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VMware Explore 2024 EMEA runs this week in Barcelona. As every year, a lot of new and exciting announcements came out. So here a summary of my personal highlights.

All VMware Explore Session published can be found on https://www.vmware.com/explore/video-library.html and the VMware Explore 2024 Media Kit is here https://news.broadcom.com/vmware-explore-2024-barcelona-media-kit . All Sessions recordings & Presentations are here https://github.com/lamw/vmware-explore-2024-session-urls

Note: No time to go through all of the keynote? ->> Hot ->> start at Time marker 36:00 – 47:25

Keynote Summary:

VMware Explore 2024 Keynote ->> https://www.vmware.com/explore/video-library/video/6364237808112 (Session ID GEN1671BCN)

00:00 – 05:30 Joe Baguley – Setting the stage, VMUG, vExpert and more
05:30 – 15:15 CEO Broadcom, “What we are hearing from you”, “enterprises to move back to private cloud”, “Data Center Silos Slow Innovation”, “Sovereign Cloud”
15:15 – 31:15 Paul Turner “Breaking up silos with VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation)”,”…private cloud is not a place, it’s a platform”,
- 20:10 – 23:00 Operations ->> Major Announcement “VMware Cloud Foundation 9” ->> first look. https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/08/27/vmware-cloud-foundation-9/
- 23:00 – 26:40 Automation ->> “Tenants, Central automation, Self-Service, K8s,Troubleshoot, Infra as Code”
- 26:40 – 27:25 Innovation in the core
- 27:25 – 29:10 Start today with VCF 5.2 and move more easily to VCF 9.0 tomorrow.
- 29:10 – 31:15 Customer voice ->> RATIODATA and VCF
31:15 – 53:15 Joe Baguley – What is “advanced services layer”? Walk through demo
- 33:19 – 34:10 Major Announcement -> VMware Life Recovery for Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) and https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/11/05/vmware-live-recovery-google-cloud-vmware-engine/
- 34:10 – 35:05 Major Announcement -> VMware Tanzu Data Services with VCF (worth to mention: great Youtube Series from Cormac Hogan here)
- 35:05 – 36:00 Major Announcement -> VMware vDefend Intelligent Assist plus Demo
- 36:00 – 47:25 “Bring it to life”
  - 36:00 – 47:25 Valentina Alaria and Chris McCain on how applications and business benefits from VCF as a platform
  - 47:25 – 51:55 Sanjay Uppal on Expand to the Edge with Velocloud and VMware Edge Compute Stack
  - 51:55 – 53:15 Real customer example -> GCI Communication Corp
53:13 – 01:02:15 Chris Wolf “What’s about Private AI?” https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/private-ai-foundation-nvidia
01:02:15 – 01:03:11 Recap & closure by Chris Wolf