VMware has introduced a private AI cloud and an AI factory model, responding to what it sees as a shift in AI workloads toward on-premises infrastructure. The company is positioning these offerings for enterprises that want to run AI training and inference inside their own data centers rather than in public clouds.
The private AI cloud is designed to give organizations a more integrated way to deploy AI infrastructure, while the AI factory concept frames that infrastructure as a repeatable, production-oriented setup. Both are aimed at the same underlying trend: AI workloads moving back on-prem.
The Next Platform reports that VMware is betting on this on-prem shift as a major driver of its enterprise strategy. The source does not include independent validation of the trend, so the scale of the move remains VMware's own claim.