VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps

VMware will port its flagship hypervisor and Cloud Foundation suite to the Arm processor architecture. The Broadcom business unit revealed its plan today during a session at the VMware Explore conference, in which senior technology product manager Rupesh Shimkhada said customers’ need to run AI/ML workloads on the network edge …

[Vikingforties]

Chicken and Egg.

That's a curious ambition, as Arm servers for mainstream enterprise users remain scarce.

A vast swathe of enterprise won't adopt Arm on prem if it doesn't have VMware and Broadcom won't hurry up porting it or putting carrots in front of sales if there's no estate out there to land on.

[Anonymous Coward]

Very strange, Broadcom have recently announced the termination of the white label licensing scheme, so in the UK only a handful of hosting providers will be able to deliver cloud on VMware, effectively killing off VMware. Even existing cloud providers are worried - what's next ? VMware is a dead product, it is deceased. It is a dead hypervisor.