Transform your infrastructure
We help you implement one governed platform, so you get more from every server you run.
The return to private infrastructure
Cost, data, and sovereignty are pulling workloads back on-premises. A modern private cloud gives them the right place to land, with control over where data lives and who operates it. Softcat helps you decide what returns and what stays.
The modern private cloud platform
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a modern private cloud platform. It runs compute, storage, networking, operations, automation, and security as one system, under one subscription. Virtual machines, containers, and AI workloads sit side by side.
Efficiency, innovation, resilience
Softcat builds hybrid platforms to reduce complexity, manage risk, and drive innovation. On VCF, that shows up in four ways.
Control and optimise costs
Monitor and manage performance, capacity, and spend in one place to maximise value.
Transform your applications
Give teams self-service provisioning and run containers alongside virtual machines, accelerating innovation.
Enhance your resilience
Wall off workloads to contain threats, automate recovery, and keep data in the jurisdiction you choose.
Licensing on the new terms
Get ahead of the licensing change with Softcat. Our specialists model the VCF options against your estate, agree the right terms, and keep the route to VCF 9.x open.
vSphere 8 reaches end of support in October 2027; planning now means the date never becomes a problem.
Extend the platform
Add-ons extend VCF where your estate needs it. Open an area to see what runs behind it.
Security
Place protection beside every workload. vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention puts firewalling next to each virtual machine and inspects the traffic moving between them. Threats already inside the network are caught where they operate, and contained before they spread.
Disaster Recovery
Prove recovery works before you need it. Site Recovery Manager automates failover to a second site and orchestrates the order your applications come back in. The plan can be tested without disrupting production, so evidence replaces assumption.
Modern Apps
Bring Kubernetes to the hosts and tooling you already operate. vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) runs containers as part of the platform, so platform and application teams share one estate, one skill set, and one support route.