Broadcom Delivers on VMware Tanzu Cloud 10 Promise

Broadcom today announced that the next major update to a VMware Tanzu Platform that is at the core of an effort to streamline cloud-native application development is now generally available.

Announced at the VMware Explore Barcelona 2024 conference, VMware Tanzu Platform 10 is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment based on open-source software from the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) that is optimized for Kubernetes clusters. It reduces the number of virtual machines previously required from 13 to four while providing access to a common control plane and user interface that makes it simpler to manage more complex applications.

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In addition to providing support for open source OpenTelemetry agent software being advanced under the auspice of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) along with increased visibility across multiple instances of VMware Tanzu Platform. Broadcom is also adding support for Helm charts and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, a framework for deploying multiple Kubernetes clusters across a distributed computing environment.

At the same time, Broadcom is now also providing access to Class Data Sharing (CDS), a framework that reduces by up to 30% startup times for Spring applications.

Finally, IT teams can optionally deploy VMware Tanzu AI Solutions, now delivered in Tanzu Platform 10 to build, bind, deploy and scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications running on VMware Private AI Foundation, a framework developed in collaboration with NVIDIA that extends the reach of the platform to graphical processor units (GPUs).

Purnima Padmanaban, general manager of the VMware Tanzu Division of Broadcom, said the VMware Tanzu Platform is at the core of the initiative to streamline the build of cloud-native applications in a way that enables enterprise IT organizations to increase deployment velocity.

VMware Tanzu Platform 10 is also designed to be integrated with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), an integrated platform from Broadcom that integrates compute, storage and networking. VMware Tanzu Cloud and VCF are the IT equivalent of peanut butter and jelly, said Padmanaban.

Broadcom has been narrowing its cloud-native computing strategy to focus on IT organizations that have adopted platform engineering as a methodology for managing application development and deployment. In general, VMware Tanzu Cloud is not designed for organizations that have adopted a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach to integrating Kubernetes and associated components

It’s not clear how many IT organizations will continue to prefer to build and maintain their own platforms, but the one certain thing is the number of cloud-native applications being deployed only continues to steadily increase. At the same time, organizations still need to update and maintain legacy monolithic applications running on virtual machines. Broadcom provides organizations with a single vendor that enables organizations to achieve both of those goals.

Each organization will need to decide to what degree platform engineering as a methodology for managing IT will work for them. Many DevOps teams, for example, have already embraced public clouds as their primary means for invoking IT infrastructure using APIs. One of the primary reasons they chose that path was because they did not want to be reliant on a centralized IT organization. Convincing DevOps teams that a centralized IT team now has the platforms and skills required to provide the equivalent of a private cloud service will undoubtedly require a significant amount of effort.