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Lynx Software Technologies' MOSA.ic for Industrial Product is Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Lynx Software Technologies | April 22, 2021

Lynx Software Technologies (Lynx), a spearheading pioneer in Mission Critical Edge Computing, today declared that its MOSA.ic for Industrial items is accessible in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial sends Azure administrations tense processing workers/entryways to safely oversee continuous gear in modern settings, for example, producing plant floors, coordination stockrooms, and brilliant urban areas across the U.S.

Lynx perceived that numerous mechanical organizations need to expand distributed computing innovation as near endpoints as conceivable to profit by experiences from information being gathered in operational innovation (OT) organizations, less expensive process, admittance to applications, and then some. However, blending IT and OT networks in requesting mechanical conditions – where robots frequently work intently close by people – has recently brought difficulties of ensuring constant (under 1 millisecond) execution and fulfilling security needs.

The LYNX MOSA.ic for the Industrial stage empowers an assorted arrangement of investigation, man-made reasoning, and update abilities to be stretched out into these strategic, deterministic conditions by giving consistent availability to the wired and remote organizations that are utilized in mechanical conditions, conveying ongoing reactions to occasions and guaranteeing those basic applications run dependably and securely regardless of whatever other applications that could be working on the worker/passage equipment.

End client benefits include:

• A capacity to move certain capacities from equipment executions to programming, expanding plant the executives and backing of new usefulness

• Sensational equipment cost, force, and impression reserve funds through a union of usefulness onto single figure stages

• Expanded resistance to cyberattack from the decrease of the assault surface and interesting confinement design

• This most recent coordinated effort expands upon Lynx's developing innovation accomplice biological system to speed up the acknowledgment of Mission Critical Edge for modern applications. Other ongoing news incorporates an organization with Eurotech.

About Lynx Software Technologies

Lynx Software Technologies is a chief Mission Critical Edge organization that empowers protected, secure, and superior conditions for worldwide clients in the aviation and car, undertaking, and modern business sectors. Since 1988, organizations have confided in Lynx's constant working framework, virtualization, and framework certificate insight, which extraordinarily empowers blended criticality frameworks to be tackled and convey deterministic continuous execution and astute dynamic. Along with a developing arrangement of innovation accomplices, Lynx is understanding another class of Mission Critical Edge frameworks that keep individuals and important information secured, at each second.

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JetStream Software Inc. | November 19, 2021

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VIAVI | December 21, 2021

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JetStream Software Inc. | November 19, 2021

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