VMware Rebuilds Edge, IoT Management Platform, Pushes It to the Cloud

VMware rebuilt its edge infrastructure and IoT management platform, Pulse IoT Center. Its 2.0 version is now a cloud service and includes several new device management and security capabilities. The company first launched the platform in May 2017. While the original product was based on an integration between VMware’s AirWatch mobility management software and its operations management software, vRealize Operations, “we build 2.0 brand new from the ground up,” said Mimi Spier, VP of edge and IoT at VMware. Earlier this year at MWC in Barcelona, VMware announced a software stack for edge devices. It’s built on Pulse IoT Center and Photon OS 3.0, an open source, lightweight Linux container host. In addition to Photon, Pulse IoT Center supports any other edge software stack, and it’s also device agnostic.