VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) exists to address a growing market reality: fragmented environments, rising operational costs, and operating models stretched beyond their limits.

VCF is not a collection of products. It is a VMware cloud service that integrates compute, storage, networking, security, and management into a single, opinionated operating foundation for private and hybrid cloud.

It brings together the agility organisations associate with public cloud, while operating as an enterprise hybrid cloud platform that delivers the control, resilience, and predictability required for critical workloads.

At its core, VMware Cloud Foundation provides a full-stack Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, capable of supporting:

• Traditional enterprise workloads
• Modern, cloud-native applications
• Kubernetes and container platforms
• AI and data-intensive use cases

VCF delivers:

  • A known-good architecture, engineered, tested, and supported as a single platform
  • Consistent lifecycle management across the entire stack
  • Integrated automation that reduces human dependency and operational risk
  • Built-in resilience and security, designed in from day one rather than added later

For IT teams, this means fewer variables, fewer surprises, and far greater operational control. For partners, it creates a repeatable platform on which services, outcomes, and long-term customer relationships can be built.

Security and Resilience Built into VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware Cloud Foundation embeds security directly into the infrastructure layer, enabling:

  • Network segmentation and micro-segmentation as standard
  • Reduced attack surfaces through architectural consistency
  • Integrated compliance and policy enforcement
  • Resilient clustering and non-disruptive lifecycle operations

Rather than relying on a collection of bolt-on tools, VCF provides a cohesive security posture, aligned to how modern threats actually behave. This allows organisations to move from perimeter-based assumptions and assume-breach architectures with faster detection and recovery.

Cost Control for Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Operations

Cost optimisation is often treated as a reporting exercise. VCF treats it as an operating discipline. Through integrated management and automation, organisations gain:

  • Clear visibility into resource consumption
  • Consistent deployment models that reduce over-provisioning
  • Chargeback and showback aligned to actual usage
  • Fewer platforms to license, integrate, and support

For customers, this means predictable cost structures. For partners, it enables value-led conversations focused on efficiency, not just price.

AI Ready Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation

As organisations look to adopt AI and advanced analytics, many discover that their existing platforms are not designed to support these workloads securely or efficiently.

VCF 9 introduces capabilities specifically aligned to next-generation workloads, including:

  • Support for GPU-enabled infrastructure
  • Unified management of AI and traditional workloads
  • Automation and orchestration to reduce complexity
  • Private AI deployment models that preserve data sovereignty

This allows organisations to explore AI without exposing sensitive data or rebuilding their infrastructure from scratch.

VMware Cloud Foundation Services for Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Adoption

TD SYNNEX provides VMware Cloud Foundation services that help partners and customers adopt, operate, and optimise enterprise hybrid cloud environments delivered through VMware cloud services.

Adoption, Migration & TAM Services

Across the market, organisations are successfully deploying modern platforms but far fewer are successfully operating them. Environments go live, features remain unused, complexity returns, value stalls. This is the gap that adoption services exist to close!

TD SYNNEX’s adoption, migration, and Technical Account Management (TAM) services, co-developed with Broadcom, are designed to ensure VMware Cloud Foundation delivers measurable outcomes, not just technical completion.

Co-Developed with Broadcom, Designed for the Real World

Our services are intentionally aligned to Broadcom’s platform strategy and VMware Cloud Foundation’s operating model. This co-development ensures:

  • Alignment with VMware Cloud Foundation architecture and lifecycle expectations
  • Services that reinforce platform standardisation, not fragmentation
  • Clear pathways from migration to optimisation to steady-state operations
  • Adoption models that scale across customers and partners

A Structured Path from Migration to Maturity

TD SYNNEX adoption services are built around a simple but powerful principle – Move customers from transition to control, quickly and safely.

Our services span the full journey:

Migration & Transition Services support partners and customers through:

  • Platform readiness and design validation
  • Structured migrations to VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Risk reduction through proven patterns and tooling
  • Consistent landing zones aligned to future operating needs

This phase is about stability first – ensuring workloads move without introducing new operational debt.

