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Agentic Zero Trust and Threat Defense: New VMware vDefend and Avi Load Balancer Innovations for Agentic AI

By Michelle Plato
Explore 2026 Product Announcement By Umesh Mahajan To address the new blind spots and security risks emerging from Agentic AI adoption, we are further enhancing our comprehensive multi-layer security stack in VMware vDefend (vDefend) and VMware Avi Load Balancer (Avi) to further secure these new workloads from Day 1. We are announcing plans to deliver Agentic Zero Trust and Agentic Threat Defense capabilities for vDefend and Avi, a comprehensive suite of security capabilities that enables enterprises to safely operationalize agentic AI with defense-in-depth for their private cloud. Read more about the announcement here. VMware vDefend: ...
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Fresh From the Labs - CloudHealth Product Updates August 2026

By TJ March
Fresh From the Labs - CloudHealth Product Updates August 2026 Welcome to the August 'Fresh From the Labs'—a special edition as we join our customers and partners at VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas. The air here is electric with the promise of the Agentic AI era. As organizations navigate the complexities of model choices and infrastructure, the focus has shifted from merely experimenting with AI to measuring its real-world ROI and securing its foundation. Whether we're discussing new AI-ready data foundations or exploring practical strategies for managing AI spend, it's clear: AI is no longer a peripheral experiment—it's the center of our operational ...
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Unlocking the Next Frontier of FinOps for AI

By TJ March
Unlocking the Next Frontier of FinOps for AI About the Author: Cathal Cleary - Product Leader, CloudHealth | Governing Board, FinOps Foundation Following the announcement of AgentMinder by Broadcom at VMware Explore in Las Vegas, the enterprise AI landscape has reached a pivotal milestone. As organizations deploy autonomous agents into production workflows, managing AI economics and governance becomes just as critical as managing cloud spend. CloudHealth is thrilled to be a part of the journey with AgentMinder. Through a series of close product integrations, we will bring comprehensive AI visibility, runtime governance, and cost optimization ...
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Modernization Journey: How a Global Fortune 500 Fintech Giant Streamlined Operations and Cut Costs with DX O2

By Srikant_Noorani
Millions of transactions. Thousands of alerts. Zero tolerance for downtime. For a Fortune 500 fintech leader serving customers around the globe, maintaining a seamless digital experience is critical to both revenue and reputation. Yet behind the scenes, a patchwork of legacy monitoring tools, custom scripts, and aging infrastructure was creating growing operational risk and slowing the company's modernization efforts. Rather than continue investing in systems approaching end-of-life, the organization chose a different path: a rapid migration to DX Operational Observability (DX O2). In just a matter of days, the company transformed its observability ...
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Harvest SCM r14.6 Beta Validation Program (6th Oct 2026 to 20th Oct 2026)

By Praveen Kumar Gudupalli
Hello All, As communicated earlier in our Office Hours Session, w e will be sharing ​ H ​arvest SCM ​r14 . ​6 Beta Build on ​ O ​ctober 6 , 2026 ​ . The program will be available for three weeks, starting October 6, 2026, through October 20, 2026. We encourage you to participate in this validation program. Please register using the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTH58HAwbkseWBb7lTal4isu3MDufu8sh_F0b7kTY--VZHdg/viewform Thank you ​for those who have already registered. Regards, ​ H ​arvest SCM Team.
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Plex r7.3.1 Beta Validation Program (1st Sept 2026 to 21st Sept 2026)

By Praveen Kumar Gudupalli
Hello All, As communicated earlier in our Office Hours Session, w e will be sharing Plex r7.3.1 Beta Build on September 1, 2026 ​ . The program will be available for three weeks, starting September 1, 2026, through September 21, 2026. We encourage you to participate in this validation program. Please register using the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoq3bPviLjR3VsxyPF4wXuHlyUWCzQoNjbEXN_pxdPqNzfMw/viewform Thank you ​for those who have already registered. Regards, Plex2E Team.
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A Powerful Combination: OpenTelemetry Data Plus DX Operational Observability

