VMware unveils genAI, new edge, cloud solutions and services for enterprises

Cloud and virtualisation solutions firm VMware Wednesday launched new solutions in partnership with Nvidia to drive the enterprise adoption of generative artificial intelligence (genAI), and other capabilities and solutions to help businesses accelerate their digital transformation.

“VMware is reinforcing its commitment to help match customers with the right applications with the right cloud and investing in the technologies that allow organizations to manage and operate across multi-cloud environments more consistently and securely,” the company said in a statement.

VMware has introduced new private AI offerings to grow the enterprise adoption of generative AI. These include the VMWare Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, and the VMware Private AI Reference Architecture for Open Source to help customers achieve their desired AI outcomes by supporting open source software (OSS) technologies.

At its VMware Explore 2023 event, VMware showcased its collaborations with companies in the AI value chain, including Anyscale, Domino Daa Lab, Hugging Face, Intel, and global systems integrators.

VMware also launched a new VMware AI Ready program, which will connect independent software vendors (ISVs) with tools and resources needed to validate and certify their products on VMware Private AI Reference Architecture. This is in addition to the company’s ‘Intelligent Assist’ family of genAI-based solutions trained on VMware’s proprietary data to simplify and automate all aspects of enterprise IT in a multi-cloud era.

VMware also launched the VMware Cloud in five editions (Essentials, Standard, Pro, Advanced, Enterprise) to help customers flexibly modernise infrastructure and management at every stage of their cloud transformation journey, which can be deployed and managed in three ways – customer managed, VMware managed, and provider managed.

Further, VMware has unveiled VMware NSX+, a new cloud-managed service offering of NSX for multi-cloud environments to drive the company’s core networking and security capabilities for VMware Cloud. The company also launched NSX+ virtual private clouds (VPCs) to provide full isolation of networking, security, and services to multiple tenants on a shared VMware Cloud infrastructure.

These announcements also include the launch of VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator, VMWare Retail Edge, and the VMware Private Mobile Network, a soon-to-be-available VMware Edge managed connectivity service, designed to help remove the complexity associated with private mobile networks and enable enterprises to focus on their core business activities.

“Asia-Pacific has been at the forefront of growth fuelled by multi-cloud innovation. We’re committed to helping clients at every point in their transformation journey, whether starting out managing the complexity of multi-cloud or harnessing the power of a digital foundation to leverage the generative AI opportunity,” said Sylvain Cazard, Senior Vice President and General Manager for APJ, VMware.”