Name: Beyond SD-WAN: Converging Services & Leveraging Big Data
Start: 2020-01-30T19:00:00Z
End: 2020-01-30T19:00:58.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

The software-defined edge is a distributed digital infrastructure for running workloads across dispersed locations, placed close to the where endpoints are producing or consuming data.



Around the world, enterprises are reimagining business operations and customer experiences with software-defined edge. 

Join us to learn how organizations are applying real-time data analysis and decision-making at the edge to automate operations, enhance security, personalize customer interactions, and more. We’ll explore innovative use cases across multiple industries to see how edge computing is helping enterprises drive competitive advantage and accelerate digital transformation.

The Role of the Edge for Enterprises in the Digital Era

Edge use cases are no longer fringe. Enterprises worldwide are applying AI intelligence at the edge to automate operations, improve decision-making, and enhance customer experiences. How can these organizations efficiently manage hundreds of thousands of distributed OT devices? And how can their service provider partners enable these edge capabilities, along with new offerings like fixed wireless access and open network APIs? With software-defined edge. 

Join us to learn how software-defined edge combines compute, security, programmability, and connectivity to unlock business transformation. You’ll walk away an expert on how VMware’s software-defined edge stack provides the foundation for tomorrow’s IT and OT success.

When the Edge Becomes the Mainstream - What’s Next in Software-Defined Edge

By 2025, Gartner predicts that nearly 50% of enterprise data will be generated at the edge. As edge use cases proliferate, manufacturers must find new strategies to manage this sprawl. 

How can you implement the edge intelligence needed to enable new use cases at distributed manufacturing sites with limited IT resources? How will you manage applications when standard push-based administration won’t work? How can you guarantee the right connectivity to those edge locations, with the right performance, when connectivity parameters are dynamic? Join this session to explore answers to these questions, and others, and learn how to scale your manufacturing edge.

Scaling at the edge

Explore advanced strategies to enhance operational efficiency, streamline network management, and integrate cutting-edge analytics across retail outlets. 

In this session, you’ll learn how to safeguard your network against evolving cyberthreats while ensuring the rapid deployment and scalability needed to deliver amazing customer experiences in a digital world. We’ll explore case studies of retailers successfully navigating their operations towards a more secure, efficient, and resilient future.

Managing Varied Use Cases Across Retail Locations

Digital transformation at the edge is rewriting the rules for retail. From optimizing supply chain management to improving customer data security to enabling new in-store experiences, these edge innovations unlock new possibilities for how retail businesses work. 

Join this session to learn how successful retailers deliver the right resources, at the right time, to support diverse use cases across thousands of distributed locations. Through real-world use cases and demonstrations, you’ll learn how to harness new edge capabilities to unleash new customer experiences and transform retail operations.

Performance of Retails’ Software-Defined Edge

This demo will showcase the capabilities of ABB SSC 600 Lite running on the VMware Edge Compute Stack. You’ll learn how this solution enables smart substation control and protection by providing real-time monitoring, fault prediction, and analysis.

Protect Your Secondary Electric Substation with VMware Edge Compute Stack and ABB SSC 600 Lite

Discover how to revolutionize your tactical edge with VMware Edge Compute Stack. 

In this session, you’ll learn how to deploy and manage a secure and scalable edge infrastructure that enables real-time data processing and analysis. We’ll explore how VMware Edge Compute Stack, which supports both cloud-native and virtual machine workloads, can transform your tactical edge operations by improving situational awareness, enhancing decision-making, and increasing mission effectiveness.

Featuring:
Ramkumar Venketaramani, Senior Director Edge and Private Mobility, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom
Dhruv Tyagi, Product Marketing Engineer, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom

Transforming the Tactical Edge with VMware Edge Compute Stack

Scale your edge infrastructure into your data center using GitOps, a DevOps approach for fast, reliable deployment of applications and infrastructure. 

In this session, you’ll discover how GitOps can help you achieve mission readiness more quickly by automating the deployment and management of edge infrastructure. Learn how this approach reduces risk of human error and improves collaboration among development, operations, and security teams. Explore how VMware Edge Compute Stack can accelerate edge-to-data center integration and improve your overall mission effectiveness.

