Today, Broadcom made public a veritable flood of announcements, ranging from new partnerships to new services. First, Broadcom announced that VMware Private AI Services will become a standard component of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, making VCF an AI native platform for secure, modern private cloud infrastructure at scale.
“It’s undeniable that customers are resetting their cloud strategies and building out their private clouds to support better developer velocity with IT control, and more cost-efficient AI deployments,” said Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom. “To support the next wave of AI innovation, Broadcom is making Private AI a standard part of the modern private cloud. With VMware Cloud Foundation, infrastructure and cloud operators get the cost and operational benefits of virtualization for AI workloads without sacrificing performance. Developers get access to native AI services delivered directly from the private cloud platform for a frictionless experience.”
VCF enables organizations to offer Private AI as a governed and secure service to users. These native AI services, such as GPU Monitoring, Model Store, Model Runtime, Agent Builder, Vector Database, and Data Indexing/Retrieval, enhance privacy and security, simplify infrastructure, and streamline model deployment.
Broadcom also announced expanding the VMware Private AI ecosystem and working with AMD to advance enterprise AI infrastructure. Developer-focused updates include Native vSAN S3 Object Store, in which VMware vSAN will natively support an S3-compatible object storage interface.
“We will release in the future a joint platform bringing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) together with AMD Enterprise AI software and AMD Instinct GPUs,” said Himanshu Singh, Director of Product Marketing for Compute, Kubernetes and AI, in Broadcom’s VCF Division. “Together this will enable privacy and security of infrastructure, simplify infrastructure management and streamline AI model deployment.”
Broadcom also announced it would accelerate AI Innovation in the modern private cloud with NVIDIA, including Blackwell Architecture GPUs and networking.
“Our customers want the freedom to innovate with AI while continuing to rely on the enterprise platforms they trust,” said Paul Turner, vice president of products, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom. “Our partnership with NVIDIA delivers exactly that – enabling organizations to build, deploy and scale AI workloads alongside their existing applications without compromising on performance, efficiency, availability or operational simplicity. It’s about blending cutting-edge AI innovation with the enterprise-grade reliability and manageability for which VCF is known.”
Broadcom also announced VCF Advanced Cyber Compliance and new innovations in VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer to strengthen cyber resilience and regulatory compliance for modern private clouds. VMware vDefend updates include Zero Trust lateral security for AI workloads, automated segmentation workflows, extended threat detection with a new NDR sensor, and fileless malware defense. Avi Load Balancer innovations include post-quantum cryptography, mutual authentication for TLS, a WAF assessment tool, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for agentic AI workloads.
These capabilities simplify compliance, accelerate Zero Trust implementation, and protect AI-driven applications across VCF environments.
To support customers who operate in highly-regulated environments, or who simply want more robust compliance and risk-management capabilities, Broadcom also announced plans to develop VCF Advanced Cyber Compliance, which layers in additional capabilities to enable three key outcomes: continuous compliance enforcement at scale, automated ransomware and data recovery, and enhanced platform security and incident response.
Broadcom and Canonical announced an expanded partnership to integrate Canonical’s trusted open-source software with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) for modern containerized and AI workloads.
Customers will benefit from enterprise-grade support across the stack, including Ubuntu OS and Kubernetes-based containers integrated into VCF, with automated patching for security compliance. They will also experience faster development-to-production cycles, faster AI deployments with GPU drivers, and faster, more secure AI and containerized app development on modern private clouds.
“That’s why we are very excited about the newly expanded partnership between Broadcom and Canonical announced today at Explore 2025 in Las Vegas that will power high velocity, no friction containerized workload deployments on VMware Cloud Foundation,” said Mark Chuang, who leads product marketing for the VCF Division at Broadcom. “It brings together the #1 Private Cloud platform with the #1 Cloud OS to help customers who are building Kubernetes-based modern applications streamline support, improve developer efficiency, manage security risks, and simplify AI workload deployment.”
Broadcom also announced the availability of VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence, a data lakehouse platform offering unified, low-latency access to multimodal data at scale to drive faster, more secure analytics, applications, and agentic AI. Also announced was Tanzu Platform 10.3, which will provide platform engineers greater operational control, visibility and out-of-the-box observability dashboards. It introduces new Service Publishing in Tanzu Platform Marketplace that lets app developers offer their applications as services, improving collaboration, simplifying architecture, and enhancing scalability. Finally, Broadcom introduced an AI Starter Kit for Tanzu Platform to help teams rapidly deploy AI services and apps without full platform upgrades.
“The new AI Starter Kit for Tanzu Platform provides a fully automated installer for a small footprint, with a pre-configured foundation that includes AI middleware and brokered AI services, plus reference architectures and guidance that assist platform teams in getting started and promoting these AI services to developers,” said Darin Zook, the Product Marketing Engineer for VMware Tanzu Platform. “Quickly stand up a lightweight environment to support internal innovation with minimal friction.”