[German]VMware by Broadcom has released its long-announced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 on June 17, 2025. VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) is sold to customers as a private cloud suite.
VCF 9.0 was first mentioned at VMware Explore 2024 – so now the version has been released. The new solution, the first major product release since the VMware acquisition by Broadcom, is aimed at medium-sized and large companies looking for virtualization solutions in a private cloud.
VCF 9.0 aims to combine the speed and flexibility of the cloud with the performance, governance and cost control of on-premises solutions in a private cloud. A private cloud:
- Treats servers, storage and networks as fluid pools of software resources;
- Provides developers with self-service APIs instead of ticket queues.
- Runs VMs, containers and new AI services as peer instances.
VMware promises built-in audit-proof security and compliance guardrails that follow the workload. The new features of VCF 9 are presented in the blog post What's New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.
The big question, however, is how many companies will still go for Broadcom's VCF 9 after massive price increases and contract clauses have been imposed on customers.
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