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TL;DR A Microsoft and VMware hybrid platform should not be designed as a loose collection of products or as an attempt to make one vendor’s control plane replace the other.

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TL;DR The image presents a compelling vision: business capabilities operate as connected domains, an AI command center turns enterprise signals into decisions, and a secure network fabric keeps applications, data,

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