Deployment Modes

The Axilon platform can be deployed in any of a spectrum of modes, ranging from per-site hardware deployments to global single cluster resiliency installation, without compromising the operator's ability to manage resilience from a single pane of glass. What follows are the primary ways in which Axilon can be deployed:

Per-site Hardware

The further towards the per-site side of the spectrum a deployment is, the less it requires inter-site communication to keep resilience operations flowing.

Modes on this side of the spectrum are recommended for entities with relatively standalone isolated sites that are individually large enough to support deployment of Axilon infrastructure, as well as sites that cannot afford (either for cyber reasons or networking reasons) to communicate one to another.

Examples of setups that may fit this deployment mode include:

• Oil refineries

• Power generation facilities

• Chemical/pharmaceutical plants

Centralized Single-Cluster for Multiple Sites

The more distributed an organization’s industrial operations are, the greater the possibility there is to take advantage of economies of scale and dynamic allocation of Axilon hardware to reduce the infrastructure outlay of setting up and maintaining the platform.

A more centralized approach for hardware deployment is recommended for entities with several distributed sites running similar applications and/or sites that already communicate back to centralized data centers or similar platforms.

Examples of setups that may fit this deployment mode include:

• Manufacturing operations with several smaller lines

• Oil/Natural Gas extraction sites

• Gas Pipelines

Hybrid

The Axilon platform does not require organizations to be either purely per-site or purely single-site, instead allowing for a range of potential hybrid modes between either extreme. These hybrid modes do not require all sites to operate off of a single piece of hardware, but nonetheless allow for single-pane-of-glass visibility and management for these sites without requiring significant communication.

These hybrid modes are recommended for entities with several medium sized sites that each manage several lines or distributed sub-sites but do not intercommunicate during normal operations. Examples of setups that may fit this deployment mode include:

• Power substation operations

• Food and beverage production operations

• Smaller-scale distributed manufacturing operations