Q . IS AI THE FOCUS FOR VMWARE GOING FORWARD ?
» “ It ’ s not the only thing , but it ’ s definitely an important thing . I think back to all the solutions that already have AI / ML embedded in them . Even if you think of Aria Operations , that is essentially an analytics engine . Some people might call it a monitoring tool , but that ’ s not true . As long as you give us SQL time series data , we ’ ll be able to tell you whatever that data is .
“ It could be about the performance of your call centre and the people and the type of calls they ’ re taking . We ’ ve had customers use it for that , but as long as we get that data , we can tell you what ’ s normal and then tell you when something abnormal happens . And we ’ ve had that solution for over a decade . But then also the ML that we use within NSX today around advanced threat protection , where it could be a malicious payload that has a signature and that ’ s easy to identify , or one that ’ s acting strange that it shouldn ’ t , and we can identify because of its behaviour .
“ We have a number of examples of where AI has been embedded in our solutions and now it ’ s around , okay , this technology is more accessible , it ’ s easier to use , it ’ s expected from the industry . That just speeds up our innovation in those areas , but it ’ s a path we ’ ve been on for a while .” technologymagazine . com 25