Broadcom delivers VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – the release that realizes its private cloud vision

573 days after closing the acquisition of VMware, Broadcom has released the product that expresses its vision for the virtualization giant's future and what it claims is the template for a modern private cloud.

VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) is the result of Broadcom's decision to have the teams working on VMware's compute, storage, and networking virtualization tools build an integrated private cloud suite, instead of discrete products that are sold separately and could be assembled into a private cloud.

Prashanth Shenoy, VMware's chief marketing officer, told The Register that the bundle now offers a single interface for all private cloud ops, and another that developers can use for self-service infrastructure provisioning.

Shenoy said cloud admins can now manage storage, compute, and virtual networks as a single entity, and that virtual machines and containers are both first-class citizens.

"We want admins to think cloud first ...