Broadcom Unveils Next-Gen VMware Solutions for Cloud and Application Delivery

Broadcom Unveils the Future of VMware Cloud Foundation - Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO)

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VMware Explore 2024 -- At VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas, Broadcom Inc. AVGO today unveiled VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9, the future of VCF that will 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. 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 and low total cost of ownership. A recent IDC Business Value study found that organizations interviewed for the study have used VCF to establish secure, agile, elastic, and cost-effective private and hybrid cloud infrastructures. The study found that with VMware Cloud Foundation, organizations not only optimize their infrastructure costs and staff time requirements, but positively affect business outcomes through more effective application development and enabling security teams to spend more time on improving security results. The interviews and analysis showed customers, compared to their environments before VCF, could achieve: 34% lower infrastructure costs and >50% infrastructure and security team efficiencies, resulting in 42% lower overall cost-of-operations161% faster time to deploy new VMs, 50% faster for network capacity, and 32% faster for storage, resulting in an overall 564% three-year ROI and 10 months to payback1 "To break the infrastructure silos, reclaim control of public cloud sprawl, and capture the opportunity for AI in the enterprise, our customers are shifting from best-of-breed siloed architectures to a modern private cloud platform," said Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager, VCF Division at Broadcom. "VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will redefine the landscape for private cloud by delivering a modern, integrated platform that will unify operations and automation to deliver a cloud experience that enables businesses to be more innovative, efficient, resilient and secure." "At GCI, deploying VMware Cloud Foundation has fundamentally transformed how we deliver services across Alaska's diverse landscape," said Jeremy Mayfield, Senior Solutions Architect, Enterprise Cloud Platform Group at GCI Communication. "By standardizing our infrastructure on a unified private cloud platform, we've modernized our operations, significantly reducing deployment times from months to days. This shift enables us to respond faster to the unique needs of our remote communities while maintaining the highest levels of security and resilience." "Our customers are our membership. They have direct ownership in our organization, and they've got a vested, real interest in our success," said Mark Fournier, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Senate Federal Credit Union. "VMware Private AI running on VMware Cloud Foundation will deliver tremendous value in allowing us to conform to how we've operated with a private cloud environment for years, allowing us to keep pace with that relentless pursuit of innovation. We see AI in customer service as a powerful use case -- from knowledge base-powered chatbot answers to our internal staff, all the way to delivering financial answers to our members on whatever device they use for banking." Making it Faster, Easier, to Deploy and Operate Modern Infrastructure To help customers modernize their infrastructure, VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will deliver capabilities that enable their infrastructure to operate as a single unified and automated system, helping customers keep pace with modern app requirements, and bring the advanced VMware capabilities they already have from Broadcom into their private cloud platform. Unified Operations and Automation: VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will feature a self-service cloud portal for provisioning services, and reduce the total number of management consoles from more than a dozen to just a single console each for operations and automation. New integrated workflows will simplify the transition between operations and automation tasks, and enhanced insights and analytics will enable even more proactive management. Expanded VCF Import: VCF Import helps organizations transition quickly to a modern and integrated infrastructure by reducing the complexity and downtime associated with manual migrations of existing environments into the VCF private cloud platform. With VMware Cloud Foundation 9, Broadcom will add the ability for customers to import VMware NSX, VMware vDefend, VMware Avi Load Balancer and more complex storage topologies into existing VCF environments, and leverage and integrate older versions of existing infrastructure. A new intuitive UI will further simplify management and deployment. Advanced Memory Tiering with NVMe: This new memory tiering capability will significantly enhance data-intensive applications, such as AI, databases and real-time analytics. AI workloads, especially those involving large datasets and complex models, demand rapid data retrieval and processing. Memory tiering using NVMe reduces latency and accelerates