About a year ago, an astute college at VMware, Kevin Lees, reached out inquiring about writing a book on Operationalizing VMware vSAN. He had created a book on Operationalizing VMware NSX and thought writing one on vSAN would be a good idea. His extensive background in consulting and expertise in operationalizing infrastructure makes him a perfect fit for this series of books. I of course said it was a great idea and we talked about the topics to cover. I kept in touch with the project for a few months and scanned an early draft. Many others jumped in after than and helped create the book that was just recently released. Its a great read so check it out here:
Month: January 2019
Raspberry Pi 3B+ and VMware Pulse 1.1
This is a guest post written by Parth Trivedi and Peter Keilty and is a repeat of a post found here.
IoT is an emerging topic and much has been written about all the exciting use cases around manufacturing, healthcare, smart cities. You can read some of VMware’s perspective here: Transform Your Industry with IoT. Many of these exciting use cases include the use of the Raspberry Pi and in some instances, there are hundreds to thousands of them. VMware is working with one manufacturer that has 400 Raspberry Pis in a single manufacturing plant.
Onboard, Monitor, Manage and Secure
While it’s fun to think about how these are being used and the amazing business value that is being achieved, it’s also important to talk about how to onboard, monitor, manage and secure these devices. That’s where VMware Pulse™ IoT Center™ comes in. What vCenter does for data center infrastructure, and Workspace One does for EUC, Pulse IoT Center does for IoT and Edge. VMware Pulse IoT Center is a secure, enterprise-grade, end-to-end IoT infrastructure management solution that allows OT and IT to have complete control over their IoT use cases, from the edge all the way to the cloud.
Manage Raspberry Pis at Scale
If you have Pulse IoT Center and are working with Raspberry Pi, you can download the Raspberry Pi 3B+ and VMware Pulse 1.1 technical solution guide for your reference to help you manage them at scale. Good luck and happy IoT!
IoT and Edge: My Next Chapter at VMware
A few months ago I made a significant career move within VMware. I love working for VMware, it’s a great company (#39 on Fortune 100 Best) with great people and leadership (#2 Fortune Business Person of the Year) and an amazing culture with its EPIC2 values. VMware is constantly innovating and encourages its people to help shape the company future. I was lucky enough to be one of the first vSAN SE’s in the world and help the evolution of that product from 0 to 14,000+ customers (as of Aug 2018). I was also extremely lucky to work with the amazing SABU product team, sales leadership, and fellow SE’s. After 5 years on the vSAN team, I discovered an opportunity to join the IoT and Edge team at VMware. This is a relatively new group with some equally talented people on the product, sales and SE team and I’m thrilled to be part of it. This group will form the VMware IoT and Edge strategy and deliver products to solve exciting problems customers will face with their IoT and Edge projects. It’s a whole new world for me that is very exciting and interesting. IoT has been around for a long time, but, it’s now becoming mainstream and taking off in a big way. I’m a startup guy and can see that this is going to be fun.
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