At this week’s VMware Explore customer and partner conference in Las Vegas, there have been a variety of announcements covering cloud services, the edge and data storage.
VMware owner Broadcom unveiled VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9, that promises to “accelerate” customers’ transition from siloed IT architectures to a unified and integrated private cloud platform, that “lowers cost and risk”.
“VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will radically simplify the deployment, consumption and operations of a secure and cost-effective private cloud,” the firm said.
Broadcom is also introducing VMware Cloud Foundation Advanced Services, a catalogue of ready-to-deploy solutions, enabling customers to “accelerate innovation” in their private cloud environments. “Whether customers use VCF Advanced Services on their own or with the help of a certified VMware partner, each solution is fully vetted by Broadcom, with prescriptive architectural guidance to help speed deployment and time to value,” the company said.
Broadcom also announced VMware Tanzu Platform 10, the cloud native application platform that is designed to speed software delivery, providing platform engineering teams “enhanced governance and operational efficiency”, while “reducing toil and complexity” for development teams, the firm said.
Complementing this, the company introduced Tanzu AI Solutions, a set of capabilities within the Tanzu Platform that help application teams deliver GenAI-powered, intelligent applications “quickly, safely, and at scale”.
Tanzu Platform 10 provides oven-ready advanced services for VMware Cloud Foundation, including container operations and data services, “for the fastest path to a complete private cloud”, we are told.
In another announcement, storage firm Hitachi Vantara and Broadcom announced a new private and hybrid cloud solution. The co-engineered offering brings together Hitachi Vantara’s integrated systems solution of Unified Compute Platform (UCP) RS with VMware Cloud Foundation, to assist organisations in navigating the complexities brought on by substantial data proliferation and the escalating requirements of AI.
“Combining industry-leading automation and software-defined services with enterprise-proven infrastructure enables organisations to modernise their infrastructure for improved performance and scalability,” the partners said, “while also reducing total cost of ownership, energy consumption and carbon footprint, while boosting data infrastructure efficiency”.
In addition, Broadcom unveiled developments across its software-defined edge product portfolio, to enable enterprises to support edge AI workloads via new and enhanced connectivity, deployment, and lifecycle management capabilities, including:
- Combined fixed wireless access (FWA) and satellite connections support in the VMware VeloCloud Edge 710 appliance, as well as the new VMware VeloCloud Edge 720 and 740 appliances
- VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec enhancements featuring the integration of VeloCloud and Symantec points-of-presence (PoPs)
- VMware Edge Compute Stack product enhancements
“We’re focused on enabling enterprises to adopt edge AI workloads,” said Sanjay Uppal, vice president and general manager, software-defined edge division, Broadcom. “We’ve announced support for FWA and satellite connections in VMware VeloCloud Edge to deliver critical, blended connectivity for OT devices as well as AI and non-AI edge workloads.
“We uniquely offer enterprises a good, better, best approach to connectivity at the edge by allowing them to tweak real-time WAN performance, gain insights from the network, and program the network. This convergence of the underlay network enables enterprises to build networks in minutes to support today’s and tomorrow’s workloads.”
