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New IoT and edge solutions

VMware recently articulated its approach to edge computing, developing a framework that extends the VMware hybrid and multi-cloud environments to the edge. As the world of edge computing and IoT becomes more distributed, billions of connected devices require increasing levels of computing power at the edge, which needs to be secured, managed and automated. VMware will help customers by providing local intelligence and compute from the data centre to the cloud to edge, building on VMware’s network edge investments.

VMware simplifies edge and IoT infrastructure complexity, security and scale, to enable customers to focus on building applications for their business rather than the infrastructure beneath it. The company accomplishes this in three ways:

• Control and simplify customers’ edge strategy: enables customers to extend their hybrid cloud digital foundation to the edge, run their apps anywhere on a variety of platforms.

• Better secure, connect, and manage customers’ edge compute: enables customers to better secure, scale and manage edge compute and IoT end points.

• Accelerate and scale customers’ innovation: enables customers to accelerate and scale, speeding delivery and adoption of edge and IoT applications and solutions.

IoT solution for surveillance

In related news, Dell Technologies announced the Dell Technologies IoT Solution for Surveillance, designed to speed time to realise return on investment with flexibility and customisation. The result of IoT innovation by Dell, as well as by VMware, this bundled solution includes VMware Pulse IoT Center and VMware Software-Defined Data Center to gather and analyse data at the edge.

Pulse is VMware’s IoT infrastructure management solution, and will offer updated capabilities designed to provide customers with broader management, more intelligent operations, faster innovation and better protection. Taken together, these new capabilities will support larger IoT deployments – hundreds of thousands of IoT devices – with SaaS support and additional security features.

Additional features focus on ease of use, simplified management and heightened control:

• Low-touch, more secure enrollment: Low-touch enrollment and configuration capabilities.

• Deeper edge system management: Ability to perform gateway configuration through the action framework (SSHD, turn on/off port, IP address table, etc.) as well as provide complete firmware and BIOS updates for selected gateways.

• Enhanced alerts and notifications: New and improved alert system on individual managed object or group of managed objects notifications on alerts can now be received via email and SMS integration, or API into a third-party system.

• Enhanced over-the-air (OTA) updates: Customers can have more granular control over OTA scheduling, activation, progress status, package type and failure handling.

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