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Eliminate Silos, Tech Debt With Unified Cloud and Automation Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • April 1, 2026

Artificial intelligence modernization efforts stall as siloed tools and tech debt slow enterprise speed, said Gordon Barr, field CTO at VMware by Broadcom.

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Barr explained that organizations chasing AI and Kubernetes gains often create fragmented environments that increase operational friction. Each new technology introduces separate processes and teams. This fragmentation drives inefficiency, weakens security and limits agility. He said enterprises can avoid this trap by unifying legacy virtual machines and modern containers on a single platform such as VMware Cloud Foundation. This approach improves deployment speed, supports compliance and reduces costs while enabling scale.

"Customers try to move faster by adopting new technologies like AI or Kubernetes, but we end up deploying this as islands, and it could be on-premise or it could be in a public cloud ...