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Following up on their stated directions from VMworld 2019, on March 10th 2020, VMware made a number of announcements around their latest improvements to support Kubernetes for application modernization. Applications are core to today’s successful digital transformation efforts. All types of businesses are in the process of modernizing their applications to embrace cloud environments, enable faster development and become more flexible and competitive.
Like many businesses today, VMware has embraced Kubernetes as a path forward to rearchitect modern apps and extend infrastructure and app management across the data center, edge and cloud. Some of VMware’s most important announcements were about updating vSphere to natively support Kubernetes as well as rolling out their new VMware Tanzu platform. VMware Tanzu is a collection of products and services that enable businesses to provide cross-platform support for Kubernetes and modern applications. In case you were wondering about the name, Tanzu is Swahili for a branch. Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, explained that the new Tanzu platform represents a new branch in a growing family of solutions. VMware’s most important announcements included:
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VMware has also moved to integrate their recent Pivotal acquisition by rebranding Pivotal Application Service to the Tanzu Application Service.
Kubernetes and the multi/hybrid cloud world
VMware has been rapidly moving forward as a multi-cloud management platform and their new application modernization announcements show that VMware is betting heavily on Kubernetes as the application platform of the future. You can watch VMware’s recent announcements at App Modernization in a Multi-Cloud World.
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