VMware introduced several cloud products and services at its Barcelona conference this year, including the latest version of the Tanzu DevSecOps platform, data engine integrations and new edge appliances.

Broadcom’s announcement that 50 VMware Cloud service providers now offer data sovereignty services may be of particular interest to European technology service buyers.

Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023.

“As we approach the one-year anniversary of VMware joining Broadcom, some of the biggest changes appear to be paying off,” wrote Prashanth Shenoy, Broadcom CMO and VP of Marketing, Cloud Platform, infrastructure and solutions, in a press release. press release on October 31. “We are leaner, more focused, have strong execution and deliver on our innovation roadmap.”

VMware Tanzu Platform 10 available 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 self-managed and isolated environments. It supports 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 across different Cloud Foundry infrastructure foundations. Therefore, VMware has added a new abstraction layer to Tanzu Platform 10 to “simplify management, improve security, and enable governance” for these customers in particular.

SEE: Generative AI can amplify cloud security risks in enterprise data farms and cloud environments. (TechRepublic)

In the new version, generative AI applications will appear on a tile in Tanzu like other Cloud Foundry applications. These applications can connect to 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.
• Configurations for native data services.
• Support for Helm-based COTS applications with advanced cluster management for containers on VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated.
• A Cloud Foundry-style development experience on Kubernetes for custom applications.

VMware Cloud Foundation benefits from new Tanzu Data Services

A new service, VMware Tanzu Data Services, will provide VMware Cloud Foundation customers with self-service access to data engines such as Postgres. VMware’s goal is to reduce latency and workloads for private cloud managers in various aspects of data services by managing data consumption, management and support within VMware environments Cloud Foundation.

Supported data engines are Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ and Valkey.

Tanzu Data Services will be available in Broadcom’s first quarter of 2025, which begins in November of the same year.

VeloCloud Edge 4100 and 5100 appliances support cutting-edge AI

As AI makes its way into enterprise software, VMware has rolled out new tools for AI networking through VeloCloud.

“For most of this decade, most businesses have focused on the edge. However, recently the adoption of AI and AI workloads has acted as an accelerator, shifting interest towards proof of concept and more deployments at the edge,” said Zeus Kerravala, founder and senior analyst at ZK Research, in a Broadcom press release. “One of the challenges of increased adoption of AI workloads is complexity and performance, as businesses need to ensure the right technology is deployed in the right places. »

New offerings from Broadcom intended to make this complexity easier to navigate include:

• Faster identification and prioritization of new cutting-edge AI applications using the new VeloRAIN architecture. Broadcom claims it will be able to identify encrypted application traffic that was previously impossible to analyze by network optimization solutions.
• The prioritization aspect comes from Dynamic Application-Based Slicing, which sorts users by identity and attributes.
• Improved quality of service when networking over 5G or satellite with VeloRAIN.

The VeloCloud Edge 4100 and 5100 appliances are designed to scale networking and security services while requiring fewer devices to better support edge workloads, including edge AI. The new devices and 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 added Generative AI to its VMware vDefend threat intelligence product. vDefend Intelligent Assist can help you detect, analyze and remediate threats.

Finally, VMware Avi Load Balancer has been refined to “optimize load balancing for VCF and Kubernetes environments to improve automation, resiliency and future-proofing of operations,” according to Broadcom’s press release. Both will be in general availability on November 5.