VMware unveiled several cloud products and services during this year’s Barcelona conference, including the latest version of the Tanzu DevSecOps platform, data engine integrations and new edge devices.
Broadcom’s announcement that 50 VMware cloud service providers now offer data sovereignty services may be of particular interest to European buyers of technology services.
Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023.
“With the one-year anniversary of VMware joining Broadcom approaching, some of the biggest changes seem to be paying off,” Prashanth Shenoy, Broadcom’s CMO and vice president of marketing, cloud platform, infrastructure and solutions, wrote in an Oct. 31 press release. “We are leaner, more focused, have strong execution and are delivering on our innovation plans.”
VMware Tanzu Platform 10 will be available on November 27
The latest version of the Tanzu DevSecOps application platform, VMware Tanzu Platform 10, will be available on November 27, Broadcom announced. Platform 10 is the first instance of Tanzu to support air-gapped self-service environments. It supports both public and private cloud deployments and includes tools for generative AI governance.
Purnima Padmanaban, general manager of Broadcom, Inc.’s VMware Tanzu division, said in a press release that some customers’ application deployments have gradually expanded to various Cloud Foundry infrastructure foundations. VMware therefore added a new layer of abstraction to Tanzu Platform 10 to “simplify management, improve security and enable management” especially for these customers.
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In the new version, generative AI apps will appear on the Tanzo tile like other Cloud Foundry apps. These applications can connect to the VMware Private AI Foundation, which offers hosting on NVIDIA GPUs.
VMware Tanzu Platform 10 also includes:
- Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) libraries in VMware Tanzu Spring.
- Configuration for native data services.
- Helm-based COTS application support with advanced cluster management for containers on VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated.
- Cloud Foundry-like development environment on Kubernetes for custom applications.
VMware Cloud Foundation benefits from Tanzu’s new data services
The new service, VMware Tanzu Data Services, will provide VMware Cloud Foundation customers with self-service access to data engines such as Postgres. VMware aims to reduce wait times and workload for private cloud administrators in various aspects of data services by taking care of data consumption, management and support in VMware Cloud Foundation environments.
Supported data engines are Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ and Valkey.
Tanzu Data Services will be available in Broadcom’s first quarter of 2025, starting in November of that year.
VeloCloud Edge 4100 and 5100 devices support edge AI
Artificial intelligence has made its way into enterprise software, and VMware has launched new AI networking tools through VeloCloud.
“Most companies have focused on the edge for most of this decade. But recently, the adoption of AI and AI workloads has acted as an accelerator that has shifted interest to proof-of-concept and other deployments at the edge,” Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst at ZK Research, said in a Broadcom press release. “One of the challenges to increased adoption of AI workloads is complexity and performance, as businesses need to ensure the right technology is deployed in the right places.”
Broadcom’s new offerings to help navigate this complexity include:
- Faster identification and prioritization of new edge AI applications with the new VeloRAIN architecture. Broadcom says it will be able to identify encrypted application traffic that was previously unanalyzable by network optimization solutions.
- The prioritization aspect comes from application-based dynamic segmentation that sorts users by identity and attributes.
- Improved quality of service when connecting to the network via 5G or satellite with VeloRAIN.
The VeloCloud Edge 4100 and 5100 appliances are designed to scale network and security services while requiring fewer appliances to better support edge workloads, including AI at the edge. The new devices and the new VeloRAIN architecture will be available in Broadcom’s first quarter, which began on November 4.
Broadcom adds generative AI to its security suite
Broadcom has added generative AI to its VMware vDefend product for threat analysis. VDefend Intelligent Assist can help with threat detection, analysis and remediation.
Finally, VMware Avi Load Balancer has been modified to “optimize load balancing for both VCF and Kubernetes environments to improve automation, resiliency and security for the future,” according to a Broadcom press release. Both will be generally available on November 5th.