A Six Five study found an eight-to-one cost gap between running an AI agent through a leading frontier model and running it on modest on-prem hardware. Paul Turner, Chief Product Officer of the VMware Cloud Foundation Division at Broadcom, joins Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead at VMware Explore 2026 to explain how VMware's AI Factory turns GPU provisioning, model management, and security into a repeatable path from infrastructure to production AI.

What infrastructure model makes the most sense when AI workloads move from experimentation into production?

In this analyst recap of VMware Explore 2026, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman examine this central question facing enterprise technology leaders and how Broadcom and VMware are positioning private cloud as a critical foundation for bringing enterprise AI into production.

Enterprise AI economics are pulling workloads back toward on-premises infrastructure, with control over data as the primary driver. Ram Velaga, President of Broadcom's Infrastructure Software Group, joins Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman at VMware Explore 2026 to detail how Broadcom is helping customers route AI workloads, govern agents, and rebuild VMware's role underneath the AI buildout.

Broadcom is running its own software development lifecycle on a swarm of 21 AI agents, citing 2x feature velocity and a 60 percent drop in time to resolve issues. Purnima Padmanabhan, Vice President and General Manager of the Tanzu Division at Broadcom, joins Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead at VMware Explore 2026 to explain how agent sandboxing, governed data, and identity policy combine to build trust for agentic AI in production.