Tag: vmware
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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?)
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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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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2023-05-31 day note
The day’s not over yet, but I’ve got two but things coming up the rest of the evening and will probably want to zone out after them: I’m hosting a fireside chat with Purnima Padmanabhan, the GM of our group at VMware (streamed in LinkedIn). She should be fun to talk with. And then I’ll…
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VMware strives to become the multi-cloud leader – Overview of VMware’s current strategy, etc. from the VMware analyst day.
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“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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As developers manage kubernetes less, their productivity goes up, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 Survey
Developers using kubernetes are seeing a steady growth in benefits as represented by shortening release cycles. 60% of respondents say that their developers are more productive with kubernetes. That’s according to the VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey. Check out the full survey for the full findings, including more on the operational benefits and challenges,…
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AI at KubeCon EU, Security and Governance Kubernetes Koncerns
Kubernetes Security and Governance Tools on the Rise This is an excerpt from a series analyzing the VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey. It’s a three part blog series that’ll be published over the next three weeks or so. I hope! Anyhow, in the meantime: From the VMware State of Kubernetes Survey 2023. People are…
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Amsterdam for #KubeCon Nerds: Tourist Time!
Now that you know how Amsterdam works, here’s some sites and fun things to do. You know, straight up tourist shit! I’ll throw in a few things I left out from yesterday’s Amsterdam advice too. My wife, Kim, helped out with a lot of these. Also, apologies for typos and stuff. I have some other…
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Amsterdam for #KubeCon Nerds: How Amsterdam Works
How Amsterdam Works Coming to KubeCon EU? Here’s tips on Amsterdam from an American expat – me! I moved from Austin to Amsterdam almost five years ago. For those of you coming here for KubeCon, here’s some tips, things to do, and other advice on having an enjoyable time. This first part is, like, how…
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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
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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They were just wearing Levi’s because of what it symbolizes
Not much time for original content today: a Link Gourmand, my own links, the wastebook, and quick chair. Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, March, 2023 For several years, I took a lot of pictures of thrown out chairs in Amsterdam. Here’s a small selection of early ones – I’ll have to upload…
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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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The mandatory trainings will continue until you accept The True DevOps
Some notes on attending conferences, notes on enterprise open source comercio-community, asides and waste book…lots of links. Suggested epigraph and theme are on vacation this week. FOMO and Family at Conferences FOMO is OK, but it is also not OK. All the things you’re missing out on are extra work that drive only marginal profit…
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we’re all in this goat-rodeo together
Suggested epigraph: [see title] Suggested theme song: Middle Cyclone by Neko Case Current Status I am a big fan of not “talking about the show on the show,” but, obviously, in the little nerd-corner of the Internet that I mostly exist in, there’s a big export of people from Twitter to Mastodon. I setup two…
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