Calling all Explorers! Mark your calendars and get ready to be blown away by an electrifying solution keynote presentation at VMware Explore Las Vegas. On Tuesday August 22, follow the crowds to Hall A, Level 2 in the Venetian at 2:45 pm PST where Sanjay Uppal, Senior Vice President and GM of VMware’s Service Provider and Edge Business Unit, will take the stage to unravel the mysteries of edge networking.
In his captivating talk, titled “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Living on the Edge with VMware,” Uppal will delve into the transformative power of edge computing. He will explore the current state of the market, the immense opportunities it presents, and how VMware is poised to empower customers in leveraging edge networking to its full potential.
The edge is everywhere: a problem becomes an opportunity
Consider this: Analysts expect enterprises to increase their edge investments at a CAGR of 37% from 2023 to 2030. Edge compute spending is forecast to grow from 208 billion in 2023 to $317 billion in 2026. That’s a lot of devices and bandwidth.
As enterprises dive headfirst into digital transformation, they are contending with edge sprawl—an ever-expanding universe of internet-connected devices. These diverse devices at the enterprise edge, from AI-equipped cameras that help grow and sort greenhouse vegetables to programmable PLCs in remote wind turbines, present unique challenges and opportunities in terms of data management, security, and integration into existing infrastructure.
Almost the opposite of cloud solutions that hold enterprise-scale data, the edge is spread over hundreds and thousands of sites such as retail stores, medical offices, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, or even ships and vehicles in motion. Each site becomes a mini data center with its own compute, storage, and connectivity to solve very specific business problems.
This demands an intelligent, scalable infrastructure that can adapt to rapidly changing business needs. At VMware, scalability isn’t just a feature. It’s what we do. Whether it’s thousands of SD-WAN sites or millions of edge devices for telcos, VMware has field-proven solutions for anything the enterprise can throw at us, from provisioning network capacity to orchestrating compute workloads.
Sanjay Uppal will show you the software-defined edge: a distributed digital infrastructure for running workloads across dispersed locations, placed close to endpoints producing or consuming data. It’s an industry-first approach to a consolidated, unified edge architecture that will help your enterprise harness the potential of the edge.
Highlighting the edge for public safety
During the keynote, Sanjay will highlight a demo that combines VMware Edge Compute Stack with VMware SD-WAN. At VMware Explore Las Vegas, you will have the opportunity to see this demo in person in the Technology Zone. Check out a Ford F-150 equipped with technology from VMware and partner Jenoptik that uses video inferencing to automatically read license plate numbers.
Programming the underlay with Mariam Sorond
Behind the scenes of any good edge compute solution is a good network. Watch as Sanjay welcomes Mariam Sorond, CTO of the Service Provider and Edge Business Unit, as she walks through the network slicing techniques that will bring unbeatable connectivity to edge compute deployments. Just as police cars turn on their sirens to cut through traffic, VMware solutions can ensure that edge workloads get the correct priority when necessary. Sorond will show you how a single integrated solution can improve QoS for both compute and connectivity.
Scaling the edge with Dish Networks
What do telcos and enterprises have in common? At the edge, they both need highly specific solutions that solve business problems. We will welcome Dish Networks to the stage to talk about their first-hand experience with edge objectives, use cases and strategies. Dish Networks and VMware built a brand-new 5G network from the ground up to serve enterprise customers. Now they are building a network of networks, extending across the complex RAN environment. Dish Networks’ vast experience with proliferation, optimization, consolidation and scale at the edge will inform the enterprise experience.
Join us at VMware Explore for this enlightening keynote presentation, and discover how VMware’s expertise sets us apart in the industry.
