Zeblok Joins Intel® Disruptor Initiative as a Gold Status Partner

Zeblok Computational makes critical partnerships as they accept an invitation to the

 and has been elevated to a Gold Intel Alliance Partner. The Intel® Disruptor Program helps companies push the limits of innovation through technical enablement and multi-channel go to market activities.

Zeblok joining this program as a Gold Intel Alliance Partner is a significant milestone. Intel supports its members by driving growth through technical enablement, allowing Disruptor Program innovators to accelerate their time-to-market with early access to hardware and software. In addition, Intel engineers work closely with the Zeblok team to ensure that future releases continue to deliver optimized performance. Zeblok Computational finds itself in good company, with other AI Disruptor Initiative companies, including C3.ai, Snowflake, Cloudera, and Aible.

Intel Partner Manager Eric James triumphs, "

We are incredibly excited to welcome Zeblok to the Intel Disruptor Program! Leveraging software optimizations within the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO™ and Intel oneAPI AI Analytics Toolkit (AI Kit), Zeblok's approach to AI orchestration within the enterprise and at the Edge drastically reduces the engineering and business effort required for AI projects

Zeblok Computational CEO Mouli Narayanan said, "

The Intel Disruptor program will enable Zeblok to strategically align its capabilities with Intel roadmap and channel partnerships, enhancing competitive differentiation to drive scale and generating value for our customers. The bi-directional roadmap acceleration will provide optimized pathways to improve our customers' TCO goals for delivering Ai applications, seamless user experience in adopting combined Zeblok and Intel software tools, and support for new Intel platforms. We are excited to participate in industry leading sales enablement and demand generation programs and add value in joint partner programs with Intel's SI, OEM/ODM, CSPs and 3-way joint marketing and sales programs.

By 2035, there will be one trillion Edge devices, requiring many millions of Multi-Access Edge Computing data centers (MECs), with most data created and acted upon at MECs. 

 solves the problem of scaling at the Edge, making it easy to deploy AI inferences to thousands of Edge locations, with end-to-end lifecycle management. Zeblok's Ai-MicroCloud™ turns each Edge server into a cloud data center at the Edge. Zeblok also addresses critical enterprise Ai gaps, including optimizing Ai/ML models for heterogeneous chipsets.

BlueStar and Zeblok Ai-MicroCloud® Pen Agreement For Business Development Relationship to Promote In-a-Box® Ai Solutions

STONY BROOK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, September 13, 2022 -- BlueStar, a leading global distributor of Mobility, IoT and AI-based solutions, has signed a business development agreement with Zeblok Computational Inc. to promote the Zeblok Ai-MicroCloud® to the BlueStar global network of Value Added Resellers (VARS). The Ai-MicroCloud® is a turnkey, cloud native AI Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that simplifies and streamlines the development, deployment and optimization of artificial intelligence applications to the edge. BlueStar VARS can share information with their customers on ready to deploy, “In-a-Box® AI Solutions” with any mix of ISVs and servers for demanding AI workloads challenging their customers.

Developers using AI algorithms such as computer vision, time-series, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X), need AI inferencing at the edge to process large amounts of data closer to where data is used for better application performance and lower latency. Businesses benefitting from Zeblok integrated solutions include Cloud Service Providers (CSP), Communication Services Providers (CoSP), Managed Service Providers (MSP), edge data center operators, OEMs, and ISVs serving clients in industries such as telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, city construction, connected vehicles, gaming, and more.

Traditional deployment of edge solutions is manual and slow, resulting in rising costs and resource utilization (eg., cloud compute, GPU cycles), without comparable benefit. The Ai-MicroCloud® is a single, integrated environment for edge deployments that can shave days, if not weeks, off application development (AppDev), freeing up resources for ML Ops fine-tuning, model optimization or incremental training for new vocabularies. Edge users can deploy on any topology from Cloud to Edge, including public cloud, hybrid cloud, bare metal servers, and scale to thousands of edge hubs and satellite devices.

BlueStar Value Added Resellers can accelerate customer time to value with commercially ready-to-deploy In-a-Box® AI solutions for common use-cases in Retail, Industry 4.0, and Smart Cities. The Ai-MicroCloud® In-a-Box® AI solutions are certified on Advantech and Supermicro servers, many popular AI tools and ISVs, with more certifications coming soon.

