Under New Management: Impressions from VMware Explore 2024 - “Tan made comments about not chasing ‘bright shiny objects.’ The context around these comments – particularly from the analyst session – indicate Tan’s statements could reasonably be interpreted as pointed commentary about Kubernetes. The Tanzu platform has two available runtimes: Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. More airtime was given to Cloud Foundry than Kubernetes, and the leadership team made statements about ‘focusing on existing customer success.’ All together, there were signals that read as the company focusing on nurturing the assets from the Pivotal acquisition over the Heptio acquisition, and prioritizing solutions centered around its VM-centric past more broadly."