Building Private Cloud Foundations for the Agentic Era with Broadcom and VMware's Sabina Anja

In this episode of Shift AI, Sabina Anja, Chief Technologist at VMware by Broadcom, joins host Boaz Ashkenazy for a wide-ranging conversation on why private, flexible infrastructure is becoming the foundation enterprises need for the agentic era.Sabina makes the case that most infrastructure and security thinking was built for a world where humans approve every step, and that world is already gone. An assistant waits for you. An agent, in her words, gets set loose and just goes. So what happens when nobody notices an agent doing something it was technically allowed to do, but shouldn't have? Sabina has a way of thinking about that question that most infrastructure teams haven't caught up to yet.This episode is for CIOs, CTOs, VPs of infrastructure, platform engineers, and security leaders who are trying to figure out what their environments need to look like before agents are running unsupervised inside them.Chapters[00:00] Welcome and introducing Sabina Anja[00:31] From Belgium to self-taught programmer: Sabina's first jobs[04:29] Why programming hygiene still matters with Cursor and Claude Code[06:24] Virtualization then and now: from vCPUs to vGPUs[08:52] What businesses are really asking for as AI costs spike[10:46] Inside NVMe tiering and the memory crunch[13:28] Private AI and the return of sovereign infrastructure[15:43] Data ownership, geopolitics, and the new value of stolen IP[17:48] Open source, small language models, and fit-for-purpose compute[20:59] Advice for CIOs: build flexible foundations, not two-year projects[24:40] Agents vs. assistants: why blast radius changes everything[27:26] Agentic security, guardrails, and the two words: platform matters, earned trustConnect with Sabina AnjaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabinaanja/Connect with Boaz AshkenazyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boazashkenazy/Email: [email protected]