Each In-a-Box® AI solution includes an Ai-AppStore, where customers can curate any ML Ops AI tool and ISV application with included automation tools and simplified workflows. An Ai-AppStore allows on-demand access to multi-class AI assets as microservices and industry standard APIs. These features future-proof investments because customers can mix and match any ISV application with any hardware, CPU and GPU to optimize their models and deploy Ai inference engines to any edge environment.

With out of the box support for Intel® OpenVINO™ Toolkit for model optimization, and Intel® oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN), developers optimize workloads faster, and at much lower total cost. For example, after a computer vision application is deployed, developers go to the Ai-AppStore to access time-series or NLP algorithms, then easily develop, optimize and deploy new applications using the same end-to-end lifecycle management on the same infrastructure.


“We are excited to kick off a business development relationship with Zeblok. It’s the start of a unique AI offering available to BlueStar customers.,” said Dean Reverman, Vice President of Marketing at BlueStar, “Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud® with the Ai-AppStore will enable BlueStar VARs to differentiate their business offerings by addressing deployment problems in a cost-effective and simplified manner. Bundled with world class BlueStar OEM server, storage, and networking products, the Zeblok solution can be a game changer for our VARs.”

“Our channel partners are asking for solutions that enabling new business opportunities, so they can call on new parts of their customer’s organization,” said Mike Buyington, Vice President of Sales at BlueStar. “The Zeblok Ai-MicroCloud® is the door opener to new business opportunities that can lead to higher value added sales opportunities. BlueStar VARS can present a fully managed, easy to deliver solution, and that will grow their business”.

“We are excited to develop business with BlueStar because of their reputation for offering world class products and solutions through their large network Value Added Resellers,” said Mouli Narayanan, founder and CEO of Zeblok Computational. “Edge-Ai is an ecosystem play, and BlueStar’s diverse offerings of hardware and software, means the VAR channel can deliver innovative solutions that meet the needs of businesses across industries and use cases. We look forward to helping BlueStar VARS reach new markets and achieve greater business success!”

Zeblok Computational will attend #Vartech2022 in Booth 522A to showcase Zeblok's Ai-MicroCloud® to the BlueStar VAR network.


About BlueStar

BlueStar is the leading global distributor of solutions-based Digital Identification, Mobility, Point-of-Sale, RFID, IoT, AI. AR, M2M, Digital Signage, Networking, Blockchain, and Security technology solutions. BlueStar works exclusively with Value-Added Resellers (VARs) to provide complete solutions, custom configuration offerings, business development, and marketing support. The company brings unequaled expertise to the market, offers award-winning technical support, and is an authorized service center for a growing number of manufacturers. BlueStar is the exclusive distributor for the In-a-Box™ Solutions Series, delivering hardware, software, and critical accessories all in one bundle with technology solutions across all verticals, as well as BlueStar’s HybridSaaS finance program to provide OPEX/subscription services for hardware, software, and service bundles. In-a-Box® is a registered trademark of BlueStar.

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About Zeblok Computational Inc.

Zeblok Computational provides a digital foundation for enterprises to execute their AI strategies from Cloud-to-Edge. Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud® is a comprehensive, portable, cloud native, turnkey AI PaaS environment, enabling companies to easily create their own AI ecosystem, to mix and match AI ISVs and hardware manufacturers. ML Ops workflows enable simplified curation of Ai assets and delivery of end-to-end Ai solutions anywhere. The Ai-MicroCloud® includes a full Ai/ML DevOps capability, plus integrated tools to optimize completed Ai/ML models for heterogeneous architectures and an Ai-API engine, which automates multi-cloud deployment of Ai inference engines to thousands of Edge locations. Ai-MicroCloud® is a registered trademark of Zeblok Computational, Inc.

DataQube Launches First of its Kind Edge-AI Pre-Production Lab Featuring the Zeblok Computational Ai-MicroCloud®

Cambridge UK and Stony Brook, NY 8 September 2022. DataQube (Global) Ltd, a technology infrastructure company changing the face of data centres, has partnered with Zeblok Computational Inc., developers of the Ai-MicroCloud® a turnkey, cloud native AI Platform-as-a-Service, to rapidly develop, deploy, and optimise AI workloads at the edge.

As demand for localised AI inferencing at the edge accelerates, the Ai-MicroCloud® dramatically simplifies the challenge of scaling AI rollouts at the edge, by providing a single, integrated environment for easy, automated deployment of any AI application to thousands of edge locations.

