Edge compute stack: VMware’s latest innovations [Video]

One of the clear messages to emerge from the VMware Explore conference in Las Vegas this week is that VMware remains fully committed to providing infrastructure solutions, and one of the most critical areas where enterprises will be looking for those solutions is at the edge.

VMware LLC announced several new developments across its product portfolio this week, including enhancements for its Edge Compute Stack, which is emerging as a central element in VMware’s overall endpoint strategy.

“There’s many physical locations … [that] tend to be extremely distributed, but they’re extremely heterogeneous as well,” said Sanjay Uppal(pictured), senior vice president and general manager for the software-defined edge division at Broadcom Inc. “You need to provide access from those locations to the applications that are sitting in the data center. A lot of the data is being generated at the endpoints of the enterprise. If you locate information and compute close to where the endpoints are generating data, then the …