Tag: tanzu
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AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
AI amplifies what you have: good processes get faster, bad ones get worse. Getting real enterprise AI ROI means changing how you work – structure, focus, scope.
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…
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private AI in banking
Developing the secure data layers needed for large language model (LLM) use cases. Because its AI compute and data storage operate within the same strict perimeter, the credit union can confidently leverage highly sensitive member data. This makes Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) easy to implement while keeping member information completely isolated from public APIs. 🔗 USSFCU…
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Talk: VCF + Tanzu Platform = The Private Cloud Enterprises Actually Needs – June 25th, 2026
I’m doing a Global VMUG session with Oren Penso this Thursday, June 25th, 5:40pm CEST. Virtual, free. Title: “VCF + Tanzu Platform = The Private Cloud Enterprises Actually Needs.” The abstract: VMware Cloud Foundation 9 brings modern infrastructure to your private cloud. Tanzu Platform layers on as the application platform layer – giving developers PaaS…
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Platform as a Product, 2017 to 2026 – not much changed, which is the point
The Platform as a Product paper, first published in 2017 and updated for 2026. The concept survived Pivotal, the platform engineering category, and kubernetes blocking out the sun for five years.
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Enterprise Harness Smack-Talk, Forms Don’t Love You Back, and Doing Nothing on Purpose – Related to your interests, Friday
Also: Anthropic’s 80% code claim, and Claude’s quiet enterprise share. From: Broadcom’s Investment in Spring to Combat AI-Fueled Security Challenges in the Enterprise As the chart shows, there’s been a huge jump in CVEs for Spring – this is what’s happening everywhere, you know. My work, Tanzu, has been focusing on this and has changed…
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Defeating Conway’s Law
Try using a platform to combat Conway’s Law and organizational friction caused by too many groups/silos. This matters because it removes the structural excuse for fragmentation. When a single platform surfaces all the controls a unified team needs, there is no longer a technical reason to keep five separate teams in five separate rooms. The…
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Patching CVEs at AI speed is a platform engineering problem
AI-assisted vulnerability discovery cut the gap from CVE published to weaponized exploit from weeks to hours. Quarterly patch windows and hand-rolled CVE spreadsheets are no longer a defensible posture.
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Now you can react faster than ever to security problems
This is an excerpt from our Tanzu Catsup last week. In that episode we talked all about how this AI stuff is changing – for the better – how you can handle security problems at the app layer. It’s Monday morning. Your boss walks up, says “scrap the backlog, we’ve got a list of CVEs…
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McDonald’s Geofence, Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose, and Big Things Are Trusted Less – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: AI makes marketing opaque, execs value humans less, and clown world logic. You’re either left holding the bag, or pro-activity delivering “value creation” The answer is pretty clear: TryTanzu.ai. Related to your interests What’s New in Tanzu Platform 10.4: Powering Agentic Apps at Scale – Nick and Keith walk through it. Quit VMware and…
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Tanzu’s 15-Year Head Start, Max Headroom in Every Terminal, and Doctors Catch the AI Bug – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Mirantis acquisition logic, and tech jobs at a 3-year high, so why the layoffs? Here’s the latest Tanzu Catsup: AI lets us find more vulnerabilities, faster than ever. That’s good news. You want to know what’s broken, and you want to patch it. The hard part is the volume. How do you handle it…
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 – private cloud, private AI, enterprise-grade kubernetes
Our cousins over in VMware announced the most recent version of VMware Cloud Foundation, 9.1, yesterday. We all call this “VCF.” It’s at the center of Broadcom’s strategy to be the private cloud stack for large enterprises. You know: banks, governments, large retailers, manufactures, et. al. Our layer, the Tanzu Platform, sits a-top VCF like…
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Tanzu Platform 10.4 Source Coverage
Here’s coverage of our recent Tanzu Platform 10.4 announcements. This is a big agentic AI release, bringing in to Tanzu Platform all sorts of features to secure, standardize, and otherwise make agentic AI work more enterprise-y. My think on 10.4 is listed below too. There’s also the short video I made on the 10.4: Tanzu…
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Spaghetti DBMS, MCP for Knowledge Workers, The Harness Is the Harness – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: 55% of jobs reshaped, power over GPUs, a thousand DIY weekend platforms, and mood-tracking the robot MCP Servers for, and of, knowledge workers This is an excerpt from last week’s Tanzu Catsup. David and I have been talking a lot about the AI harness. We of course sprinkle in talk about how you would…
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Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs – Related to your interests, Saturday morning
Also: OpenAI’s enterprise play, Gemini voice acting, and airline antitrust I’ve covered our announcements this week about Tanzu platform agent foundations in other posts, check that out if you’re into that kind of thing. Now, onto usual nonsense… Duivendrecth fire station, early Spring 2026. Related to your interests Private Cloud Data Intelligence: The Case for…
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Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, “agentic AI”)
AI companies are building platforms for running agentic applications. Right now, those applications are primarily for software development, with a little bit of knowledge worker stuff. In each case, you get a “harness,” an application that wraps all sorts of functionality around a model. This harness app is way beyond the chat-based apps we grew…
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Platform engineering is what makes AI enterprise-ready
As we’ve found, writing AI-powered software is the easy part. Testing it, securing it, operating it at enterprise scale – that’s where things get interesting. “Guardrails,” all that. Purnima lays this out: a shift from deterministic systems (input goes in, predictable output comes out) to probabilistic ones where agents wander around exploring multiple paths to…
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Does Platform Product Management & Design Really Happen? Or is it all just platform engineering? – Tanzu Catsup
Most organizations treat infrastructure as a series of projects to be “completed,” but successful platform engineering requires a permanent product mindset. In this episode, we explore why platform teams need dedicated product management to balance competing priorities—like security, cost, and developer experience—and why the “why” scales much better than the “what” in large enterprises. We…
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Tanzu Catsup: The Risk of Relying on AI for Platform Engineering
Internal development teams and executives are increasingly looking at AI to automate the creation of internal developer platforms. However, cobbling together open-source components with AI is a far cry from building a scalable, secure, and “enterprise-grade” environment. In this conversation, we explore why betting your internal infrastructure on AI-generated platforms is a high-stakes risk and…
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How much does it cost to build an internal developer platform? – Tanzu Catsup
This week’s Tanzu Catsup is about how much you need to pay people to build your own internal developer platform: I think building your own platform is a terrible idea, especially for larger organizations. My co-host Tony ran the platform for Home Depot and now talks with other platform teams a lot, so I wanted…
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