- VMware Tanzu Portfolio Enables Enterprises to Adopt Cloud
Native Technologies and Automate the Modern Application Lifecycle
on Any Cloud
- VMware Cloud Foundation 4 Delivers Hybrid Cloud Platform for
Modern Apps including Native Kubernetes Support
- New VMware vSphere 7 Powers VMware Cloud Foundation
Services
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced a comprehensive
portfolio of products and services to help customers modernize
their applications and infrastructure—marking a new chapter for the
company.
Applications are core to today’s successful digital
transformation efforts—enabling enterprises to deliver personalized
digital experiences to their customers to generate new revenue
streams. Enterprises are increasingly modernizing their
applications to compete effectively and embrace the full potential
of cloud environments. The challenges customers face are how to
empower developers to deliver better software faster while still
enforcing security and operations. To fully benefit from their
investments in modern applications, enterprises also need to
simultaneously modernize their infrastructure.
Today, VMware is introducing the newly expanded VMware Tanzu
portfolio for modern applications, and VMware Cloud Foundation 4
with Tanzu, the automated, turnkey hybrid cloud platform that now
supports both traditional VM-based and container-based applications
featuring the new VMware Cloud Foundation Services using Tanzu
Kubernetes Grid and the new VMware vSphere 7 to drive developer
productivity. With the most comprehensive software stack for modern
applications—spanning application to infrastructure—VMware is
uniquely positioned to enable and guide customers to develop new
modern applications as well as modernize existing applications and
infrastructure.
“Today, we bring to market a comprehensive portfolio for modern
apps to help customers accelerate their pace of innovation,” said
Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware. “VMware gives developers the freedom to
deliver apps to any cloud, remove barriers to Kubernetes adoption,
and help IT administrators transform their skills in support of a
new wave of modern apps.”
VMware Tanzu: App Modernization Portfolio
VMware Tanzu is a portfolio of products and services that enable
enterprises to deliver better software faster. Customers can use
the suite to automate the modern app lifecycle, run Kubernetes
across clouds, and unify and optimize multi-cloud operations.
Today, VMware is introducing the initial products in the VMware
Tanzu portfolio:
- VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – Newly available, Tanzu
Kubernetes Grid is a Kubernetes runtime that helps customers
install and run a multi-cluster Kubernetes environment on the
infrastructure of their choice. It is designed to run Kubernetes
consistently across any environment including data centers,
hyperscalers, service providers, and at the edge. It includes the
industry-standard open source technologies needed to stand up and
support a cloud-neutral Kubernetes environment, is packaged for
enterprise readiness, and is fully supported by VMware.
- VMware Tanzu Mission Control – Previewed in August 2019,
Tanzu Mission Control is a centralized management platform for
consistently operating and securing Kubernetes infrastructure and
modern applications across multiple teams and clouds. It provides
operators with a single control point for consistent management
across environments and increased security and governance.
Developers have self-service access to resources so they can get
code into production faster. This service is now available.
- VMware Tanzu Application Catalog – Newly available,
Tanzu Application Catalog delivers a customizable selection of open
source software from the Bitnami catalog that is verifiably
secured, tested, and maintained for use in production environments.
The service gives developers the productivity and agility of
pre-packaged apps and components, while enabling operators to meet
the stringent security and transparency requirements of enterprise
IT. This service was originally previewed as Project Galleon in
August 2019.
Beyond today’s new product announcements, VMware is further
expanding the Tanzu portfolio. Following the close of the Pivotal
acquisition in December 2019, VMware has moved quickly to integrate
the Pivotal team, technology and products. This includes VMware
rebranding Pivotal Application Service (PAS)—purpose-built for
developers to boost feature velocity and operations teams to
deliver world-class uptime—to the Tanzu Application Service.
