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Broadcom Makes VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 AI‑Native, Bundling New Services at No Extra Cost

Broadcom folds new AI capabilities into VCF subscriptions to court enterprises seeking private‑cloud control.

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Overview

  • VCF 9.0 adds a Model Store, Model Runtime, Agent Builder, vector database, data indexing and retrieval, and GPU monitoring to streamline enterprise AI deployment.
  • MCP support standardizes linking assistants to systems such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, ServiceNow, GitHub, Slack and PostgreSQL without custom connectors.
  • A multiaccelerator runtime deploys models across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs without refactoring, with Broadcom citing 99% of bare‑metal performance and GPU reservations to boost utilization.
  • vSAN now exposes native S3‑compatible object storage to unify file, block and object data for AI workloads and recovery workflows.
  • The release introduces multitenant Models as a Service and an AI troubleshooting assistant in tech preview, alongside expanded support through Canonical Ubuntu, NVIDIA Blackwell B200 and AMD ROCm with Instinct MI350.