If you’ve been digging through our video library post-Explore, you’ve probably noticed a theme: AI infrastructure isn’t just a buzzword anymore—it’s the conversation every practitioner is having right now.
The five sessions below were among the most-watched from our Innovation track, and it’s not hard to see why. They tackle the real challenges IT teams are wrestling with today: how to actually size and deploy AI workloads without overspending, how to secure private AI environments without adding complexity, and how to cut through the operational noise that comes with managing increasingly complex infrastructure.
If you missed them live in Las Vegas or want to revisit the details, now’s the time to dive in. Each session brings real-world lessons and tactical approaches you can start applying to your own infrastructure.
10 Innovations in Storage and Disaster Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation [INVB1556LV]
We live in a duality: an era of expansive opportunity from digital innovation, yet an era of seemingly endless cyber warfare. Applications deliver more key goods and services than ever before, yet AI/ML-powered cyber attacks are breaking the boundaries of organizations’ defenses, and consequences only grow exponentially.
This created a paradigm shift in the way organizations should design and implement defenses. The modern threat landscape requires new solutions that can scale rapidly and enable protection, detection, response, and rapid recovery. However, delivering successful outcomes carries challenges, which the VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) platform is uniquely engineered to address.
Join us to learn more about key innovation announcements that will enhance the VMware portfolio across infrastructure, cyber detection, restore, and platform integration.
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Accelerating AI Workloads: Mastering vGPU Management in VMware Environments [INVB1158LV]
Looking to maximize your GPU investment for AI/ML workloads? This session provides essential knowledge for virtualizing and managing NVIDIA GPUs in VMware environments.
We will explore GPU sharing options including time-slicing and Multi-Instance GPU, demonstrate vGPU profiles, and show real-world performance benchmarks. You will learn best practices for vGPU placement with DRS, understand stun-time considerations for vMotion, and discover effective monitoring tools.
We also preview innovations in GPU resource management, including improved visibility and advanced reservation capabilities. Whether you are running entry-level AI projects or LLMs at scale, we will provide practical guidance for optimizing your infrastructure.
Join us to unlock the full potential of your VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA and accelerate your AI journey.
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Reduce Noise in VMware Cloud Foundation with Automation: How AI agents Will Transform IT [INVB1790LV]
In today’s increasingly complex IT landscapes, VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) administrators face a constant barrage of operational noise, from excessive alerts to manual integration processes across disparate systems.
This thought leadership session explores how intelligent automation frameworks can reduce this noise while establishing the foundation for AI-powered operations. We will examine how external automation solutions can integrate with VCF environments to streamline deployments, enhance visibility, and enable proactive risk management through pattern recognition.
Drawing on value stream management principles and real-world architectures, you will gain insights into building automation ecosystems that deliver immediate operational benefits while positioning your organization for the AI-augmented future of cloud infrastructure management.
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Building Secure Private AI Deep Dive [INVB1432LV]
Discover how to securely build and scale private AI infrastructure using VMware® vDefend™ and VMware® Private AI with NVIDIA.
This session will guide you through designing a robust private AI architecture with built-in data protection, workload isolation, and automated policy enforcement. Learn how vDefend enhances AI model security with segmentation and real-time threat detection, while Private AI with NVIDIA provides the platform to deploy and manage AI workloads with full control.
Ideal for architects and security teams, this session delivers practical insights to operationalize AI securely in a private cloud environment.
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Real-World Lessons in Rightsizing VMware Cloud Foundation for On-Premises AI Workloads [INVB1300LV]
AI workloads—especially those powered by large language models (LLMs)—are reshaping how we design, size, and operate infrastructure. It is no longer just about compute and storage. Model size, inference latency, concurrency, and GPU allocation all have a major impact.
In this session, Frank Denneman and Johan van Amersfoort share real-world lessons from designing and deploying AI-ready VMware Cloud Foundation® platforms across multiple customer environments. You will learn practical strategies for rightsizing infrastructure, weighing the trade-offs between backup and MLOps pipelines, and designing for on-premises AI workloads.
Using a practical AI infrastructure sizing tool, they will demonstrate how to align infrastructure with real-world demands and guide conversations with stakeholders and AI ISVs to help you make smarter, more cost-effective platform decisions.
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These five sessions represent the best of what VMware Explore 2025 had to offer, as chosen by the people who matter most: our community of IT professionals. Each session tackles real-world challenges with practical solutions you can implement in your own environment.
Missed the conference or want to revisit these highly-rated sessions? All VMware Explore content is available on-demand in the video library.
