‘Our No. 1 mission is to get our customers to [VCF] 9.1 so they’re fully protected against the security threats we’re up against with frontier AI now,” Laura Falko, VMware’s global partner program leader, tells CRN.
Broadcom is ending general support for VMware vSphere 8 licenses in October 2027 with the company’s main goal over the next 13 months to push VMware partners to drive customers to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1.
“We have an end of support deadline against us here, and we need to get customers to [VCF] 9.1,” Laura Falko (pictured), VMware by Broadcom’s partner program leader, tells CRN.
“So our No. 1 mission is to get our customers to 9.1 so they’re fully protected against the security threats we’re up against with frontier AI now,” said Falko, head of global partner programs and partner marketing. “So they can…

