This fall, Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware brought together two engineering and innovation powerhouses with a long track record of creating innovations that radically advanced physical and software-defined data centers. Together, they create an infrastructure leader uniquely qualified to guide enterprises through every facet of their private, hybrid, and multi-cloud journeys.
The Broadcom Expert Advantage Partner Program reflects the resulting commitment to simplify what is needed to create an optimal VMware Cloud Foundation cloud environment at scale, regardless of whether an organization is just embarking on its cloud journey or perfecting a sophisticated cloud environment.
We recently connected with Guy Bartram, director of Cloud Provider product marketing at Broadcom overseeing VMware by Broadcom technologies, to learn more about what the new Cloud Service Provider Advantage program means for customers, and more precisely the singular value that Broadcom Pinnacle Partners bring to enterprises’ efforts in the cloud, from the need for enterprise-grade private clouds for the private learning of AI applications to the growing need for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure that matches use cases and workloads to the right cloud.
“VMware revolutionized the very premise of the cloud with virtualization and today more than 500,000 enterprises rely on VMware by Broadcom technologies as the crucially important underpinnings their mission-critical operations run on,” says Bartram. “But with a constantly expanding portfolio of 90 cloud solutions, our stack was increasingly complex. Our new Broadcom Advantage Partner program, and the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) that is now our core cloud offering, reflects our efforts to simply our solutions set while providing partners and their customers with one package that offers unprecedented capabilities.”
The Broadcom Advantage Partner Program includes more than 2,500 highly valued registered partners, some 2000 Registered partners, 400 Premier partners, and 100 Pinnacle partners – the organizations that have the closest working and engineering relationship with Broadcom, and which have extensive experience and expertise providing organizations with VMware by Broadcom technologies and the myriad managed services and solutions needed to create the high-performance infrastructure the world’s most successful organizations rely on.
“Broadcom has an industry-leading track record of simplifying data center operations and initiatives at scale,” adds Bartram. “What is so striking about this program, and VCF as a core offering, is that it provides access to everything an organization needs to create an optimal private, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructure and the ability to easily know the costs involved.”
VMware Cloud Foundation – The Cloud Stack
VCF provides enterprises with everything they need to excel in the cloud. Encompassing flagship VMware by Broadcom technologies like vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Tanzu, and Aria – to name a few – it also includes the extensive capabilities required to perfect even the most sophisticated cloud efforts and combines the capabilities previously found in the entire VMware cloud portfolio.
“Businesses of all kinds have come to the realization that a hybrid, multi-cloud solution is the way to optimize their cloud journey,” says Bartram. “They also universally see the need for a high-performance private cloud to ensure that their mission-critical data and operations are backed up with a software-defined infrastructure that exceeds the most stringent requirements for resiliency, compliance, and performance. VCF addresses all of these needs.”
Bartram notes that VCF makes it easy to automate everything from networking and storage to security. As a result, even the most sophisticated and powerful cloud environment is radically easier to manage and optimize.
“Many organizations moved to the cloud but still must manage innumerable tasks,” he says. “Deploying and operating physical firewalls, physical load balancing, and many other tasks that extend across the on-premises environment and virtual domain all require different teams and quickly become difficult and expensive. The automation VCF enables makes it possible to minimize or eliminate such tasks and simultaneously gives organizations access to solutions and capabilities many of them could not afford or didn’t have the operational capacity to consider in the past.”
Notably, all VCF licenses are entirely portable, enabling enterprises to apply VCF in any private or hybrid, multi-cloud VMware cloud endpoint they wish over time. In this way, VCF offers maximum flexibility, enabling customers to embrace new technical capabilities over time while simultaneously maintaining flexibility in their cloud strategy.
Broadcom Pinnacle Partners – Cloud Leaders
Broadcom Pinnacle Partners are cloud solutions and managed service providers that have the most extensive and deepest working relationship with VMware, both on a business and engineering level. With comprehensive certifications and countless customer deployments, they have extensive working experience historically with the entire VMware stack.
All also provide the thorough vertical market expertise and the offerings organizations need to thrive in their sectors, as well as the managed services – among them Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Backup-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, Security-as-a-Service, and many more – that enterprises often need. They also offer countless professional services, from cloud migration help and cloud design to application development to the creation of highly bespoke, customized systems designed to address the most unique use cases.
Broadcom Pinnacle Partners are also highly adept at offering very specific guidance and serving as a trusted partner to enterprises that can outsource their entire infrastructure while enjoying the peace of mind that it will address the most demanding requirements. These include the need for everything from a fully sovereign cloud to access to the high-speed networks that enable low latency across regions and include onramps to the major hyperscalers.
“All of our Broadcom Advantage Partners are highly valued and offer access to exceptional cloud expertise and experience, but our 100 Pinnacle Partners offer the greatest array of skills and resources, specializations, and capabilities enterprises need,” adds Bartram. “They empower customers to easily access infrastructure and capabilities that most, even the largest enterprises, could not create on their own.”
Bartram notes that in even the most advanced enterprises, operational teams increasingly struggle not just to create, but to manage whether it is addressing compliance requirements in different geographics, or classifying the huge amounts of data that must be classified, controlled, or managed in private learning models for AI. Broadcom Pinnacle Partners possess these very capabilities and more.
“Our Broadcom Pinnacle Partners are the organizations that are ideally qualified to help organizations achieve their optimal cloud future, one which is attainable when they partner with a provider that frees them from needing to build cloud infrastructure that has already been perfected because they already made the heavy lifts associated with everything from ISO certifications to the significant investments needed to build out high-speed networks. These are the cloud service providers that free organizations to focus on innovating their businesses drive competition, not only creating the networks those innovations require.”
Notably, Bartram notes that the need for such partners will only increase.
“As the use of AI proliferates, the need for private cloud environments and the complexities associated with the applications that rely on them, and the management of the data within them, will only increase,” he says. “The data deluge that originally led enterprises to embrace the cloud, and which VMware enabled with virtualization, is much like the data deluge we will see with AI applications and machine-generated data over the next few years. This time we are solving it with VCF and access to Broadcom Pinnacle Partners able to help enterprises get where they need to be.
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