Tag: vcf
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Bridging the IT Chasm: A Strategic Blueprint for Platform Engineering 2.0
Using VMware’s private cloud stack, VCF, to make a usable platform with Kubernetes. 🔗 Bridging the IT Chasm: A Strategic Blueprint for Platform Engineering 2.0
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IDC White Paper: Self-Service Private Cloud as the Engine for In-House AI and Application Innovation
An IDC white paper making the case for self-service private cloud as the basis for in-house AI, reporting that 100% of organizations surveyed are building or planning generative or agentic AI applications. It identifies ticket-driven infrastructure provisioning as the operational bottleneck. Summarized by AI. 🔗 IDC White Paper: Self-Service Private Cloud as the Engine for…
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Platform Engineering 2.0: The Evolution of the AI Era
The same five-pillar argument as the Platform Engineering 2.0 white paper, but in conversation and with two things the slide deck does not say out loud: that the internal developer platform is becoming an agent developer platform serving dozens of machine consumers per human, and that virtual machines – pushed off the golden path entirely…
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The Evolution to Platform Engineering 2.0
Platform engineering succeeded so completely that the platform most enterprises already run is now the constraint: built for one persona, before AI workloads, autonomous agents and GPU scheduling. The proposed fix is to push security, cost awareness and AI readiness down into the platform as defaults rather than onto developers, which makes infrastructure the strategic…
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Enterprise AI on private cloud
Last year, 56 percent of enterprises used public cloud as the primary environment for production AI inference. This year, that figure has fallen 15 percentage points to 41 percent, while 56 percent of enterprises are now running or planning to run production inferencing in a private cloud. 🔗 The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI…
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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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Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure
One is that few organizations will be able to quit VMware entirely, as they run applications with dependencies that aren’t easy or economical to unwind. Reducing or eliminating a VMware rig therefore means adopting multiple replacements, which creates more infrastructure to manage and therefore extra complexity. 🔗 Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex…
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Tinkerslop, Class Wartime, and Jobs Not AI Enough – Related to your interests, Friday
Also: VCF 9.1 prefers private cloud for AI, the McGroc analyst trap, and the bank that lost the pope’s account. From: The undertow – Astrid Related to your interests VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 – a roundup of it all. Broadcom Announces VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 – “A preview of Broadcom’s Private Cloud Outlook 2026 report…
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Proof of value lies in the results. To date, more than 90% of the top 10,000 VMware customers have purchased VCF, including nine of the top 10 Fortune companies. Leading companies such as Audi, ING Bank, Lloyds Banking Group and Walmart are adopting VCF and deepening their partnerships with Broadcom. Broadcom’s own internal IT teams…
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🤖 Tanzu Data Intelligence update
VMware announces updates to Tanzu Data Intelligence with performance and resilience improvements across Greenplum (now VCF 9 certified), Data Lake 2.0 (adds Spark support), GemFire 10.2, Postgres (TimescaleDB), Valkey, and RabbitMQ 4.2 (distributed delayed messaging). 🔗 🤖 Tanzu Data Intelligence Gets Smarter with New Updates and Enhancements – Tanzu
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VMware Explore and SpringOne Highlights from the Tanzu Division’s Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Strohmeyer – Tanzu – ”I think explaining to our customers the movement of all the Kubernetes resources into VCF was important in positioning VCF as a complete infrastructure solution and then having clarity that Tanzu Platform is a true, pre-engineered Platform as…
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Private AI powers Broadcom’s vision for VCF 9.0 – “We shared we have more than 80 customers now,” for AI stuff, I believe he’s saying. // And: “The key thing with VCF that I think kind of gets missed sometimes in the conversations is everybody is claiming they can do sovereign cloud, but the details…
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VCF And Private AI Take Center Stage At VMware Explore 2025 – “We believe that while the company has quietly designed and delivered the leading private cloud platform, it should be more vocal and direct in the market. While competitors claim to be the more affordable option, these claims are often based on upfront discounts…
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VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Versus VMs and Containers on Bare Metal – VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog – ”Your current VMware engineers need no special Kubernetes knowledge to manage both the VMs and the consumed Kubernetes components or clusters. Your platform engineers or developers can gain access through self service and your virtualization engineers…
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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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Broadcom Q2 FY 2025 Sees Record Revenue, Solid AI and Software Growth – “Currently, over 87% of Broadcom’s 10,000 largest enterprise customers have transitioned to VCF, which allows enterprises to modernize on-premises private clouds, run container-based applications, and manage AI workloads.”
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