Tag: tanzu

  • VMware Tanzu enhances support for generative AI and agents with Tanzu AI Solutions – “As customers move from AI experimentation to implementation, they stand to benefit from closer integrations between technology components as they redefine “Ops” frameworks within their businesses. VMware Tanzu AI Solutions are designed to do just that, with specific enhancements like AI…

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  • Three offensive robots

    Three offensive robots

    Enterprise AI middleware & services with Tanzu Platform 10.2 There’s a big release for the platform as a service we make at Tanzu, Tanzu Platform 10.2. In new release, we’ve focused a lot on adding in AI middleware and services to the Tanzu Platform. That’s both in the form of AI model brokering and hosting…

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  • SB Payment Service Scales Applications with VMware Tanzu Platform – “SB Payment Service offers multiple e-commerce merchants a centralized service that integrates various payment methods through a single API. With a lean team of 20 developers and five operators, SB Payment Service has achieved remarkable success using Tanzu Platform, processing a staggering 8 trillion yen…

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  • Broadcom VMware hardens vDefend, drops Tanzu branding in VCF – The Tanzu Kubernetes stuff is renamed and now part of VCF: ”The Tanzu brand for the Kubernetes services within VCF is no more…. The VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service and Tanzu Kubernetes were rebranded in early March as the VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and…

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  • GenX – working as designed

    GenX – working as designed

    More on the Tanzu AI Stack As you may recall, along with several colleagues, I worked on the Tanzu annual update which came out last month. I’m sure you’ve watched the entire video, right? How else would you get to see my AAA skills at talking with my hands at the end? I mean, I…

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  • Broadcom’s Tanzu gets AI updates, but is definitely not Kubernetes – Purnima Padmanabhan, GM for Tanzu, explained that these updates can lower the barrier of entry for developers and allow users to more quickly run their applications with AI integration “while maintaining complete security and lower down time… Even though it’s more advanced, it’s actually…

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  • VMware ups Tanzu’s gen AI support, sheds Kubernetes dependence – Tanzu Platform integrates generative AI capabilities and shifts away from Kubernetes, aiming to streamline AI application development and deployment.

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  • AI in the enterprise: what’s already at your disposal…some of you, at least

    If you’re using Tanzu Platform, you have pretty much everything you need to start getting AI into your apps. That’s the main point I wanted us to get across in our Tanzu annual update: Looking at surveys, it feels like most large organizations are still figuring out their AI strategy through pockets of messing around…

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  • Broadcom Helps GCI Transform Operations and Services on the Alaskan Frontier – “The self-service, cloud-like capabilities of Tanzu Data Services also meant that developers could deploy databases in a matter of minutes, greatly accelerating time-to-market for new services and features.”

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  • Writing good docs is important for agentic AI and Model Context Protocol, and developers are terrible at writing good docs

    Writing good docs is important for agentic AI and Model Context Protocol, and developers are terrible at writing good docs

    One quick things up-top: this week (tomorrow!), get an overview and demos of the private AI stack and development frameworks we’ve been working on at Tanzu. Register to check it out online, either live or the recording after the event. Spy on the DM with Model Context Protocol Servers in Java Here’s my latest walk-through…

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  • “SOAP for AI tools cool cool.”

    “SOAP for AI tools cool cool.”

    Two quick things up top: in a little over a week we’re going to talk about what what us Tanzu folks been doing with enterprise AI, register to check it out online. Next month, at Cloud Foundry Day you can come to an in-person workshop for even more. I’ll be there, hopefully talking about the…

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  • Spring Cloud Services for Tanzu Platform – Spring Cloud Services for Cloud Foundry v3.3 introduces an enhanced dashboard UI, improved configuration validation, and simplified secret management.

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  • The 2024 State of Platform Engineering? Fledgling at Best – ”Only about 9% of respondents were indeed mature by the CNCF Platform Maturity Model’s standards.” // (1) There must be a lot of Tanzu Platform users in that 9%, (2) good thing we decided to throw out all the previous PaaS work and build up…

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  • Private cloud is just fine, and here to stay, so build a great platform for yourself

    Private cloud is just fine, and here to stay, so build a great platform for yourself

    I did a second interview with the GM of my division at work, Tanzu. The first one was about Prunima’s career in IT management and, now, cloud. This second one is all about private cloud. Here’s a video except: Here’s a summary from our AI friend: When it comes to cloud infrastructure, Purnima Padmanabhan, Tanzu…

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  • Contemplate contemporary men’s waistlines

    Contemplate contemporary men’s waistlines

    Private PaaS Along with our summary of Explore EU last week, around the start of this I go over my thinking about private PaaS, VMware, and Tanzu. At least that’s what I remember doing. Wastebook “THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER—BUT THEY’RE IMPROVING” Systemantics. The Systems Bible, John Gall. And: “we are interested, not in the…

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  • – IDC: VMware Explore 2024: A Shift to Private Cloud, AI, and AppDev Simplification – The VMware Private AI Foundation “platform appeals to Broadcom customers because of its ability to deliver advanced security and privacy, granular policy and control capabilities, resource sharing functionality, and centralized operations capabilities that deliver a lower TCO.” // Also, a…

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  • Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry’s Hidden Superpowers, Save Money with Java Native – “you can reduce  your Java app’s memory usage by 90%.  This allows your applications to use fewer resources, which directly contributes to cost savings and more compute capacity”

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  • Tanzu Postgres for Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry adds new features – Faster, incremental backups using pgBackRest, AI/ML support with Pgvector, and streamlined restore options with adbr

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  • Using app architecture constraints and templates in platform engineering

    Using app architecture constraints and templates in platform engineering

    Platforms have many opinions, app architecture is one of them This is an excerpt from a new blog post of mine covering a recent panel with platform engineers from Charles Schwab. I’ve made some slight changes. Ensuring platform scalability and resilience starts with making sure applications are architected appropriately. Nowadays, that usually means using a…

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  • Charles Schwab Adopts PostgreSQL (With VMware Tanzu) – Why Charles Schwab chose Postgres over Oracle, and chose to pay for Tanzu Data Services support.

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