
From the Court Room to the Console Room
How I swapped law school for the mainframe and found a career that clicked.

The Security Imperative
For more than a decade, cloud strategy debates often boiled down to a binary choice: public versus private. But by 2025, that conversation has changed, and enterprises are choosing their cloud environments based on the needs of individual workloads. With security and compliance top of mind, that choice is pointing to private cloud. The Private […]

Shaping the Future of VMware Cloud Foundation: Broadcom’s Focused Strategy for VMware Cloud Service Providers
The cloud landscape is constantly evolving, and at Broadcom, our commitment is to deliver on the promise of the private cloud. This requires precision and a deep focus on delivering customer value. Coming out of VMware Explore 2025, and with the availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, we are on the right path. To […]

Lloyds Banking Group Extends Strategic Partnership with Broadcom to Accelerate Digital Transformation
New Long-Term Agreement Will Transform Lloyds Banking Group’s Infrastructure with New Private Cloud Environment and Mainframe Solutions for Digital Banking LONDON, 17 September 2025 – VMware Explore on Tour – Lloyds Banking Group and Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced a significant expansion of their long-standing partnership, underpinned by a new multi-year agreement that will support […]

Legal-Ready AI: 7 Tips for Engineers Who Don’t Want to Be Caught Flat-Footed
An oversimplified approach I have taken in the past to explain wisdom is to share that “We don’t know what we don’t know until we know it.” This absolutely applies to the fast-moving AI space, where unknowingly introducing legal and compliance risk through an organization’s use of AI is a top concern among IT leaders. […]

Inside the Box: How a Childhood Spark Led to a Mainframe Future
The Vitality Program turned out to be one of the most well-structured learning experiences I’ve ever had.

From Park Ranger to CIO: Justin Sider on the Power of Community
Justin Sider’s path to CIO wasn’t the traditional one. He didn’t start with a computer science degree and neatly map out his future IT career. He started as a teenage park ranger. “I was walking around parks, picking up trash and telling people what they can and can’t do,” Sider recalled. The ranger gig began […]

The Great Migration: Why Workloads Are Coming Home to Private Cloud
For more than a decade, cloud migration was viewed as a one-way journey. Applications, especially modern ones, were expected to either “move out” or be built-natively in the public cloud and stay there. But savvy organizations are evolving their cloud strategy to place each workload in the cloud environment that best meets its needs. More […]

Hackathon Sparks Innovation and Collaboration Among Automation Enthusiasts at VMware Explore 2025
At Hackathon Explore 2025, creativity and collaboration took center stage. This year’s Hackathon showcased what happens when brilliant minds rally around automation: practical tools, bold ideas, and a community-driven approach to problem-solving. It also underscored VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as the backbone of the modern private cloud. As discussed at Explore this year, VCF 9.0 […]

USSFCU: Powering Financial Wellness with Broadcom’s Private Cloud and Private AI
Broadcom Customer Achievement Awards recognize and celebrate our customers’ successes leveraging innovative solutions to improve operations, future-proof infrastructure and drive business outcomes. This year, Broadcom has recognized the United States Senate Federal Credit Union (USSFCU) with the Innovator award. Innovators are visionary customers who embrace VMware solutions to maximize benefits across organizations. Read more about this innovator below. […]

Exciting News for Private AI at VMware Explore 2025
Today at the VMware Explore 2025 General Session, we shared several exciting private AI developments. It’s been three years since we first introduced private AI as an important market category. While we have our own offering, we always knew that private AI was bigger than Broadcom. The need to be able to deploy and operate […]
