Broadcom releases VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 to address AI production costs
Broadcom announced VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, designed to help organisations run production AI workloads on private cloud infrastructure with greater control over cost, security, and data sovereignty.
The update addresses a shift happening across Australia and New Zealand. Once companies move past AI pilots into business-wide deployment, the economics of public cloud become difficult to predict. More than half of organisations are either already running AI inference in private cloud or actively planning to, according to Broadcom's own research.
What operations teams need to know
VCF 9.1 introduces intelligent memory tiering and integrated CPU and GPU management. These features reduce the cost pressure of running high-performance inference alongside existing applications within a single security boundary.
Nicholas Power, chief operating officer at Zettagrid, a NSW-based Broadcom partner, said the platform addresses a specific customer challenge: running AI and traditional workloads on the same infrastructure without setting up separate environments.
"Our customers need security, data sovereignty, predictable performance, and low latency, and they need to know what it's going to cost them next quarter," Power said. "That's particularly true in regulated industries, and in a market as geographically spread as ours."
Zettagrid has fielded repeated requests from customers about consolidating workloads. The new features speak directly to RAM and GPU cost pressure across the industry.
Why partners matter more than software alone
Brian Moats, Broadcom's senior vice president of global commercial sales and partners, said technology alone won't solve the problem. IT strategies stall regularly because organisations lack the advisory and implementation support needed to execute.
"Our partners aren't just reselling our software," Moats said. "They're sitting alongside customers through the whole journey, from getting VMware Cloud Foundation up and running to actually delivering outcomes the business cares about."
For operations professionals evaluating private cloud infrastructure, the shift from experimentation to production requires more than feature updates. It demands partners who understand how to integrate new AI systems with existing operations.
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