Leaseweb has announced that it is now a VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) Pinnacle tier partner in the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program across the United States, the European Economic Area, and Singapore.
Through the designation, Leaseweb will offer VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as a managed private cloud platform to help enterprise customers modernize their infrastructure.
Supporting business-critical workloads with private cloud services
According to Leaseweb, it will offer VCF as managed private and sovereign cloud services, supporting data residency requirements and other jurisdictional controls.
“Customers need continuity, control, and confidence in the VMware environments that support their business-critical workloads,” said Lex Boost, co-chief executive officer at Leaseweb.
“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,”
VCF supports both virtual machine (VM) and container-based applications on a unified infrastructure with consistent operations, governance, and controls.
Broadcom notes that VCF provides customers with a consistent cloud operating model spanning data centers, edge environments, and managed cloud infrastructure delivered through VCSP partners. The platform is designed to combine the agility and scalability of the public cloud with the security, performance, architectural control, and total cost of ownership (TCO) benefits of on-premises infrastructure.
Leaseweb as a Pinnacle tier partner
Leaseweb’s Pinnacle tier designation places it at the highest level of the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program, recognizing partners that demonstrate deep technical expertise, extensive certifications, strong sales and services performance, and broad international reach.
According to Broadcom, Pinnacle partners represent its most strategic cloud service providers and are equipped to support customers with complex infrastructure modernization initiatives.
“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 of 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.”
VMware partners continue to navigate Broadcom’s program changes
The announcement comes as Broadcom continues to face scrutiny over changes to its VCSP program.
In March, European cloud industry group Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) filed a competition complaint alleging that Broadcom’s partner changes had reduced the number of providers authorized to sell VMware services – claims Broadcom disputed.
At the same time, VMware customers are entering another renewal cycle amid continued concerns over pricing changes, licensing complexity, and the difficulty of migrating business-critical workloads. Those challenges have prompted many organizations to evaluate whether to renew existing environments or pursue alternative strategies.
That shift is already beginning to show up in customer behavior. A January 2026 CloudBolt survey of 302 North American enterprise IT decision-makers found that 86% were reducing their VMware footprint, although only 4% had fully migrated away.
Together, those trends emphasize the continued need for partners that can help customers operate and gradually transition VMware environments, a role Leaseweb is positioning itself to expand through its Pinnacle designation.
Why the Leaseweb partnership matters
Leaseweb’s Pinnacle designation reinforces its position as one of Broadcom’s strategic VMware cloud partners at a time when organizations are reassessing their virtualization strategies.
For customers that remain committed to VMware, the expanded partnership provides another option for managed private and sovereign cloud deployments built on VCF.
Nearly three years after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, customers and partners continue to adapt to changes in licensing, partner programs, and infrastructure strategies. As organizations evaluate how to modernize or maintain VMware environments, authorized providers such as Leaseweb are positioned to play a larger role in that transition.