Tag: vmware
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How AI change your software development organization
A catch-up with Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of the Tanzu Division at Broadcom, on what her team has actually learned shipping enterprise software with AI for the last year and a half: code generation is the small part, beautiful code is the new uncanny valley, and you cannot solve the agent boundary problem from inside the…
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“PE 2.0”
We are seeing a distinct movement where infrastructure is being reclaimed as a first-class platform concern. In the early days, platform engineering focused heavily on developer experience, often treating the underlying infrastructure as a utility that was managed separately. That is no longer sufficient. To succeed in the AI era, platform teams must have deep…
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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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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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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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Histoires Prodigieuses, Forward Deployed Vibes, and Skyrgamur – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: Spring still number one, KubeCon AI workloads, the end of Doctor No, and a buyer’s market for employees. Spring still king, from The State of Java 2025, JetBrains. Related to your interests 🤖 From Red Hat OpenShift to VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Journey to a Unified Cloud Operating Model – A defense-industry case…
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VMware/Broadcom at KubeCon EU 2026
Here’s Claude’s take on VMware’s stuff at KubeCon – just some light editing for me. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 ran March 23-26 in Amsterdam. Here’s what VMware by Broadcom announced. VKS 3.6 Ships The VKS stack as seen at VMUG Connect Amsterdam 2026. VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.6 shipped with Kubernetes 1.35 support, RHEL…
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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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Relative to your interests, Friday
A Perfect Match for Big Data: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service and Tanzu Greenplum MCP Auth made easier in Spring – doing auth in MCP has always been a shit-show. The AI Free Lunch is Over – Links to several analyst surveys on enterprise AI. Enterprise Architecture Has Never Been Stronger – Soon, we’ll all be…
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Relevant to your interests, Friday
A Coxswain on Your Shoulder – AI as executive coach. Primary tip: listen more before you ask questions. Big Blue Poised To Peddle Lots Of On Premises GenAI – Welcome to the last 18 months of labor-intentive services – “Legacy delivery models focused on bums-on-seats aren’t relevant anymore, and services firms must reinvent themselves to…
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Discounts for VMware and Tanzu software: Under this new agreement, [US] agencies can purchase select Broadcom software solutions at a 64% discount off the list price. These offers are valid until May 2027 across the portfollo” 🔗 New U.S. GSA and Broadcom OneGov Agreement to Help Accelerate Federal Agency AI and Security Initiatives
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“Since we started using Application Advisor, we’ve seen a 70% reduction in engineering time tied to upgrades,” says Roberts. “Now we can focus more of our time and resources on the delivery of new value-added features for our customers.” 🔗 Alight Removes Roadblocks for App Innovation with VMware Tanzu Spring [PDF]
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Virtual machines still run the world
The above is from a recent IDC white paper. Container use is growing. Even then, VMs still run everything. Most of those containers run in VMs: IDC forecasts that 85% of containers will run in VMs in 2028. Meanwhile, there is a huge installed base of traditional applications in VMs that will be around for…
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Use yours secrets to get generative AI ROI
From an article by my colleagues and me: For generative AI (GenAI) apps to deliver real business value, they need access to your company’s proprietary data. Without it, models default to the public data they were trained on–meaning you get the same generic ideas as your competitors. If everyone is starting with the same new…
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As we continue to accelerate the pace of digital innovation across our global operations in an uncertain world, maintaining control over data locality and security is paramount,” said Daniele Tonella, Chief Technology Officer, ING. “VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will provide us with the unified, enterprise-grade private cloud platform necessary to achieve multi-region consistency, enhance workload…
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How to think about infrastructure software as strategic instead of just tools. Plus, evaluating if your should migrate from massive stack to another. 🔗 Why Migrating from VMware Isn’t as Simple as Changing Hypervisors
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🤖 DoD Unveils CSRMC: Automating Continuous Compliance for Cyber Risk at Operational Speed
Summarized by AI. The article explores how defense and enterprise organizations are evolving from traditional, static compliance frameworks toward continuous, automated, and intelligence-driven security models. It traces the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) cybersecurity governance evolution–from DITSCAP in 1997 to the newly announced Cyber Security Risk Management Construct (CSRMC) in 2025–and argues that this shift…
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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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