, video analytics and machine learning are running across distributed environments that have traditionally been a reason for information delays, silos of information, and reactive operations. A single oil well can generate 10TB of data a day and relies heavily on local processing power. The cost of a day's downtime at sites like these can cost tens of millions of US dollars.

A new type of distributed and centrally managed infrastructure is required that can support all these new applications without costing the earth.

Support a mix of applications
Support a mix of applications

Deploy run and manage all of your applications through the Sunlight marketplace - whether legacy VM-based, Kubernetes or container based.

Continuous operations
Continuous operations

Intermittent WAN connections can cause business interruption. Sunlight offers continuous business operations (even when WAN fails) with high availability, data protection and disconnected running.

Central management
Central management

Sunlight gives you all the infrastructure services you need in one simple bundle that can be installed in less than 10 minutes and managed remotely. Problems can be fixed quickly without requiring a truck roll.

Run anywhere
Run anywhere

Sites have limited space, power and cooling - so the solution needs to be small, rugged and work in the harshest of environments..

Easy consolidation

Consolidate your applications running across hundreds or thousands of remote locations to a single highly reliable and centrally remotely manageable, low cost system.

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Easy consolidation

Hands-free automation

When a new site is commissioned, push out complete preconfigured hardware and software IT builds with ease, reducing time to market by 70%.

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Hands-free automation

Increase innovation

Deploying new applications without incurring extra hardware costs is simple with Sunlight – just create a recipe in the Sunlight Application Marketplace and deploy on-demand onto your shared cluster in any location.

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Increase innovation

Fast time-to-market

Order your favorite vendor hardware pre-installed with Sunlight and pre-configured, delivered directly to your edge locations from the Sunlight ordering portal.

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Fast time-to-market

Sunlight has a tiny but powerful footprint. Perfect for space-constrained and low-power Edge environments

Free Overhead
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Data sourced from analyst firm, ESG (a division of TechTarget).

How customers are simplifying their infrastructure with Sunlight

The pandemic that hit the world in early 2020 led to dramatic changes in consumer behaviour - especially with the way we consume restaurant food. This US restaurant chain had to respond quickly to retain its loyal customer base - bringing forward existing plans for digital transformation by 5 years.

National QSR chain

Case Study


Sunlight helps energy & utility companies to:

  • Infrastructure that enables intelligent operation capabilities at scale
  • No downtime - even in remote, off-shore locations
  • Centrally remotely manage 1000s of sites - reducing skillset requirements
  • Deploy complex applications with a single click from the Sunlight Marketplace
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