This week, Gartner published the 2024 Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. For the second straight year, VMware (now Broadcom) is recognized as a Leader.
VMware’s participation in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant is based on our submission of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the industry’s first private cloud platform to deliver public cloud scale and agility with private cloud security, resilience and performance, in order to lower overall total cost of ownership. VCF supports customers’ digital innovation with faster infrastructure modernization, a unified cloud experience to accelerate developer velocity, better cyber resiliency and platform security.
Broadcom has been continuously innovating the VCF platform across multiple vectors and making investments to help customers along their private cloud journey. Here are our more recent updates.
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Delivers Major New Innovations
Available in July 2024, VCF 5.2 demonstrated our first steps toward delivering on our private cloud platform strategy and further illustrated Broadcom’s commitment to innovation and customer-centric solutions. By introducing innovative new capabilities and integrating advanced features, VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 not only addresses the immediate needs of our customers but also prepares customers for a faster transition toward future releases and drives forward our strategic initiatives of infrastructure modernization, cloud experience, and heightened security and resilience.
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – Laying out Our Innovation Roadmap
At VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas, we unveiled VCF 9 to help accelerate customers’ transition away from siloed IT architectures. VCF 9 will redefine the landscape for private cloud by delivering a modern, integrated platform that unifies operations and automation to deliver a cloud experience that enables businesses to be more innovative, efficient, resilient and secure. We also unveiled Advanced Services that can build on VCF and showcases the power of the Broadcom portfolio across security, application platform, data services, business process and more.
VCF License Portability Entitlement Changes the Game
In a world of continuous change, flexibility as to where customers run workloads is critical. We introduced VCF License Portability entitlement and removed restrictions that used to govern where and how customers could deploy VCF software.
License Portability empowers customers with more choice as to where they can deploy and run their enterprise workloads and simplifies IT planning, allowing customers to defer or change deployment destination decisions to a time of their choosing without worry when making software purchases. Google Cloud, Microsoft, and IBM Cloud all support license portability today, with more cloud environments coming.
Value-Added OEMs Commit to Co-Engineered VCF Solutions
On the path to private cloud deployment, few enterprises in the world want to serve as their own systems integrator. They want turnkey solutions that can drop into their environment and begin delivering value almost immediately. Little value comes from having to assemble all of the pieces parts of a private cloud. At the software level, VCF solves this for our customers. Our Value-Added OEM partners take this once step further, collaborating with us to deliver turnkey co-engineered solutions that combine their industry-leading hardware and services expertise with the VCF platform to accelerate private cloud adoption. Shipping versions of these co-engineered solutions are available today from Dell Technologies, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Hitachi Vantara and Lenovo.
VMware Cloud Foundation Today
When you look at the VMware portfolio and community today, you see a very different picture. As we review our vision and strategy across customers, partners and broader VMware community, the greater majority are leaning in and asking how to begin their journey and achieve real business outcomes.
- Many of our 10,000 largest customers see adoption of VCF as an alternative to a public cloud.
- The VMware User Group (VMUG) community has 230 local groups and more than 150,000 members.
- We have more than 2,500 partners supported by the new VMware Cloud Service Provider Program.
- We’re investing in a private cloud modernization program to guide customers’ cloud journey with VMware Cloud Foundation.
With a focus on customer success through a simplified portfolio, optimized go to market strategy, and prescriptive adoption programs, the future for our customers with VMware Cloud Foundation is only getting better. We are doubling down on our innovation engine and with the help of our partners, helping customers achieve faster time to value.
Additional Resources
- Blog: Broadcom Invests in Private Cloud Modernization Program
- Blog: Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation 9
- Blog: What’s New with VMware Live Recovery
- Blog: Announcing New Capabilities coming to VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA
- VMware Cloud Foundation Home Page
- Follow VMware Cloud Foundation on X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and YouTube
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, Julia Palmer, Jeffrey Hewitt, Tony Harvey, Dennis Smith, Stephanie Bauman, Kevin Ji, 7 October 2024.
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