Business UpdateAug 6, 2026, 09:03 AM
Broadcom enhances VMware vDefend & Avi Load Balancer for AI security
AI Summary
Broadcom announced significant updates to VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer, enhancing private cloud security, optimizing infrastructure costs, and simplifying operations with AI-powered automation. These enhancements aim to deliver a rapidly deployed, intelligently operated, and high-performance multi-layer cyber defense against AI-fueled cyberattacks. Key improvements include accelerated threat prevention, on-prem malware prevention, comprehensive air-gapped support, and native API protection. The updates also boost performance, reduce hardware requirements, and introduce AI Assistant for streamlined operations and automated migration.
Key Highlights
- vDefend introduces 3-step deployment for Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP), accelerating deployment from months to weeks.
- vDefend now offers on-prem malware prevention and comprehensive air-gapped support for sensitive environments.
- Avi Load Balancer enhances native API protection for VMs, vSphere Kubernetes Services (VKS), and AI workloads.
- vDefend's 2-node SSP model reduces physical hardware requirements by up to 33%.
- Distributed Firewall (DFW) speeds increased up to 75Gbps on 100G NIC servers (up to 241% increase).
- Distributed IDPS performance boosted up to 17Gbps per server (up to 89% increase).
- Avi Load Balancer scale-out throughput increased up to 12.25Tbps (up to 88% increase).
- AI Assistant integrated into vDefend DFW and Avi Load Balancer for streamlined operations.
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