In a recent article on TheDigitalShip.com, we learned of a July 25th Starlink outage and how important it is to have a backup system in place for unplanned system failures and resultant interrupts. This and many other past events have shown that relying on a system with a single point of failure will eventually result in an interrupt event when these components fail. By designing resilient systems with complete redundancy, these events can be avoided and even eliminated.
Today’s marine operators face a range of critical challenges that demand effective solutions. Intelligent Availability® technology provides practical remedies to these issues, making it a valuable tool for onboard operational resilience.
Challenge 1: Ensuring Uninterrupted Operations
Solution: Intelligent Availability® technology offers a reliable solution for ensuring uninterrupted operations. It accomplishes this by prioritizing system-wide fault tolerance, ensuring that the entire platform is built with redundancy and fault tolerance in mind. This means that even in the face of catastrophic hardware failures, the system can continue to function seamlessly. This resets the standard for availability and uptime. The technology is ideally suited for remote and air gapped deployments like marine freight where systems must survive even critical failures for extended periods.
Challenge 2: Autonomous Operation
Solution: Manual intervention of downtime can be costly and disruptive. Our technology addresses this challenge by offering self-managed, autonomous operation. The technology utilizes an intelligent decision engine to assess system-wide health in order to prevent interruptions and even self-repair without immediate human intervention. This feature ensures consistent performance and minimizes downtime risks, making it a crucial solution for businesses that rely on continuous operations such as production facilities, utilities and vessels at sea.
Challenge 3: Proactive Threat Mitigation
Solution: Intelligent Availability® technology elevates the concept of High Availability. By employing intelligent software, it detects evolving threats and autonomously takes corrective actions to mitigate them. This proactive approach enhances overall system reliability, making it an effective solution in maintaining operational continuity for vessels at sea. This greatly reduces and eliminates the need for human intervention for maritime freightliners at sea, with limited or no IT staff.
Challenge 4: Simplifying Complex Infrastructure
Solution: Many organizations struggle with complex infrastructure setups that increase operational complexity and introduce additional points of failure. Intelligent Availability® simplifies infrastructure by consolidating compute, storage, networking, power, and external monitoring. This consolidation reduces operational complexity and lowers the total cost of ownership, making it an ideal solution for organizations seeking streamlined and cost-effective infrastructure management. It provides an ideal platform for maritime freightliners with limited or no IT staff on board.
Challenge 5 Software Consolidation
Solution: The platform is ideal for dedicated, on-vessel or hybrid applications and services particularly with legacy software applications. All applications and services are hosted on a single, on-vessel platform that can be managed locally or remotely through a simple user interface.
Challenge 6: Hardware Integration
Solution: Intelligent Availability® works with your existing hardware—even older systems—to bring everything under one central hub. It provides real-time monitoring and automated controls, so your critical equipment works together as one system. This reduces the need for constant manual checks, extends the life of your hardware, and avoids costly upgrades.
Intelligent Availability® technology provides practical solutions to pressing operational challenges, such as ensuring uninterrupted operations, mitigating evolving threats, minimizing downtime risks, and simplifying infrastructure management. It is versatile and equally suited for most environments including the data center, remote office, production floor and marine freight to name a few.