Broadcom & Canonical Join Forces to Supercharge AI and Cloud with Ubuntu

At VMware Explore 2025 in Las Vegas, Broadcom announced an expanded partnership with Canonical, the steward of Ubuntu, to further integrate Ubuntu into VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The collaboration is designed to help enterprises accelerate the deployment of containerized and AI-driven applications, enabling cloud-native innovation with greater efficiency, reduced cost, and strengthened security.

Broadcom emphasised that VCF is the industry’s first fully integrated private cloud platform, created to meet modern enterprises’ demand for both consistency and flexibility in cloud environments. Canonical will now bring Ubuntu Pro, chiseled containers, and precompiled GPU drivers into VCF—empowering customers to deploy cloud-native applications more rapidly, with fewer risks, and without the burden of additional integrations.

Paul Turner, Vice President of VMware Cloud Foundation at Broadcom, noted that this collaboration will empower developers to build Kubernetes-based applications more efficiently while simplifying the deployment of AI workloads, and Regis Paquette, Canonical’s Senior Vice President of Global Sales, added that it directly answers the perceived trade-off between innovation and security.