Edge Maturity Index
Uncover the ROI hiding in your infrastructure, network, and security gaps.
Edge environments rarely fall behind all at once. They fall behind one site, one refresh cycle, one workaround at a time, until the infrastructure, the network connecting it, and the security wrapped around it each carry a different generation of decisions. The result is a gap between what your edge costs and what it delivers, and that gap is usually invisible.
The Edge Maturity Index measures the ROI you’re getting from your compute and network infrastructure, and security. In 25 questions, it scores your current environment across five weighted categories — Compute/Virtualization, Networking/SD-WAN, Operations & Management, High Availability, and Security & Compliance — and hands back an overall score out of 100, a category-by-category breakdown, and a plain-language read on where your ROI opportunity is highest.
Complete the Edge Maturity Index assessment to get a personalized score across compute, networking, operations, availability, and security, and see where your edge spend isn't paying you back.
What You'll Get
Health Score
An overall Infrastructure Health/ROI Score out of 100, plus a breakdown across all five categories
ROI Opportunity Rating
A Low/Medium/High ROI opportunity rating tied to your score
Gaps Identified
Category-specific findings that point to exactly where the gaps are
Why This Matters Now
The Gap Is Usually in the Connection, Not Just the Compute
Most infrastructure conversations start and end with the server. But a modern compute layer behind unreliable, manually managed connectivity is still an edge that can't be trusted.
Manual Work Is a Hidden Line Item
Truck rolls, on-site troubleshooting, and site-by-site configuration all cost money that doesn't show up as a single line on an invoice.
Your Score Provides a Roadmap
Every category maps to a specific, closeable gap. Scoring lower in one area doesn't mean starting over; it means there's a defined next step, and the assessment tells you which one to take first.
The Five Pillars
Modernizing the edge isn't just a compute question anymore. Networking, operations, resilience, and security carry equal weight in whether that infrastructure actually returns value, which is why the assessment scores all five together instead of treating connectivity as an afterthought to hardware.
Compute & Virtualization
Aging hardware, licensing sprawl across multiple hypervisors, and manual deployment processes all quietly inflate the cost of running applications at the edge. This category looks at what's running your workloads today and how close you are to a refresh.
Networking & SD-WAN
Legacy MPLS, no centralized visibility, and connections that fail over manually instead of automatically all show up here. As much of the edge conversation now lives in the network as it does in the rack, and this category is scored to reflect that.
Operations & Management
Truck rolls, multiple management consoles, and manual provisioning hide edge costs in labor rather than hardware. This category measures how much of your day-to-day operations still requires a person on-site.
High Availability
Downtime at the edge doesn't stay local — it interrupts the business function that site supports. This category looks at failover, disaster recovery, and redundancy against how much unplanned downtime you're actually experiencing.
Security & Compliance
Fragmented firewalls, site-by-site VPN configs, and flat networks all add risk without adding protection. This category scores how centrally you can see and manage security across every location.
How Scale Computing Closes the Gap
Consolidated
Bring compute, virtualization, storage, and edge infrastructure together in a highly integrated platform, reducing the hardware, software, licensing, and management complexity that makes distributed IT expensive to operate.
Connected
Extend reliable, secure connectivity across distributed locations with centrally managed networking and SD-WAN, helping keep applications, users, and sites connected without depending on complex, site-by-site network management.
Consistent
Deploy and operate infrastructure using a repeatable model across every location, with centralized visibility, automated management, and built-in resilience that make hundreds or thousands of sites manageable like one.
Where is your IT budget actually going?
Find out in 5 minutes with the Edge Maturity Index Self-Assessment.
Get your score and uncover opportunities to reduce cost, complexity, downtime and risk.