Broadcom Inc. made a series of announcements on Tuesday that positioned its VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud platform to integrate critical functions more tightly.

VCF delivers a virtualized infrastructure through vSphere, virtualized networking through NSX and virtualized storage using vSAN. Tuesday’s releases were aimed at reducing the complexity of VMware’s vast portfolio through the integration of these key offerings.

Broadcom’s Paul Turner talks with theCUBE about latest VCF releases.

“We need to integrate those products and … make them easy, and lifecycle the products and allow customers to run them at scale,” said Paul Turner (pictured), vice president of product management for vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, at Broadcom. “What we did is we took all of those groups within VMware and said, ‘Build it, bring them together, bring the teams together, execute in a plan and really deliver an integrated private cloud experience.’ That’s what we’ve done.”

Turner spoke with theCUBE Research’s John Furrier at the VMware Cloud Foundation Transformed event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Broadcom’s latest announcements for VCF will simplify application deployment. (* Disclosure below.)

Faster application deployment in VMware Cloud Foundation

The combination of VCF’s different computing, networking, storage, management and security across endpoints incorporates the Kubernetes orchestrator. The VCF 5.2 update includes Tanzu Kubernetes Grid for quick-start application deployment and easier network integration.

“In this release, we’re bringing out a new Kubernetes offering where we keep updating Kubernetes as fast as you need to,” Turner explained. “Infrastructure also needs to be updateable at scale, but there is also a need to be able to do application deployment and delivery at scale. That’s what Kubernetes is about — DevOps and the way that people want to deliver applications.”

Broadcom has built a presence at the edge, with a cloud foundation configuration for edge use cases. It recently introduced an edge-based solution with VCF Edge to accommodate customers with varying deployment sizes and types, according to Turner.

“Edge is an unusual one. These edges should be able to wake up, pop back to the Git server, find out what its image is, pull it down, automatically run the latest application,” he said. “Every time there is a new application, it becomes more self-aware. I’ve got dynamic storage, I’ve got dynamic networking, I’ve got dynamic virtualization and compute and [I] can do it all through a managed offering.”

Broadcom’s latest updates for VCF highlight the company’s interest in providing cross-platform functionality that will enable customers to access key computing services and move between on-premises and cloud environments more easily, Turner pointed out.

“We’re going to give you the ability and simplicity and agility that you get from the AWS cloud,” he said. “We’re going to give it to you in your data center or in any of our service provider or hyperscaler partners or our cloud service provider partners. We are going to be the best distributed cloud offering that can run across any infrastructure.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of the VMware Cloud Foundation Transformed event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the VMware Cloud Foundation Transformed event. Neither VMware by Broadcom, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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