Arvato Systems GmbH and VMware by Broadcom Inc. are expanding their decade-long collaboration to deliver sovereign private cloud services for regulated industries, including healthcare and government, with a renewed focus on integrated security and automation. The companies discussed their approach at the VMware Explore event, where executives detailed how Arvato hosts managed private cloud services in its own data centers using VMware Cloud Foundation. This setup allows Arvato to offer self-managed, co-managed, and fully managed operating models, ensuring customers retain control over where their data resides and who operates it.
Hansjörg Metzger, managing director of multi-cloud and infrastructure at Arvato Systems, said the company hosts everything in its own data centers for healthcare, government, and regulated industries. He noted that customers know where their data are, know that the data are secure, and know who operates these data. Metzger and Prashant Gandhi, vice president of products at VMware by Broadcom, spoke with theCUBE Research’s Christophe Bertrand and co-host Alison Kosik about how the integrated automation and security capabilities support managed services for these sectors.
The partnership faced a significant test when Arvato migrated a German government healthcare IT provider into its data center. Arvato employed vDefend microsegmentation and security policies, along with Avi Load Balancer and HCX migration tools, to maintain service continuity while workloads moved between locations. According to Metzger, the migration was executed with zero downtime so that end users across different states of the health insurances did not notice the workloads shifting from one data center to another. He emphasized that the secure migration was the most important element for the client, as the data were not exposed during the process.
Broadcom is now extending this integrated security model to agentic workloads through new capabilities in vDefend and Avi. The updates reflect a broader industry shift toward enforcing security within cloud infrastructure as autonomous agents increase interactions among applications, tools, and data. Gandhi said the company is telling customers they must adopt zero trust and protect themselves with lateral containment so that agents and threats cannot move sideways across the network.
The executives’ comments were part of an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, covering the VMware Explore event. TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the event, and sponsors do not have editorial control over the content. The discussion highlights how sovereign private cloud offerings are becoming a practical option for regulated organizations that need cloud operations without surrendering control of sensitive information. For the US market, this approach signals a growing expectation that cloud providers serving government and healthcare sectors will need to demonstrate similar control over data locality and operational transparency.
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