Idle capacity

Idle capacity is spread across the company, in devices of every kind. On its own, each one is worth little. Together, they are worth a lot.

Every device counts

• Phones. The company’s phones spend much of the day unused. Idle, they become working capacity.
• Servers. A server running at half load lends the rest, whether it is big or small.
• TVs. Screens that stay on all day, showing signage, menus or dashboards, use a fraction of their processor. The rest is free to work.
• Laptops and desktops. Even while someone is working on them, most of the time there is room to spare: writing an email or joining a call uses little of a modern machine. Zadara Edge Compute uses that room, and more of it when the device is left alone.

A heterogeneous network

It is not a set of identical servers in a room. Each device is different: size, operating system (Windows, Linux, Android), network, and the hours when it is free. Zadara Edge Compute treats that difference as the rule, not the exception:

• each device only gets work it can do;
• only the free part of each device is used, never all of it;
• a device that drops off in the middle does not lose the work, which is redone on another one.

The owner comes first

The device still belongs to whoever uses it. Zadara Edge Compute uses what is left over, not what the owner needs:

• it runs below everything the owner runs. The work goes in at the lowest priority the operating system has, so whatever the owner opens comes first;
• it only takes part of what is free, and leaves room for the owner to open something heavier without waiting;
• the owner sets the limit, and can choose how much of the device Zadara Edge Compute may use;
• a busy device gives way. When there is new work and another device is freer, the one being used heavily by its owner waits its turn.