Maximize ROI in financial services with Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation

April 4, 2025

Maximize ROI in financial services with Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation

By Steve Fusco, Head of Financial Services Industry for the VCF Division at Broadcom, leading technology initiatives in FinTech.


In the fast-paced, high-stakes world of financial services, cutting costs without compromising security, resilience, or scalability is a constant challenge. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) delivers the solution—a complete private cloud platform that empowers financial institutions to modernize IT, streamline operations, and slash technology expenses.


The Cost Challenges in Financial Services IT


Financial services companies traditionally operate complex and siloed IT infrastructures, often struggling with:


  • High costs of maintaining legacy systems.
  • Rising operational expenditures (OpEx) due to inefficient resource utilization.
  • Increasing compliance costs with regulations such as DORA, GDPR, and Basel III.
  • Security concerns that demand expensive, redundant infrastructure.


VMware Cloud Foundation’s ROI-Driven Benefits


VCF helps financial institutions optimize their IT investments through several key advantages:


1) Reduction in Capital Expenditures (CapEx)


VCF consolidates infrastructure components—including compute, storage, networking, and security—into a single software-defined platform. By transitioning from traditional hardware-based solutions to a private cloud, financial firms can:


  • Optimize data center real estate, reducing footprint and power consumption.
  • Reduce upfront infrastructure investments, shifting from a capital-heavy model to a more flexible approach.
  • Eliminate costly proprietary hardware dependencies and leverage commodity x86 servers.


2) Lower Operational Expenditures (OpEx) Through Automation and Efficiency


With built-in automation, VCF significantly reduces manual IT processes, improving efficiency and reducing operational costs:


  • Automated Lifecycle Management: VCF automates software updates, patching, and infrastructure provisioning, reducing downtime and IT overhead.
  • Optimized Workload Placement: Intelligent workload balancing ensures efficient resource usage, minimizing overprovisioning and underutilization.
  • Policy-Based Security and Compliance: Built-in security policies reduce the costs associated with manual compliance checks and risk mitigation efforts.


3) Cloud Cost Optimization


Financial institutions increasingly adopt hybrid strategies to balance performance, security, and costs. VCF runs seamlessly on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, as well as across 100’s of VMware Cloud Service Providers offering:


  • Cost savings through workload mobility, allowing firms to move workloads to the most cost-effective cloud environment.
  • License portability, allowing customers to take their on prem VCF software to the cloud
  • Unified management across clouds, reducing administrative overhead and avoiding cloud sprawl.
  • Consistent infrastructure, eliminating the need for redundant cloud-specific tools and training.


4) Improved Security and Compliance Cost Management


Financial institutions must comply with stringent security and regulatory requirements. VCF delivers intrinsic security with:


  • Zero Trust Architecture, reducing the cost of security breaches and compliance penalties.
  • Micro-segmentation with NSX, eliminating the need for costly third-party security tools.
  • Automated compliance frameworks, lowering the costs associated with audits and manual reporting.


5) Accelerated Time to Market and Revenue Generation


The agility provided by VCF enables financial firms to develop and deploy new digital services faster. This translates to:


  • Faster product innovation with scalable, cloud-native applications.
  • Increased revenue opportunities by reducing the time-to-market for customer-facing financial services.
  • Reduced development costs through infrastructure-as-code capabilities and Kubernetes integration.


Quantifying the ROI of VMware Cloud Foundation


A structured analysis of VCF’s financial impact shows clear cost benefits:


  • 30-40% reduction in infrastructure costs by consolidating and automating IT environments.
  • 20-25% decrease in IT labor costs due to automation and self-service capabilities.
  • 50-60% savings in cloud migration and operations through hybrid cloud efficiency.
  • Lower security and compliance expenses by reducing manual risk management efforts.


Source: IDC Business Value Whitepaper, August 2024, Forrester Study on VMware Cloud Foundation Operations and Automation, April 2024


Conclusion: Why Financial Services Firms Should Embrace VCF


VMware Cloud Foundation delivers unmatched value to the financial services industry. By cutting CapEx and OpEx, optimizing cloud costs, strengthening security, and driving digital transformation, VCF helps financial firms maximize IT ROI while staying ahead of the competition. 


