Broadcom deploys souped up VMware private cloud

The company made its VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 bundle generally available to customers Tuesday after two months of public beta pre-release.

Dive Brief:

• Broadcom took the training wheels off VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, making the private cloud virtualization software bundle generally available to customers Tuesday, the company said in an announcement.
• VCF 9.0, which the company teased last summer and put in public beta pre-release in April, was designed to provide the functionality of public cloud in an on-premises environment. The integrated platform includes a unified resource management interface, vSphere Kubernetes Service container capabilities and built-in cost analytics, as well as a suite of cloud-like add-on services, according to Broadcom.
• “We've been on a journey to build this platform for the last seven years,” Broadcom VP of VMware Product Marketing Prashanth Shenoy said during a briefing last week. “But in the last 18 months, we have ...