Tag: pivotal
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Platform as a Product, 2017 to 2026
I updated our Platform as a Product paper recently, available here as a PDF. This paper has a long history: it was first published in 2017, updated in 2018, and then 2021. The concept was core to Pivotal Software – both in Pivotal Labs and with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. After Humanitec killed DevOps, around 2022,…
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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…
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Platform engineering design and UX
Many of the videos from KubeCon EU are on YouTube now, just days after the the talks were given. That’s pretty great! Here’s three talks from the Platform Engineering Day that I really liked. They’re primarily focused on what I’d call designing and product managing a platform. I’m a fan of the “platform as a…
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How to do fun and interesting executive dinners, round tables, etc. – online and in-person
Here’s what I’ve learned in doing 30 (maybe more like 40?) executive events in person and online over the past four or so years. Over my career, I’ve done these on and off, but it’s become a core part of my job since moving to EMEA to support Pivotal and now VMware Tanzu with executives.…
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🗂 Link: VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat
“We’re going to own the Kubernetes stack,” Gelsinger said at the Deutsche Bank Conference. “We’re not going to be relying on third-party code. It’s all going to be an integrated solution stack to execute on that Kubernetes.” … “Do we assess the competitive environment? Well, of course, we do,” Gelsinger said. “So, IBM spent $34…
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🗂 Link: Waity K8-y no more Pivotal: We’ll unhook Application Service from VMware
“The urgency was more around understanding the long term vision than an immediate need,” said Andrews. “We’re still very early. Everybody is talking about K8s all the time, but if you look at who is actually using it in production, the list is much shorter. Our technology stack works incredibly well, we have customers with…
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🗂 Link: Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, ‘cos K8s is really hard!
Daimler’s Thomas Müller, platform architect, spoke this morning at the summit about his company’s migration from IBM WebSphere to Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and illustrated another point, that the typical enterprise has more to worry about than K8s support. His company began its transition from WebSphere in 2015 and it took until March 2019 to…
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🗂 Link: Hashiconf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery
“It’s 2019 so apparently everyone has a service mesh. Istio has been the most hyped – it has solid corporate backing from IBM, Google, Pivotal and SAP. These companies now need to do a better job of nailing use cases.” HashiConf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2019/08/07/hashiconf-eu-2019-the-service-mesh-push/ via Instapaper Source: Hashiconf…
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Link: Secret CSO: Amy Herzog, Pivotal
Practitioners need to be positive and intelligent enough to see how a whole system could work. But they also need to have this mindset of searching out all the ways that it could go wrong and what that looks like. Source: Secret CSO: Amy Herzog, Pivotal
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Link: Pivotal Build Service, Now Alpha, Assembles and Updates Containers in Kubernetes
The service provides the layer of automation and operational control enterprises need to utilize Cloud Native Buildpacks at scale. In particular, Build Service includes three key capabilities: automated image updates, image promotion, and build configurations. Source: Pivotal Build Service, Now Alpha, Assembles and Updates Containers in Kubernetes
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Link: Users forge ahead with Cloud Foundry-Kubernetes integration
“There are a million solutions out there to your technical problems, but what we wanted was to solve the people and process problems,” And: “It depends on Pivotal. If they add a common pattern in the future for deployment with Istio and Envoy through a cluster and platform-agnostic service mesh, then, yes, we will combine…
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Monolithic Transformation
My booklet, Monolithic Transformation is finally out. It collects together the stories and successful tactics large organizations are using to get better at software. You can get a free copy from Pivotal or search around to find it elsewhere.
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Book finally out: Monolithic Transformation
Hello there! My little booklet on how enterprises are improving their software organizations is finally out: Monolithic Transformation. It’s one of those little O’Reilly books, sponsored by Pivotal. I’ve worked on it for a couple years, frequently excerpting drafts of it and using it as the basis for the talks I give. You can get…
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🗂 DBS banks on data to know what customers want before they themselves know
> DBS built its API platform on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which enabled it to upgrade or update the system without any downtime, Soh said, adding that the bank’s marketplace is also built on Pivotal. Plans also are underway to migrate DBS’ mobile wallet, PayLah, to the Pivotal development platform. And some example use cases. www.zdnet.com/article/d…
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🗂 Singapore Airlines to innovate at Silicon Valley startup speed with Pivotal
“Singapore Airlines (SIA) has collaborated with Pivotal Software to deliver what the two companies describe as innovative solutions while operating with the agility of a Silicon Valley startup.” www.enterpriseinnovation.net/article/s…
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Link: Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Harbor Into CNCF Sandbox
“Harbor is a privately hosted registry, which allows running either on-premises or in any of the major cloud vendors, making it a possibility for organizations that cannot use a public container registry or want to implement a multi-cloud strategy. Harbor started as an internal VMware project and became open source in 2016. Multiple partners, including…
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Link: Forrester SVP: VMware Is One Of The ‘Exciting’ Stars Of IT Automation Era
‘O’Donnell called VMware and Pivotal the “crown jewels” of Dell’s $70 billion blockbuster acquisition of EMC in 2015. “It’s the future,” said O’Donnell. “It’s the software side of it. A lot of good stuff came with EMC but what VMware and Pivotal are doing is the future. It’s all about software.”’ Original source: Forrester SVP:…
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Link: How Pivotal hopes to make cloud mavens of us all
A brief description of Pivotal Labs work to improve customer’s agile capabilities. Original source: How Pivotal hopes to make cloud mavens of us all
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Link: How Companies are Saving Millions with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
“A recent Forrester study commissioned by Pivotal which analyzed the benefits PCF customers see when adopting the platform found that developers gain 50 percent more coding hours a week. How? The automation and self-service features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry decrease manual and mundane deployment tasks. Wait times for environment setup and code to be prompted…
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Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain
“Software company Pivotal, backed by Dell EMC, VMWare, GE, Microsoft and Ford, has developed a tanker refuelling solution for the USAF with the US Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx); Running on the firm’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform, the software solution was built for under $2m in 90 days and is now being used in operational…
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