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2025 marks 15 years since I joined VMware, now part of Broadcom. While it’s clear that much has evolved and changed over those years, some things remain unchanged, including our relentless drive to push the boundaries of innovation. That commitment has seen us pioneer solutions for customers no matter where they are on their cloud […]

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Empowering Your IT Future: The Shift to Private Cloud

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I’m energized by the many opportunities ahead for Broadcom’s partner ecosystem, our mutual customers and the VMware and Broadcom software businesses. As I step into my new role leading Broadcom’s Global Commercial Sales and Partner organization, I look forward to connecting directly with you — listening to your perspectives and feedback, while further collaborating on […]

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Partnering for Success in 2025

Many companies once felt that AI was out of their reach, believing they needed extensive infrastructure and vast resources to make it work. They were told that scaling AI required significant investments in public cloud platforms, which meant the risk of vendor lock-in and surrendering some control over their data. However, the landscape has shifted […]

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Why Private AI is becoming the preferred choice for enterprise AI deployment

Over the past year, as a part of our larger transformation, we’ve doubled down on our commitment to enhancing our partner ecosystem. Combining their unique strengths to drive impact and scale provides the opportunity to achieve more than we ever could alone. And with every partnership connection, we build a future that’s not just bigger—but […]

Pathways to Innovation: VMware Cloud Service Providers Driving Business Outcomes with Private Cloud

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There was plenty of news for VMware User Group members to be excited about at VMware Explore Barcelona, which was alive with VMware users from across Europe and beyond. During the general session, Broadcom announced new VMware portfolio innovations, services, and partnerships to help customers succeed in their cloud transformations, and to harness the power […]

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Broadcom’s Approach to Sovereign Cloud: Enabling Innovation and Control for Customers

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I’ve had an amazing week at Explore Barcelona. It is energizing to meet and talk to so many customers, partners and team members and as I reflect, I wanted to capture some of the highlights and a few of the learnings as well. VMware Tanzu Platform 10 There was a buzz around the new Tanzu […]

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Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery

VMware Explore Las Vegas and Barcelona offered fantastic opportunities to share our private cloud strategy, along with details of the many innovations we introduced into our solutions. Explore also provides a literal stage to preview technology advancements in development that, we hope, clearly show the growing value of our products to existing and potential customers. […]

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Customer Outcomes Drive Our Private Cloud Strategy

At the Tanzu Division of Broadcom, we focus on how our customers can get the most out of cloud native environments while protecting against the slew of new vulnerabilities and attacks targeting their critical business apps. As important as prevention is, reducing the time it takes to recover from a breach or other issues is […]

Modern App Delivery Requires a Continuous Approach to Security

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VMware by Broadcom: The First 100 Days

Learn how Audi is building the factory of the future using VMware AI innovation. 

Pioneering the Factory of the Future: Insights from Audi

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The technology landscape has grown exponentially over the last decade. New technologies have appeared and multiplied as industries juggle traditional workloads on premises, modernizing workloads using public cloud services, and protecting from ransomware attacks. What I’ve seen in my experience with customers is technology teams around the globe have taken a step back from extreme […]

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Known as one of tech's most dynamic leaders, Hock Tan has been Broadcom’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 2006. Under his leadership, Broadcom has grown into a global infrastructure technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions to customers around the world. He cares deeply about STEM education and has made substantial donations to autism and disabilities-related research centers at Cornell University as well as both of his alma maters – MIT and Harvard University. Through the Broadcom blog, he enjoys sharing his experiences meeting with customers and partners, as well as his insights on how technology and innovation continue to connect and transform the world.

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Known as one of tech&#8217;s most dynamic leaders, Hock Tan has been Broadcom’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 2006. Under his leadership, Broadcom has grown into a global infrastructure technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions to customers around the world. He cares deeply about STEM education and has made substantial donations to autism and disabilities-related research centers at Cornell University as well as both of his alma maters – MIT and Harvard University. Through the Broadcom blog, he enjoys sharing his experiences meeting with customers and partners, as well as his insights on how technology and innovation continue to connect and transform the world.

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Krish Prasad is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation Division where he oversees the company’s multi-cloud Infrastructure software portfolio that spans Private Clouds and Clouds from Service Provider partners and Hyperscalers.

Before joining Broadcom, Mr. Prasad served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) and previously led the VMware vSphere business. He drove the strategy, roadmap and delivery of the SDDC cloud platform that powers VMware Cloud and led a wide range of functions including Product Management, Engineering, Cloud Operations, SRE and Product Marketing.

Mr. Prasad has more than 30 years of experience in the enterprise software business across both R&amp;D and general management. Prior to VMware, he held senior and executive management positions with HPE and BMC Software.

Krish Prasad

Krish Prasad is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation Division where he oversees the company’s multi-cloud Infrastructure software portfolio that spans Private Clouds and Clouds from Service Provider partners and Hyperscalers. Before joining Broadcom, Mr. Prasad served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) and previously led the VMware vSphere business. He drove the strategy, roadmap and delivery of the SDDC cloud platform that powers VMware Cloud and led a wide range of functions including Product Management, Engineering, Cloud Operations, SRE and Product Marketing. Mr. Prasad has more than 30 years of experience in the enterprise software business across both R&amp;D and general management. Prior to VMware, he held senior and executive management positions with HPE and BMC Software.

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Purnima Padmanabhan is Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s Tanzu Division. Prior to joining Broadcom, she was Senior Vice President and General Manager of VMware’s Modern Applications &amp; Management Business and was responsible for application modernization, cloud native application development and multi-cloud management. She previously led the company’s Cloud Management Business.

Ms. Padmanabhan has extensive experience building and launching innovative products in cloud infrastructure, security and enterprise mobility. Prior to joining VMware, she was CEO of Cavirin, a cloud security company, where she drove a turnaround. She was previously COO of MokaFive, a desktop virtualization company, and was responsible for global product operations.

Ms. Padmanabhan holds an MBA from Stanford University and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California.

Purnima Padmanabhan

Purnima Padmanabhan is Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s Tanzu Division. Prior to joining Broadcom, she was Senior Vice President and General Manager of VMware’s Modern Applications &amp; Management Business and was responsible for application modernization, cloud native application development and multi-cloud management. She previously led the company’s Cloud Management Business. Ms. Padmanabhan has extensive experience building and launching innovative products in cloud infrastructure, security and enterprise mobility. Prior to joining VMware, she was CEO of Cavirin, a cloud security company, where she drove a turnaround. She was previously COO of MokaFive, a desktop virtualization company, and was responsible for global product operations. Ms. Padmanabhan holds an MBA from Stanford University and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California.

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Sylvain Cazard is the President for Asia Pacific and Japan, Broadcom. In this role, Cazard oversees the Broadcom software portfolio of business-critical enterprise software that modernizes, optimizes, and protects the world’s most complex hybrid IT environments. A 15-year VMware veteran and joining Broadcom through the acquisition of VMware, Cazard has held various senior leadership roles in both Asia Pacific and Japan as well as Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With more than 25 years’ hi-tech experience, Cazard started his career with SAP Business Objects in Europe, progressing through various management and sales positions in France and Iberia. Cazard graduated from the École Centrale with a degree in engineering, mechanics and computer science. He also holds an executive MBA in general management from Stanford University.