With Project Cypress, VMware brings generative AI to cyberdefense
Aug 27, 2024: At the VMware Explore conference this week, VMware announced the addition of a generative AI tool, called Project Cypress, to its own vDefend cybersecurity platform. “Security teams get overwhelmed with a large number of threat campaigns and false alarms,” says Umesh Mahajan, vice president and general manager for application networking and security at Broadcom. “Project Cypress, via a natural language interface, helps triage and investigate high-risk threat campaigns faster, explains a particular threat campaign with additional context needed for the security team to quickly take appropriate actions, recommends remediation options, and can enforce the remediation option selected by the security team via vDefend’s threat prevention capabilities.”
VMware upgrades software-defined edge for AI workloads
Aug 27, 2024: VMware has added connectivity options and traffic-management capabilities to its software-defined edge products to better support generative AI workloads. Edge computing will play a “pivotal role” in the deployment of AI applications, according to IDC, which expects spending on edge computing to reach $232 billion in 2024, an increase of 15.4% over 2023.
Customer concerns loom as VMware Explore event approaches
Aug 19, 2024: Enterprise customers have questions about VMware’s future direction, licensing changes, and product roadmap following Broadcom’s takeover. Customers want to continue to see innovation across the VMware portfolio, says one analyst. They also want to see Broadcom focus on integration, interface design, and an easier adoption path.
VMware Explore 2023
Generative AI dominates VMware Explore 2023 news
Aug 25, 2023: Highlights include a private AI platform developed with Nvidia that lets enterprises run generative AI applications on their proprietary data within VMware’s hybrid cloud infrastructure.
VMware Cloud gains faster ransomware recovery, expanded management capabilities
Aug 22, 2023: Among the announcements at the VMware Explore conference is a new IBM-managed service based on VMware Cloud editions.
VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments
Aug 22, 2023: VMware NSX+ is a new cloud-managed service that enables consistent network operations and centralized security policy creation and enforcement in multicloud environments.
