Cloud computing has become the de facto platform for innovation. The ability to provision resources quickly, scale on demand, and operate globally has transformed how companies develop, manage, and secure applications.
The cloud is no longer just a location – it’s an operating model. But this very operating model presents new challenges. What began with promises of maximum agility and scalability often leads, in practice, to rising costs, increasing complexity, and heightened demands for security, compliance, and data sovereignty.
Public cloud services make sense in many scenarios, but they are not automatically the best choice for every company or workload. Business-critical workloads, sensitive data, regulated industries, and performance-sensitive applications demand greater control, transparency, and predictability.
Against this backdrop, the private cloud is experiencing a strategic renaissance. IDC reports that roughly two fifths of surveyed organisations have repatriated workloads from the public cloud to dedicated environments or plan to do so.
Private cloud is once again at the core of hybrid cloud strategies, allowing organisations to place workloads where cost, compliance, and performance are optimised.
A contemporary private cloud is more than virtualised infrastructure. It requires:
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) delivers exactly this. As a fully integrated private cloud platform, it combines compute, storage, networking, management, and security into a consistent solution – forming the foundation for hybrid, future-proof IT architectures.
IDC studied companies using VCF in production and compared their beforeand-after scenarios. The results are clear:
Organisations running their private and hybrid cloud environments with VMware Cloud Foundation achieve sustainable cost reductions:
The result is greater cost transparency, improved budgeting, and an end to uncontrolled cloud spending.
A key finding of the study: standardisation and automation pay off.
Instead of spending time on patching, manual provisioning, or siloed processes, IT teams can focus on strategic tasks and innovation.
VCF brings the cloud experience back on-premises:
Automation, self-service, and infrastructure-as-code significantly reduce friction between IT and business units.
In an increasingly complex threat landscape, security is a fundamental requirement:
Security is not an add-on, but an integral part of the platform.
Many IT environments struggle with tool sprawl and fragmented architectures. VCF takes a different approach:
The result is significantly reduced complexity while ensuring higher operational reliability.
The strategic value of a modern private cloud is clear when it comes to artificial intelligence:
VCF delivers a platform that meets today’s requirements while enabling future innovation.
The findings from the IDC study are clear: VMware Cloud Foundation makes private cloud a compelling choice economically, technically, and strategically.
For organisations, this translates into:
IDC and TCO analyses clearly show that a modern private cloud is the economically and operationally superior model for many workloads.
VMware Cloud Foundation provides a mature, fully integrated platform standard that reduces costs, simplifies operations, increases agility, and supports AI and data governance requirements.
For TD SYNNEX partners and resellers in Switzerland, this means: if your customers are using or planning a private cloud, VMware Private Cloud with VCF is the solution of choice.
TD SYNNEX helps you successfully position, implement, and operate this solution profitably.
TD SYNNEX is one of the world’s leading Broadcom and VMware distributors, supporting partners in the planning, deployment, and operation of VMware solutions, including VCF 9.0. In Switzerland, we focus specifically on IT resellers, system integrators, and cloud service providers who want to deliver modern private and hybrid cloud services to their customers.
For VMware Private Cloud, we offer partners:
Our goal is for our partners to establish VCF as a strategic private cloud platform in their portfolio, enabling them to deliver economically viable and futureproof solutions to their end customers.
“VMware Cloud Foundation has become the strategic choice for modern Swiss enterprises,” says Patrick Stieglbauer, Business Development Manager at TD SYNNEX Switzerland. “95% of our partners report that with VCF 9.0, they finally achieve the cloud agility they previously only found in the public cloud – now combined with real cost predictability and security. This isn’t a compromise; it’s genuine progress. Organisations get a system that truly scales, truly automates, and fully meets their requirements – without hidden costs or security surprises.”
Patrick Stieglbauer, Business Manager VMware & Omnissa, TD SYNNEX Switzerland