VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas wrapped up a few weeks ago, but we’re still buzzing from all of the action.
From groundbreaking announcements to insightful customer stories, the general session was chock full of information that set the tone for the future of cloud technology.
In this blog, we’ll cover key moments and announcements that are shaping the trajectory of Broadcom and the wider tech landscape.
Whether you were able to attend in person or are catching up from afar, this recap will ensure you don’t miss out on any of the insights shared. Join us as we dive into the highlights and explore what they mean for IT practitioners and developers moving forward.
💡 Tip: You can see a running list of announcements, updates and resources in the Explore 2024 Las Vegas online media kit.
Announcement #1: VMware Cloud Foundation 9
Kicking things off, Paul Turner announced VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9, the future of VCF that will accelerate customers’ transition from siloed IT architectures to a unified and integrated private cloud platform that lowers cost and risk. VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will radically simplify the deployment, consumption and operations of a secure and cost-effective private cloud.
VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry’s first private cloud platform to deliver public cloud scale and agility with private cloud security, resilience and performance, and low overall total cost of ownership. VCF supports customers’ digital innovation with faster infrastructure modernization, a unified cloud experience, and better cyber resiliency and platform security and low total cost of ownership.
Announcement #2: VMware Tanzu Platform 10
Purnima Padmanabhan shared news on the VMware Tanzu Platform 10, a cloud-native application platform that accelerates software delivery, providing platform engineering teams enhanced governance and operational efficiency while reducing toil and complexity for development teams.
The company also introduced Tanzu AI Solutions, a set of capabilities within Tanzu Platform that help application teams deliver GenAI-powered, intelligent applications quickly, safely, and at scale. Tanzu Platform 10 and VMware Cloud Foundation now provide the fastest path to a complete private cloud with a self-configuring setup experience and support for air-gapped environments.
“Business leaders want to harness the power of GenAI in their application strategy, but in many cases, they face complex challenges with this emerging technology, leading teams to create one-off experiments and silos that only add technical debt and risk,” said Purnima Padmanabhan, general manager, Tanzu Division, Broadcom.
“Now, with Tanzu Platform’s built-in AI development framework, developers can build high-performing, intelligent apps, regardless of their experience level or knowledge of Python. Tanzu AI Solutions help development teams go from dabbling in the sandbox to deploying enterprise-ready intelligent applications to production with confidence.”
Announcement #3: Software-Defined Edge Innovations
Next, Sanjay Uppal shared news on developments across the Software-Defined Edge product portfolio to enable enterprises to support Edge AI workloads via new and enhanced connectivity, deployment, and lifecycle management capabilities, including:
- Combined Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and satellite connections support in the VMware VeloCloud Edge 710 appliance as well as the new VMware VeloCloud Edge 720 and 740 appliances.
- VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec enhancements featuring the integration of VeloCloud and Symantec points of presence (PoPs).
- VMware Edge Compute Stack product enhancements.
“We’re focused on enabling enterprises to adopt Edge AI workloads,” said Sanjay Uppal, vice president and general manager, Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom.
“We’ve announced support for Fixed Wireless Access and satellite connections in VMware VeloCloud Edge to deliver critical, blended connectivity for OT devices as well as AI and non-AI edge workloads. We uniquely offer enterprises a good, better, best approach to connectivity at the edge by allowing them to tweak real-time WAN performance, gain insights from the network, and program the network. This convergence of the underlay network enables enterprises to build networks in minutes to support today’s and tomorrow’s workloads.”
Announcement #4: VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA
Finally, Chris Wolf shared context and innovations around the VMware Private AI Foundation and NVIDIA partnership.
Launched with much fanfare at Explore 2023, VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA became generally available this past May. Since then, we have seen tremendous demand for the platform in all major industry verticals, including in the public sector.
At this year’s show, we announced that we are adding new capabilities today, while also showcasing what’s to come when we make VMware Cloud Foundation 9 available in the future.
At Explore 2024 Las Vegas, we introduced a new model store that will enable ML Ops teams and data scientists to curate and provide more secure LLMs with integrated role-based access control to help ensure governance and security for the environment, and privacy of enterprise data and IP.
This new feature is based on the open source Harbor container registry, allowing models to be stored and managed as OCI-compliant containers, and includes native NVIDIA NGC and Hugging Face integrations (including Hugging Face CLI support), offering a simple experience for data scientists and application developers.
Additionally, we’re adding guided deployment to automate workload domain creation workflow and other infrastructure components of VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. This will accelerate deployment speed and a further reduction in administrative tasks resulting in a faster time to value.
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