Geo News
Community curated by people like you
LatestAICryptoHealthWorld AffairsUS Politics

VMware stories

Aug 6, 2026

Broadcom releases VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 with enhanced security and AI-era defenses

Broadcom announced major updates to VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer as part of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, introducing API protection, AI-powered tools, and a distributed firewall claiming 75Tbps throughput to strengthen multi-layer cybersecurity for private clouds.

Aug 6, 2026·4 sources
00

Top claims

  • ▪The VMware vDefend 1-2-3 workflow assesses threat posture, applies policies to shared infrastructure like Active Directory and DNS, and extends them across development, production, and DMZ zones.
  • ▪Broadcom reported that VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall scale-out performance can reach up to 75 Tbps per VMware Cloud Foundation instance.
  • ▪Broadcom added full air-gapped support to VMware vDefend, allowing highly sensitive environments to download threat-intelligence updates separately and transfer them offline.

Topics

Enterprise softwareAI securityCloud infrastructure

Related entities

Cybersecurity

Featured Stories

OpenAI pauses development of Astra AI model over critical cybersecurity capability concerns

OpenAI pauses development of Astra AI model over critical cybersecurity capability concerns

Aug 7, 2026·2 sources