17/10/2023
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Barbara named a Cool Vendor in the 2023 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Edge Computing report
According to Gartner, “The technology or service offering must be innovative, impactful and available for purchase for a Cool Vendor.” With Barbara, companies can deploy, run, and manage their models across distributed locations, as easily as in the cloud.
Madrid October 17th, 2023
Edge Computing meets Barbara: A Fascinating Journey
With the exponential development of hardware processing power and the commoditization of Machine Learning, the Edge has emerged as a great alternative to the cloud for deploying private, autonomous, and real-time AI, in critical processes.
In this scenario, Barbara has been developing an Edge AI Platform since its foundation in 2016. With Barbara, companies can deploy, run, and manage their models remotely, in distributed locations, as easily as in the cloud. Barbara manages to extend the cloud experience to the Edge, reconciling the best of both worlds, with a flexible, robust, and user-friendly platform.
Barbara is the Cybersecure Edge AI platform for critical industries.
Barbara´s technology stack is composed of:
- Industrial Connectors to attach edge devices to any other legacy or next-generation equipment.
- Edge Orchestrator to deploy and control container-based and native edge apps across thousands of distributed locations.
- Device Management to provision, configure, update, operate and decommission Edge Devices cybersecurely.
- MLOps to optimize and package your trained model in minutes.
- Marketplace of containerized Edge applications ready to be deployed. The marketplace includes third-party applications and a suite of Barbara microservices.
Thanks to Barbara, companies can integrate both legacy and next-generation industrial equipment data, deploy on their own or third-party intelligence through our Marketplace, and streamline their management from a single platform.
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