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The enterprise technology landscape is undergoing a radical transformation, and at its core is the modern data center. Virtual machines (VMs) and agile Kubernetes-based environments have long served as the foundation of this infrastructure. However, as companies deploy artificial intelligence in daily business operations, they must aggressively expand their AI ecosystems to handle highly resource-intensive AI workloads.

Choices in commercial, open-weight, and open source models have dramatically expanded over the past month. As a result, I’m continuing to see traction in organizations shaping their AI strategies around a hybrid approach, where they make use of our AI Gateway to connect users, agents, and application services to both cloud and on-premises models. Reasons for this approach often range from privacy, control, compliance, and latency requirements to tokenomics considerations.

The cloud-native revolution is no longer a distant projection—it is the reality of modern enterprise technology. Across the globe, massive financial institutions, global retailers, and national-scale enterprises are reaching a critical crossroads: how to aggressively scale modern applications while maintaining the stability and compliance of mission-critical legacy systems.

The integration of software-defined architectures in 4G and 5G networks has fundamentally altered the telecommunications attack surface, shifting the defensive bottleneck from vulnerability discovery to remediation. Transition to 5G infrastructure represents a migration to cloud-native network functions, from hardware-centric networks to software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV).

A new session just landed in the VMware Explore 2026 Content Catalog, and it’s worth prioritizing. J.R. Storment, Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation and Tokenomics Foundation, will join Broadcom experts for a conversation about tokenomics and connecting AI investments to business and IT value. Organizations are spending tremendous amounts of money on infrastructure to become AI-savvy.

In July, AWS announced support for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1 on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), giving customers the ability to run VCF 9.x directly in their Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal infrastructure. At VMware Explore 2026, we’re bringing other major hyperscalers together to share the latest on their VCF 9.1 readiness and hybrid deployment options.

VMware Explore provides a wonderful venue for security-minded VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) users to get direct access to VCF security experts, test-drive security capabilities in Hands-on Labs (HOLs), and master the blueprints for safeguarding enterprise workloads against AI-powered threats. Supercharge your skills and learn about the latest capabilities at VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas, August 31 – September 3.

If there is one thing we hear consistently from the field, it is this: moving Kubernetes workloads onto VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) is the single most important step in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) adoption journey. For a long time, it was also the hardest one to explain. Migration kept showing up as the number-one blocker for their VCF journey across a large number of our customers.

At VMware Explore Las Vegas 2026, the Tanzu Division of Broadcom will unveil its latest innovations in deploying AI agents in the enterprise. Join us for sessions covering agentic AI delivery, architecture, best practices for agents, apps, data, and enterprise-ready solutions that help organizations safely build and deploy AI agents and business-critical applications in the era of Frontier AI.

For vSphere administrators and automation engineers, ESXCLI is one of the most fundamental utilities in the VMware management toolkit. It enables you to execute host management commands remotely against an ESXi host or target any host managed by vCenter Server—all from your local workstation or administrative jumpbox without requiring an interactive SSH session to the host. We are excited to announce the general availability of standalone ESXCLI 9.1.0 (Build 25692154).