Tag: tanzu

  • 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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  • Tanzu 10 Sets New Standard for Private Cloud-Native Platforms – The Futurum Group – ”According to a recent survey by Futurum Research, organizations that have adopted cloud-native technologies have seen an average of 20% faster time to market and a 15% reduction in IT costs.”

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  • VMware Tanzu Platform 10: Unified cloud app development simplified – ‘“With Tanzu platform 10, we have a unified single console to manage your applications, look at your CVEs, security governance, compliance,” she stated. “There are three main messages. Keep it very simple for the developer, never expose YAML files, configuration files and lower level configs.…

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  • Private Cloud at VMware Explore – Notebook

    Private Cloud at VMware Explore – Notebook

    Normally I wouldn’t disclaim this since I think you, dear readers, are wise enough to know that it always applies, but: these views are my own, not my employer, VMware Tanzu by Broadcom. Also, we covered the below on this week’s Software Defined Talk. If you prefer to listen a podcast, it’ll be out on…

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  • My favorite PaaS

    My favorite PaaS

    This is just my, personal take on what Tanzu is, not an official statement. But I think it’s a pretty good one! :) For a more in-depth look, check out Dekel’s recent videos. Also, if you like the full on corporate sheen take, take a look at the Tanzu Platform Solution brief. Wastebook “the ontological…

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  • Join the public beta for GenAI on Tanzu Platform today! – Get your own private AI in a box sandbox going on.

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  • The Tanzu Platform – platform engineering in a box

    The Tanzu Platform – platform engineering in a box

    The Tanzu Platform – platform engineering in a box for private cloud This week, at my work, we launched the Tanzu Platform. This is both actual, new things and strategic tuning of many of our existing products. In brief, we’re focusing a lot more on private cloud PaaS now, and private cloud data services. (Sure,…

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  • Enterprise AI, D&D with ChatGPT, & DevBurgerOps

    Enterprise AI, D&D with ChatGPT, & DevBurgerOps

    Lots of original content this week, starting with this prediction about “enterprise AI”: I also made these since last episode: Another go-round at figuring out playing D&D with ChatGPT. It went pretty well! Here’s my retro/analysis of it, and here’s the actual play session with inline commentary. I was the guest co-host on this week’s…

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  • Commonplace book of links, quips, and two things I made

    Commonplace book of links, quips, and two things I made

    Here’s two things of mine to check out: What we do at my work We broadcast our updated Tanzu overview yesterday. I MC it and do a Q&A session at the end. I tried to get a lot of my views of the platform engineering, what we do, build vs. buy, and the usual stuff…

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  • We built a platform, but no one uses it – developer adoption is a marketing problem

    We built a platform, but no one uses it – developer adoption is a marketing problem

    Every platform team I have talked with over nine years hits the same wall: they built the thing and developers ignored it. The fix is marketing and developer advocacy, which IT has never had to be good at.

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  • New Report on Platform Engineering – what is it?

    New Report on Platform Engineering – what is it?

    Jennifer Riggins and The New Stack crew have a good booklet out on Platform Engineering. I read over it and talked with Jennifer a couple times. I should have recorded those calls to munge into some articles, but, whatever. You should check it out, I think it’s a good go at trying to nail down…

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  • Developers Are the Future Of VMware (Part 2): Multi-Cloud and AI | by Torsten Volk – Good examples and thinking on using LLM AI in systems management stuff, in this case with VMware Tanzu and Aria.

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  • VMware Explore’s 5 Big Reveals: Updates To Tanzu, vSAN, NSX+, Workspaces And An AI Deal With Nvidia – As it says. Includes some actual deal size info for Tanzu and Workspaces.

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  • 2023-05-30 day note

    I recorded a podcast today on security in cloud native. Security can seem like an incomprehensible complexity from the outside, but when you ask an expert to break it down, it’s simple. Sure, lengthy and tedious and precise, but not impossible. I’ll post it in the Tanzu Talk podcast feed sometime this week. I spent…

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  • Extending the Pivotal Labs Way: How Tanzu Labs Helps Organizations Deliver Great Software – All about Tanzu Labs, the consulting group at VMware that helps your org get better at software. Their approach is very human centric, very pragmatic, and very effective.

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  • “Multi-cloud” should just mean “all the computers”

    “Multi-cloud” should just mean “all the computers”

    Source: IDC, The Evolution of Cloud Infrastructure: Multicloud to Hybrid; Shared to Dedicated, doc #DR2023_T1_DM, March 2023 Each year when we do the State of Kubernetes survey, we’re of course interested in “multi-cloud.” That’s one of the reasons to use a Kubernetes management suite stack, like VMware Tanzu. The term can mean many things. The…

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  • IT is asked to do more, and sometimes with more budget!

    IT is asked to do more, and sometimes with more budget!

    Updates to the VMware app runtimes If you’re into platform engineering, the two VMware platforms have some announcements today that you’ll be interested in: Tanzu Application Platform v1.5 – There’s faster ways to get it installed, security improvements, tighter integration with Spring Boot apps, and a lot more. Rita gives some highlights: “Enhanced IDE support…

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  • 5 ways to escape technical debt, and stop making more of it

    5 ways to escape technical debt, and stop making more of it

    Technical debt is the accumulation of compromises on quality to save time – postponed tests, outdated software, features over process. Five ways to work it down gradually, from Bryan Ross.

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  • The more kubernetes you use, the more frequently you release software

    The more kubernetes you use, the more frequently you release software

    Notes on the CNCF 2022 survey: the more kubernetes an organization uses, the more frequently it ships. Plus why this survey represents the CNCF community more than everyone.

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  • If it’s bullshit work, have the bullshit-artist do it – Using AI for Bureaucratic Toil Removal

    If it’s bullshit work, have the bullshit-artist do it – Using AI for Bureaucratic Toil Removal

    Hey there! As I type this, SpringOne is being livestreamed right now! Chances are, you’ll read this when it’s over. But, you can go back and see today’s talks, and there’ll be more tomorrow and Thursday. If you’re interested in development, cloud native, and especially the question “what is VMware Tanzu?” today’s talks are for…

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