Tag: privatecloud

  • Agile private cloud

    Dell positions private cloud as cheaper and more flexible. 🔗 Private cloud gets an AI-era infrastructure reset

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  • Platform Engineering 2.0: The Evolution of the AI Era

    The same five-pillar argument as the Platform Engineering 2.0 white paper, but in conversation and with two things the slide deck does not say out loud: that the internal developer platform is becoming an agent developer platform serving dozens of machine consumers per human, and that virtual machines – pushed off the golden path entirely…

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  • Enabling Platform Engineers to Overcome Kubernetes Complexity with a Modern Private Cloud Platform

    Kubernetes won the orchestration argument and promptly became the problem, and the scarce skill is now hiding it rather than running it. With 93% of organisations on an internal developer platform or heading there inside a year, the case made is that one operating model spanning VMs and containers is the least painful place to…

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  • The Evolution to Platform Engineering 2.0

    Platform engineering succeeded so completely that the platform most enterprises already run is now the constraint: built for one persona, before AI workloads, autonomous agents and GPU scheduling. The proposed fix is to push security, cost awareness and AI readiness down into the platform as defaults rather than onto developers, which makes infrastructure the strategic…

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  • Relative to your interests, Tuesday

    Relative to your interests, Tuesday

    I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…

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  • private AI in banking

    Developing the secure data layers needed for large language model (LLM) use cases. Because its AI compute and data storage operate within the same strict perimeter, the credit union can confidently leverage highly sensitive member data. This makes Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) easy to implement while keeping member information completely isolated from public APIs. 🔗 USSFCU…

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  • What people use sovereign cloud for, and why

    IDC survey data on sovereign cloud: more than half of organizations already use it, 72% say their interest has risen in the past six months, and 42% are now running AI workloads on sovereign infrastructure. Here’s what they’re using it for, what’s driving adoption, and where current offerings still fall short.

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  • Enterprise AI on private cloud

    Last year, 56 percent of enterprises used public cloud as the primary environment for production AI inference. This year, that figure has fallen 15 percentage points to 41 percent, while 56 percent of enterprises are now running or planning to run production inferencing in a private cloud. 🔗 The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI…

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  • The Minimill of AI

    A small on-device classifier sorts background AI tasks as easy or hard and sends only the hardest to the cloud. A single Mac now handles 78% of the work, tripling throughput and cutting both cloud spend and wait times without changing the work itself. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Minimill of AI

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  • Five takeaways from Michael Dell’s keynote at Dell Technologies World 2026

    Dell’s most direct strategic move was to counter the idea that AI belongs primarily in the public cloud. Citing Dell research, Michael Dell said that ‘67% of AI workloads already run outside the cloud’ and that ‘88% of respondents are running at least one AI workload on prem,’arguing that ‘CIOs are aggressively pivoting to hybrid…

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  • Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs – Related to your interests, Saturday morning

    Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs – Related to your interests, Saturday morning

    Also: OpenAI’s enterprise play, Gemini voice acting, and airline antitrust I’ve covered our announcements this week about Tanzu platform agent foundations in other posts, check that out if you’re into that kind of thing. Now, onto usual nonsense… Duivendrecth fire station, early Spring 2026. Related to your interests Private Cloud Data Intelligence: The Case for…

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  • Proof of value lies in the results. To date, more than 90% of the top 10,000 VMware customers have purchased VCF, including nine of the top 10 Fortune companies. Leading companies such as Audi, ING Bank, Lloyds Banking Group and Walmart are adopting VCF and deepening their partnerships with Broadcom. Broadcom’s own internal IT teams…

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  • “The question that actually determines success is simpler—and almost never asked: Are we ready to operate a private cloud as a product for the next 3–5 years?” 🔗 Before You Build a Private Cloud, Ask This One Question

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  • Running your AI in your own private cloud

    Running your AI in your own private cloud

    Tips on running AI on your private cloud Some brief comments on using Tanzu Platform to run your private GenAI stuff. If you’re interested in more than that short clip, check out my co-worker Nick’s talk on this topic. You can check out the Tanzu Platform more at TryTanzu.ai. Relative to your interests Two strategies…

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  • The Great Migration: Why Workloads Are Coming Home to Private Cloud – “55% of enterprises are already running GenAI in a private cloud – especially when it comes to use cases like inference, fine-tuning and RAG.”

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  • VCF And Private AI Take Center Stage At VMware Explore 2025 – “We believe that while the company has quietly designed and delivered the leading private cloud platform, it should be more vocal and direct in the market. While competitors claim to be the more affordable option, these claims are often based on upfront discounts…

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  • Strategic Benefits of Private Cloud in Financial Services and Insurance – “Security is the leading driver of workload repatriation from public cloud. 49% cite data privacy and security as the top barrier to GenAI adoption. Organizations are now deploying AI workloads in private clouds nearly as often as public clouds (55% vs. 56%)”

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  • 2025 Sees Inflection Point for Government: A Shift to Private Cloud – “more than 70 percent of government IT leaders are considering repatriating workloads from public cloud to private cloud and nearly 50 percent say they have already begun that repatriation process.”

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  • Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud in Federal IT Modernization – More on the Broadcom private cloud survey.

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  • Private Cloud’s Comeback: Driving the Enterprise IT Reset –

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