VMware unveiled VMware Pulse IoT Center, a secure, enterprise grade Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure management solution that will enable information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) teams to have complete control of their IoT infrastructure and things.
The first solution in a new family of VMware IoT offerings, VMware Pulse IoT Center will help customers to more efficiently manage, operate, scale and protect their IoT projects from the edge to the cloud.
"As enterprises look to transform into digital businesses, this creates an opportunity for IT and OT teams to collaborate as they embrace IoT to improve operations within their business, while generating new forms of revenue," said Mimi Spier, VP, IoT, VMware. "We're leveraging our expertise and proven success in the enterprise and applying it to IoT infrastructure and across all 'things.' VMware Pulse IoT Center will provide IT and OT teams visibility and control across their IoT use cases, while offering peace of mind with security capabilities throughout the IoT value chain."
VMware Pulse IoT Center will simplify the complexity of managing customers' IoT infrastructure and their diverse types of things as easily as one. It will help improve reliability of infrastructure by providing accurate and real-time visibility of 'thing' health to enable customers to proactively address anomalies before they arise.
VMware Pulse IoT Center will help accelerate ROI by streamlining how IoT projects gets deployed and scaled. Additionally, it will enable security across things, edge, network and applications to further protect IoT infrastructure and data access.
This new solution, highly focused on enterprise IoT, leverages existing, proven technologies from both VMware AirWatch for device management and VMware vRealize Operations for infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting. It has been built to meet the specific, complex needs of IoT for both IT and OT teams, while supporting a broad range of edge systems and their connected devices. VMware Pulse IoT Center, which will be available as both a simple to deploy on-prem solution and as a Service offering, is currently in private beta with customers across automotive, entertainment, retail banking, health care and manufacturing industries.
With VMware Pulse IoT Center, customers will be able to:
Manage Broader: Simplify the complexities of managing connected 'things' including:
- Easily on-board, manage, monitor and secure diverse IoT edge systems, connected devices and applications from a single console;
- Interoperate between heterogeneous edge systems and connected devices with different hardware, operating systems and communication protocols; and,
- Define and track what, where and when things are updated over the air (OTA) or changed -- with a sophisticated and flexible rules engine.
Operate Smarter: Access to accurate and real-time visibility of 'thing' health and ability to act on anomalies before they arise including:
- Real-time infrastructure analytics and real-time monitoring;
- Ability to visualize all edge systems, connected devices and their relationships (i.e., status, location, dependencies) IoT use case grouping; and,
- Defining KPIs / measures, alerts, and actions.
Protect Better: Secure IoT infrastructure across things, edge, network and applications, including the ability to:
- Minimize data exposed by creating a tunnel from data point to application by using VMware NSX as an add-on;
- Enterprise wipe of data from devices at any time if they are exposed to security threats; and,
- Maintain up-to-date firmware and security patches and upgrade software OTA via an integrated policy engine.
Innovate Faster: Streamline and accelerate how IoT gets deployed and scaled to:
- Simplify the deployment of an IoT use case with one management tool for all devices;
- Speed time to value with a simple way to onboard devices and update them over time; and,
- Dynamically deliver the right information to the right thing at the right time -- from edge to cloud with software lifecycle management.
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