At VMware Explore 2025, Broadcom unveiled a broad set of innovations across VMware Tanzu, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and strategic partnerships with Canonical and NVIDIA, positioning its portfolio as the foundation for modern private cloud, AI, and cybersecurity. From AI-native services to advanced compliance and Zero Trust security, Broadcom’s announcements highlight how enterprises can accelerate innovation while maintaining operational simplicity and resilience.
VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3
Broadcom introduced VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence, a modern data lakehouse platform that unifies multimodal data access and delivers low-latency, AI-ready insights at scale. With features such as federated queries, real-time data services, vector search, and full data lineage, enterprises can break down silos, reduce costs, and enable Generative AI, agentic workflows, and real-time decision-making.
VMware Tanzu Platform 10.3 enhances AI application development with fleet management, service publishing in Tanzu Marketplace, granular AI model service plans, automated modernization, and a new vulnerability dashboard for transparent security. Together, these updates provide enterprises with a unified foundation to build, secure, and scale GenAI-powered applications.
Broadcom and Canonical Expand AI and Cloud-Native Collaboration
Broadcom and Canonical deepened their collaboration to integrate Ubuntu Pro and chiseled Ubuntu containers with VMware Cloud Foundation. This enables customers to accelerate Kubernetes-based modern apps and AI workloads with stronger security, efficiency, and simplified deployment.
Developers benefit from lighter, more secure chiseled containers for Python, .NET, and Go, which improve resource efficiency and reduce attack surfaces. Meanwhile, precompiled GPU drivers in Ubuntu images streamline AI deployment in air-gapped environments, improving performance and reducing reliance on external repositories.
Broadcom and NVIDIA Bring Blackwell GPUs to VMware Cloud Foundation
In partnership with NVIDIA, Broadcom is integrating the latest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition GPUs, ConnectX-7 NICs, and BlueField-3 DPUs into VMware Cloud Foundation. This supports GPUDirect RDMA and GPUDirect Storage for high-speed, multi-node AI training and HPC workloads.
These enhancements preserve enterprise-grade virtualization features like vMotion, DRS, HA, and Live Patching, allowing enterprises to run AI/ML workloads seamlessly alongside existing applications. By extending the VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, customers gain flexibility to deploy AI models while maintaining operational efficiency and cost predictability.
Strengthening Cybersecurity with Advanced Compliance and vDefend
Broadcom announced VCF Advanced Cyber Compliance, delivering continuous compliance enforcement, automated ransomware recovery with isolated VCF clean rooms, and enhanced platform security. This service is designed for regulated industries needing stronger governance and resilience.
Meanwhile, VMware vDefend introduces Zero Trust lateral security for AI workloads, fileless malware defense, multi-stage segmentation automation, and extended network detection and response (NDR) for full data center visibility.
The VMware Avi Load Balancer adds post-quantum cryptography (PQC), mTLS authentication for Kubernetes, WAF assessments, and a tech preview for securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic in AI applications.
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Becomes AI Native
Broadcom announced that VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 is now generally available, with VMware Private AI Services included as a standard feature. With more than 100 million cores licensed and adoption by nine of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies, VCF is positioned as the AI-native private cloud of choice.
Private AI Services in VCF 9.0 include GPU Monitoring, Model Store, Model Runtime, Agent Builder, Vector Database, and Data Indexing/Retrieval, enabling enterprises to run AI workloads with governance, security, and operational efficiency.
With these announcements, Broadcom reinforced VMware Cloud Foundation as a secure, scalable, and AI-native private cloud platform, helping enterprises balance innovation, cost efficiency, compliance, and resilience. By unifying AI, security, data, and cloud services, Broadcom is accelerating enterprise adoption of next-generation AI and cloud-native applications.
Rajani Baburajan