Adoption & Activation Services focus on:

  • Activating platform capabilities customers have already paid for
  • Embedding operational best practices
  • Enabling self-service with governance
  • Establishing security, resilience, and lifecycle discipline

Technical Account Management (TAM) Services

TAM services provide the continuity layer between platform capability and day-to-day operations. TAMs act as:

  • A trusted technical anchor for partners and customers
  • A proactive guide across platform health, adoption, and optimisation
  • A bridge between vendor strategy, partner delivery, and customer outcomes

Rather than reacting to incidents, TAM services focus on preventing operational issues before they occur, driving continuous improvement and ensuring alignment as platforms evolve.

Designed to Strengthen the Partner Ecosystem

The objective is always partner maturity, not partner dependency. Partners can engage with our services in multiple ways:

Shadow

TD SYNNEX leads while partners observe and learn

Guided

Partners lead with TD SYNNEX supporting

Independent

Partners lead fully, with TD SYNNEX providing assurance

This flexible engagement model allows partners build capability at their own pace, protect customer ownership, scale delivery safely and increase service attachment over time.

Operational Excellence Meets Adaptive Resilience

Our adoption and TAM services are explicitly aligned to two critical dimensions of value:

Operational Excellence (Internal Value)

Adaptive Resilience (External Value)

Consistent, supportable environments

Readiness for cyber threats

Reduced manual intervention

Ability to absorb change

Cost visibility and control

Platform flexibility for new workloads

Secure, compliant operations

Confidence in the face of uncertainty

TD SYNNEX’s adoption, migration, and TAM services exist because the ecosystem needs them. They are the result of global investment, deep Broadcom alignment, in-country expertise and a commitment to platform-led outcomes. They represent how TD SYNNEX, Broadcom, partners, and customers lean in together – to ensure VMware Cloud Foundation delivers the resilience, efficiency, and adaptability the market now demands.

Leaning In with Broadcom: A Platform-Led Belief

At TD SYNNEX, we believe the next phase of value in enterprise IT will not be unlocked through isolated products, fragmented tools, or short-term optimisation. It will be unlocked through platform thinking.

Our alignment with Broadcom – and our conviction in VMware Cloud Foundation – reflects a clear belief that organisations need integrated, resilient platforms to operate effectively, adapt to change, and realise long-term value. This belief is not theoretical – it is grounded in what we see every day across the ecosystem.

As a channel, we have a shared responsibility to move beyond transactional conversations.
To align around platforms, not components. To focus on activation, adoption, and outcomes – not just access. This is why TD SYNNEX is leaning in with Broadcom, our partners, and customers to understand real challenges and translate them into practical, operational outcomes.

Our global scale, deep vendor alignment, and in-country specialism exist for one reason:
to orchestrate the IT ecosystem around a common goal – delivering resilient, outcome-led platforms that work in the real world.

FAQ's

What is VMware Cloud Foundation?

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a full‑stack infrastructure platform and VMware cloud service that integrates compute, storage, networking, security, and management into a single operating foundation for private and hybrid cloud.

It delivers a known‑good architecture that is engineered, tested, and supported as one platform, rather than a collection of disconnected products.

Is VMware Cloud Foundation a hybrid cloud platform?

Yes, VMware Cloud Foundation is designed to operate as a private and hybrid cloud platform. It combines the agility typically associated with public cloud with the control, resilience, and predictability required to run critical enterprise workloads in private and hybrid cloud environments.

How does VMware Cloud Foundation support enterprise hybrid cloud?

VMware Cloud Foundation supports enterprise hybrid cloud by providing a consistent, opinionated operating model across the entire infrastructure stack.

It enables organisations to run traditional, cloud‑native, containerised, and AI workloads using the same architecture, lifecycle management, security model, and automation.

This standardisation reduces complexity, improves resilience, embeds security by design, and enables predictable operations across enterprise hybrid cloud environments.

Ready to learn more?

Contact the TD SYNNEX VMware team today.