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## The partnership

Our team has specialised in VMware technology for years. Some of us have worked with it
since the turn of the century, others since VMware turned server virtualization on its
head. Over the years that has become a long list of finished projects.

We intend to be the most capable VMware partner in Switzerland. That means our engineers
keep up with what is being released, and keep training.

## After Broadcom

We remained a strong VMware partner and are more involved in professional services than we
were before. Our people work on projects in Broadcom's name and implement VCF.

Alongside the project and licensing business we are an official Cloud Service Provider at
**Premier** status. We do not host ourselves; we are the point of contact for our CSP
partners in the white-label programme.

## Two bundles instead of two hundred products

VMware's portfolio ran to more than 200 products and was complex to match. After the
acquisition Broadcom consolidated it into two main offerings:
[VMware Cloud Foundation](/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/) for the full private
cloud and [vSphere Foundation](/en/solutions/vmware/vsphere-foundation/) for virtualisation
without it. For smaller environments there is also [vSphere](/en/solutions/vmware/vsphere/)
as vSphere Standard, of which Broadcom announced a new version in September 2026.

## What that is in numbers

Added up, we hold **224 active VMware certifications**. Among them:

- 63 Certified Expert
- 161 Proven Professional

Then there are the Broadcom Knights and the vExperts. The Knights programme is a
recognition and training programme for selected technical specialists in Broadcom's partner
network; membership is by invitation and renewed yearly. The vExpert award goes to people
who are active in the community and pass on what they know, in blog posts, VMUG sessions
and elsewhere.

Who holds which is on the [VMware Experts](/en/experts/vendor/vmware/) page, computed from
the profiles and not maintained here. You will find the most vExperts in Switzerland here, 7 of the 13 (as of September 2026); see
the [vExpert directory](https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory/) and, for the Knights,
[Broadcom's directory](https://expert.broadcom.com/partners/consulting-services/soultec/knights).
Our engineers also pass on what they know, as speakers at community meetings and in posts on
technical subjects, collected under [Insights](/en/insights/).