VMware Explore 2024: Latest news and insights

VMware Explore 2024 will run August 26-29 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Attendees can expect to learn about the latest developments in virtualization, cloud infrastructure, network security, edge computing, and AI-driven operations.

Attendees and industry watchers will be anxious to hear from Broadcom executives. The buzz has hardly died down since Broadcom announced plans to acquire VMWare more than two years ago, and concerns about the impact of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware linger. (Read more about the Broadcom-VMware timeline)

Enterprise customers are still learning how licensing changes will affect their existing investments, which products may be bundled or discontinued, and how Broadcom plans to continue to invest in VMware product development. As it all shakes out, VMware Explore 2024 takes on added significance for enterprise customers looking to chart their tech roadmaps. Follow Network World’s coverage and check out some our most popular related articles below.

VMware Explore 2024

Broadcom’s vision for VMware highlights private clouds, private AI

Aug 30, 2024: A year ago, VMware’s big annual VMware Explore conference was all about generative AI – specifically, about companies running AI applications within a hybrid cloud infrastructure. This year, attendees heard more about VMware’s partnership with Nvidia to deliver generative AI models and tools – but in the context of a private cloud.

Broadcom CEO pushes on-prem private clouds

Aug 29, 2024: In a keynote address at VMware Explore 2024, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan talked up the new version of VMware Cloud Foundation and extolled the future of the enterprise: “private cloud, private AI, your own private data.”

VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates

Aug 28, 2024: Some companies are looking to third-party AI platforms that don’t lock them into any one particular AI vendor or cloud provider, and VMware – now owned by Broadcom – is one of the leading contenders for the job. Today, at the annual VMware Explore conference, Broadcom sweetened the deal, announcing support for a new model store for the VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia add-on to its VMware Cloud Foundation 9 platform.

With Project Cypress, VMware brings generative AI to cyberdefense

Aug 27, 2024: At the VMware Explore conference this week, VMware announced the addition of a generative AI tool, called Project Cypress, to its own vDefend cybersecurity platform. “Security teams get overwhelmed with a large number of threat campaigns and false alarms,” says Umesh Mahajan, vice president and general manager for application networking and security at Broadcom. “Project Cypress, via a natural language interface, helps triage and investigate high-risk threat campaigns faster, explains a particular threat campaign with additional context needed for the security team to quickly take appropriate actions, recommends remediation options, and can enforce the remediation option selected by the security team via vDefend’s threat prevention capabilities.”

VMware upgrades software-defined edge for AI workloads

Aug 27, 2024: VMware has added connectivity options and traffic-management capabilities to its software-defined edge products to better support generative AI workloads. Edge computing will play a “pivotal role” in the deployment of AI applications, according to IDC, which expects spending on edge computing to reach $232 billion in 2024, an increase of 15.4% over 2023.

Customer concerns loom as VMware Explore event approaches

Aug 19, 2024: Enterprise customers have questions about VMware’s future direction, licensing changes, and product roadmap following Broadcom’s takeover. Customers want to continue to see innovation across the VMware portfolio, says one analyst. They also want to see Broadcom focus on integration, interface design, and an easier adoption path. 

VMware Explore 2023

Generative AI dominates VMware Explore 2023 news

Aug 25, 2023: Highlights include a private AI platform developed with Nvidia that lets enterprises run generative AI applications on their proprietary data within VMware’s hybrid cloud infrastructure.

VMware Cloud gains faster ransomware recovery, expanded management capabilities

Aug 22, 2023: Among the announcements at the VMware Explore conference is a new IBM-managed service based on VMware Cloud editions.

VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments

Aug 22, 2023: VMware NSX+ is a new cloud-managed service that enables consistent network operations and centralized security policy creation and enforcement in multicloud environments.

VMware combines SASE and edge management in new orchestration platform, announces private 5G service

Aug 22, 2023: News from the VMware Explore conference includes a unified management platform for VMware’s SASE and edge computing stack, along with a new managed private mobile networking service.

VMware, Nvidia team on enterprise-grade AI platform

Aug 22, 2023: VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications on their own infrastructure in their data centers, at the edge, and in their clouds.