Scaling Edge into DC, how GitOps enables faster mission readiness

Learn how you can achieve comprehensive edge visibility and monitoring for tactical edge operations. 

In this session, we’ll explore how edge visibility solutions enabled by VMware Edge Compute Stack can provide real-time visibility into your edge infrastructure, applications, and data flows. Discover how to use this visibility to enable autonomous operations, automate decision-making, and optimize your edge infrastructure for maximum performance and security.

Edge Visibility Fit for Tactical Edge Autonomous Operations

More organizations want to deploy applications out at the edge, close to where data is generated and consumed. Yet edge environments bring fundamentally different challenges than traditional cloud or data center deployments. Organizations must overcome constrained hardware resources, deploy behind private networks, and manage assets across thousands of sites—all while preserving agility via tried-and-true DevOps processes like GitOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). 

Join us to learn how VMware Edge Compute Stack and VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (VECO) helps organizations overcome all of these challenges. We’ll share specific use cases and demos, and show how this purpose-built edge solution benefits end customers and partners alike.

Edge Evolution: Unveiling VMware's Solutions for Agile Edge Management

Generative AI, computer vision, and other emerging innovations are transforming business operations at the edge. At retail stores, factories, power plants, and other dispersed locations, new edge applications can automate operations and analyze and act on data in real time—but only if businesses can deploy and operate them efficiently at scale. 

Join us to learn how VMware Edge Compute Stack, an edge-optimized runtime and orchestration platform, can drive down complexity and unleash the full potential of new edge technologies. You’ll learn how new and upcoming capabilities in VMware Edge Compute Stack and VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (VECO) can help your organization tap into the edge revolution.

Gain an Edge with VMware Edge Compute Stack

Explore how VMware Edge Compute Stack enables rapid disaster response where every second counts. We'll walk through a scenario where a natural disaster occurs and see how VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator uses GitOps to quickly update edge applications, ensuring that remote troops receive real-time information and can respond effectively.

VMware Edge Compute Stack for the Tactical Edge Demo

Enterprises developing and deploying a SASE strategy are voting with their wallets, with single-vendor SASE solutions continuing to outpace multi-vendor solutions, and this trend will accelerate over the next several years. Simplified vendor relationships, simpler management, streamlined troubleshooting and reduced TCO are all factors cited by enterprise technical leaders who have selected a single-vendor SASE solution. 

In this webcast, Mauricio Sanchez, Dell’Oro Senior Director of Enterprise Networking and Security Market Research, and VMware’s Jay Thontakudi explore the evolving landscape of SASE and how to align your SASE adoption with operational realities, security, needs and growth goals. 

In this webinar you’ll gain a deeper understanding of:

* Why integrating SASE into your IT strategy is essential, and how SASE can ignite compute at the edge and enable secure connectivity to and through the cloud

* The advantages of a single-vendor SASE approach, that simplifies management, reduces total cost of ownership (TCO), and boosts operational efficiency. 

* How to develop a strategic plan with phased implementation, to fully leverage the benefits of SASE that aligns with your organization's operational realities and growth objectives.

Embracing the IT Transformation Trifecta with Single Vendor SASE

In the era of Industry 4.0, with Industry 5.0 on the horizon, manufacturers are embracing digital transformation to gain greater efficiencies sustainably and remain competitive.  As a result, manufacturers are increasingly relying on critical applications and connected IoT devices.  It is important to ensure that the applications, connected devices, and personnel are always connected and secure to increase production uptime and safeguard sensitive data. Furthermore, the IT-OT integration at the manufacturing shopfloor is enabling manufacturers to unlock valuable insights providing a competitive edge.

