Broadcom Unveils Newest Innovations for VMware Cloud Foundation
Broadcom Inc. unveiled the latest updates to VMware Cloud
Foundation (VCF), the company’s flagship private cloud platform. The
latest advancements in VCF support customers’ digital innovation with faster
infrastructure modernization, improved developer productivity, and better cyber
resiliency and security with low total cost of ownership.
“VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry’s first private-cloud platform
to offer the combined power of public and private clouds with unmatched
operational simplicity and proven total cost of ownership value,” said Paul Turner, Vice President of Products,
VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom. “With our latest release, VCF
is delivering on key requirements driven by customer input. The new VCF Import
functionality will be a game changer in accelerating VCF adoption and improving
time to value. We are also delivering a set of new capabilities that helps IT
more quickly meet the needs of developers without increasing business risk.
This latest release of VCF puts us squarely on the path to delivering on the
full promise of VCF for our customers.”
VCF is purpose-built to modernize infrastructure and accelerate
innovation, delivering integrated, enterprise-class compute, networking,
storage, management, and security across any environment. VCF includes native
Kubernetes to support both VM and containerized workloads on a single platform,
enables advanced AI/ML workloads at enterprise scale, and offers integrated
data services capabilities. IT can continuously optimize performance and costs,
protect the business from threats, and enable the business to focus on outcomes
instead of operations through advanced observability and insights. VCF
customers benefit from capabilities aligned to every part of their private
cloud journey, from Day Zero adoption through Day Two continuous
operations. VCF customers benefit from license portability which enables them
to purchase subscriptions of the new VCF software and have complete mobility
between their on-premises environment and supported endpoints of choice. New
advancements will include:
Modernize Infrastructure: New VCF Import
capability will enable integration of existing vSphere and vSAN environments
into VMware Cloud Foundation, centralizing management and optimizing
resources without needing a full rebuild of a customer environment. This will
transform current customer environments and enable greater efficiency, lower
costs, and faster time to value. VCF now provides full, integrated support for
vSAN Max and vSAN ESA stretched clusters, providing customers
petabyte scale disaggregated storage and active-active availability. The new
VCF Edge will provide an optimized VCF configuration for edge use cases,
offering scalable, cost-efficient, flexible, hassle-free management and
consistent infrastructure from data center to edge.
Cloud Experience for Developers: The new
release of VCF will simplify application deployment and management with quick
start templates, easy network integration, and advanced performance insights,
driving faster time to market and increased developer productivity. VCF will
offer Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) as an independent service, delivering
asynchronous TKG releases to align with upstream Kubernetes and quickly provide
the latest versions to developers. VCF networking enables developers to focus
on coding and testing rather than dealing with intricate network requirements,
facilitates better collaboration among development teams, and supports more
efficient CI/CD pipelines. Enhancements to VCF networking will enable rapid
setup and configuration to move from traditional VLAN-based network set-ups to
advanced NSX virtual networking. VMware Avi Load Balancer with VCF delivers
self-service load balancing as a service for DevOps and AppOps teams and
enables IT to deploy load balancing at the speed of applications.
Security and Resilience: VCF and
associated add-ons such as VMware Live Recovery and VMware vDefend
lateral security enable private cloud integrity, higher availability, optimized
network performance, malware/ransomware prevention, and robust data protection.
New ESXi Live Patching allows administrators to apply critical patches to ESXi
hosts without requiring maintenance windows and Flexible VCF Component upgrade
provides the ability to apply the latest patches available at the time of
upgrading to a new VCF version. Together these advancements reduce downtime,
streamline patch management and enhance system reliability. Dual DPU support
with vSphere Distributed Services Engine will help ensure continuity and
protection against DPU failures, provide full isolation of dual independent DPUs,
and double the offload capacity per host. vSAN Data Protection will enable
administrators to more easily protect and recover VMs from accidental deletions
and ransomware attacks. VMware vDefend lateral security will deliver
increased distributed and gateway firewall scale, security information and
event management (SIEM) integration for enhanced east-west ransomware
prevention, and on-prem network detection and response (NDR) for threat
triaging. VMware Avi integration with SDDC Manager will streamline lifecycle
management of Avi software from deployment, through provisioning, to ongoing
operations.
“The excitement and associated concerns surrounding GenAI and data
security reinforce the need for private clouds. Enterprises need to ensure that
private corporate data does not find itself inside a public AI model,”
said Dave McCarthy, Research Vice President, Cloud and Edge
Services, Worldwide Infrastructure Research at IDC. “How customers
choose to build private clouds will be driven by the unique requirements of
each organization, such as updating legacy infrastructure, advancing the needs
of their developer community, or creating a more secure and reliable
environment to support a new generation of AI/ML applications. VMware
Cloud Foundation continues to evolve as a private cloud platform, and the
latest innovations Broadcom is delivering should help customers of all sizes
accelerate adoption.”
Optimizing IT Infrastructure with VMware vSphere Foundation
For the past decade, virtualization has helped hundreds of thousands of
customers in simplifying the IT environment. Today’s requirements are
different. Modern IT must adapt to support AI/ML-enabled applications,
developer-driven requirements, and modern threats, while at the same time
having to take on more responsibilities with fewer
people. VMware vSphere Foundation is the next evolution of the
industry-leading VMware vSphere solution, designed to support modern
IT requirements by boosting operational efficiency, elevating security and supercharging
workload performance, all in support of accelerating innovation. The newest
update of vSphere Foundation will deliver innovations that include:
- ESXi
Live Patching for faster updates with zero downtime.
- Easy
access for developers to self-service infrastructure via the vSphere IaaS
control plane and a Local Consumption Interface for infrastructure
services like VM service and storage service.
- Tanzu
Kubernetes Grid Service becomes an independent service, with asynchronous
updates enabling customers to consume the latest upstream Kubernetes
versions faster.
- Easier
management of all vSphere Foundation components with a simplified console
including global inventory, simplified diagnostics, centralized
certificate management and unified licensing.
- Improved
end user experience and security with single sign-on across all product
components.
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