ParStream Advances IoT Analytics With New Release and the First Appliance Built for Edge Analytics

BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Mar 2, 2015) - Mobile World Congress -- ParStream, the IoT analytics company, today announced general availability of a new release of the ParStream Analytics Platform. Purpose-built to handle the volumes and velocity of IoT data, the new version includes the capability to perform edge analytics with ParStream's Geo-Distributed Analytics (GDA) feature. GDA delivers a faster, more economical and secure way to analyze large volumes of data streaming from geographically disperse sources, such as cell phone towers, manufacturing operations, wind parks, oil rigs and supply chains.

ParStream's GDA software can be installed at or close to the source of data, eliminating the need for a massive and expensive central database, which enables faster queries and real-time answers. Queries are executed centrally after which ParStream's GDA transparently breaks up the query, sends them to the relevant remote servers, collects and delivers the results back to the application. What's more, it lowers operational costs of data transfer and preserves network bandwidth for other purposes.

Today, ParStream also announced EdgeAnalyticsBox, the industry's first ruggedized appliance designed for edge analytics. EdgeAnalyticsBox comes pre-loaded with ParStream's GDA software and allows data to be captured and analyzed at the source.

In addition to ParStream's EdgeAnalyticsBox, customers can also use their own hardware to implement ParStream's edge analytics solution. ParStream's light footprint allows ParStream GDA to be installed on small, standard-based servers or embedded in existing appliances already installed locally.

"With a growing attention to what Enterprise IoT customers are saying, ParStream has taken significant steps in developing its Geo-Distributed Analytics (GDA) platform features, now including the industry's first ruggedized EdgeAnalyticsBox," said Emil Berthelsen, Principal Analyst for Machina Research, a global advisor on the IoT, Big Data and M2M. "Designed as a hardware enablement tool of the ParStream IoT analytics software solution, the EdgeAnalyticsBox provides enterprises with a quicker time to market solution, which allows data to be captured and processed at the very source."