AI-Ready Infrastructure: Doing More with VCF and Intel

AI is creating new opportunities for the enterprise, but it’s also putting new pressure on infrastructure, from rising server and memory costs to increased power and compute demands.

Live from VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and Jad El-Zein sit down with Paul Turner of Broadcom and Caitlin Anderson, Corporate Vice President and GM of Americas Sales at Intel, to discuss how VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 and Intel Xeon 6 are helping customers modernize infrastructure for the AI era.

The conversation explores why AI is moving closer to enterprise data, how organizations can choose between CPU and GPU inference based on the workload, and how modern infrastructure can improve performance while reducing cost and power consumption.

Paul and Caitlin also discuss the broader VCF and Intel partnership, including memory tiering, greater VM density, hardware acceleration, more efficient encrypted vMotion, confidential computing, and why refreshing aging infrastructure can help prepare the data center for what comes next.