VMware Cloud Foundation Named a G2 Leader in IaaS for Summer 2026!

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) has once again earned recognition as a G2 Leader in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) category for Summer 2026. This achievement reflects the continued trust of enterprise customers worldwide and affirms Broadcom’s commitment to advancing its VMware portfolio as a secure, high-performance, and cost-effective private cloud platform for the enterprise. Alongside this IaaS Leadership recognition, VCF has been named to G2’s Best IT Infrastructure Software Products 2026 list [1], a testament to the platform’s consistent value across the global enterprise infrastructure market.

G2 Summer 2026 Recognition

The Summer 2026 G2 Report reflects strong customer endorsement of VMware Cloud Foundation across multiple performance dimensions. This season, VCF earned several G2 badges, recognizing excellence across adoption, satisfaction, regional leadership, and overall market momentum [1]:

Best IT Infrastructure Software Products 2026
EMEA Leader – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Summer 2026
Asia Pacific Leader – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Summer 2026
Relationship Leader – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Summer 2026
Grid Leader – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Summer 2026
Momentum Leader – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Summer 2026
Enterprise Leader – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Summer 2026
Mid-Market Leader – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Summer 2026
Small Business Leader – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Summer 2026

The breadth of this recognition, spanning geography (Asia Pacific, EMEA, etc.), customer relationship quality, overall market position, and growth trajectory, demonstrates that VCF is not only meeting enterprise expectations, but consistently exceeding them.

Why G2 Recognition Matters

G2 ratings are earned through verified reviews from real customers, specifically practitioners who work with the platform daily. There are no analyst judgments or vendor submissions involved. A G2 Leadership position reflects aggregate satisfaction, adoption, and likelihood to recommend across a broad customer base. Earning multiple Leadership badges in a single season signals that the platform is performing across every dimension customers care about: results, relationships, and momentum [1].

What Customers Are Saying

Here is some of what VCF customers shared this season [1]:

These reviews highlight three consistent themes that run through VCF customer feedback: unified management that reduces operational sprawl, automation that delivers measurable efficiency gains, and the raw performance density that modern workloads demand.

A Private Cloud Built for What Comes Next

VMware Cloud Foundation delivers an integrated cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, and security, alongside cloud management services to run enterprise applications across both private and public environments [1]. It provides a consistent, automated, and secure cloud operating model that gives IT teams full visibility and control from a single console, whether managing a single datacenter or a global fleet.

The platform is purpose-built for the challenges enterprise infrastructure teams face today: environments are growing more complex while budgets and headcount remain flat [2]. VCF meets that challenge directly, enabling platform teams to do more with the infrastructure they already own, without compromising governance, security, or delivery velocity [3].

Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Broadcom continues to advance the VCF platform with deliberate, high-impact innovation. The latest release, VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, is engineered to deliver cost-effective, secure infrastructure for production AI, modern applications, and traditional workloads, all operated under a single control plane, on infrastructure the enterprise owns and governs [3].

VCF 9.1 delivers targeted innovations across four areas:

Cost and Performance Efficiency: Enhanced NVMe Memory Tiering expands effective memory capacity by intelligently tiering DRAM and NVMe, while Extended vSAN Dedup and Compression lowers cost per usable terabyte [2].

Accelerated Application Delivery: VKS scales to support up to 500 Kubernetes clusters per Supervisor [2], enabling platform teams to support hundreds of development teams from a single management backbone. VM Fast-Deploy and Simplified Container-as-a-Service further accelerate time-to-running for both Kubernetes and VM workloads [3].

Enterprise-Grade Resilience and Security: Resilience is treated as an architectural property in VCF 9.1. vSAN for Recovery and On-prem Ransomware Recovery provide a sovereign, in-platform path to recover from destructive attacks without external dependencies. Continuous Compliance Enforcement transforms compliance from a quarterly audit into a runtime guarantee [3].

Expanding the Workload Ecosystem: Ubuntu OS Enterprise Support broadens the supported workload ecosystem, Native Object Storage (tech preview) brings S3-compatible storage natively into the platform, and SQL Server DBaaS elevates the most widely deployed enterprise database to a first-class citizen of the private cloud control plane [3].

To learn more about what VCF 9.1 delivers, read our launch blogs:

Ready to Modernize Your Private Cloud?

The Summer 2026 G2 results are a clear signal: enterprises are choosing VMware Cloud Foundation and recommending it to their peers. Whether you are evaluating a move to private cloud, optimizing an existing environment, or building the infrastructure foundation for AI workloads, VCF delivers the platform to do it, securely, efficiently, and at scale.

Resources and Next Steps

Sources

[1] Best IT Infrastructure Software Products for 2026 | G2

[2] Announcing VCF 9.1: Modern Private Cloud Built for Efficiency and Resilience

[3] VCF 9.1: The Secure, Cost-Effective Private Cloud Platform for Production AI

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