Spark™ platform

Run a complete edge environment.

Spark™ brings supported applications, virtual machines, containers, and site services together on one managed host. Use it near operational networks and devices, or as a qualified destination for VMware-hosted workloads.

Inside Spark™

One node. Coordinated services.

The selected host brings applications, runtime, storage, networking, and services into one customer-controlled operating environment. Its hardware, capacity, resilience, and connectivity are qualified for the work it serves.

Planning inputs

Networks · devices · data · workloads

Spark™ platform

One complete environment

Rules, templates, dependencies, and required state
Selected supported hypervisor and runtime
VMs, containers, applications, and services
Defined network and device paths

Deployment design: hardware, storage, runtime, capacity, connectivity, resilience, access, and support.

Spark™ applies NetThunder's environment-control foundation to one supported host for edge, OT, and private virtualization workloads. The selected design defines the exact boundary and support envelope.

Operational edge

Define your operating zones.

Supported Spark™ configurations provide operational-technology (OT) segmentation for manufacturing and distributed sites. Defined zones of trust group the selected networks, devices, applications, services, and data paths.

  1. Define the zone

    Identify the networks, devices, applications, data, and users that belong in each zone of trust.

  2. Connect supported services

    Define workload traffic, management access, support paths, and permitted external connections for the selected site.

  3. Manage change

    Apply the approved configuration, compare requested and observed state, and preserve the history of the environment.

The site design defines physical and logical segmentation controls, device and protocol support, environmental requirements, remote management, connectivity, and operating responsibilities.

Private virtualization

Move qualified virtual workloads.

Spark™ can serve as a replacement host for qualified VMware-hosted workloads that fit its single-node operating shape.

The environment uses the supported hypervisor selected for the design, typically KVM. Other hypervisors are supported where the selected configuration qualifies them.

Review the full migration path

Ongoing operation

Carry dependencies through change.

Spark™ uses NetThunder's shared environment-control foundation to keep the host, applications, services, and dependencies connected through change.

When a supported application changes, its configuration and service dependencies remain part of the environment definition. Required state, rules, and templates guide the work; Spark™ compares requested and observed state and records history under the deployment's approval rules.

Explore the control architecture

Storm AI Factory™

Add private AI.

Storm AI Factory™ is available for private AI workloads within Spark™'s selected capacity and operating boundary.

Models, runtimes, topology, capacity, performance, data paths, isolation, and operations are qualified for the selected Spark™ configuration.

Review the AI Factory module

Architecture review

Plan your Spark™ environment.

Bring a high-level outline of your workloads, devices, and operating needs. The first conversation focuses on Spark™ fit, open questions, and the next design decisions.

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