In today’s digital era, innovation is rapidly evolving, and organizations are constantly seeking efficient and secure methods to navigate their way forward. VMware Cloud Foundation by Broadcom shines a light on this path, offering the best private cloud platform to help customers innovate and overcome the complexities of digital transformation.
The Genesis: VMware Cloud Foundation and Its Allies
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a cutting-edge infrastructure platform tailored for enterprise-grade cloud services with consistent security and resilience. It simplifies the intricate world of infrastructure operations, providing a streamlined and secure path for digital environments.
VMware Cloud Service Providers (VCSPs) are essential partners, bridging the gap between VMware’s innovation and customer organizations’ goals. They offer managed services that enhance the customer’s cloud journey, unlocking the full potential of VMware Cloud Foundation for efficiency, reliability, and innovation—essential elements of digital transformation.
The Search for Value: Accelerating Digital Transformation
The collaboration between VCF and VCSPs goes beyond partnership—it is a driving force for transformation. VMware Cloud Foundation accelerates businesses’ transition into the digital realm, offering benefits such as streamlined project rollouts, automated infrastructure, cost efficiency, and enhanced security. This platform is foundational for organizations striving to succeed in the digital landscape, whether on-site, in public clouds, partner clouds, sovereign clouds, at the edge, or through colocation.
However, the true value and features of VCF may not be immediately clear to all clients lacking the expertise to fully leverage Cloud Foundation. This is where VCSPs excel, running VCF in partner clouds to provide customers with a highly efficient cloud operating model that combines the scale and agility of public cloud with the security and performance of private cloud. VCSP partners enhance this value through expert guidance, service agreements, consultancy, managed services, and professional services, ensuring customers not only navigate the digital terrain but also innovate and thrive within it.
The Challenges: Navigating Through Storms
Every journey has its trials, and digital transformation is no different. Organizations face challenges such as managing cloud spend, multiple infrastructures, varying skills and resources, security consistency, governance, compliance, technical debt, legacy systems, data complexity, and cloud intricacies.
Customer’s Top Cloud Challenges in 2023
The Solution: A Partnership Forged in the Cloud
By partnering with VCSPs, customers gain a guiding force to accelerate their digital transformation, optimize project delivery, achieve cost efficiency, increase compliance coverage, and manage governance and technical debt. VCSPs offer expert services and support to help customers focus on strategic initiatives and drive business priorities forward.
The Journey Through Clouds: VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment Solutions
VCSPs provide various VCF deployment options, including Hosted Private Cloud, Managed Private Cloud, and Managed Public Cloud, allowing customers to choose their cloud setup and access self-service management across different environments.
These deployment options cater to a range of organizational requirements, from security and compliance-focused entities to those seeking cloud flexibility without the burden of operational management.
Charting the Path Forward: Go-To-Market
VMware supports VCSP partners with the Go-To-Market VCF Solutions Kit, designed to enhance sales and marketing efforts. This kit provides resources for deployment planning, service construction, value proposition clarification, strategic marketing, and sales enablement, empowering partners to engage customers effectively and expand their market reach.
The Call to Adventure: Joining Forces
With VMware Cloud Foundation, VCSP deployment solutions, managed services, and the GTM kit, organizations are well-equipped to embark on their cloud technology journey. These resources set the stage for partners to kickstart their transformation journey and drive mutual growth with VMware.
Learn about VMware Cloud Foundation for CSPs in the new overview videos:
Part 1 – Solution Overview and Market Position – https://youtu.be/X_mW5x_LYOo
Part 2 – VCF Business Case and Customer Targets – https://youtu.be/_9THXVA3Mjg
Part 3 – VCF Business Solutions and CSP Cloud Models – https://youtu.be/aapBrBduuJQ
Part 4 – VCF Features and Benefits for CSP and Customers- https://youtu.be/XMpymlkBkDw
Get access to the GTM kit:
Broadcom Advantage Pinnacle and Premier partners can leverage the GTM kit to enhance their services and gain a competitive edge. The kit provides resources for deployment planning, service construction, and value proposition clarification. For access to the VMware Cloud Foundation Go-To-Market Solution kit, email vcf-gtm.pdl@broadcom.com.
