Regulatory pressure is driving IT teams to invest in more efficient servers and storage and improve their data-center reporting capabilities.
Manufacturing, transportation and logistics lead the way among the top industry verticals for private 5G deployments.
Flexibility and willingness to learn are prized over specialization. SASE, SD-WAN and ZTNA skills are in demand.
Highlights include a private AI platform developed with Nvidia that lets enterprises run generative AI applications on their proprietary data within VMware’s hybrid cloud infrastructure.
VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications on their own infrastructure in their data centers, at the edge, and in their clouds.
News from the VMware Explore conference includes a unified management platform for VMware’s SASE and edge computing stack, along with a new managed private mobile networking service.
VMware NSX+ is a new cloud-managed service that enables consistent network operations and centralized security policy creation and enforcement in multicloud environments.
Among the announcements at the VMware Explore conference is a new IBM-managed service based on VMware Cloud editions.
Different types of firewalls, including hardware, virtual, cloud-native, and firewall as a service, can be deployed and managed from a central interface with a hybrid mesh firewall platform.
Demand for cloud connects/interconnects is rising as enterprises commit to multicloud and SaaS application environments, and that’s driving greater interest in IaaS cloud networking services, says IDC.