Additionally, VMware has re-branded Wavefront by VMware to Tanzu
Observability by Wavefront and aligned NSX Service Mesh with the
portfolio as Tanzu Service Mesh, built on VMware NSX. These
additions to the portfolio will help enterprises to further
increase developer velocity, holistically observe and monitor apps
running in multi-cloud environments including Kubernetes-based
environments, and simplify the way they connect, monitor and secure
microservices.
VMware Cloud Foundation 4: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure for
Modern Apps
Unveiled today, VMware Cloud Foundation 4 with Tanzu will
provide hybrid cloud infrastructure with consistent management for
both VM-based and container-based applications while delivering
intrinsic security and lifecycle management across software-defined
compute, storage and network resources. The platform helps to
bridge the gap between developers and IT—enabling developers to
rapidly build and update apps while providing IT operations with
control and enhanced security. Available across diverse private and
public clouds including the hyperscalers, VMware Cloud Foundation 4
with Tanzu will include the following components:
- New vSphere 7: Newly rearchitected using Kubernetes,
vSphere is now optimized to run both modern container-based and
traditional virtual machine-based workloads. Initially, vSphere 7
with Kubernetes will be available solely through VMware Cloud
Foundation 4.
- New vSAN 7: To provide storage virtualization including
File Services and Cloud Native Storage for modern apps.
- New vRealize 8.1: To provide self-driving operations and
modern infrastructure automation capabilities for virtualized,
cloud-based and containerized workloads and applications.
- NSX-T: To provide full stack networking and security
services that connect and protect VMs and containers.
VMware Cloud Foundation 4 with Tanzu also introduces VMware
Cloud Foundation Services, an integrated Kubernetes and RESTful API
surface to enable organizations to drive API access to all core
services. VMware Cloud Foundation Services will include:
- Tanzu Runtime Services: These services will deliver core
Kubernetes development services including an up-to-date
distribution of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.
- Hybrid Infrastructure Services: Powered by the new
VMware vSphere 7, these enhanced services will provide full
Kubernetes API access as well as the infrastructure-as-code
automation APIs delivered by vRealize Automation to span the world
of VM-based applications and cloud-native applications deployed
with containers.
Optimized to run all applications, VMware Cloud Foundation
delivers a cloud operating model on-premises in a private cloud
that extends to public cloud, enabling developers to use the latest
development methodologies and container technologies for faster
time to production. Enterprises will benefit from simplified
management of containers and VM workloads across heterogenous
clouds like AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, Rackspace, and IBM as well
as VMware Cloud Verified partners, optimizing performance,
resilience and availability.
VMware vSphere 7: Essential Services for Modern Hybrid
Cloud
VMware today also introduced VMware vSphere 7—the biggest
evolution of vSphere in a decade. VMware vSphere 7 was previewed in
August 2019 as Project Pacific—which focused on rearchitecting
vSphere into an open platform using Kubernetes APIs to provide a
cloud-like experience for developers and operators. A foundational
component of the VMware Tanzu portfolio, the new release will
support all applications including modern and traditional
applications using any combination of virtual machines, containers
and Kubernetes.
VMware vSphere 7 will further help enterprises to increase
developer and operator productivity, enabling
faster-time-to-innovation combined with the security, stability,
governance, and lower costs of traditional enterprise
infrastructure. New capabilities and features will enable
enterprises to:
- Boost Productivity: Developers will benefit from
self-service access to infrastructure and additional productivity
capabilities that reduce the amount of time they are required to
spend managing infrastructure. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is embedded
into vSphere 7 with Kubernetes as part of VMware Cloud Foundation 4
to deliver Kubernetes clusters as a service to developers.
- Achieve Agile Operations: IT operations teams will
benefit from new application-focused management, simplified
lifecycle management capabilities, and a unified platform for
consistent operations across clouds, data centers and edge
environments.
- Accelerate Innovation: All enterprise applications will
benefit from the advancements into vSphere 7 to accelerate
innovation. Applications will be able to further leverage GPU
hardware to accelerate the performance of AI / ML applications
using elastic pools of GPU resources. Additionally, customers will
be able increase the performance of latency-sensitive applications
using improved DRS, enhanced vMotion, and augmented support for
persistent memory (PMEM) capabilities.