data throughput, which is crucial for training and inference tasks. Additionally, the cost-efficiency of tiering helps manage the high storage demands of AI applications, enabling scalable solutions that maintain performance without excessive expenses. Delivering a Cloud Experience that Provides Frictionless Consumption of Resources VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will expose easy-to-consume infrastructure services that enable developers and application owners to deploy any application (VM or containerized) without friction. VCF will support: Integrated VCF Multi-Tenancy: VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will bring multi-tenant capabilities previously provided separately by VMware Cloud Director into the VCF platform. Enterprise IT teams will then be able to support different organizations, business groups or development teams on the same shared infrastructure, while allowing application owners and development teams to segment their infrastructure based on their specific requirements for access, workload management, security and privacy. Native VPC Deployment: VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will deliver the next evolution of VPCs as a native networking-as-a-service experience for VCF customers to increase developer productivity, reduce operational burden on IT, and enable faster provisioning of workloads and applications. Native VPC capabilities will simplify networking by enabling users to access self-service isolated connectivity without VLAN complexities and enable non-disruptive integration with existing networks. Native VPCs can be further enhanced through Advanced Services such as VMware vDefend to enable security groups and VMware Avi Load Balancer to enable one-click deployment of load-balancing as a service with VPC deployment. Accelerated Adoption of VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA: Aimed at enterprises looking to harness the power of AI while maintaining the benefits of a private cloud, VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA offers a comprehensive solution for deploying, managing, and scaling AI-driven applications securely and efficiently on VCF-based private clouds. With VMware Cloud Foundation 9, Broadcom will deliver new VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA capabilities that further simplify GenAI deployments such as vGPU profile visibility, GPU reservations, data indexing and retrieval service, and an AI agent builder service. Enabling Uninterrupted Operations, Cyber Resilience, and Compliance VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will enable fleet-level operations and centralized security and compliance management to deliver uninterrupted operations and more proactive risk mitigation. Enhancements to VMware Cloud Foundation as well as Advanced Services will include: Unified VCF Security Management: Through native capabilities for Security Operations (SecOps) in VCF, customers will be able to enhance overall security posture while ensuring operational efficiency is maintained by managing across their entire global fleet of VCF deployments. A centralized information hub will provide timely and accurate security data in one place and a new comprehensive security view will provide visibility into multiple facets of security. Configuration drift detection will correlate and proactively notify IT of inconsistencies in system configurations across an entire VCF fleet. Native vSAN-to-vSAN Data Protection with Deep Snapshots: vSAN remote snapshot replication will strengthen data resilience with a deep history of immutable snapshots, reduce downtime with enterprise-grade DR orchestration, and simplify the management experience with a unified appliance. It also supports vSAN disaggregated storage for increased scalability and storage efficiency. Customers can leverage the deep, immutable vSAN snapshots to recover from ransomware attacks with an on-premises Isolated Recovery Environment. This complements the existing cloud-based ransomware recovery offering to provide greater choice and flexibility to customers who want to preserve data sovereignty and unlock the value of the full VCF stack to protect workloads anywhere. Advancing Cyber Threat Prevention: vDefend will expand to deliver new capabilities such as distributed firewall rule impact analysis to help simplify micro-segmentation security policy operations; distributed intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS) enhancements to support large, dense and multi-instance VCF environments; rapid threat assessment to help harden security posture by enabling threat profiling of VCF environments; and on-premises malware prevention for regulated organizations that require air-gapped deployment of VCF. Project Cypress will deliver GenAI-based intelligent assistance to help IT security teams proactively triage sophisticated threat campaigns and recommend remediation options. Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation Advanced Services Today, Broadcom is also introducing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Advanced Services, a robust catalog of ready-to-deploy solutions, enabling customers to accelerate innovation in their private cloud environments. This diverse library of private cloud solutions are similar to what enterprises have come to expect in the public cloud, allowing them to access the tools and technologies they need to rapidly address a variety of use cases and business opportunities. 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. Details on the complete catalog of services are available here. Broadcom Invests in Private Cloud Modernization Program to Guide Customers' Cloud Journey Recognizing that there are many paths and steps to implementing a private cloud, Broadcom is investing extensively to help guide and support customers through the process. Private Cloud Maturity Model: designed to help customers assess their private and hybrid cloud capabilities across operations, processes and technology, the Private Cloud Maturity Model includes a Private Cloud Framework, an assessment resulting in a Private Cloud Maturity Index Score, and prescriptive guidance from Broadcom that helps customers chart a path forward for their ideal private cloud. Jumpstart Program: Jumpstart Workshops help customers review their private cloud goals against their current cloud maturity level, evaluate their current architecture against their private cloud goals, and provide a tailored adoption plan to achieve the customers' private cloud objectives. Leveraging the results of the Private Cloud Maturity Model assessment, VCF Jumpstart workshops enable customers to work with Broadcom to maximize technology investments faster by identifying improvement opportunities and developing actionable recommendations. New VMware Cloud Foundation Certification: Broadcom's new VMware Cloud Foundation certification exam allows IT teams to acquire in-demand skills aligned with current technology trends, make the transition to private cloud, reduce cloud costs, optimize resource usage, and maximize their VMware Cloud Foundation investment. Free Digital Learning and Instructor-led Training: VCF customers now have unlimited complimentary access to the comprehensive VMware Cloud Foundation digital training library as well as instructor-led training to upskill and reskill teams via continuous learning. Investing in upskilling ensures teams understand VMware Cloud Foundation in depth, resulting in better efficiency, increased productivity, and faster ROI. VCF proficiency also empowers IT professionals to serve as experienced cloud advocates and drive proactive private cloud adoption among various teams within their organization. 1- IDC White Paper, sponsored by VMWare by Broadcom, The Business Value of VMware Cloud Foundation, doc #US52312224, August 2024 For the latest news and more from VMware Explore, the industry's essential cloud event, visit the VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas media kit. Additional Resources For more details read these blogsLearn more about VMware Cloud FoundationFollow VMware Cloud Foundation social channels on LinkedIn, X, formerly known as Twitter and YouTube About Broadcom Broadcom Inc. AVGO is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, industrial, and enterprise software. Our solutions include service provider and enterprise networking and storage, mobile device and broadband connectivity, mainframe, cybersecurity, and private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com. Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking statements, including statements as to the anticipated benefits, features, competitiveness and customer acceptance of VCF 9, that are based on our current expectations and beliefs, assumptions made by and information currently available to our management, current market trends and market conditions and that involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside our control and may cause actual results to differ materially from those statements. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on such statements. Our recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Broadcom's most recent reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, include these and other factors that may affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. We undertake no intent or obligation to publicly update or revise any of the estimates and other forward-looking statements made in this announcement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Roger T. Fortier Broadcom, Inc. roger.fortier@broadcom.com +1.408.348.1569 Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs

Broadcom Introduces VMware Tanzu Platform 10 to Accelerate Intelligent Application Delivery in the Private Cloud - Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO)

