VMware Presents at Cloud Field Day 18

Optimize Modern Applications with VMware Tanzu Intelligence Services

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Rachna Srivastava, Director of Product Marketing, emphasizes how Tanzu Intelligence Services proactively optimize cost, performance, and security of applications across clouds with integrated ML/AI capabilities. In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, where software agility and the swift deployment of applications are paramount, the focus is on app modernization and migration strategies, a priority for CIOs seeking to remain competitive and achieve significant outcomes. Technologies like Kubernetes, open source, and multi-cloud are pivotal in this transformation, but they present unique challenges, including reducing developer cognitive load, ensuring security and compliance, and minimizing downtime during scaling. To address these issues, VMware advocates a closed-loop optimization approach, which VMware’s Tanzu platform supports by offering a comprehensive solution that enhances the developer experience, security, and infrastructure. Tanzu Intelligence Services supplements this by providing tools for cloud migration, security and policy enforcement, application observability, and cost management, all aimed at supporting customers in their application modernization journey, promoting continuous governance and improvement, and accelerating application delivery across various cloud environments.

Personnel: Rachna Srivastava

Accelerate Multi-Cloud Migration with VMware Tanzu Transformer

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VMware Tanzu Transformer, presented by Dattathreya Sathyamurthy Hassan, is a powerful solution designed to streamline and optimize multi-cloud migrations and transformations. It provides organizations with a structured and systematic approach to managing application migrations across different cloud environments. This tool plays a pivotal role in addressing the challenges that arise when dealing with migration to multiple cloud platforms, offering expert guidance and solutions at every step of the multi-cloud journey. Tanzu Transformer emphasizes a measured and reliable approach to avoid the potential chaos associated with managing migrations to complex multi-cloud ecosystems. With its capabilities in discovery, assessment, planning, application grouping, traffic analysis, and cost analysis, Tanzu Transformer equips organizations to make informed decisions and navigate the multi-cloud migration landscape effectively. Its commitment to ongoing enhancements, such as user-friendly file-based discovery, makes it a valuable asset for organizations embarking on multi-cloud migration journeys.

Personnel: Dattathreya Sathyamurthy Hassan

Cloud Migrations with VMware Tanzu Transformer

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Matt Just, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, presents a comprehensive demonstration of VMware Tanzu Transformer. This powerful tool is designed to facilitate the assessment and planning of cloud migrations while optimizing application workloads. The demonstration emphasized its user-friendly nature and highlighted its diverse data collection methods, including live inventory acquisition from vCenter and secure connections establishment through virtual appliances. Importantly, it detailed the flexibility of VMware Tanzu Transformer, allowing for tailored assessment criteria based on specific business needs and providing in-depth views of applications and their dependencies. Moreover, the presentation included an illustrative Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculation, shedding light on the financial implications of migrating to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, making VMware Tanzu Transformer an indispensable resource for organizations embarking on cloud migration journeys.

Personnel: Matt Just

Accelerate Multi-Cloud Management with VMware Tanzu Hub

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Senior Technical Marketing Architect Justin Stanton, showcases VMware Tanzu Hub, a robust platform that redefines multi-cloud management and application delivery. Serving as the foundational framework for all Tanzu Intelligent Services, Tanzu Hub leverages a backend graph data store to provide comprehensive visibility across diverse environments while consolidating data from various Intelligent Services. The platform offers a homepage summary dashboard, expediting resource discovery and enabling cloud account integration. Its versatility is evident in its free tier version and feature-rich entitlements, including the Active Insights tile, governance summary tile, and cost breakdown tile, making it an invaluable resource for optimizing cloud operations. Tanzu Hub’s multi-cloud visibility, resource navigation, and deep search capabilities empower users to efficiently manage applications, explore new resources, and gain a profound understanding of resource interconnections.

Personnel: Justin Stanton

Govern Your Clouds at Scale with VMware Tanzu Guardrails

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Tai Tran, Senior Director of Product Management, introduces Tanzu Guardrails as a groundbreaking tool for unified multi-cloud governance and policy management. As cloud adoption continues to expand, the need for effective governance and policy implementation becomes paramount. Tran shed light on the challenges faced in governing dynamic cloud environments, such as misconfigurations and the complexity of managing multiple cloud environments. Tanzu Guardrails serves as an innovative solution that addresses these challenges, operating on top of Tanzu Hub and leveraging a multi-cloud event-driven graph-based inventory. It offers a compliance approach to posture management, ensuring standards are enforced and drift is prevented over time. Additionally, Tanzu Guardrails handles cloud entitlement management and host configuration, facilitating consistent VM and OS configurations across various cloud environments. It provides a unified view of the cloud environment, making it an essential tool for organizations managing complex and dynamic cloud ecosystems.

Personnel: Tai Tran

Demo: Govern Your Clouds at Scale with VMware Tanzu Guardrails

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Michael Poore, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VMware showcased groundbreaking advancements in unified multi-cloud governance and policy management. Tanzu Guardrails is a transformative product that streamlines compliance and configuration management. The process begins with onboarding accounts for inventory analysis and relationship mapping, enabling automated monitoring of changes and immediate reactions to configuration updates. This dynamic system pairs accounts with compliance benchmarks, auto-applies policy settings, and flags violations or configuration drifts, aggregating them on a single platform marked by an attention score. Guardrails’ flexibility allows for custom policy sets, and it offers notifications to various platforms for quick alerting and remediation.

Personnel: Michael Poore

Achieve Actionable Intelligence with VMware Tanzu Insights

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Yogita Patil, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware, demonstrates Tanzu Insights, a tool for providing actionable intelligence and holistic visibility for contextual troubleshooting across Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure environments. Unlike traditional tools, Tanzu Insights sources data from a variety of platforms, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of issues. The tool’s unique approach involves de-duplicating, correlating, and summarizing events and alerts from these sources, simplifying insight generation and expediting root cause analysis. Tanzu Insights focuses on making IT operations more efficient by reducing alert noise, offering insights in an easy-to-understand format, and visualizing applications’ impacts on the infrastructure. It excels as a diagnostic tool, providing quick views of issues, their causes, and affected areas, ultimately saving valuable time and resources. With its ability to offer visibility into workloads, performance metrics, and service quality in diverse cloud sources and Kubernetes clusters, Tanzu Insights is a valuable asset for modern IT operations, showcasing the practical application of AI in real-world scenarios.

Personnel: Yogita Patil

Optimize Costs with VMware Tanzu CloudHealth

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Mike Mouchantat, Lead Solution Engineer, and TJ March, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, demonstrate VMware Tanzu CloudHealth. VMware Tanzu CloudHealth is a multi-cloud financial management (or FinOps) platform that helps organizations make sense of their cloud data, optimize and control cloud spend, and enhance their cloud management practice. The presentation and demonstration discussed how Tanzu CloudHealth enables enterprises and managed service providers to deliver quality products and solutions faster, while keeping costs under control.

Personnel: Mike Mouchantat, TJ March