VMware Explore VMware by Broadcom has opened its annual user conference by teasing version nine of its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) suite — a major upgrade said to fulfill earlier promises of an easy-to-use hybrid cloud suite — but has not said when it will arrive.
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vSphere Strategy: The Foundation of Your Unified Hybrid Cloud
Before it was acquired, VMware spent years arguing that VCF—which combines compute storage and network virtualization with management and automation tools—could be assembled into a consistent hybrid cloud environment that ran across on-premises and public cloud environments.
The claim was correct, but left out the fact that each of the components of the VCF was built by a different team working to their own goals. Users therefore had to deal with oddities like inconsistent APIs and SDKs. The dream of a single logical hybrid cloud in reality required multiple management tools and consoles.
Broadcom's strategy for VMware has been to improve VCF so that its value is more apparent. The company has already taken modest steps toward that goal.
