Broadcom and Canonical are expanding their partnership, saying they will help customers create container-based and AI applications more quickly and securely, and at lower cost.
“Canonical is the number-one Cloud OS provider in the market with the Ubuntu containers, and VMware by Broadcom, with our VCF Foundation, is the number-one private cloud platform,” said Prashanth Shenoy, VP of product marketing, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) division of Broadcom, during a media briefing. “So those two organizations coming together really helps our customers build Kubernetes-based modern applications.”
He said that customers can build and ship Kubernetes images more quickly, thanks to Ubuntu chiseled containers that only deliver the application and its runtime dependencies, without any other operating system-level packages, utilities, or libraries. This, he noted, also reduces the application’s attack surface.