Network performance drives VMware’s cloud strategy [Video]

A key focus of VMware by Broadcom at the Explore conference in Las Vegas last week centered around how enterprises can power network performance to drive GPUs and necessary data center infrastructure and deliver artificial intelligence.

This need has been highlighted through an ongoing discussion within the tech community around the merits of various networking protocols, such as Ethernet and InfiniBand, to power high-performance computing. Key executives at Broadcom have made it clear that Ethernet is the way to go.

“When you start thinking about AI, it’s all about distributed computing,” said Ram Velaga (pictured, right), senior vice president and general manager for the Core Switching Group at Broadcom Inc. “When you’re doing distributed computing, it’s a lot of GPUs and you have to connect them together with the network. That’s what we do. We look at where AI is going into the enterprise, and we believe it should be built on Ethernet.”

Velaga spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante and …