In this webinar, we discuss how VMware Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) provides the foundation for your digital transformation journey. In addition, we will explore:

• The evolving digital transformation landscape in manufacturing
• How to identify the challenges and seize the opportunities posed by Industry 5.0
• The pivotal role of SASE in maintaining your competitive advantage
• Choosing VMware SASE: the pathway to next-level success

How SASE & Edge Technologies Drive Manufacturing Transformation in Industry 4.0

As the manufacturing industry undergoes a profound transformation driven by Industry 4.0, the integration of cloudification, data analytics, and automation has unlocked unparalleled opportunities for progress. Smart factories, brimming with interconnected devices, enable seamless production, automated material procurement, predictive maintenance, lean process optimization, and the emergence of dark factories monitored remotely for efficiency. 

Amidst this digital renaissance, however, lurk significant cybersecurity challenges. With the growing reliance on digital assets, including industrial IoT devices, user devices, applications, and data, the need for robust security measures has never been more critical. Safeguarding not only these assets but also the physical manufacturing sites, along with the well-being of employees, suppliers, and stakeholders, is paramount. 

In this webinar, we delve into the heart of these cybersecurity concerns and unveil how VMware SASE provides a multi-layered defense approach to fortify your manufacturing ecosystem. 

Watch now and gain insights into how VMware’s SASE solution can serve as your trusted partner in securing every facet of your Industry 4.0 journey, ensuring the safety and resilience of your digital manufacturing infrastructure.

Safeguarding Industry 4.0:  Defend Your Manufacturing Ecosystem with VMware SASE

In the fast-paced world of manufacturing, seamless operations are non-negotiable. VMware Edge Network Intelligence emerges as the solution of choice, offering you a comprehensive platform to establish baselines for essential services and applications, creating a solid foundation to measure performance. But that's just the beginning—the real strength of this solution lies in its ability to be your vigilant sentinel, providing real-time notifications when any performance deviations occur, be it at a single site or across the entire company.

Together, we'll embark on a captivating journey through the features, demonstrating how it revolutionizes network visibility by keeping you in the driver's seat. Witness how the solution's granular insights provide the crucial information needed to proactively address potential issues and safeguard your manufacturing processes against any disruptions.

In this webinar, you will learn:

> The pivotal role of network visibility in ensuring manufacturing continuity.
> Harnessing Edge Network Intelligence capabilities to establish performance baselines for critical services and applications.
> How real-time notifications empower your team to take immediate action on performance changes.

Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your manufacturing operations to the next level of efficiency and productivity. Secure your spot now to unleash the true potential of Edge Network Intelligence in providing unmatched network visibility and safeguarding your organization's continuity. 

Join us as we embark on a transformative journey towards fortified manufacturing continuity!

Fortifying Manufacturing Continuity with Edge Network Intelligence

When Sumitomo Bakelite Europe, a world leader in high-performance plastics solutions, replaced their costly MPLS data lines with VMware SD-WAN, they were able to reduce their monthly data costs by 60% -- without impacting business operations.

Watch this brief webinar to discover how VMware SD-WAN helped Sumitomo have better-performing data connections between its European sites, at a much lower cost.

“VMware SD-WAN has reduced the workload for the IT team, especially in case of issues. And if we expand to other European countries or elsewhere in the world, we only need to install an SD-WAN Edge locally and contact the local provider for a data line.” 
~ Mark Renders, European ICT Coordinator, Sumitomo Bakelite Europe

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How Sumitomo Bakelite Europe Ensures Uninterrupted Operations

SD-WAN has entered the mainstream and transformed how we operate and manage networks, bringing unprecedented simplicity, resiliency and control. Now, SD-WAN is transforming again, incorporating next generation firewall capabilities on universal CPE and combining the best elements of cloud and on-premises security. It’s also unleashing analytics and machine learning (AI), to turn ever increasing volumes of network data into actionable insights. 
 
In this webinar, you will learn how: 
- Converging SD-WAN, security and other network services improves the end user experience.
- Centralized intelligence allows for improved service management and the control of application traffic flows.
- Universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) enables edge convergence and agility, extending visibility and control to cloud service providers for improved application performance. 
- Big data and machine learning are unleashing actionable insights that elevate the value your network brings to the business. 
- Network insights can shift traffic flows and influence higher level application decisions
 
 
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