Pathways to Innovation: VMware Cloud Service Providers Driving Business Outcomes with Private Cloud

Over the past year, as a part of our larger transformation, we’ve doubled down on our commitment to enhancing our partner ecosystem. Combining their unique strengths to drive impact and scale provides the opportunity to achieve more than we ever could alone. And with every partnership connection, we build a future that’s not just bigger—but better for our mutual customers.

A key differentiator for VMware Cloud Foundation as the industry-leading private cloud platform is flexibility. And our VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) partners are a vital component of this flexibility. They provide cloud solutions, ranging from public cloud, community cloud to sovereign cloud, using VMware Cloud Foundation as their platform, thereby unleashing a seamless and robust architecture across all of their enterprise footprint. VCSP partners utilize VCF to bridge between public cloud benefits and the world of private cloud that enables benefits such as industry-specific compliance, advanced security, cloud expertise, license portability, workload portability, and other advanced technology and services to help customize a value pathway to customer specific business outcomes.

It’s easy to sit here, from behind a keyboard, and wax poetic about working and co-innovating alongside our VCSP partners to enhance capabilities. But hearing it directly from them conveys the insights and energy they bring to the table, placing a proverbial exclamation point on how they aim to combine the very best of their expertise and services with the very best of our private cloud platform technology.

In the words of Barry Brown, Technical Sales Director at IBM Cloud, VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud enables critical use cases, including data center and application modernization, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience for SAP workloads. Brown highlighted how it helps businesses “lower operational costs and lower risk at the same time.”

Simon Bennett, CTO and Technical Solutioning for Private Cloud at Rackspace, shared how VCF gives customers access to a comprehensive suite of tools while enabling Rackspace to deliver on even the most complex customer needs. “Customers are now benefitting from the use of VMware Cloud Foundation because it’s giving them access to the full suite of tools,” Bennett noted.

Christoph Rhode, SVP Cloud Managed Services at T-Systems, emphasized the collaboration between Broadcom and T-Systems, particularly against challenges like cyber threats and AI. Reflecting on the clarity and innovation brought by Broadcom, he remarked, “It feels like a public cloud, but it’s a private cloud, and that is the benefit you get from VMware Cloud Foundation.”

“It feels like a public cloud, but it’s a private cloud, and that is the benefit you get from VMware Cloud Foundation.” — Christoph Rhode, SVP Cloud Managed Services at T-Systems

These vignettes speak to the strength of our VMware Cloud Service Provider partnerships and highlight their ability to deliver customer-focused solutions for real-world challenges. Together, we’re not just meeting today’s needs—we’re creating a foundation for tomorrow’s opportunities, proving that with the right partners, and the right technology, anything is possible.

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About the Author

Krish Prasad is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation Division where he oversees the company’s multi-cloud Infrastructure software portfolio that spans Private Clouds and Clouds from Service Provider partners and Hyperscalers. Before joining Broadcom, Mr. Prasad served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) and previously led the VMware vSphere business. He drove the strategy, roadmap and delivery of the SDDC cloud platform that powers VMware Cloud and led a wide range of functions including Product Management, Engineering, Cloud Operations, SRE and Product Marketing. Mr. Prasad has more than 30 years of experience in the enterprise software business across both R&D and general management. Prior to VMware, he held senior and executive management positions with HPE and BMC Software.