Broadcom Inc. announced it is advancing an open, extensible ecosystem for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), enabling customers to build, connect, protect, and extend their modern private clouds. With these announcements, Broadcom is delivering a private cloud platform that is open and adaptable across all infrastructure layers. Broadcom is expanding its open hardware certification program to increase Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) participation through new VCF AI ReadyNodes, ODM self-service certification, and support for new edge systems. New VCF AI ReadyNodes: This open and streamlined certification process will help ensure customers can adopt next-generation CPU, GPU, and accelerator technologies as they become available.
VCF AI ReadyNodes will be certified with pre-qualified servers for AI model training and inference. Broadcom is announcing a new strategy to unify network fabrics and simplify networking operations in the modern private…
