VMware Explore 2025 in Las Vegas delivered groundbreaking announcements and strategic insights that are reshaping the trajectory of private cloud and AI innovation. From transformative platform capabilities to game-changing partnerships, this year’s general session set the stage for what’s next in enterprise technology.
Whether you attended in person or are catching up remotely, this recap ensures you won’t miss the key developments that matter most to IT practitioners and developers. Let’s dive into the highlights that are simplifying cloud complexity and architecting the future of enterprise infrastructure.
For a complete overview of announcements and resources, visit the VMware Explore 2025 Las Vegas Media Kit.
VMware Explore 2025 delivered groundbreaking announcements and strategic insights that are reshaping the trajectory of private cloud and AI innovation. Stay up to date with the latest news and announcements in this General Session recap. Share on X
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0: The First Unified Private Cloud Platform
The numbers tell a compelling story: 92% of companies trust private cloud security and compliance, and 7 out of 10 organizations have repatriated or plan to repatriate workloads from public to private clouds. The challenge? Integration complexity between compute, networking, and storage components.
Broadcom’s answer is VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, the industry’s first unified private cloud platform. This breakthrough solution addresses the core friction points enterprises face, enabling private cloud to outperform public cloud in three critical areas: security, cost, and control.
The platform transforms the developer experience by eliminating infrastructure concerns. Modern applications run on containers, and developers simply want to write code using their preferred DevOps tools—while IT maintains necessary guardrails. This approach empowers development teams, protects business operations without sacrificing speed, and builds the foundation for future innovation.
The market validation is striking: 9 out of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies have committed to VMware Cloud Foundation, with Walmart—the world’s #1 Fortune company—selecting Broadcom as their strategic vendor for virtualization.
AI-Ready Data and Application Platform for Agentic AI Innovation
To accelerate software development and infuse enterprise applications with intelligence based on proprietary data, Broadcom announced VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence—a data lakehouse platform delivering unified, low-latency access to multimodal data at scale. This drives faster, more secure analytics, applications, and agentic AI capabilities. Complementing this announcement, VMware Tanzu Platform 10.3 accelerates the safe development and integration of generative AI capabilities into both new and existing enterprise applications, providing the foundation for AI-driven innovation.
Private AI as a Service: Making AI Native
Building on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0’s redefinition of modern private cloud, Broadcom announced that VMware Private AI Services will become a standard component of VCF 9.0. This makes VCF an AI-native platform that customers can adopt for secure, modern private cloud infrastructure at scale.
VCF customers will gain access to cutting-edge AI innovations including:
- Intelligent Assist for VCF for enhanced operational efficiency
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for seamless integration
- Multi-accelerator model runtime enabling flexible AI model deployment across diverse hardware, including AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, without requiring application refactoring
Strengthening Cyber Resilience with Advanced Compliance
Security remains paramount in modern private cloud environments. Broadcom introduced the VCF Advanced Cyber Compliance solution, along with updates across VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer. These enhancements strengthen resilience, compliance, and security for customers in regulated industries by integrating industry-leading technologies spanning policy management, infrastructure security, and cyber resilience.
Strategic Partnerships Driving Innovation
Broadcom’s collaboration with industry leaders extends capabilities and accelerates customer success. These strategic partnerships demonstrate how integrated ecosystems deliver greater value than standalone solutions.
VMware Cloud Foundation and Canonical Ubuntu Partnership
Broadcom and Canonical announced an expanded collaboration combining Canonical’s trusted open-source software with VMware Cloud Foundation. This partnership helps customers ship modern container-based and AI applications faster and more securely, accelerating innovation while reducing costs and risks.
Accelerating AI Innovation with NVIDIA
The collaboration with NVIDIA brings cutting-edge AI technology to VMware Cloud Foundation, empowering enterprises and cloud service providers to build, deploy, and scale next-generation AI models on advanced AI servers within their private cloud environments.
Key enhancements include:
- Support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, including NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition GPUs
- NVIDIA networking integration for comprehensive AI infrastructure
- Enhanced VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA capabilities
These broad options for NVIDIA accelerated computing address the increasing demand for choice, flexibility, and operational efficiency in AI infrastructure.
Walmart Strategic Collaboration
In a landmark partnership, Broadcom has been named a strategic vendor for virtualization software solutions for Walmart. Leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation, this collaboration will help unify Walmart’s globally distributed operations, enhance the shopping experience, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate innovative service delivery.
This partnership exemplifies how Broadcom, through its portfolio of VMware products, enables large-scale enterprises to transform their technology infrastructure while maintaining operational excellence.
Looking Ahead: Your Path to Innovation
The announcements from VMware Explore 2025 in Las Vegas demonstrate Broadcom’s commitment to simplifying cloud complexity while empowering organizations to architect their technological future. From unified private cloud platforms to AI-native capabilities and strategic partnerships, these innovations provide the foundation for meaningful business transformation.
As you evaluate these developments, consider how VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, Private AI Services, and enhanced security capabilities can elevate your organization’s private cloud potential and competitive edge.
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