It’s the end of VMware Explore Las Vegas 2023! We’ve had a blast diving into so many insightful sessions, many of which are available on demand for your convenience. But don’t worry, this isn’t goodbye—it’s just “see you later”. We’re looking forward to catching up with you at our next Explore event in Barcelona.
More than 280 recorded sessions, including the general session, are already available in the VMware Explore on-demand video library. Bookmark the page for more to come!
To specifically see SASE, SD-WAN and Edge sessions, visit our blog post SD-WAN, SASE, and Edge at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas. Scroll down and click on the session you want to view. If the recording has posted, you will see a “Watch Now” button. All sessions should be online by the end of Friday August 25.
Planning is well underway for VMware Explore Barcelona, at the Fira Gran Via from November 6 – 9 2023. Discounts are still available for early registration, so click here to save.
Visit the global VMware Explore page for more information about upcoming Explore events in Singapore, São Paulo, and Tokyo.
Sanjay Uppal’s keynote address, “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Living on the Edge with VMware” is online, with a special introduction from VMware Explore host Jef Tyler. (This blog would like to meet his tailor.)
Customer sessions highlighting SD-WAN and the edge
The show ended on a high note for the SASE and Edge crew with two customer sessions. The team from Providence presented Customer Case Study: Redesigning a Mission-Critical WAN to Drive Business. Providence was faced with a fractured WAN topology and manual processes for a network that serves more than 700 locations. They wanted to transition to one network—because in healthcare, network downtime can translate into lives lost.
Providence began by replacing their WAN with a single national carrier. Adding VMware SD-WAN™ brought a host of benefits, including the ability to rapidly respond to new requirements, spin up new sites fast, reduce outages, and get better connectivity for clinics in rural or underserved areas. The IT team now has advanced telemetry through single-pane-of-glass management, automated deployment through APIs, and the ability to manage configuration drift.
VMware Edge Innovation: In Vehicle Apps with Mobile Intelligent Edge discussed the tech behind one of the most popular demos on the Explore show floor: a Ford F-150 truck equipped with a small, rugged VMware Edge Compute Stack device, paired with software from our partner Jenoptik, for applications such as automatic license plate recognition. You can see the truck (and Jef Tyler’s suit!) in the headline photo for this blog post.
The innovative force behind this demo was the joint police forces of Surrey and Sussex counties in the UK. Serving over 2 million people in two of the UK’s most densely populated counties with a team of more than 8,300 officers and staff, they’re not just keeping pace, they’re setting it. The demo was also featured in Sanjay Uppal’s keynote, which you can see above, as an example of a real-life use case for the software-defined edge. You can read more about the genesis of the demo, and the forces’ VMware SD-WAN journey, in our case study For Surrey and Sussex Police, Connectivity Is a Public Service.
The robot games
We have been talking all week about the power of edge compute and our announcement of VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator™. Of course, because we’re in Las Vegas, we had to show off a really practical use for VMware Edge Compute Stack™: Robots playing blackjack. Although VMware Edge Compute Stack could manage thousands of OT endpoints in a factory or chain of retail stores, those use cases are hard to scale down for an industry event. Take a look at the demo that shows the fun side of Edge Compute Stack and VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator.
See you next time!
It was truly inspiring to connect with so many of our valued customers and partners at VMware Explore Las Vegas 2023. We’re always thrilled to see firsthand how you’re leveraging our solutions to turn the impossible into the essential, proving that yes, it can be done. It’s your innovation and drive that fuels our commitment to providing smarter approaches to cloud technology. So here’s to you—we can’t wait to see what we’ll achieve together next!
