The 5 Most Watched Innovation Sessions from VMware Explore 2025
Source: VMware Blog
Why AI Infrastructure Is the Hot Topic Right Now
If you’ve been digging through our video library post‑Explore, you’ve probably noticed a theme: AI infrastructure isn’t just a buzzword anymore—it’s the conversation every practitioner is having right now.
The five sessions below were among the most‑watched from our Innovation track, and it’s not hard to see why. They tackle the real challenges IT teams are wrestling with today:
- Sizing & deploying AI workloads without overspending
- Securing private AI environments without adding complexity
- Cutting through operational noise that comes with increasingly complex infrastructure
If you missed them live in Las Vegas or want to revisit the details, now’s the time to dive in. Each session delivers real‑world lessons and tactical approaches you can start applying to your own infrastructure.
The Five Most‑Watched Sessions
| # | Session Title | Key Takeaway |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Optimizing AI Workload Costs | Practical methods to right‑size resources and avoid waste |
| 2 | Building Secure Private AI Labs | Strategies for isolation, governance, and compliance |
| 3 | Automating AI Infrastructure Ops | Tools and workflows to reduce manual effort |
| 4 | Scaling AI at the Edge | How to extend AI capabilities beyond the data center |
| 5 | Future‑Proofing Your AI Stack | Road‑map for evolving AI workloads over time |
Tip: Bookmark the videos and add them to a personal playlist so you can reference the material whenever a related project pops up.
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Click the links in the table above or head straight to the Innovation track video library to start streaming. Happy learning!
10 Innovations in Storage and Disaster Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation [INVB1556LV]
We live in a duality: an era of expansive opportunity from digital innovation, yet an era of seemingly endless cyber warfare. Applications deliver more key goods and services than ever before, but AI/ML‑powered cyber attacks are breaking the boundaries of organizations’ defenses, and the consequences grow exponentially.
This paradigm shift demands a new approach to designing and implementing defenses. The modern threat landscape requires solutions that can scale rapidly and enable protection, detection, response, and rapid recovery. Delivering successful outcomes is challenging—but the VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) platform is uniquely engineered to address those challenges.
What you’ll learn
- Key innovation announcements that enhance the VMware portfolio across:
- Infrastructure
- Cyber detection
- Restore
- Platform integration
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Accelerating AI Workloads: Mastering vGPU Management in VMware Environments [INVB1158LV]
Looking to maximize your GPU investment for AI/ML workloads? This session provides essential knowledge for virtualizing and managing NVIDIA GPUs in VMware environments.
What you’ll learn
- GPU sharing options – time‑slicing and Multi‑Instance GPU (MIG)
- vGPU profiles – demonstration and real‑world performance benchmarks
- Best‑practice placement – using DRS for optimal vGPU allocation
- Stun‑time considerations – handling vMotion with GPU workloads
- Monitoring tools – effective ways to track GPU health and utilization
- Future innovations – improved visibility and advanced reservation capabilities
Whether you’re running entry‑level AI projects or large‑scale LLMs, you’ll get practical guidance to optimize your infrastructure.
Get started
- VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA – Explore the solution
- Watch the session – YouTube
- Full video library – VMware Explore
Reduce Noise in VMware Cloud Foundation with Automation: How AI Agents Will Transform IT [INVB1790LV]
In today’s increasingly complex IT landscapes, VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) administrators face a constant barrage of operational noise—excessive alerts, manual integration processes, and fragmented tooling.
This thought‑leadership session explores how intelligent‑automation frameworks can:
- Reduce noise by consolidating alerts and automating routine tasks.
- Integrate external automation solutions with VCF to streamline deployments and improve visibility.
- Enable proactive risk management through pattern‑recognition and AI‑driven insights.
Using value‑stream‑management principles and real‑world architectures, you’ll learn how to build automation ecosystems that deliver immediate operational benefits while positioning your organization for an AI‑augmented future of cloud‑infrastructure management.
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Building Secure Private AI – Deep Dive (INVB1432LV)
Explore how to design, protect, and scale a private‑AI environment with:
- VMware® vDefend™ – distributed firewall that adds segmentation, real‑time threat detection, and automated policy enforcement.
- VMware® Private AI with NVIDIA – a purpose‑built platform for deploying, managing, and controlling AI workloads in a private cloud.
What you’ll learn
- Architecture design for a robust private‑AI stack with built‑in data protection.
- Workload isolation techniques that keep AI models and data separate from other services.
- Policy automation using vDefend to enforce security rules at scale.
- Operational best practices for running AI workloads securely on VMware Private AI with NVIDIA GPUs.
Who should attend?
Architects, security engineers, and AI platform teams looking to operationalize AI safely in a private‑cloud environment.
Watch the session
- ▶️ YouTube: Building Secure Private AI – Deep Dive
- 📚 Full video library: VMware Explore Video Library
Real‑World Lessons in Rightsizing VMware Cloud Foundation for On‑Premises AI Workloads [INVB1300LV]
AI workloads—especially those powered by large language models (LLMs)—are reshaping how we design, size, and operate infrastructure. It’s no longer just about compute and storage; model size, inference latency, concurrency, and GPU allocation all have a major impact.
What you’ll learn
- Practical rightsizing strategies for AI‑ready VMware Cloud Foundation® platforms.
- How to balance backup and MLOps pipelines while meeting performance goals.
- Design considerations for on‑premises AI workloads.
- A live demo of an AI infrastructure sizing tool that aligns capacity with real‑world demand and helps you drive conversations with stakeholders and AI ISVs.
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These five sessions represent the best of VMware Explore 2025, curated by the community of IT professionals who matter most. Each session tackles real‑world challenges with practical solutions you can implement in your own environment.
Missed the conference? All VMware Explore content is available on‑demand in the video library.
