VMware Cloud Foundation Delivers a Private Cloud Platform to Accelerate Customers’ AI, Sovereignty .
Adoption of
artificial intelligence, national digital sovereignty, and maintaining cyber
resilience in times of uncertainty are paramount to today’s digital-first
organization. Broadcom Inc. 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. At VMware
Explore 2024 Barcelona this week, the company is furthering this mission by
announcing an expanded set of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Advanced
Services innovations, ecosystem partnerships, and modernization
programs that can accelerate generative AI application development,
cybersecurity initiatives, and sovereign cloud adoption.
“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. Read this
blog to learn more.
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.”
Broadcom also announces that the VMware
vDefend Advanced Service for VCF now offers GenAI-based intelligent assistance
to help IT security teams proactively triage sophisticated threat campaigns and
recommend remediation options. The enhanced threat defense solution with
Intelligent Assist co-pilot can help significantly lower false positives and
the number of alerts, provide security teams greater situational awareness
across their environment, and speed up remediation. Read more in
this blog here.
Expanding an
Ecosystem of Generative AI Services with VMware Private AI
Broadcom’s Private AI strategy is centered
around privacy, control, simplicity, automation, resiliency, and choice of AI
hardware, models, software and services. That allows organizations to invest in
a secure AI platform that can quickly onboard new services as business or
industry needs change. Today, Broadcom is announcing support for Microsoft’s
Azure AI Video Indexer, on VMware Private AI running on VMware Cloud Foundation
and Azure VMware Solution. Azure AI Video Indexer is an Azure Arc extension
enabled service that runs video and audio analysis, and generative AI on data
center or edge devices. This announcement marks another step by Broadcom to
accelerate customers’ rapid innovation and time-to-value for AI projects on the
VCF private cloud platform, and enables the Azure AI Video Indexer to run
anywhere they do business.
Free VCF
Licenses through VMUG Advantage for VCF Certified Professionals
VMUG is an independent, global, customer-led
organization, created to maximize members’ use of VMware and partner solutions
through knowledge sharing, training, collaboration, and events. In a new
exclusive benefit to VMware User Group (VMUG) members, Broadcom will provide
VMUG Advantage subscribers a 50% discount on VMware Certified Professional
(VCP) and VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) certification exams.
Upon successful completion of a VMware Cloud Foundation certification exam (VCP
or VCAP), VMUG Advantage members will have access to a free personal use VMware
Cloud Foundation license for up to three years.
Continued
Expansion of Private Cloud Modernization Program
By providing expert guidance, tailored
training, and innovative resources, Broadcom ensures that businesses can
confidently transition to a private cloud, regardless of where they are in
their private cloud journey. Today, Broadcom is announcing continued
investments in the Private Cloud Modernization Program, designed to help customers
navigate their private cloud transformation journey with VMware Cloud
Foundation.
New VMware Cloud Foundation Architect
certification: Broadcom is announcing the new VMware Certified Professional -
VCF Architect certification. The VMware Cloud Foundation Architect
certification is specifically designed for individuals who can conceptualize
and design VCF solutions that fulfill both business and technical requirements.
This certification not only validates an architect's skills in designing
systems with essential characteristics such as availability, manageability,
performance, recoverability, and security (AMPRS), but it also emphasizes the
importance of capacity planning, disaster recovery, and scalability.
Private Cloud Maturity and Optimization Tool
for Partners: Broadcom is making the Private Cloud Maturity and Optimization
tool available to partners. This tool empowers partners to help customers
realize the technical and financial value of the private cloud, and chart a
path forward to achieving their key goals and objectives. Partners get access
to the Private Cloud Framework, an assessment resulting in a Private Cloud
Maturity Index Score for their customers and prescriptive guidance from
Broadcom. By leveraging the model, partners can accelerate customers outcomes,
deliver strategic account plans faster, and develop and deliver new services.
VCSP Partners
Support National Digital Sovereignty
Broadcom is announcing that 50 VMware Cloud
Service Providers (VCSPs) offer sovereign cloud services based on VCF,
including 30 across EMEA. Sovereign VCSP partners meet the requirements for
local operations by a legal entity that owns, operates and manages the
sovereign cloud offering with complete jurisdictional control, local data
residency, and portability without lock-in (full reversibility).
VMware Cloud Foundation includes specific
capabilities that uniquely address sovereign cloud requirements, including
privacy-enhancing computation support with Intel and AMD chipsets (Confidential
Computing); integrated data-at-rest protection with vSAN Encryption; Secure
Boot for ESXi Hosts and vSphere virtual machine encryption; comprehensive data
services; and compliance monitoring, alerting and reporting with VCF
Operations. VCSP sovereign clouds also support Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK),
providing customers with even more confidence that no one else, not even the
CSP, can view or access their information without permission.
“The data revolution is rapidly
changing the way we work and live, placing the need for digital sovereignty at
the forefront of our customers’ business strategies. This includes data,
operational and technical sovereignty,” said Eric Chambriard, vice president of
strategic alliances and sales at OVHcloud. “With VMware Cloud Foundation, we
are able to leverage a complete cloud infrastructure and management platform so
that we can offer a dedicated sovereign cloud service. This enables our
customers to benefit from different certifications on a per country/sector
basis, to keep control of their data and maintain continuity of operations.”
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