Adoption of artificial intelligence, national digital sovereignty, and maintaining cyber resilience in times of uncertainty are paramount to today’s digital-first organization. Broadcom is helping customers address these critical business outcomes through a private cloud platform, VMware Cloud Foundation, that is simple to deploy, easy to consume, and lowers cost and risk.
“Broadcom is enabling the private cloud everywhere with VMware Cloud Foundation,” said Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager, VCF Division at Broadcom. “Through a private cloud platform and portfolio of Advanced Services that are ubiquitous, flexible and secure, we are unlocking the promise of AI in the enterprise, delivering new levels of organizational resilience, and supporting the privacy and digital sovereignty demands of customers around the world.”
VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry’s first private cloud platform to deliver public cloud scale and agility with private cloud security, resilience and performance, and low overall total cost of ownership. VCF supports customers’ digital innovation with faster infrastructure modernization, a unified cloud experience, and better cyber resiliency and platform security. The VCF private cloud platform can be deployed consistently in on-premises data centers, in hyperscale and partner clouds, and at the edge, and customers benefit from license portability which enables them to purchase subscriptions of the new VCF software and have complete mobility across environments. VMware Cloud Foundation Advanced Services is a robust catalog of ready-to-deploy solutions that enables customers to accelerate innovation in their private cloud environments. VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 and 5.2.1 have been released this year, and Broadcom has announced intent to deliver VMware Cloud Foundation 9.
“IPZS, the Italian Mint and Printing Institute, has been entrusted with the responsibility of deploying the Italian version of the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet initiative, making Italy the first country to successfully implement this project,” said Paolo Bazzica, CIO of IPZS – Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato Italiano. “As part of a transformational program to modernize its infrastructure, IPZS created a new modern Digital Application Platform (DAP) using VMware Cloud Foundation. This has enabled faster and more secure software development, deployment, and maintenance, ensuring the reliability and scalability of Italy’s EUDI Wallet.”
“For running enterprise-grade applications across both virtual machines and containerized solutions, VCF stands as the industry’s most advanced and comprehensive private cloud platform,” said Onno van den Berg, Mission Critical Engineer at Schuberg Philis. “VCF offers an efficient, out-of-the-box experience, providing a flexible, scalable, and resilient solution. With many of our customers already utilizing VMware based platforms for their workloads, migrations are streamlined and straightforward.”
Expanded Data Services Capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundation
Broadcom is announcing a new Advanced Service – VMware Tanzu Data Services for VMware Cloud Foundation – to streamline deployment, management and consumption of critical data services and enable faster application delivery, better data security and governance, and operational efficiency. Robust data services (databases, messaging, caching) are foundational for the success of AI applications, enabling them to function accurately and efficiently in dynamic environments. Data services offer a modern way to store, manage, and process data, addressing the challenges developers, infrastructure teams, and operators face in deploying microservices, serverless, and other modern application architectures at scale. IT organizations have struggled to operationalize the growing number of data services and deliver them effectively with SLAs. VMware Tanzu Data Services will natively integrate with VCF to deliver fleet-level automated lifecycle management including deployment, backups, clustering, security patching and updates of leading open source data services, starting with PostgreSQL, MySQL, RabbitMQ and Valkey. Enterprise support for these open source solutions will be included.
End-to-end Cyber Resilience, Security and Recovery with VMware Cloud Foundation
Broadcom is announcing VMware Live Recovery will support Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) as a target Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) for VCF workloads for both cyber and disaster recovery. This builds on VMware Live Recovery’s existing protection of GCVE sites as a source, and enables a consistent, secure and simplified experience for those looking to protect VMware workloads running on-premises or in the cloud to GCVE.
“Building on Google Cloud’s support for VMware Cloud Foundation license portability, our expanded services now offer yet another important choice for customers to address their modern cyber- and disaster-recovery needs,” said Mark Lohmeyer, VP & GM of Compute and AI Infrastructure, Google Cloud. “Together, Broadcom and Google Cloud will continue to design, develop, and deliver cutting-edge services that enable enterprises to run VMware workloads securely and cost-effectively on Google Cloud.”
