Broadcom Inc. had announced VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, a secure and cost-effective infrastructure platform for production AI workloads. VCF 9.1 delivers an AI and Kubernetes native private cloud platform with integrated security and mixed compute infrastructure support across AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA. This enables enterprises to deploy inference and agentic AI applications with significantly lower costs, enhanced security, and freedom to choose best-of-breed GPU and CPU hardware.
A preview of Broadcom?s Private Cloud Outlook 2026 report reveals private cloud continues to be the preferred platform for production AI. More than half of organizations surveyed (56%) are running or planning to run production inferencing in a private cloud. More importantly, public cloud use for production inference was 41%, down 15% year over year.
Additionally, 62% of IT leaders reported being very or extremely concerned about generative AI infrastructure costs while 36% report AI is driving new…
