التكنولوجيا وأخبارها بوابة الإمارات لتكنولوجيا المعلومات والإتصالات
• VMware Tanzu Portfolio Enables Enterprises to Adopt Cloud Native Technologies and
Automate the Modern Application Lifecycle on Any Cloud
• VMware Cloud Foundation 4 DeliversHybrid Cloud Platform for Modern Apps including
Native Kubernetes Support
• New VMware vSphere 7 Powers VMware Cloud Foundation Services
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 12, 2020 –VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) has 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 coreto 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 deliverbetter 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.
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
applicationsfeaturing the new VMware Cloud Foundation Services usingTanzu Kubernetes
Gridand 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 ModernizationPortfolio
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 environmentincluding 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 Controlis a
centralized management platform for consistently operating and securing Kubernetes infrastructure and modern applications across multiple teams and clouds.Itprovides
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 Catalogdelivers 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 rebrandingPivotal 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 portfoliowill help enterprises to further increase developer velocity,holistically observe and monitorapps 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 platformhelps 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 cloudsincluding the hyperscalers, VMware Cloud Foundation 4 with
Tanzu will include the following components:
• New vSphere 7:Newly rearchitected using Kubernetes, vSphereis 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 virtualizationincluding 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 providefull Kubernetes API access as well asthe infrastructure-as-code automation APIs delivered by vRealize Automation to spanthe 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 containersand VM workloads across heterogenous cloudslike AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, Rackspace, and IBM as well asVMware 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 rearchitectingvSphere into anopen platformusing Kubernetes APIs toprovide 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 applicationsusing any combination of virtual machines, containersand
Kubernetes.
VMware vSphere 7will 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 4to 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 applicationswill benefit from the advancements into
vSphere 7 to accelerate innovation. Applications will be able to further leverageGPU
hardware to accelerate the performance of AI / ML applicationsusing elastic pools of GPU
resources.Additionally, customers will be able increase the performance of latency-
sensitive applicationsusing improved DRS, enhanced vMotion, and augmentedsupport 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
