Broadcom has announced a series of go-to-market updates to its VMware software portfolio and the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program aimed at enabling faster innovation and increased value for customers while supporting more opportunities and better profitability for partners.
Updates include:
- Business model simplification with the transition to subscription licensing and per-core pricing.
- Simplification across the VMware by Broadcom software portfolio and go-to-market.
- Ecosystem standardization to deliver greater value to partners.
Transforming to a More Simplified Business
Broadcom announced VMware Cloud Foundation has transitioned from perpetual to subscription licensing. This is the standard for all major enterprise software providers, and the right model for fueling continuous innovation for customers.
A new benefit to customers is the addition of subscription portability for VMware Cloud Foundation, which enables customers the flexibility to deploy on-premises and then take their subscription at any time to a supported hyperscale cloud or VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) environment. Google Cloud is the first to support VMware Cloud Foundation license portability with other hyperscale and partner clouds expected to follow.
Broadcom has also reduced the overall size of the VMware portfolio from more than 160 products to a smaller set of offerings, focusing on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation. VCF is the flagship enterprise-class private cloud solution for customers to run their business-critical and modern applications – in a more secure, resilient, and cost-efficient manner.
VMware vSphere Foundation is a simplified, enterprise-grade workload solution for mid-sized to smaller customers that integrates vSphere with intelligent operations management to provide the best performance, availability, and efficiency with greater visibility and insights.
Finally, Broadcom has created the singular VMware Cloud Foundation division to deliver a single, integrated product across all core technologies. The VCF Division includes all R&D, go to market and professional services under a single organization to deliver maximum value to customers.
Sylvain Cazard, President, Asia Pacific, Broadcom
We are all anchored by one clear and consistent focus amidst these changes: how do we deliver on our commitment to create more value, better results and faster innovation for our customers. This decisive simplification of our VCF model enables us to do so by being the best platform for deploying a private cloud infrastructure that is ubiquitous, flexible and integrated across cloud endpoints.
