Analyst Insight Series: VMware Cloud Foundation Update – A RedMonk Conversation

In this new Redmonk Conversation, James Governor, co-founder of Redmonk,  interviews Prashanth Shenoy, VP of Marketing, VMware Cloud Foundation Division at Broadcom. Redmonk is an advisory firm specializing in developer strategy, open source, and community building. James has made a career of understanding what motivates developers and the teams that support them.

Governor and Shenoy address developments at VMware since the acquisition by Broadcom in November 2023, including the recent launch of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, our industry leading private cloud solution. They cover a wide range of topics, including VMware’s business model simplification post-acquisition. Shenoy discusses the dramatically simplified portfolio of offerings, product licensing changes, and the greater focus on delivering a single, integrated private cloud platform with VMware Cloud Foundation. While acknowledging these changes may have caused some disruption for customers and partners, he points out that they have resulted in a more streamlined product experience and lower total cost of ownership for VMware’s customers, as well as greater standardization within the partner ecosystem.

Shenoy covers the new capabilities in VCF 9.0 and how they support strategic customers interested in cloud transformation and application modernization, while improving overall security. He covers how Broadcom’s leadership in GPU virtualization and management is helping customers move at the pace of AI. He discusses how new Kubernetes and DevOps capabilities and VCF’s single platform for deploying and managing containers and VMs is helping to deliver a frictionless modern apps experience for Platform Engineers and application teams.

At Broadcom, we view IT as a business enabler and key contributor to an organization’s success. This interview demonstrates that, post-acquisition, Broadcom’s commitment to supporting our customers in this respect is greater than ever.