For institutions ready to future-proof their infrastructure, VCF offers a smart, cost-effective path forward. Ready to transform your IT strategy? Let’s make it happen with VMware Cloud Foundation.

Optimize your Microsoft Azure DaaS budget with the new Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard Subscription.

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Optimize your Microsoft Azure DaaS budget with the new Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard Subscription. Omnissa announces Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Standard Subscription, a cost-effective and scalable desktop as a service (DaaS) offering designed to simplify virtual desktop and application delivery. The offering allows customers to use Horizon Cloud on Azure to deliver optimized single-session VDI desktops or multi-session RDSH (Remote Desktop Session Host) desktops and apps, while streamlining management and modernizing app delivery. Furthermore, Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure offers a superior, personalized end-user experience that boosts productivity and satisfaction with end-users. Let’s take a closer look. Flexible Desktop and App Configurations Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard Subscription allows IT to choose between single-session and multi-session configurations for VDI and RDSH. Single-session VDI gives each user a dedicated virtual machine, which provides efficient resource utilization, personalized experience, and enhanced security. For single-session VDI, IT can offer end users dedicated/persistent and floating/non-persistent desktops. Multi-session, also known as RDSH, provides both published desktops and published applications that are available as shared sessions from a virtual machine, allowing multiple users to share resources leading to reduced costs. Streamlined Management with the Horizon Control Plane Managing virtual desktops and apps in any cloud and across data centers can be challenging, but the cloud-hosted Horizon Control Plane simplifies it with a suite of next-gen SaaS services for unified management of Horizon deployments, including Horizon Cloud on Azure. The Horizon Control Plane provides various management services like app and image management, power management, unified brokering, and monitoring. The Image Management Service automates the image publishing process, making it easier to replicate and scale images across single and multi-cloud environments. Dynamic power management automatically adjusts resources based on demand, reducing compute costs. Instead of paying for desktops based on powered-on capacity, regardless of if they’re being used, IT can control how desktops are provisioned and deprovisioned based on user load or schedules. Unified brokering allows users to seamlessly access virtual desktops and apps through a single URL, using intelligent routing that considers available capacity, location, and user preferences. For monitoring, Omnissa Intelligence (included with this Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard offering) and Experience Management for Horizon (available as an add-on to this Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard offering) provide IT teams with insights into end-user experiences, helping identify issues and improve performance. These are just some of the comprehensive set of services on the Horizon Control Plane that help IT teams simplify management of their Horizon environments. Modern App Delivery with App Volumes Traditional app lifecycle management in virtual desktop and app environments is often complex and time-consuming. To reduce complexity and time, Horizon Cloud on Azure Standard Subscription includes App Volumes and Apps on Demand, available directly from the Horizon Control Plane. App Volumes improves application delivery by allowing IT to package applications once and deploying them across Horizon 8, Horizon Cloud, and even other virtual desktop and app solutions. IT can use App Volumes to separate app management from OS management and therefore reduce the number of OS images being managed. App compatibility is no longer an issue as App Volumes supports diverse app formats that can be delivered anywhere. With Apps on Demand , IT can further reduce lifecycle management, time and infrastructure costs by delivering apps to users when they need them, not if they need them. Exceptional User Experience To provide a great user experience, Horizon Cloud on Azure desktop and app experience can be optimized via the Blast Protocol, personalized with Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM), and accessed using Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub. With the Blast Protocol, end users get an immersive display experience with high-fidelity visuals, high quality audio and video, robust GPU support, and security features like screen capture blocking. Thousands of peripherals are supported to meet industry-specific requirements, like credit card readers for retail or tap-and-go secure sign-in readers for healthcare. DEM simplifies profile management and personalization through dynamic policy configuration, combining the ease of managing application and persona settings while providing consistent and personal desktop experiences. Users can access desktops and apps directly from Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub, which offers a unified app catalog with SSO to published apps, packaged apps, SaaS apps, virtual desktops, and web links.

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