Tag: vmware

  • 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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  • 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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  • Broadcom CEO: VMware still ringing the cash registers – ‘That translates into 32% quarter-on-quarter VMware bookings growth.” And: ‘When it comes to revenue tailwinds, AI is driving “about two-thirds in compute and one-third in networking” said Broadcom CFO Spears.’

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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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  • Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome – ”I left VMware Explore feeling that Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s a good thing, and that some of the complaints about the current state of VMware are a very natural struggle to cope with sudden and significant change.” // Great…

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  • Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be – Maybe private AI will really be a thing: ‘“We are still in the early innings, and our AI opportunity with tier 2 CSPs, enterprise, and emerging sovereign customers is immense,” Jeff Clarke, Dell’s chief operating officer,  explained on the call with Wall Street…

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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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  • Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs! – Abby Bangser, Syntasso & Whitney Lee, VMware – How can you start to take a design/UX-driven approach to building your platform (you know, your pile of Kubernetes stuff to pull it all together for app developers)? Whitney Lee & Abby Bangser have a good mind-model to…

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  • Type-writers are killing cursive, AMIRIGHT?

    There’s a lot going at work now, employee wise. If you’re using a VMware email address to subscribe to this (there’s several handfuls of people who are), I’d suggest switching it over to a personal email address. BEST OF LUCK TO US ALL. Meanwhile: Wastebook “Never ask me how I paid” is my version of…

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  • The container management market is $1.6bn in 2022, going to $3.6bn in 2027

    The container management market is $1.6bn in 2022, going to $3.6bn in 2027

    Suggested theme song. Just links and fun finds today. Relevant to your interests VMware named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant – Nice spot for VMware in the MQ. // This is a pretty small market! Hopefully the market is selling around container management, the stacks of app dev support above it, and…

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  • VMware Introduces Frameworks And Services At Explore Conference To Enable Enterprise Adoption Of Generative AI – Quick analysis of VMware’s AI strategy.

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  • Forrester’s Impressions: VMware Explore 2023 – A brief overview of VMware’s strategy and where Forrester thinks it going.

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  • What VMware’s AI Vision Means for Your Job – Figuring out how AI will affect tech stuff.

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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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  • Forrester VMware Executive Checklist for DevEx – “75% of IT and business executives say that their companies’ ability to compete is directly related to their ability to release quality software quickly.” And, a DevEx definition: “DevEx represents the skills, tools, frameworks, and methodologies aimed at creating, maintaining, and enhancing code throughout the software delivery lifecycle…

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  • Platform Engineering is just CI/CD infused with enterprise goop (jk…I think?)

    Platform Engineering is just CI/CD infused with enterprise goop (jk…I think?)

    Midjourney: a datacenter filled with clouds in the style of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Just when you thought (perhaps, hoped) we finally had an understanding of what “platform engineering” is, Gartner and Forrester came out with a Magic Quadrant and a Wave that re-confuses the category. Or, if you like, helps bring more clarity to…

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  • Avoid cloud lock-in with Kubernetes, findings from the 2023 VMware State of Kubernetes Survey

    {{< youtube uqgxkL4KfKE >}} 76% of respondents in our State of Kubernetes 2023 survey say they use multiple clouds – they’re multi-cloud. I look at the driving forces behind multi-cloud adoption, most notably the desire to avoid vendor lock-in. For more insights into multi-cloud strategies, Kubernetes benefits, and the challenges being tackled by your peers,…

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  • Garbage Chair

    2023-06-02 day note

    Traveling back home, to Amsterdam, today. Yesterday’s VMUG Belgium talk went fine. Since it was to VMware admin types, I positioned my platform talk as a glimpse of their future. Whenever the infrastructure changes, you can use new application architectures…and then that drives new types of infrastructure and management needs…and so forth. It means that…

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