Broadcom announced the launch of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, a new version that further expands its modern private cloud platform offering. This helps enterprises achieve a consistent cloud experience across local data centers, edge computing environments, and managed clouds in a more consistent, secure, and manageable manner, demonstrating its commitment to accelerating cloud transformation and AI infrastructure modernization.
The next-generation VCF platform integrates the control of on-premises environments with the agility of the public cloud, supporting traditional and modern applications, including AI and containerized services. It provides consistent management, governance, and policy control through a single platform, further reducing overall cloud operating costs and strengthening security resilience and compliance capabilities.
Krish Prasad, senior vice president of Broadcom, said that VCF 9.0 not only simplifies deployment and management processes, but also enables enterprises to support traditional tasks and emerging AI applications with greater efficiency. Most enterprises now want to run application scenarios that include AI and containers through private clouds, and VCF 9.0 is the ideal solution for such needs.
The new platform core strengthens three key aspects: first, it integrates Quick Start setup wizard, resource insights, compliance governance, and upgrade scheduling into a single management interface, allowing administrators to increase daily productivity by up to 10 times; second, it provides developers with a truly self-service and flexible IaaS architecture, emphasizing the "everything is code" private cloud experience; finally, in terms of security, it introduces a SecOps dashboard and supports confidential computing technology to ensure data sovereignty and consistent protection across platforms.
VCF 9.0 further integrates VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service, enabling virtual machines and containers to run collaboratively on the same platform, allowing DevOps teams to seamlessly develop and deploy while maintaining high security and IT controllability.
In conjunction with the new version, Broadcom also launched a series of advanced services. These include VMware Private AI Foundation, a collaboration with NVIDIA, which enhances the efficiency of building and deploying AI models. This includes upgraded solutions for disaster recovery, threat detection, and database-as-a-service, such as Live Recovery, vDefend, and Data Services Manager. These services make VMware Private AI Foundation a key tool for enterprises building modern private clouds.
Broadcom currently positions VCF as the core platform for enterprises to deploy AI, cloud-native, and data-intensive applications on-premises. With a simplified management architecture, greater cost transparency, and stronger security and compliance defenses, VCF 9.0 is more than just an upgrade to the infrastructure platform; it is a key engine driving enterprise modernization and digital transformation.
