VMware Cracks -> VMware Explore 2025 Update

VMware Explore 2025 runs this week in Las Vegas. As every year, a lot of new and exciting announcements came out. So here a summary of my personal highlights.

Note: No time to go through all of the keynote? ->> jump to the RED sections

VMware Explore 2025 Keynote ->> https://www.vmware.com/explore/video-library/video/6377276035112 (Session ID GEN2027LV)

  • 00:00 – 01:55 Intro
  • 01:55 – 11:00 CEO Broadcom – Hock Tan – high level message, enterprises to move back to private cloud
    • 08:50 – 11:00 Voice of the customer: Stephen Flaherty, Barclays, talking about their adoption of VCF 9
  • 11:00 – 32:30 Paul Turner, Broadcom, “… VCF it’s not just infrastructure, it’s powering the business…”,”… the next chapter is private cloud…”,”… it’s IT moving at the speed of the developers …”
  • 32:30 – 43:20 Infrastructure at the Speed of the Developer
    • 32:30 – 35:20 DEMO: Paul Turner – View of the IT provisioning: Preparing the organziation, full multi tenancy model, full set of self-services.
    • 35:20 – 41:15 DEMO: Sabina Anja – View of the Application Developer: VM, K8s, AI as a service, monitoring, self-service
    • 41:15 – 42:55 DEMO: Paul Turner – View of the VCF Admin, keeping control, monitoring & visibility in the applications, operations of the platform as a service.
    • 42:55 – 43:20 Paul Turner – Summary of what we have seen
  • 43:20 – 54:40 Private AI as a Service
    • 43:20 – 50:15 Chris Wolf, Broadcom
      • 46:15 – 47:00 Announcing extended cooperation with NVIDIA
      • 47:00 – 47:10 Announcing partnership with INTEL
      • 47:10 – 47:33 Announcing partnership with AMD
      • 47:33 – 49:50 What happened since announcing VMware Private AI 3 years ago?
      • 49:50 – 50:15 VMware Private AI foundation now part of VCF 9.0 subscription
    • 50:15 – 54:40 DEMO: VMware Prive AI Services Overview byTasha Drew, Broadcom
      • Model Gallery
      • Data Indexing and Retrieval Service
      • Model Runtime
      • Agent Builder
  • 54:40 – 57:00 Cyber Resilient Data
    • 54:50 – 56:00 Paul Turner layout some aspects of cyber attracts and their effects on business and customers
    • 56:00 – 57:00 VCF as the secure foundation
      • Secure Platform
        • Protected Access
          • Encryption at rest and in transit
          • Multi-factor authentication
        • Enforce Compliance
          • Security operations dashboard
          • All major compliance standards supported
          • VMSA security alerts
        • Trusted Infrastructure
          • Network zoning and segmentation
          • Live Patching
          • Secure Boot
      • vDefend and AVI
        • Secure runtime
          • Distributed Firewall
          • Intrusion prevention
          • Security intelligence
          • Web app firewall
      • Tanzu
        • Secure path to production
          • Guardrails injection
          • Automated build
          • Governed service brokerage
          • Automated CVE remediation
  • 57:00 – 58:00 Announcement VCF Advanced Cyber Compliance https://news.broadcom.com/releases/vmware-explore-2025-vcf-cyber-resilience
    • Continuous Compliance Enforcement at Scale
    • Automated Rnsomware and Data Recovery
    • Enhanced Platform Security and Incident Response
  • 58:00 – 1:00:30 Recap & closure by Paul Turner

Recap Explore

Major announcements

Blogs (all: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/tag/vmware-explore-2025/)

Press Releases (all: https://news.broadcom.com/releases)

Looking forward having interesting conversations with you on our business topics where VMware might be a solution for. 

Cheers

Dudi

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