VMware Cloud Foundation is a unified private-cloud platform that combines the scale and agility of public cloud with security and performance of private cloud, delivering increased productivity and lower TCO. Modernize infrastructure with integrated, enterprise-class compute, networking, storage, management, and security across all endpoints. With automated infrastructure and intelligent operations, organizations can optimize performance, lower costs and reduce operational overhead. Accelerate innovation with a self-service IaaS platform that delivers a modern cloud interface to run VMs, containers and AI workloads. With built-in security and resiliency, safeguard the business, ensure business continuity, and free up teams to focus on innovation instead of addressing security threats. Core Platform Components ● VMware Cloud Foundation Infrastructure Stack: Incorporates VMware's industry-leading solutions – virtualization and compute through vSphere for compute, storage through vSAN, and networking by NSX. ● VCF Operations Fleet Management: Automate the installation, operations, and lifecycle management of the VCF stack, streamlining deployment, configuration, and updating processes. ● VCF Automation Orchestration: Deliver comprehensive operations, automation, and analysis, across the full stack infrastructure platform. ● VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service: Built-in Kubernetes runtime that enables enterprises to run modern applications and traditional workloads on a single platform. VMware Cloud Foundation helps you solve your toughest challenges by providing: - Modern Infrastructure – An elastic, scalable infrastructure that delivers an agile cloud operating model at scale, enabling faster time to market, increased innovation, lower TCO, and re-educated operational FTEs due to automated deployment and lifecycle management. - Unified Cloud Experience – Increased developer productivity, consolidated VM and container-based workloads on a single platform, AI workloads at enterprise scale, and data service capabilities. - Secure and Resilient Platform– Consistent security policies to protect workloads and infrastructure from lateral cyber-threats, ability to meet corporate compliance and government requirements, distributed network-based context-aware security, and market-leading live recovery capabilities and workflows to protect and recover critical applications and data after a cyber-attack or other disaster event.