By Anand Rajanala
As those working to support cloud-native environments can attest, microservices move fast, but issues and substantial failures can happen even faster. To keep pace, OpenTelemetry (OTel) is becoming an industry standard for gathering metrics, traces, and logs. Still, collecting raw telemetry data is only half the battle. Teams can multiply the value of OTel data by correlating it with other IT operations data so that subsequent analytics include important context and teams (or automated workflows) can take precise actions for remediation. This is where DX Operational Observability (DX O2) by Broadcom stands out. The solution is built on the flexibility ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Windows OS and Office Security Individual Patches for August, 2026

By Venkata Chelluboina
🔔 August 2026 Individual Patch Release Notification On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company , we are pleased to notify you that individual patches for August 2026 are now available. 📋 The following individual patches have been published: 🪟 Windows 11 2026-08 Cumulative Update - Win11-kb5121000-x64-26H1 2026-08 Cumulative Update - Win11-kb5121003-x64-25H2 2026-08 Cumulative Update - Win11-kb5121003-x64-24H2 2026-08 Cumulative Update - Win11-kb5120240-x64-23H2 2026-08 Net Framework 4.8.1 - Win11-kb5120711-x64-26H1 2026-08 Net Framework 4.8.1 - Win11-kb5120708-x64-25H2 2026-08 Net Framework 4.8.1 - Win11-kb5120710-x64-24H2 ...
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A Summer with CEM

By Carissa Lau
A Summer with CEM at Broadcom Hi! I’m Carissa Lau, a junior studying Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This summer, I was invited to work with the Compliance Event Manager team. Project Overview Compliance Event Manager (CEM) protects businesses from data breaches, threat actors, and failed security audits through continuous mainframe security monitoring. CEM alerts users instantly to critical changes and security breaches, enabling immediate response and risk mitigation. Fig. 1: CEM User Interface. As a long-time user of Zowe, the open-source API mediation layer, ...
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My Experience Returning To Broadcom Mainframe

By Sparsh Mathur
My Summer Experience With Broadcom Hi, I’m Sparsh Mathur, a senior studying computer science at Purdue University. This summer I had the opportunity to return to Broadcom’s Mainframe Division as a summer worker with the Precision SDK team. Given my insightful experience last summer working on automated visual regression testing, I was excited to return. Having just completed my junior year of college, I was eager to apply my expanded academic knowledge and contribute to the team with a fresh perspective. Addressing UI Framework Constraints As a summer worker with the Precision SDK team, I was tasked with evaluating our UI framework to improve ...
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My Second summer Experience at Broadcom

By Victor Taiwo
Returning to Broadcom was something I was really excited for. Working on challenging problems that impact a large organization motivates me as an engineer. Last summer, I worked on the Mainframe Technical Support team, where I spent most of my time working on a JavaScript extension for Chrome. This summer, I joined the Mainframe Cybersecurity and Compliance team, working on Top Secret for z/OS. It was a different environment from what I was used to - I’d only worked on RACF previously. Top Secret has its own rules and regulations that make it distinctive to work with, and every single word and acronym it uses has to be learned to understand why it was created. ...
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My Summer Working with Top Secret

By Antonio Ibarra
My Summer Working with Top Secret Introduction Hello! My name is Antonio, and I am an incoming senior at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Before starting my senior year, I was fortunate enough to complete the mainframe curriculum that NIU is renowned for in the community. Learning the different quirks, tools, and methods that are used while working on the mainframe was eye opening. After attending an IBM Z career connection event at NIU, one that Broadcom was a part of, I knew the mainframe was a whole different rabbit hole I wanted to explore and make a career out of. Being brought on to Broadcom MSD’s Cybersecurity and Compliance team,I ...
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Insane in the Mainframe

By Ethan Chastain
Summer at Broadcom’s Mainframe Division This summer, I had the privilege of working with one of the mainframe development teams at Broadcom as a Next-Gen Mainframer. As part of an engineering team, our primary responsibility was to diagnose software defects reported by our customers and to provide fixes and updates as necessary. Before this internship, I had no idea how integral the mainframe is to the tasks that we perform every day. I did not know that mainframe technology was behind most of the transactions that occur everywhere in the world. Included as part of my experience working alongside this incredible team was learning the basics of High-Level ...
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VMware vDefend Advances Multi-Layer Lateral Security, Deployment Automation and Performance for the Frontier AI Era

