Pictured: Chris Wolf, Global Head of AI and Advanced Services, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom at VMWare Explore 2025 conference, 25 to 28 August 2025
Hock Tan, Broadcom’s President and CEO, recently commented on the priorities of IT Professionals around the world. According to Broadcom’s research results, “They want to invest in private cloud.”
Apparently, the research reveals more than 90% of IT practitioners trust private cloud for security and compliance, and 70% plan to repatriate workloads from public to private cloud.
Hock Tan comments in his recent blog, “I get it. Private cloud allows IT teams to protect their business, maintain control, and still move fast. But for too long, most private clouds were not on par with public cloud. They were disconnected stacks of compute, storage, and networking. In that fragmented state, they simply could not deliver the same level of developer experience, scalability, security or speed.
“VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 changes all that. For the first time, we are delivering a truly unified private cloud platform for our customers. Over the past 18 months, we rolled up our sleeves and did the difficult engineering work to unify the core building blocks of VCF. The result? A modern private cloud platform that breaks down silos and unites IT, developer, security, networking, and app teams on a single, unified foundation.”
Last week, at VM Explore, Broadcom shared that they have added over 80 new customers in the past year, including Loomis, NTT Data, Rio Tinto, The University of Bristol, and the United States Senate Federal Credit Union.
TCO Benefits
Broadcom customers have allegedly shared that the TCO benefits of running VCF Private AI services can be as much as 3-5x better than competing solutions, and they like that they can run the most demanding NVIDIA deployments, such as NVIDIA HGX Server on VCF, scaling to serve thousands to tens of thousands of tokens-per-second for AI inference, all while maintaining a single pane of glass for managing and operating all apps and services.
Broadcom announced at their VMWare Explore 2025 conference, held at the end of August 2025, that customers are now entitled to VMware’s Private AI services as part of their VCF subscription. Customers will also get all of the new AI capabilities introduced in VCF 9.0 that are required to build an end-to-end AI service, including model runtime, model store for model governance, data indexing and retrieval service, vector database, API gateway, and AI agent builder.
Broadcom have introduced VCF Intelligent at the conference too, designed to enable IT administrators to diagnose and resolve challenges, as well as IT admins have automated remediation to look forward to in the near future. The solution allows choice of language model, including models that can be deployed on-premises as well as models hosted in the cloud.
Broadcom integrations with NVIDIA and AMD
- Expanded GPU support: VCF will support NVIDIA’s next-generation GPU architecture, engineered for massive AI training, inference, and high-performance computing, including support for NVIDIA Blackwell 200 (B200) and NVIDIA RTX™ PRO 6000 Server Edition GPUs.
- GPU Passthrough support: Broadcom customers have shared that they like to use vGPU to share GPU capacity in some use cases and for other use cases prefer passthrough (e.g., when a single model is loaded onto one or more GPUs), and the team are working with NVIDIA to ensure that all customer design patterns are supported.
- High-Speed Networking with DirectPath I/O: VCF will incorporate support for NVIDIA ConnectX®-7 and NVIDIA BlueField®-3 400G NICs with DirectPath I/O. This enables customers to leverage advanced capabilities like GPUDirect® RDMA and GPUDirect Storage for high-speed, multi-host AI model training and data transfer, crucial for demanding Generative AI workloads.
- Support for AMD Instinct MI350 Series GPUs: Broadcom are extending their partnership with AMD by offering future virtualization support for AMD Instinct MI350 Series GPUs.
