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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: VMware Internet of Things Strategy Unveiled – CTO9018

September 12th, 2016

Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:

I headed off to catch the rest of this spotlight IoT session. It was presented by Ravishankar Chamarajnagar and Mimi Spier from VMware’s IoT division

I managed to get a quick update on the beginning which was how companies are starting to invest heavily in IoT to be able to create a new market and be first movers. Companies are however facing challenges in scaling out and supporting IoT with having to manage IoT things and devices with the usual security, configuration and monitoring concerns.

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Ravishankar and Mimi then outlined VMware’s new IoT strategy which uses parts of NSX for networking as well as AirWatch for managing the endpoints with the themes of: Manage Broader, Innovate Faster, Protect Better and Operate Smarter.

They went through some of the customer use cases such as:

Retail:  Coke vending machines being managed via AirWatch

Medical: Medical devices located inside bodies with associated patient management

Connected retail: personal connections for marketing to customers and using cameras to analyse shopping patterns

Connected car: manage cars by providing new services and software upgrades, collect telemetry data from vehicles.

VMware IoT Project Ice

VMware is developing an IOT platform monitoring solution which is all about partnering with IOT device vendors. You can sign up with VMware as a beta tester and co-develop and co-test Ice platform to perform monitoring of these devices.

An example of this is what VMware has been doing with Coca Cola to monitor various IoT sensors deployed in drinks vending machines.

There’s a lot more about IoT in the VMVillage which was worth looking around.

Here are some pics of the displays:

Internet of Fizz

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The Smart Factory

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Proactive Healthcare

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 Smart Homes

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As VMworld2016 has made the recording publicly available, you can view the session here:

http://vmware.mediasite.com/mediasite/Play/be9fc7e372e84c2eb024a6ca914094a61d?catalog=dbf1ec28-2557-4dd3-a381-e5fe4ceabc40

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