VMware Explore kicked off Monday morning, though the schedule felt unusual compared to past VMworld Explore events, as Broadcom moved the traditional opening keynote to the afternoon.
That was not necessarily a bad thing, as it gave us time to catch a few breakout sessions and catch up with vendors on the show floor. In this piece, we’ll dive into the keynote announcements, along with notes from the one-on-one interviews and roundtable panels we attended throughout the conference. Our earlier on-the-ground report covered Lenovo’s turnkey AI and memory-crunch conversation.
Keynote: Shaping the Future of Private AI Cloud and Agentic Innovation
We covered VMware’s morning news releases in an earlier post, but the general session keynote added technical and economic context to those announcements. The morning press releases focused on VMware Private AI Cloud, validated models, and deny-by-default runtime agent security; the keynote focused on operational realities of IT….