VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram said VMware is opening the door for customers to harness the power of generative AI with a blockbuster new offering, VMware Private AI Foundation, in partnership with AI powerhouse Nvidia.
“It’s going to obviously have the Nvidia GPUs but we’re going to build on that to say, ‘Look, what else do we need to build so that customers can run these language models on top of a VMware Cloud Foundation architecture?’” said Raghuram. “’And then using Nvidia AI software as well as Nvidia AI hardware, how do we almost make it like an appliance that you can work with Dell and Lenovo and HPE and others so customers can deploy it wherever they need to?”
Raghuram’s comments came during an interview with CRN ahead of the VMware Explore conference, being held this week in Las Vegas.
Partners can deploy VMware Private AI Foundation on-premises, in the data center, at the edge, and even in the public cloud. “It could be in the public cloud as well because your data is all over the place, your private cloud and public cloud, etc,.” he said.
VMware Private AI Foundation is based on the concept of “private AI,” which focuses on the need for customers to protect their data and intellectual property, said Raghuram.
“If you think about knowledge, with enterprise and how they differentiate themselves, it is their core intellectual property,” he said. “So if I put my intellectual property into any general-purpose language model, how does that work?”
VMware is also infusing generative AI into each and every one of its products with a family of intelligent assist products.
As to his plans post the Broadcom acquisition, Raghuram, a 20-year VMware veteran, said now is not the time to address that.
“The keynote is not the place to talk about who is going to be in charge,” he said. “The keynote is not the place to focus on that. What we’re going to focus the keynote on—and pretty much the whole conference on—are all of these innovations that they’ll be able to take advantage of, regardless of the corporate ownership of VMware.”
Broadcom this week said it has waited the time required under statute for the Federal Trade Commission to raise objections to the $61 billion transaction it first proposed in May 2022. The U.S. regulator had been involved in a second-request investigation of the deal since July 2022, but had no comment yesterday when reached by CRN. Now Broadcom said, in absence of any objection, it will close the deal on Oct. 30.
Following is an edited version of the conversation.
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