Broadcom Turns VMware Cloud Foundation AI-Native, Adds Automated Compliance Service

Broadcom unveiled a major upgrade to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 at the VMware Explore conference in Las Vegas, positioning the software as an AI-native platform for private-cloud deployments. The release makes VMware Private AI Services a standard component, giving enterprises built-in tools for model fine-tuning, inference, vector databases and agent builders while supporting GPUs from Nvidia and AMD. To entice customers in regulated sectors, Broadcom introduced Cyber Compliance Advanced Service, which adds real-time policy monitoring, automated remediation and zero-trust lateral security for AI and "agentic" workloads. Updated vDefend and Avi Load Balancer features extend threat detection to in-memory malware and provide post-quantum cryptography options. Broadcom also expanded its partnership with Canonical, enabling fully supported Ubuntu images and lighter “chiseled” containers as default options in VCF. The collaboration promises expedited security patching and pre-compiled virtualized GPU drivers for air-gapped environments, aimed at streamlining AI deployment. The combined enhancements are intended to give developers and infrastructure teams a single, more secure private-cloud stack that mirrors public-cloud agility while addressing compliance gaps and escalating AI workload demands.