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VMware Explore 2024 - Broadcom Inc. AVGO announced VMware Tanzu Platform 10, a cloud native application platform that accelerates software delivery, providing platform engineering teams enhanced governance and operational efficiency while reducing toil and complexity for development teams. The company also introduced Tanzu AI Solutions, a set of capabilities within Tanzu Platform that help application teams deliver GenAI-powered, intelligent applications quickly, safely, and at scale. Tanzu Platform 10 and VMware Cloud Foundation now provide the fastest path to a complete private cloud with a self-configuring setup experience and support for air-gapped environments. Nearly a third (29%) of all GenAI budget is allocated to creating and delivering new software-driven business offerings, according to a recent IDC study.* However, research from S&P Global Market Intelligence shows that over half (52.6%) of organizations face a shortage of technology skills in the area of AI and machine learning, creating a significant obstacle to capitalize on GenAI innovations.** "Business leaders want to harness the power of GenAI in their application strategy, but in many cases, they face complex challenges with this emerging technology, leading teams to create one-off experiments and silos that only add technical debt and risk," said Purnima Padmanabhan, general manager, Tanzu Division, Broadcom. "Now, with Tanzu Platform's built-in AI development framework, developers can build high-performing, intelligent apps, regardless of their experience level or knowledge of Python. Tanzu AI Solutions help development teams go from dabbling in the sandbox to deploying enterprise-ready intelligent applications to production with confidence." New Tanzu Platform 10 delivers simplified, accelerated cloud native application delivery Tanzu Platform 10 builds on Cloud Foundry's approach to accelerating application delivery with standardized golden paths to production for developers and platform engineers. Now developers can use simple operations to automate secure container builds, bind services to apps, deploy code with a single command, and easily scale applications. Tanzu Platform 10 also automates both application and platform management tasks such as patching vulnerabilities, performing rolling upgrades, and enforcing policies with broad visibility and AI-powered insights. Tanzu Platform 10 delivers a self-managed, global control plane for greater automation and visibility across all application environments. Tanzu Platform 10 also features: A Cloud-Foundry-like developer experience for Kubernetes with application spaces that introduces an application-centric layer of abstraction to allow applications to run with consistent operational governance and compliance. The abstraction model will create a clean separation of concerns between stakeholders: developers can focus on their applications without worrying about infrastructure details; while platform and operations teams can focus on managing infrastructure at scale, defining configurations to meet organizational governance and compliance requirements.Enhanced contextual app-to-platform visibility across Cloud Foundry foundations or Kubernetes clusters across availability zones.Powerful 'built-in' service binding to connect apps to middleware and databases, and automatically manage credentials and connection strings bringing huge time savingsSpring application security, compliance audits, policy enforcement, and automated CVE remediation with new Application Advisor.Significantly faster start-up times for Spring applications with enhanced Java buildpacks in Tanzu Spring, commercial Spring features built into Tanzu Platform.Elevated compliance enforcement and vulnerability management with Tanzu Salt.Auto-provisioned and hardened OSS databases and messaging. Tanzu AI Solutions in Tanzu Platform 10 helps developers build safe, scalable, enterprise-ready, GenAI applications Tanzu Platform democratizes intelligent application development. Tanzu Platform now includes Tanzu AI Solutions, a set of capabilities that help customers develop, operate, and optimize AI-powered, intelligent applications safely, and at scale. Tanzu AI Solutions also delivers GenAI observability and monitoring to address accuracy and performance with root cause analysis for apps and large language models (LLMs). Tanzu AI Solutions includes: Spring AI is an open source application framework that can be used by Java developers to build GenAI-powered features into applications. Spring AI offers developer-friendly Java APIs that can be used to access LLM models and implement higher level AI and application logic patterns. With Spring AI, Java developers can seamlessly integrate GenAI capabilities into their new or existing applications without needing to cross-train in Python.GenAI on Tanzu Platform is an enhanced OpenAI compatible API gateway available in Tanzu Platform which has built-in API abstraction as well as load balancing, resilience, and caching. It allows you to run or connect to 100-plus proprietary or OSS LLMs in a secure and consistent manner. Tanzu Platform brokers LLM services as with any other services like databases and enterprise APIs, allowing platform engineering to curate AI services with role-based access controls and automate secrets management away from the developer for security and resilience.Observability for GenAI provides increased performance and accuracy with monitoring and assessment of apps and model responses. This capability helps teams visualize, test and troubleshoot AI apps by performing model accuracy checks, and scans for hallucinations. It also monitors token usage to more easily control the costs of LLM