The collaboration involves building a first of its kind Edge Pre-Production Lab facility at the Cambridge IT Innovation Park, situated just north of the city. Built on powerful server infrastructure from Supermicro servers using 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, the R&D facility will enable ecosystem participants to develop vertical-focused AI solutions for implementation at the edge and allow end-user customers to bring in their AI workloads to test and optimise before production deployment, thus mitigating risk, lowering Total Cost of Ownership, and achieving faster Return on Investment.

Unlike conventional edge installations, DataQube units can be fully operational within a six-month timeframe, for 50% less Capex and with a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.05 emi, the lowest in the industry. In line with their commitment to Green Computing, DataQube provides one of the most power efficient, resource saving architectures in the industry.

As businesses leverage new technologies, such as IoT and automation, localised processing (closer to where the data is used) of large amounts of data is needed for better application performance and lower latency. Cloud service providers (CSP), communications service providers (CoSP), managed service providers (MSP), edge data centre operations, OEMs, and ISVs will all benefit as they work with clients in telecommunications, retail, smart cities, and gaming companies who need to scale at the edge to deliver better performance and higher end user satisfaction.

Zeblok Ai-MicroCloud®, following Well Architected Framework (WAF) design principles, is perfectly aligned with the podular nature of DataQube data centre products, and provides the glue to build an open cloud-to-edge AI ecosystem. Customers can effortlessly and efficiently deploy multiclass AI applications, such as computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), self-driving vehicles, autonomous systems, and more.

The Ai-MicroCloud® installs securely on bare metal servers within the enterprise IT perimeter to fit any topology (public cloud, hybrid cloud, Edge hub and Edge satellite), providing a comprehensive, turnkey, cloud-native AI environment, acting as end-to-end AI middleware that unifies the development, training, testing, optimization, and deployment of AI/ML solutions from cloud to Edge. Zeblok’s standard certification methodology for both edge servers and AI applications permits users to mix and match hardware, supporting multiple chipsets, and ISV AI applications.

In addition, the Ai-MicroCloud® is cloud native, able to run containerized applications that can scale to thousands of devices in a multi-cluster environment. The platform seamlessly manages the entire AI application lifecycle and enables curation of ISV algorithms to form a custom Ai-AppStore™, with simple workflows that bring in AI assets as microservices and industry standard APIs for rapid consumption.

The Ai-MicroCloud® is purpose built and ready to deploy commercial workflows for diverse use cases such as Retail-Ai-in-a-Box, Industry 4.0-Ai-in-a-Box, And Smart City-Ai-in-a-Box. Built-in automation tools and workflows help to scale installation to infrastructure at thousands of edge locations and its Ai-API Engine enables deployment of Ai-APIs in production anywhere.

The DataQube Edge-AI Lab is on track to open by the end of Q3.

“By 2035, there will be one trillion Edge devices, requiring many millions of Multi-Access Edge Computing data centres (MECs), with most data created and acted upon at MECs,” says Steve Pass, COO at DataQube Global, “Zeblok is an ideal partner complementing DataQube’s flexible and adaptable deployment approach, with simple, yet powerful software that brings together all the components of any enterprise end-to-end AI solution.”

“DataQube’s unique edge data centre technology enables rapid extension of enterprise infrastructure to the edge,” said Zeblok Computational CEO Mouli Narayanan. “DataQube systems, running on Supermicro and Intel, with Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud® is a perfect canvas to demonstrate the simplicity, efficiency, and automation of the Ai-MicroCloud® to deploy AI inferences to thousands of Edge locations, with end-to-end lifecycle management. Customers bringing their own workloads to the Edge Lab to try-to-buy will be amazed at what they can get done in a short time.”

Advantech and Zeblok Partner to Enable Seamless Cloud-to-Edge AI Services

Advantech and Zeblok Partner to Enable Seamless Cloud-to-Edge AI Services

Zeblok Ai-MicroCloud® Platform-as-a-Service certified on Advantech SKY-8000 Edge Servers helps operators, service providers and ISVs scale AI at the edge and shorten time to market for new end-to-end AI solutions


Taipei, Taiwan, July 19, 2022 – Advantech and Zeblok Computational today announced their collaboration on a new end-to-end solution based on Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud® AI platform-as-a-service and Advantech SKY-8000 Edge Servers. The solution streamlines deployment of new edge AI services for operators, service providers and software developers, creating a seamless platform that enables cloud to edge AI with shorten time to market. In addition, the solution has been validated to be deployed on SmartPoint.IO smart kiosk.

