Take, for example, VMware’s SASE product. “You get single-vendor SASE from us,” says Uppal. “But now this single-vendor SASE has the ability to support the new networking that is coming out from these edge AI workloads.”
Similarly, the VeloCloud Edge Compute Stack has a different orchestration mechanism than what companies are normally used to with data centers, he says. “Because what is getting orchestrated is distributed around sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of locations.”
There’s added complexity given that sometimes, the data collected at the edge is processed at the edge, and sometimes it has to be correlated and aggregated centrally, he adds.
There are now several customers for the latest version of VeloCloud Edge Compute Stack in various stages of implementation, Uppal says, with hundreds of edge deployments.
“We’re aligned with Broadcom’s Edge AI approach,” says Keith Bradley, vice president for IT and security at Nature Fresh Farms, in a statement. “We rely on IoT devices at the edge – in our greenhouses and other facilities – to monitor and capture data used to keep millions of growing plants healthy.”
Nature Fresh Farms uses 5G and broadband to connect facilities across Canada and US via the VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN. And it uses VMware VeloCloud SD-Access to get consistent connectivity, performance, and security for its IoT devices in these remote locations.
