Floatel International Selects Avassa’s Edge Platform for Simple and Secure On-Premises Container Lifecycle Management

Stockholm, Sweden - July 1st 2024 – Avassa, a leading provider of edge container management and operations solutions, is pleased to announce that Floatel International, a premier provider of offshore floating hotels, has chosen Avassa’s Edge Platform as their on-premises container lifecycle management solution. With the support of their long-term managed service provider, Xenit, Floatel is set to modernize their operations using containerized workloads and improve the management of their edge container applications across their fleet

Floatel International is renowned for delivering high-quality offshore floatels designed to withstand extreme conditions in deep waters and hostile environments. They have chosen Avassa’s Edge Platform to address their on-premises edge container management needs. Xenit, an award-winning managed service provider based in Gothenburg, Sweden, has been a trusted partner of Floatel, aiding in the successful implementation of Avassa’s Edge Platform into Floatel’s infrastructure. This has helped to address the unique challenges of running container applications in remote and isolated floatel locations.

Xenit have managed the lifecycle of Floatel’s container applications, from deployment and versioning to monitoring and security, all handled remotely. After evaluating various options, spanning both Kubernetes-based solutions better fit for the cloud, as well as more hardware-centric solutions known from IoT, Avassa’s Edge Platform emerged as the ideal solution, providing a user-friendly, secure, and resilient way to manage containers across Floatel’s fleet. 

Simon Gottschlag, CTO of Co-native (Xenits parent company) says:

“Avassa allows us to set up the container orchestration without having to involve the Kubernetes experts at Xenit, which would have been a significantly bigger project for Floatel. The Avassa Edge platform makes container application lifecycle management, a not altogether trivial thing, extremely comprehensive and user-friendly.”

Key Features of Avassa’s Edge Platform Implementation:

• Offline Capabilities: Ensures uninterrupted application operations despite internet connectivity outages.
• Remote Deployment and Versioning: Minimizes the need for on-site visits and accelerates feature deployment, crucial for sites without on-site IT personnel.
• Scalable Day 2 Operations: Facilitates the quick and easy onboarding of multiple container applications from both internal teams and third-party vendors.

The implementation of Avassa’s Edge Platform has streamlined Floatel’s container application management, enhancing cost efficiency and operational ease. Simon Gottschlag continues: "Avassa Edge Platform outperforms the other considered vendors thanks to its support for offline capabilities and its user-friendliness. We can offer full container management and operations services to Floatel right at our 2nd line support, enabling blazing fast turnaround times and cost-efficiency."

Josefin Boman, Support Engineer at Xenit, remarked, "Avassa has made container application implementation at Floatel’s remote on-prem IT operations a breeze. Their user experience is exceptional, and their support has been invaluable during the planning and rollout phases."

This partnership exemplifies how Floatel, with the support of Xenit and Avassa’s Edge Platform, has transformed their approach to container management, resulting in improved operations and cost efficiency. Karl Linder, IT Manager at Floatel International adds, "Avassa truly makes a quite complex problem, impressively easy to solve. That’s what purpose-built technology should do and we are super satisfied with the performance and capabilities of their Edge Platform. The collaboration between Xenit and Avassa has been running very smooth throughout this project, all the way into production. We are very excited by the potential for faster innovation, and look forward to expanding our use of containerized workloads in the future."

For more information, please contact:

Amy Simonson, Marketing Manager, Avassa

amy@avassa.io | +46 73 026 47 38

About Avassa

Companies require remote lifecycle management, outage resilience, and robust security for their edge workloads. The Avassa Edge Platform is an application management and operations platform built for resource-constrained Edge and IIoT environments. It enables companies to securely and remotely update, monitor, and troubleshoot edge applications and infrastructure, at scale and where connectivity isn’t taken for granted. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Avassa operate globally as a recognized leader in edge and IIoT, and has been named a Gartner® Cool Vendor in Edge Computing. Learn more and request a free trial at avassa.io.

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