This chapter will brief you about how Software-defined Data Centers (SDDC) can span across multiple data centers and into hybrid service providers, independent of physical infrastructure with distributed data and applications. Digital transformation is changing the mode of business, and the Internet of Things (IoT) plays a critical part in this transformation. Business growth is accelerating and exploring better ways to bring new products and services to market quickly with a modern data center that can provide the agility, security, and scalability required to power innovation and growth. We will learn about the core requirements that customers are looking for in IoT implementation. 

We will learn about why IoT is so critical for health, research, science, and retail customers as their application and data will be utilized from data center to cloud to edge devices. We will also look at the transformation of networking for IoT by understanding how to manage/process massive data across edge devices, along with VMware Pulse IoT use cases across different verticals.

We will cover the following topics:

• IoT and ML
• IoT need hybrid cloud to be managed beyond regional boundaries
• Distributed networking 
• Security with the virtual cloud network
• VMware Pulse IoT Center