
Managing Cost: The New Private Cloud Economics and the CIO Playbook on Cost in the AI Era
Just four months into the year, we’re seeing a massive shift in memory availability and costs, CPU prices, and so on. Here, we dive deeper into the memory and overall infrastructure cost, and how the modern CIO can tackle Infrastructure Economics in the AI Era. Over roughly the last two decades, “cost optimization” in infrastructure […]

We’re Creating an Economically Viable Cloud Service Provider Ecosystem for Our Customers
Customers today are reassessing how they operate and scale their cloud environments. Many are seeking greater cost predictability, reduced operational complexity, and more control over workload placement. As private cloud strategies built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) continue to gain momentum, customers are also evaluating how to align with providers that can deliver consistent operations, […]

New Broadcom and Carahsoft Agreement With DISA Delivers Uniform Pricing and Cost Transparency for DoW Agencies
New Deal Consolidates Existing Broadcom Software Contracts to Deliver Best Value, Enhanced Security and a Private Cloud Platform to the Department of War and Military Services PALO ALTO, Calif., and RESTON, Va. – March 24, 2026 – Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, […]

Why the 2026 Hardware Crisis Will Accelerate Adoption of the Modern Private Cloud
As we move through 2026, I am hearing a consistent theme from CIOs and IT leaders across the globe: severe “sticker shock” and a supply crisis. We are currently navigating a “hardware super-cycle”—a structural shift where the insatiable demand for AI infrastructure is cornering the global supply of standard enterprise technology components. With the massive […]

2026 Private Cloud Predictions: Cost, Sovereignty, and the New Application Stack
CIOs and CISOs enter 2026 under familiar pressure: reduce costs, optimize headcount, justify every IT investment. Cloud spend faces heightened scrutiny, AI initiatives must demonstrate clear ROI, and boards expect streamlined operations with fewer resources and vendors. Against this backdrop, private cloud emerges not as futuristic tech, but as a practical mechanism to achieve these […]

A CTO’s View: The Blind Spots Slowing Enterprise Transformation
Enterprise IT is reaching a critical inflection point. While years of rapid innovation have led to the development of unprecedented capabilities, they have also introduced an equal amount of complexity. Enabling faster innovation without increasing the operational burden for IT has become a leadership challenge. This next phase of transformation isn’t about adding more technology; […]

Getting 2026 Right in Federal IT Modernization: Progress and Opportunity
As the new year started, the Federal government also kickstarted a new era of IT modernization. A series of new policy initiatives, focusing mainly on AI, security, and updated acquisition look to reshape government IT towards the goal of delivering efficiencies and better services for the American people. Government at the Speed of Business Removal […]

Private Cloud Adoption Predictions Driven by AI Workloads
IDC Guest Post (Sponsored by Broadcom) According to the 2026 IDC Cloud FutureScape, by 2028, 40% of all large enterprises will adopt private clouds for their AI workloads to meet stringent data privacy requirements and mitigate risks of sensitive information leakage to public large language models (LLMs). This shift will enable enterprises to maintain complete […]

Audi: Driving New Levels of Manufacturing Efficiency with VMware Cloud Foundation
Advancing innovation for more than 100 years, Audi prides itself on making fun, sporty vehicles that combine high build quality and progressive design. The company’s passion for innovation shows up in everything from the development of the Audi e-tron electric cars to its continued progress in autonomous driving. Audi extends its use of advanced technologies […]

AI Buyer’s Remorse: Why Enterprises Keep Getting Stuck with Research Hardware
Many customers are buying AI systems originally designed for research labs and trying to integrate them into production environments, only to wind up with a bad case of AI buyer’s remorse. Once these boxes land in the data center, the AI team or data science team may be thrilled, but I can’t say the same […]

Why AI Speed Without Access Control Is a Recipe for Risk
Here’s what keeps CIOs in regulated industries up at night: You can build AI data collectors in minutes today using open source tools like LlamaIndex and Model Context Protocol (MCP). But if employees are going out and doing this on their own, you run the risk of massive exposure—not just from a security perspective, but […]

How ITQ is Driving Value with VMware Cloud Foundation
Today European organizations are demanding solutions that offer secure, resilient, and sovereign cloud alternatives. At our company, ITQ, a leading specialist in hybrid cloud, cloud native, digital workspace solutions, and private AI, and a Pinnacle Solution Provider Partner for Broadcom, headquartered in the Netherlands, we work with customers to meet the latest compliance and security […]



