Leaseweb today announced the company is now a VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) Pinnacle tier partner in the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program in the European Economic Area, Singapore and the United States. Leaseweb will help mutual enterprise customers to innovate by adopting VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as their private cloud infrastructure. Leaseweb will offer VMware Cloud Foundation as new managed private or sovereign cloud services, supporting data residency and other jurisdictional controls. 

"Customers need continuity, control and confidence in the VMware environments that support their business-critical workloads. As a Broadcom VCSP Pinnacle Partner, Leaseweb provides an authorized path forward, delivered through sovereign-by-design,  infrastructure with the resilience, transparency and scale our customers expect," said Lex Boost, Co-CEO of Leaseweb.

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is the platform for the modern private cloud, supporting both virtual machine (VM) and container-based applications on a single unified infrastructure with consistent operations, governance, and controls. With VCF, customers are empowered with a consistent cloud operating model spanning data centers, edge, and managed cloud infrastructure from VCSP partners. VCF combines the agility and scalability of public cloud with the security, performance, architectural control and total cost of ownership (TCO) benefits of an on-premises environment.

“As a Pinnacle partner, Leaseweb’s expertise, experience and influence in the industry will play a crucial role in helping to lead our customers to adopting a modern private cloud,” said David Cairns, Director, Cloud Service Provider & OEM Sales at Broadcom. “With VCF, customers benefit from a modern private cloud that accelerates innovation, controls cloud costs, and enables sovereignty and security with data control that supports better compliance and cyber resilience at scale. Our trusted VCSP Pinnacle partners help our mutual customers unlock all of the value from the VCF platform.”

Pinnacle is the highest program level in the Broadcom Advantage Partner program. Pinnacle partners are Broadcom’s most invested and strategic partners, boasting extensive certifications, a track record of significant sales and service achievements, and broad international coverage. Holding Pinnacle status signifies a partner's deep technological know-how and proficiency in addressing the most intricate customer issues.