calls.Support for VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA is built-in to the GenAI on Tanzu Platform service broker as ready-to-curate, drop-down selections to be made available to application teams. Tanzu Platform 10 paired with VMware Cloud Foundation provides the fastest path to a complete private cloud Tanzu Platform 10 provides powerful, ready-to-deploy advanced services for VMware Cloud Foundation, including container operations and data services, for the fastest path to a complete private cloud. To accelerate the delivery of modern applications on private cloud, Tanzu Platform 10 provides the following new capabilities: Air-gapped environment support for off-network, self-managed, private cloud environments with a simple, self-configuring installation experience that preconfigures Tanzu Platform for VMware Cloud Foundation. With a simple CLI command, Kubernetes cluster creation and networking configuration are automated, creating a ready-to-consume private cloud developer platform.Global Server Load Balancing and Advanced Networking for Tanzu Platform brings new enhancements to private clouds using the VMware Avi Load Balancer, with pre-configured support in Cloud Foundry deployments for managing routing, and source-to-url dynamic networking using load balancing and dynamic DNS for Kubernetes environments.Hardened VM and OSS images available through the Tanzu Application Catalog are now integrated directly into Tanzu Platform hub, enabling hardened VM and OSS images to be deployed with Tanzu Platform. This enables IT operations teams to ensure that only validated, secure packaged images are deployed within their private cloud estate. This integration also brings continuous vulnerability scanning of VM and OSS images to ensure customers are running secure workloads. Tanzu Customer references: SB Payment Service SB Payment Service hosts some of the largest payment agency services in Japan with the help of VMware Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry (formerly known as Tanzu Application Service). Our partnership with the Tanzu team has reached its fifth year and we continue to have their support in scaling our environments and delivering a transaction volume of 8 trillion yen with no downtime. We are excited to continue our relationship with Broadcom and refactor legacy applications to host them on the Tanzu Platform. -- Takashi Takaramoto, General Manager System. Division, SB Payment Service Corp. Hitachi Solutions Hitachi Solutions offers a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment, the Digital Solution Creation Platform, which is powered by Tanzu Platform supporting both Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes use cases. Despite competition from hyper-scalers, we have experienced healthy growth, onboarding production services to over 120 companies in the past six years. By leveraging the power of Tanzu, we are excited to keep expanding our use cases including hybrid cloud. -- Takashi Maruyama, Department Manager, Digital Solution Creation Platform Department, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd. NTT Communications VMware Tanzu Greenplum helped NTT Communications achieve 100x faster data processing and overcome scaling challenges when our company faced an unexpected surge in access due to government regulation changes in 2023. At NTT Communications, we rely on VMware Tanzu solutions to quickly scale and expand our data management and software delivery infrastructure. We look forward to continuing our partnership with the Tanzu Division of Broadcom and leveraging VMware Tanzu Data Solutions and VMware Tanzu Platform to support customer excellence and innovation at NTT Communications. -- Toshifumi Watanabe, Director, Service Platforms, NTT Communications Tanzu Platform with Tanzu AI Solutions delivers enhanced management and control for platform engineers, simplicity to developers and more power to the business. To learn more Tanzu Platform, Tanzu Data Solutions and Tanzu Labs, visit tanzu.vmware.com. For the latest news and more from VMware Explore, the industry's essential cloud event, visit the VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas media kit. *Source: IDC, GenAI Awareness, Readiness, and Commitment: 2024 Outlook -- GenAI Plans and Implications for External Services Providers, AI-Ready Infrastructure, AI Platforms, and GenAI Applications, doc # US52023824, Apr 2024. ** Source: 451 Research, S&P Global Voice of the Enterprise, Digital Pulse, Technology Skills 2023 report. About Broadcom Broadcom Inc. AVGO is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, industrial, and enterprise software. Our solutions include service provider and enterprise networking and storage, mobile device and broadband connectivity, mainframe, cybersecurity, and private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com. Broadcom, the pulse logo, and Connecting everything are among the trademarks of Broadcom. The term "Broadcom" refers to Broadcom Inc., and/or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Press Contacts: Jennifer Stevens Tanzu Division of Broadcom 1-917-445-3620 Jennifer.stevens@broadcom.com Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs