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Paris, October 15th, 2025 – Broadcom Inc. today announced that the Caisse Nationale des Allocations Familiales (CNAF), a cornerstone of France’s public service, has selected VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to accelerate its digital transformation. CNAF’s new private cloud built on VCF will enable the institution to combine enhanced security, data sovereignty, and operational agility—critical priorities as the modernization of public services becomes a national imperative.

A System Under Regulatory and Security Constraints

Each year, CNAF manages millions of transactions while adhering to strict regulatory requirements, which demand extremely tight production timelines. Simultaneously, its cybersecurity teams face near-daily attack attempts, necessitating maximum resilience and responsiveness.

By delivering a single unified platform, VCF offers a holistic view of private cloud operations, improving productivity and delivering faster insights to enable more rapid incident response and better performance optimization, which is essential for the smooth operation of Caisses d’Allocations Familiales (CAF) across France.

Security and Sovereignty at the Core of the Strategy

With VCF, CNAF benefits from critical features such as live patching, Zero Trust micro-segmentation, and automated workload monitoring. These capabilities strengthen the protection of beneficiaries’ data while reducing the time required to deploy new applications.

“Security and sovereignty of our data are non-negotiable. With VCF, we help ensure that sensitive information remains within our data centers while leveraging trusted European clouds,” emphasizes Nicolas Poulain, Director of Operations & Technical Engineering at CNAF.

This approach aligns with France’s national strategy to bolster the resilience of public infrastructure, a key priority as digital sovereignty becomes a strategic focus.

Empowering Public Sector Innovation

“CNAF’s transformation exemplifies VMware solutions’ mission: enabling the public sector to combine innovation, security, and performance to meet the growing expectations of citizens. With VMware Cloud Foundation, we help organizations take the next step by building a trusted cloud foundation capable of supporting both today’s services and tomorrow’s emerging needs,” explains Marc Dollois, General Manager, France, Broadcom Software.

Innovation Serving Millions of Beneficiaries

Beyond technical gains, the platform’s modernization has a clear goal: improving the experience for beneficiaries. CNAF is working to automate benefit allocation, ensuring that eligible individuals receive their entitlements directly, without complex administrative procedures. This simplification will help reduce fraud, increase fairness, and make it easier for those with legitimate rights to access their allocations.

“Our mission is to provide a reliable, stable, and high-performing IT system, because behind every online process and payment are millions of families who depend on us,” notes Nicolas Poulain.

Committing to a More Efficient and Accessible Future

By adopting VCF, CNAF is also positioning itself to explore new use cases—such as artificial intelligence through VMware Private AI, or modern application orchestration with vSphere Kubernetes Services (VKS), delivering greater agility, resilience, and compliance for cloud-native applications.

The objective: to pave the way for a more proactive and automated public service, capable of anticipating needs and delivering allocations transparently and swiftly. The combination of a modernized infrastructure, enhanced security, and integrated AI capabilities places CNAF at the forefront of digital transformation in France’s public sector.

The UK economy expanded by 0.1% in August, according to official figures, giving a lift to Rachel Reeves ahead of next month’s crucial budget.

After the economy flatlined in July, the Office for National Statistics said gross domestic product had improved the following month. It keeps the UK on track to being one of the fastest-growing major economies this year.

The chancellor is weighing up raising funds from a series of tax rises in her 26 November budget to close a £20bn to £30bn budget spending gap that has opened up this year.

A Reuters poll of City economists expected a return to modest growth based mainly on a recovery in the manufacturing sector.

Inflation is forecast to begin easing before the end of the year and the Bank of England is expected to make further interest rate cuts in 2026, easing the pressure on household incomes.

More details to follow …