Broadcom has opened its VMware Explore conference in a defiant tone, declaring it now offers a superior user experience compared to public clouds.

CEO Hock Tan took the keynote stage in Las Vegas and asserted that the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite offers better security and cost management than hyperscale clouds.

"Most of you continue to be weighed down by legacy infrastructure, and you are afraid to move forward," he said. "The answer is not to run straight to public cloud like you did 10 to 15 years ago." He instead wants buyers to embrace Cloud Foundation "and stay on-prem."

VP for VCF Paul Turner ended the keynote by reminding the vFaithful that, when VMware introduced server virtualization, "people thought we were crazy – why would you want to share a server?"

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