A lot has changed since Broadcom acquired VMware. With the launch of VCF 9, it's safe to say that VMware's strategy entirely revolves around VMware Cloud Foundation. We sit down with Prashanth Shenoy, CMO and VP Marketing for VMware Cloud Foundation at Broadcom, to explore how VCF has become the cornerstone of VMware's product strategy under Broadcom ownership. Shenoy offers candid insights into the company's business model transformation and future direction, particularly regarding AI integration and its hybrid cloud strategy. We also ask the hard questions about the choices Broadcom made and the effect it has on mid-market and smaller customers.

We dive deep into how VMware's flagship platform (VCF) has evolved to meet the changing demands of modern enterprises.

Shenoy pulls back the curtain on Broadcom's strategic realignment of VMware's sprawling portfolio, which once included a staggering 9,000 SKUs, so complex that partners needed six months of training to create customer proposals. The simplification strategy centers on three key pillars: transitioning to a subscription model, consolidating the product portfolio around VCF as the central platform, and standardizing go-to-market approaches to ensure consistency across all customer touchpoints.

For organizations struggling to determine where to place their workloads, VCF now offers unprecedented flexibility with a "buy once, deploy anywhere" model that spans on-premises environments, colocation facilities, cloud service providers, and hyperscaler infrastructure. Shenoy states that 70% of enterprises are now considering or actively repatriating workloads from public cloud environments due to concerns over cost transparency, security considerations, and data sovereignty requirements. Particularly as AI initiatives move from pilot to production.

The integration of private AI capabilities directly into VCF represents a significant strategic advantage, allowing organizations to maintain control over their proprietary data while leveraging the full power of generative AI. This development, coupled with VCF's unified platform for both traditional VM and containerized Kubernetes workloads, positions it as the foundation for the next generation of enterprise applications.

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Harry Reid International Airport is a special airport, with some very specific needs. The network infrastructure is very important. That makes it possible to offer travelers a good experience, from curb to gate. During HPE Discover, we sat down with Rishma M. Khimji, the airport's Chief Information and Technology Officer, to talk about how special it is exactly.

Harry Reid International Airport is the largest largest 100% common-use airport in the United States. That means that Khimji and her team have a lot of control over its infrastructure and what runs on it. That's a good thing, because that means they can go for a unified approach, from gate assignments to passenger flow, without being constrained by airline-specific systems that plague other major hubs.

At the core of the airport is an extensive HPE infrastructure featuring over 3,000 HPE Aruba access points delivering connectivity throughout the terminals. This network does more than just provide free Wi-Fi; it also generates valuable analytics about passenger movement patterns. That's very valuable data for things like retail placement, bottleneck reduction, and service enhancements. The airport's segmented network architecture ensures casino gaming operations remain completely separate from other systems.

As Khimji explains, "The airport is the first and last look of the city." It should reflect that in terms of what travelers can do and experience. Listen to this new episode how Harry Reid International Airport does this and how it intends to do that in the future.

Browsers have become an endpoint, and have also become an attack vector and target for attackers. The problem is that your EDR isn't keeping up. In this conversation with Vivek Ramachandran, founder and CEO of SquareX, we dive deep into the emerging world of Browser Detection and Response (BDR) and why it matters for modern security teams.

Drawing from his 24 years in cybersecurity, Ramachandran explains why traditional security approaches are failing to protect the browser. The browser has effectively become an application platform rather than just a simple web viewer, so it is important to protect it. "EDRs currently have zero visibility into the browser," Ramachandran notes. "They primarily look at file and process, but by looking at a browser's memory, it's almost impossible to reconstruct what is happening at the application layer."

This blind spot creates vulnerabilities as organizations move to cloud-native operations, Ramachandran says. While SASE and SSE solutions claim to secure browser traffic, they introduce latency and are easily circumvented by modern attack techniques like "last mile reassembly," where attackers create malicious files entirely client-side, invisible to cloud inspection.

According to Ramachandran, Squarex takes a different approach from "enterprise browsers" that create user friction. Instead, BDR works with existing browsers through extensions, using WebAssembly to run detection algorithms at near-native speeds within the browser context. This provides complete visibility into attack chains and protects corporate identities, one of the primary targets nowadays.

Whether browser security emerges as a standalone category or becomes integrated into existing security tools, remains to be seen. Ramachandran is adamant that browsers represent an under-protected attack surface that needs immediate attention. Listen now to learn more about how "shifting up, not left" is necessary according to him and SquareX.