Broadcom is announcing the General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, set for release on June 17, 2025.
VCF 9.0 represents a major advancement in our dedication to providing VMware Cloud Service Providers (VCSPs) with a comprehensive, modern cloud infrastructure platform tailored for current enterprise IT needs. This version offers enhanced performance, streamlined lifecycle management, and deeper integration within the VMware stack, enabling consistent, scalable, and high-value cloud services across private and hybrid cloud environments.
What is VMware Cloud Foundation?
VMware Cloud Foundation is a unified private-cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform that merges the scalability and agility of public cloud with the security and performance of private cloud. It offers unmatched operational simplicity, increased productivity, and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). A significant innovation is its improved lifecycle and license management, which simplifies operations and management.
Why VMware Cloud Foundation for VMware Cloud Service Providers?
VMware Cloud Service Providers (VCSP) using VMware Cloud Foundation for managed services help enterprises modernize their IT while ensuring operational continuity and strategic flexibility. These services go beyond support, acting as a catalyst for customer transformation, allowing IT teams to focus on innovation while experts manage multicloud operations, security, compliance, and performance optimization.
For companies needing robust, scalable, and flexible cloud solutions, VCF is a key technology for establishing a reliable private cloud. With support from VMware Cloud Service Providers, VCF will redefine cloud operating models, providing management agility and growth capacity to address operational challenges at scale.
The Sweet Spot of Organizational Success
The ideal use case for VCF for the VCSP is offering fully managed enterprise-level cloud services that provide customers with the control and consistency of a private cloud platform and the flexibility and scalability of a public cloud platform. Powered by a consistent VMware infrastructure stack, VCF supports a true cloud operating model for VCSP, meeting the needs of customers with regulated, complex, or legacy workloads, such as those requiring data sovereignty and compliance or modernizing traditional applications without significant refactoring.
VCF enables VCSPs to create secure, hardware-based multitenant environments with policy-based control and simplified lifecycle management through VMware Cloud Foundation Operations. Its native automation and standardized operational framework across compute, storage, and networking make VCF a natural fit for sovereign cloud use cases, public sector customers, hybrid cloud extensions for enterprises, Private AI for modern apps, and more.
