BlogJuly 31, 2024
The Wolf Line: Systel’s Rebranded Rackmount Product Family
July 31, 2024
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Systel has been delivering rackmount servers designed to provide optimum performance in the harshest of environments for over 30 years, and we continue to introduce the latest technologies to guarantee reliable performance for our customers. Behind the scenes we’ve been working on our family of rackmount servers and have categorized them by their characteristics, so customers can select the most suitable computers for their operational needs. In this blog we introduce our new pack of Wolf rackmount servers.
The wolf is a powerful, fierce and highly intelligent animal, often seen hunting in packs and remaining loyal to its family.
Inspired by these lupine characteristics, Systel has introduced a rebrand to its own family of rackmount servers, categorized into different product lines that each have their own characteristics that make them suited to a wide variety of military and industrial applications.
Just as our avian-themed family of embedded computers, the Strike product line, is inspired by the highly adaptive and laser-focused attributes of birds of prey. Systel identified that the intelligence and resourcefulness of wolves are characteristic of its rack-mounted servers, and there our rebrand began.
Introducing our wolf pack…
- Gray Wolf:
Mission-Critical Performance
The Gray Wolf product line delivers mission-critical performance when and where it is needed. It is the optimum choice when maximum computational power and reliability is needed, and failure is not an option.
Just as the wolf is a highly intelligent creature, the Gray Wolf server has best-in-class processing capabilities that ensures there is always peak performance under even the most demanding of workloads.
Designed with multi-GPU support and advanced thermal management systems, the Gray Wolf range features high-density servers that are optimized for high-performance computing, AI and large-scale data analytics when processing power is key.
The Gray Wolf range is ideal for when size, weight, and power (SWaP) optimization is a priority, as well as for demanding applications when large portions of the electromagnetic spectrum are being analyzed in real time, such as during signals intelligence and electronic warfare operations.
- Red Wolf:
Compact and Efficient
The Red Wolf is a smaller subspecies of the Gray Wolf, and to this end Systel’s Red Wolf rackmount server is suited to requirements that call for high performance in the most compact and efficient form factor.
Some applications are limited by space, but that does not mean that performance must be compromised, and the Red Wolf rackmount server is a testament to that. It delivers robust computing capabilities while optimizing SWaP, and could be suited for vehicles and small rotorcraft where real estate is at a premium.
- Arctic Wolf:
Extreme Rugged
Just as the Arctic Wolf can withstand the extreme temperatures of its natural habitat, its rugged server namesake is also suited to the most austere of environments.
All Systel computers are rugged by design, but the Arctic Wolf rackmount provides extreme ruggedness that truly sets it apart, meeting challenging military standards governing environmental performance including shock, vibration and temperature, including Military Specification MIL-S-901D that applies to shock requirements for ship-board use.
The ruggedness of the Arctic Wolf means it can provide optimum performance in the harshest of environments, including in support of naval requirements that tend to be incredibly demanding and where failure is not an option.
- Timber Wolf:
All-purpose
Timber Wolf is a flexible and scalable product line that can be tailored to suit a wide range of requirements.
When extreme ruggedness, size and mission-critical performance are not necessarily a priority, but a reliable, to-spec, capable server is required, then Timber Wolf is the solution.
Because it is scalable and can be tailored as required, it is accessible to a wide range of applications, including for the industrial sector.
Staying Ahead of the Curve
What is common across our family of rackmount servers is that technology sits at the heart of it and innovation is key.
At Systel we keep up to date with emerging technology trends, including those coming from Silicon Valley, and incorporate best-in-class technologies, including from NVIDIA and Intel, into our products.
We can incorporate next-generation CPUs, GPUs and storage into our product lines, and we make sure we remain compliant with industry and government standards, including Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2, a US Government computer security standard that governs the encryption of storage.
We are pushing on all fronts to ensure that we provide the best systems to our customers, always looking towards the next generation of storage and identifying what that will look like in terms of higher speeds and increased security.
Furthermore, we continue to talk to our customers to identify where their operational requirements are heading. As operations are required to be increasingly conducted at the edge, computing and processing power then becomes critical. The military is also leaning more towards system interconnectivity, which will require more computers where computers haven’t traditionally been used, and will introduce increased requirements for computing power at the edge and in more austere environments.
And of course, we continue to develop our systems to make them as rugged as possible so that they can operate in the most challenging of environments.
What’s Next?
Staying on top of these trends isn’t just good research – it informs Systel’s product roadmap, too. We are a design house and aim to both meet our customers’ requirements and introduce them to new developments that could provide them with an operational advantage.
And because we are a design house with oversight over our product development, we can scale in line with customer requirements. Our Wolf product lines offer a starting point on which a customer can select the rackmount server that suits their particular needs, but this can then be tailored further to make it as suitable as possible for operational needs.
We have also been busy working on product development behind the scenes and are preparing for the release of our next generation of rackmount server. This will be released later this year, so watch out for more information on our newest Wolf in a few months’ time.
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