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The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to private and hybrid cloud. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and from within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vspeakingpodcast.com and follow on Twitter\X @VirtSpeaking
VCF Core Innovations That Matter: Vijay Ramachandran at VMware Explore 2025
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11 minutes
1 month ago
VCF Core Innovations That Matter: Vijay Ramachandran at VMware Explore 2025
In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, recorded at VMware Explore 2025, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sit down with Vijay Ramachandran, VP of Products for Core Infrastructure at Broadcom.
Vijay shares the latest innovations in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) that are reshaping core infrastructure:
🔹 Memory Tiering – a technical feature that’s seeing surprisingly high customer engagement
🔹 vSAN Global Deduplication – cluster-wide dedupe for better efficiency and cost savings
🔹 Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) – simplifying network configuration and bringing cloud-like networking to VCF
The discussion also dives into new security and resilience capabilities, including:
✔️ Confidential Compute
✔️ Hypervisor-level EDR integration
✔️ Ransomware recovery for on-prem environments
Vijay also announces a tech preview for object storage, addressing a long-standing customer request with a built-in solution.
Looking ahead, he shares the future direction of VCF—expanding security, advancing data protection, and extending enterprise-grade VM features into the Kubernetes ecosystem to power modern apps.
👉 Don’t miss this deep dive into the future of VMware Cloud Foundation!
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Virtually Speaking Podcast
The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to private and hybrid cloud. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and from within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vspeakingpodcast.com and follow on Twitter\X @VirtSpeaking