VMware vSphere 7 will also allow enterprises to continue to take
advantage of existing investments in vSphere technology, tools and
skillsets.
Availability
VMware Tanzu Application Catalog, VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
and VMware Tanzu Mission Control are all available today. VMware
Cloud Foundation 4, VMware vSphere 7, VMware vSAN 7, VMware
vRealize Automation 8.1 and VMware vRealize Operations 8.1 (both
on-premises and as SaaS) are all expected to become available by
May 1, 2020 (the end of VMware’s Q1 Fiscal Year 2021).
VMware vSphere 7 will be available in two major configurations.
The first configuration, vSphere with Kubernetes, will be available
in VMware Cloud Foundation 4 with Tanzu to power container- and
VM-based applications. vSphere 7 will also be available in a
configuration for VM-based applications in a number of editions
including VMware vSphere Standard Edition.
Supporting Quotes
At Airbus Defence and Space, a shared passion for progress
unites all employees in the search for a better way to connect,
protect and support everyone on the planet. In this regard, success
is founded on intelligent innovation, but also hard work and
tenacity. Everything contributes to a single-minded commitment to
making our world safer and accessible for all. In support of the
satellite ground system infrastructure, the Tanzu Application
Catalog provides engineers with a world-class application runtime
platform that both increases capacity for innovation and enhances
security. “We are pleased to work VMware, which has enabled a
protected and trusted ecosystem that allows our teams to focus
their energy on further business demands.” –Olivier Lagarde, Lead
Technical IT Infrastructure Policy for Satellite Ground System,
Airbus Defence and Space
“As the world’s best digital bank, DBS’ aspiration is to be a
tech company that happens to provide financial services. That
ambition requires significant investment in the latest technology
solutions. In the course of our journey, we have found that VMware
provides us with two attractive value propositions. One is helping
us to solve the challenge of managing large containers and
Kubernetes at scale, with technologies like vSphere 7 with
Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu Mission Control and the second is the
modern application development expertise that we get with VMware
Tanzu and Pivotal Labs. Both of those matter to us as we are
constantly investing in our cloud infrastructure and rearchitecting
our applications to be even more cloud-ready so that we can stay
one step ahead of our customers.” – Jimmy Ng, Chief Information
Officer, DBS
“As Intrado builds out innovative new apps for customers of our
communication and network infrastructure services, we’re building
these on VMware. VMware has been a long-term partner supporting our
app transformation and cloud native initiatives. VMware Tanzu will
offer us a portfolio upon which to deliver future breakthrough apps
and services.” – Thomas Squeo, Chief Technology Officer,
Intrado
“At KPN, we are seeking greater consolidation of our platforms
in support of our cloud native app development efforts. Currently,
a number of our departments are running Kubernetes for themselves.
We aim to achieve greater consolidation of those environments with
VMware vSphere with Kubernetes to deliver all resources through a
single platform to our developers and eliminate their need to do
all of the operational work.” – Albert W. Alberts, Architect,
KPN
Read What Partners Have to Say About VMware's App Modernization
Portfolio
Additional Resources
- Read Ray O’Farrell’s blog post “Become a Modern Software
Organization with VMware Tanzu”
- Read Krish Prasad’s blog post “Introducing vSphere 7: Essential
Services For The Modern Hybrid Cloud”
- Read Josh Townsend’s blog post “What’s New with VMware Cloud
Foundation 4”
- Read Rick Walsworth’s blog post “Delivering Kubernetes at Cloud
Scale with VMware Cloud Foundation 4”
- Learn more about VMware Tanzu
- Learn more about VMware Cloud Foundation 4
- Learn more about VMware vSphere 7
- Attend VMware’s App Modernization in a Multi-Cloud World Online
Event
- Connect with VMware on Twitter and Facebook
About VMware
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digital workspace offerings provide a dynamic and efficient digital
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of partners. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is
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