“We’re finding a way to help those VMware providers that were removed from the program as a cloud service provider,” said Dante Orsini, chief revenue officer at 11:11 Systems.
Top VMware cloud provider 11:11 Systems has acquired VMware-focused IT services firm Ntirety to boost its VMware by Broadcom business and headcount even further.
“We’re finding a way to help those VMware providers that were removed from the program as a cloud service provider,” said Dante Orsini, chief revenue officer at 11:11. “You’re going to see this huge opportunity for people to understand that we have the best possible platform as a community.”
Broadcom launched a new, invite-only VMware Cloud Service Provider program (VCSP) in 2025 that saw hundreds of former partners not invited back into the program as Broadcom shifts its focus and resources on fewer partners who invest heavily in VMware.
[Related: Buying VMware Firms, M&A In 2026 And The ‘Powerful’ VCF Platform: 11:11 System’s CRO Explains Vision]
Since Broadcom bought VMware in 2023, the company has looked to consolidate its VCSP and channel partners.
“Unfortunately, in the last 18 months, a lot of people that were caught on the wrong side of this have spent a bunch of time trying to find their way to a different platform. If they’re highly technical, they’re having a lot of challenges with that,” said Orsini.
“You can’t take 15 years of dominating a category and expect someone to turn around and fill that gap quickly,” he added.
11:11 Systems Acquires VMware Partners
Fairfield, N.J.-based 11:11 has been actively working with many former VCSPs to guarantee secure, compliant, high-performing cloud services and determine the best path forward for both their customers and their business.
Over the past three years, the firm has acquired six major VMware-based businesses: Faction, iland Cloud, Green Cloud Defense, Unitas Global, Sungard Availability Services and, this month, Ntirety.
11:11 System purchased Ntirety last week who has a strong global VMware business with in-house expertise and long-term customers, Orsini said.
“Ntirety built up both a VMware hosting practice as well as the ability to deliver managed database services, regardless of where the workload exists—whether it’s in their environment, on a public cloud or in their own customers environment,” he said. “We do the same thing, but they bring even more depth and breadth of different platforms that they support.”
Orsini said Broadcom invested heavily in building the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 which was launched in 2025.
“There’s been so many people out there talking about the challenges and the decisions Broadcom has made, whether that’s in the direct market or the channel space. But people need to really understand the investment that VMware and Broadcom have made in the platform,” said Orsini. “It’s unbelievable.”
VMware Cloud Foundation 9
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan touted VCF 9 as a private cloud game-changer and a new alternative to public clouds.
“After two years of engineering development by over 5,000 developers, we delivered on our promise when we acquired VMware. We released VMware Cloud Foundation version 9.0,” Tan said during Broadcom’s third quarter financial earnings report in September. “This provides a real alternative to public cloud.”
VCF 9 is a full-stack platform aimed at providing a streamlined experience for building, operating and securing private clouds across on-premises data centers, in hyperscaler and VMware Cloud Service provider clouds, and at the edge.
Tan said over 90 percent of its VMware vSphere customers have purchased VCF.
“We see the top 10,000 [customers] as being people where it makes a lot of sense to derive a lot of value in deploying private clouds using VCF,” Tan said during Broadcom’s quarterly earnings report with investors and analysts in September. “We now are looking at whether the next 20,000 or 30,000 midsized companies see it the same way.”
11:11 System’s Orsini touted the large investment and innovative capabilities Broadcom made in VCF.
“They’re investing [a large percentage] of VMware gross revenue in R&D with VCF 9,” he said. “There’s excitement we have on the investments that we’re making with Broadcom to deliver on that vision. I think a lot of people miss the amount of investment that Broadcom is making with VMware on the R&D front.”
11:11 Systems empowers the company’s over 6,000 customers to modernize, protect and manage mission-critical applications and data by leveraging 11:11’s resilient cloud platform.
“We’re very excited about the VMware platform and our future with Broadcom,” Orsini said.