By Michelle Plato
New enhancements include a prescriptive workflow to accelerate Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) deployment, an on-premises Malware Prevention System, comprehensive air-gapped support, an AI Assistant for firewall operations, major performance gains for the Distributed Firewall and Intrusion Detection and Prevention Service (IDPS), and automated migration tooling. Earlier in May, VMware vDefend delivered Self-Service Lateral Security for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 , featuring support for unified lateral threat prevention for VMs and VKS workloads, high-performance threat prevention with IDPS Turbo Mode, and enhanced distributed firewall capabilities. ...
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Into the Mainframe We Go

By Carlos Hinojoza
TOP SECRET “SUPER HUSKIES “ About Me Hi! My name is Carlos Hinojoza. I’m currently in my last semester as a senior at Northern Illinois University and super excited for the future . The Mission During my Internship as a QA automations engineer for Top Secret, my team's mission was to refactor and migrate old legacy tests to update possible new test cases for TSS commands and get them ready for newer zCloud versions 3.00 and higher. Mainframe Learning The amount of mainframe experience that this internship has given me is priceless. I got the opportunity to learn to use JCL in a professional setting while learning to adapt tests ...
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My Summer Testing SYSVIEW for Db2 for z/OS at Broadcom

By Boris Rokhmanov
Hi! I’m Boris Rokhmanov, and I’m an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying computer science and math. This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to join Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division, specifically working with the Cimrman team at the Lisle, IL office. Throughout my time here, I gained valuable exposure into how real-world development challenges are handled, while getting opportunities to hone my technical skills and engage with industry standard tools. My Project Testing is an essential step of the software development process. It sits between the phases of writing code and deployment, and serves to catch bugs or ...
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Green Screens and Big Dreams

By Yash Saini
Introduction Hi everyone! My name is Yash Saini, and I’m a Computer Science graduate from Northern Illinois University (NIU). This summer, I returned to Broadcom for my second internship, joining the Mainframe Cybersecurity team working on Top Secret. During my previous internship, I worked with the Db2 team and helped to build a database management system. Switching from database management to mainframe cybersecurity was a complete 180, and gave me a fantastic opportunity to explore a totally different area of the business. What I Learned About the Mainframe Coming into this internship, I already had a solid foundation in mainframes, thanks to ...
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Supporting Support: My Summer in MSD

By Aarohan Joshi
Intro & Project Overview Hi, my name is Aarohan, and I am currently studying Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As I am taking a growing interest in AI engineering and solutions, joining the Mainframe Support team to add AI-powered functionalities as a part of the CMS Web Extension was a dream come true. Within just a few days of navigating the extension, meeting the team, and gathering feedback from support engineers on the current state and use cases of the extension, we got to work on implementing features that aligned with the support engineer feedback. By utilizing a large language model (LLM) we were ...
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Mainframe Software Summer Blog

By Arnav Thareja
I joined Broadcom this summer as a mainframe software engineering summer worker following my junior year of college at Purdue. As a computer engineering major, my coursework and projects revolved heavily around software development, but mainframe systems was a field I had yet to learn about. I joined having a strong interest in learning about this complex and critical technology. Bridging the Gap: Modernizing Mainframe Testing and Security While I arrived with a foundation in modern development, I quickly realized that the scale and complexity of mainframe architecture presented a steep but exciting learning curve. Coming in with a background in modern ...
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Building a Performance Evaluation Framework for MCP Servers

By Jeremiah Thomas
Introduction: Howdy, Mainframers! I’m Jeremiah Thomas, an incoming senior Computer Engineering major at Texas A&M. This summer, I had the privilege of interning with Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division under the DevOps value stream with the Code4z Assistant team to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) performance evaluation framework. I had the opportunity to work alongside incredibly talented engineers on frontier technology that is driving AI models toward increasingly powerful enterprise capabilities. This project sharpened my skills in Python, Agile development, and systems architecture and let me dive deeper into MCP, network synchronization, ...
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