VMware Cloud Foundation is undergoing a significant transformation, focusing on enhanced integration, seamless private and public cloud transitions, and a unified partner ecosystem under the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program.

Since distributed computing is all about choice, VCF serves as a private cloud innovation platform for enterprises that enables the deployment of workloads across different environments, such as on-prem and the cloud, according to Ahmar Mohammad (pictured), vice president of partners, managed services and solutions go to market, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, at Broadcom Inc.

Broadcom’s Ahmar Mohammad talks to theCUBE about why VCF hybrid cloud is a game-changer.

“The key focus is the end customer,” he said. We are doing it so that customers have the choice. They are in a VCF environment; they can choose to deploy it on-prem in a public cloud or in a managed provider cloud — up to them. VCF being the crown jewel … how do we make it easy for our joint customers so they can have the best of both worlds? They can have a hybrid, true hybrid, true multicloud environment.”

Mohammad 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 the importance of VCF hybrid cloud in the modern enterprise era. (* Disclosure below.)

Simplifying business through VCF hybrid cloud and strategic partnerships

For better ecosystem standardization and business simplification, VMware Cloud Foundation is becoming a key solution. Consequently, the success of the VCF hybrid cloud relies on the partnerships it fosters, Mohammad pointed out.

“The key to our go-to market is simplification,” he said. “Since the acquisition completion with Broadcom, we have been on this journey to simplify things. When it comes to simplifying things, it’s establishing clear swim lanes to make sure that we are operating or we are working with each of those partners in those swim lanes, starting with OEM. OEM is a big group of partners that help bring the software and the hardware magic together.”

To enable enterprises to easily move their existing VCF subscriptions from on-prem to the public cloud, Broadcom makes this possible through license portability. This is part of its go-to-market strategy meant to spur innovation.

“We are a private cloud company, but that private cloud could be in a customer data center or provider data center or in a public cloud environment,” Mohammad said. “We have great partnerships with our hyperscalers — with AWS, with Azure, with Google — allowing customers to take their workloads … to a public cloud.”

By teaming up with different cloud providers, Broadcom enables enterprises to have the same consistent experience when moving a virtual machine from on-prem to the cloud, and vice versa. As a result, this consistency is generated from a technological perspective, enabling companies to have more choice thanks to the VCF hybrid cloud, Mohammad pointed out. 

“We are working with all of our cloud providers or hyperscalers to make sure that the stack they deploy for the Azure VMware solution or for the Google Cloud VMware engine or for AWS that we run, runs the same stack, same technology, compute management, storage, networking, all together, same VCF stack,” he said. “If they have to bring something back on-prem for whatever compliance reasons, privacy reasons, data protection reasons, they are able to do that as well.”

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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