In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, recorded at VMware Explore 2025, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sit down with Vijay Ramachandran, VP of Products for Core Infrastructure at Broadcom.

Vijay shares the latest innovations in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) that are reshaping core infrastructure:

🔹 Memory Tiering – a technical feature that’s seeing surprisingly high customer engagement

🔹 vSAN Global Deduplication – cluster-wide dedupe for better efficiency and cost savings

🔹 Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) – simplifying network configuration and bringing cloud-like networking to VCF

The discussion also dives into new security and resilience capabilities, including:

✔️ Confidential Compute

✔️ Hypervisor-level EDR integration

✔️ Ransomware recovery for on-prem environments

Vijay also announces a tech preview for object storage, addressing a long-standing customer request with a built-in solution.

Looking ahead, he shares the future direction of VCF—expanding security, advancing data protection, and extending enterprise-grade VM features into the Kubernetes ecosystem to power modern apps.

👉 Don’t miss this deep dive into the future of VMware Cloud Foundation!

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