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# France's Cnaf picks Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation for its cloud
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-10-15-cnaf-picks-vmware-cloud-foundation/
- Published: 2025-10-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T12:01:03.000Z
- Description: France's family benefits agency Cnaf selected Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation, announced 15 October 2025 and framed as protecting data sovereignty. A French MP objected that VMware remains subject to extraterritorial law; the contract's value went undisclosed.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [CIO-Online, 28 October 2025](https://www.cio-online.com/actualites/lire-nouveau-cloud-ou-mco-de-l-existant-le-contrat-mystere-de-la-cnaf-avec-vmware-16638.html?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish whether this is a new cloud build or a renewal of existing virtualised infrastructure, since Cnaf and VMware both declined to clarify.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-13\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)