Mimi Spier, VMware  | VMworld 2018
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 29/08/2018

Mimi Spier, VMware, sits with Lisa Martin & Dave Vellante for VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, NV.

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VMware, Dell EMC leverage hyperconverged learnings in pursuit of a simplified edge

Before the availability of streamlined hybrid platform management, the complexities of cloud migration threatened to impede modernization at legacy enterprises with increasingly insufficient data infrastructures. Through its breakthroughs in hyperconverged innovation, VMware Inc. enabled that public cloud accessibility for traditional on-premises organizations and proved its ability to link disparate, complex platforms in one streamlined service.

With significant progress in its core cloud migration business, VMware is now aiming to extend that bridge to the edge.

“We want to focus on infrastructure, but we want to help our customers go to the edge and start to embrace this new opportunity in the industry to be able to take advantage of this data,” said Mimi Spier (pictured), vice president of internet of things business at VMware.

With a track record in uniting partners and technologies to drive industry transformation forward, Spier is leading the VMware and Dell EMC charge to help customers leverage internet of things benefits and engage in a new era of tech.

Spier recently spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Lisa Martin (@LuccaZara), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the VMworld conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. (* Disclosure below.)

This week, theCUBE spotlights Mimi Spier in our Women in Tech feature.

Giving IoT the multicloud treatment
In a market increasingly focused on automation and predictive self-optimization, use cases for the internet of things abound, and businesses are beginning to take advantage of this rapidly growing opportunity. By 2020, IoT spend is forecast to reach $267B, and according to Spier, 50 to 75 percent of data will be generated at the edge.

From self-driving cars to the connected devices that have become all but essential to our daily lives, the expanding presence of IoT is pumping an ever-increasing mass of data into businesses currently lacking the appropriate tools to leverage its full value. “There must be edge computing that is local to be able to process that data,” Spier said.

To give customers the simplicity of a consistent infrastructure from on-prem to public cloud to every edge gateway, Dell and VMware are combining their operational and foundational strengths for an end-to-end new portfolio of solutions, called VMware Edge, that drastically simplifies the development of IoT infrastructure, according to Spier.

“Everything that VMware customers experience in their private cloud, their [software-defined data center] solution, public cloud, we are now going to offer as a service at the edge. Same infrastructure, same operational model as the hyper cloud, but at the edge with the choice of the application development tools that they would like,” Spier said.

The newly released hyperconverged appliance Project Dimension offers a software-defined approach to management, monitoring and security across a heterogeneous set of platform providers, system integrators, devices, and edge gateways. The addition to VMware’s portfolio provides a single virtual platform to replace a process that is currently painstaking and oftentimes manual.

“Project Dimension will have a management layer that allows you to move your infrastructure and choose where you want to run that appliance as a service or infrastructure, whether it be the public cloud, the private cloud or the data center, and the edge,” Spier said.

The company also rolled out the latest version of its software for connected device management, the Pulse IoT Center 2.0, with new features to facilitate more transparent collaborations between information technology and operational technology in platform management.

“What we want to do with Dell is offer these end-to-end solutions so that it’s more simple, you can go to one place to consume it, ensure that it gets deployed, and support that solution, but offering it from a multitude of our partners,” Spier said.

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Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld conference. (* Disclosure: VMware Inc. sponsored coverage of VMworld, and some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)