Advantech and Zeblok’s partnership addresses edge AI scalability and ecosystem challenges by building a consistent infrastructure that extends cloud environments to the edge over high performance and high reliability server platforms that support even the most demanding edge AI use cases. The solution enables an AI-API economy by providing an Ai-AppStore for AI applications, functionality to optimize completed AI/ML models for heterogeneous architectures, using Intel’s OpenVINO™ toolkit, and a mechanism to both produce AI inferences as secure Ai-APIs and distribute it to end points rapidly and cost-effectively. It is essentially AI middleware that brings the edge AI ecosystem together to streamline development, testing, training, optimization, and deployment of end-to-end AI solutions.

“The combination of 5G, AI and edge computing is driving the next digital transformation, unlocking limitless business opportunities for operators, service provides and enterprises”, said Brian Wilson, Associate Vice President of Sales, Advantech. “We are thrilled to partner with Zeblok to enable a solid foundation where the edge AI ecosystem can innovate faster helping customers thrive in this new AIoT era.”

“With 70% of the world’s data soon to be created and acted upon outside of traditional data centers, this is a fundamental paradigm shift,” said Mouli Narayanan, founder and CEO, Zeblok. “Through our partnership with Advantech we accelerate this transformation with efficient software distribution on reliable hardware platforms at autonomously operated edge data centers to streamline the rollout of next generation low latency and high availability edge AI services.”

The end-to-end AI solution leverages Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud® turnkey AI Platform-as-a-Service. It creates an open cloud-to-edge ecosystem, allowing enterprises to create their own AI Assets, and deploy them as secure Ai-APIs, for distribution from core to edge, including deploying multiple inferencing engines to each edge server, lowering the "cost per insight." By employing a standard certification methodology, the solution seamlessly scales to thousands of edge endpoints.

Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud® has been certified to be deployed on Advantech SKY-8000 Series Servers. These optimized compute and networking nodes scale from pole-mount, extended operating temperature range configurations all the way up to high-performance platforms that can be deployed as micro data centers at the edge. They balance leading Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance with high density PCI Express card payload to integrate the required high-speed networking, time synchronization, and AI acceleration technologies. Its carrier-grade design and advanced platform management provide superior reliability to high availability 5G and Edge AI applications, while streamlining operations. The solution has also been validated to run in SmartPoint.IO kiosks delivering edge computing capabilities to AI inferences for smart cities.

“Beyond corporations, edge AI is transforming cities that now have the opportunity to build more efficient and attractive, greener and safer spaces for residents, tourists and businesses”, said Eric Hornsby, CEO, SmartPoint.IO. “The combination of Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud®, Advantech SKY-8000 Servers and SmartPoint.IO kiosks integrates all software and hardware components to help cities build a curbside data center that unlocks new edge AI opportunities, while fitting into urban residents’ lifestyles.”

The solution is immediately available for customer evaluation. For more information or to request a demo, please contact 

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Ai-MicroCloud®, Ai-Optimization-as-a-Service™ and Ai-Rover® are trademarks of Zeblok Computational Inc.

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Solution Brief: 

https://networkbuilders.intel.com/solutionslibrary/zeblok-computational-advantech-and-smartpoint-io-unlock-edge-ai-s-potential



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About Advantech

Advantech has the corporate vision to "Enable an Intelligent Planet." The company is a global leader in the fields of IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms. To embrace the trends of IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence, Advantech promotes IoT hardware and software solutions with the industrial IoT platform – WISE-PaaS core to assist business partners and clients in connecting their industrial chains. Advantech is also working with business partners to co-create business ecosystems that accelerate the goal of industrial intelligence. 



About Zeblok Computational

Zeblok Computational provides a digital foundation for enterprises to execute and scale their Ai strategies from cloud-to-Edge and reduce cost per insight. Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud® is a comprehensive, portable, cloud native, turnkey Ai SaaS environment, which enables companies to easily create their own Ai ecosystem, to mix and match Ai ISVs and hardware manufacturers and deploy AI inferences as APIs at scale. ML Ops workflows enable simplified curation of Ai assets and delivery of end-to-end Ai solutions anywhere. The Ai-MicroCloud® includes a full Ai/ML DevOps capability, plus integrated tools to optimize completed Ai/ML models for heterogenous architectures and an Ai-API engine, which automates multi-cloud deployment of Ai inference engines to production and automates deployment to thousands of edge locations. Zeblok’s Ai-MicroCloud® accommodates multiple technologies from disparate vendors, saving 6-8 months of engineering effort, and installs securely to existing enterprise IT infrastructure to fit any topology, obviating the need to invest in equipment or structural changes, and bringing compute closer to data. computational.zeblok.com

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