by Mark Haranas, CRN
From a new private AI as-a-service and an AI assistant innovation to the doubling down on its Nvidia and AMD collaboration, artificial intelligence was front and enter at VMware Explore 2025 this week.
"The fact that VMware is really following through on their commitment to build out VMware Cloud Foundation to support AI is fantastic for us," said Bob Olwig, executive vice president of global partner alliances for $20 billion channel powerhouse World Wide Technology.
"For many customers, they want to understand how VMware can support AI. So I'm really thrilled VMware is building in AI services into the platform. First of all, that's more value to the customer, but it also allows them— in an environment that they're already familiar with and likely have been using for decades— to build out generative AI use cases and applications," said Olwig. "That helps customers accelerate their AI adoption."
VMware's New AI Tech 'Just Makes A Lot Of Sense'
At VMware Explore 2025 this week, the cloud software superstar unveiled that a new private AI as-a-service will become a standard component of VCF 9.0.
These native AI services—which includes GPU Monitoring, Model Store, Model Runtime, Agent Builder, Vector Database, and Data Indexing/Retrieval service—aim to boost privacy and security, simplify infrastructure, and streamline AI model deployment.
VMware also launched a new VMware Cloud Foundation Intelligent Assist that diagnoses and resolves issues fast by quickly accessing Broadcom's knowledge base for solutions to reduce downtime.
WWT's Olwig said some customers are looking to enable their core capabilities via AI assistants.
