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VMware Enhances VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria Platforms to Help Accelerate Modern App Development and Delivery in Response to Customers’ Most Urgent Needs

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VMware has unveiled new capabilities across its Tanzu and Aria platforms, enhancing software agility for businesses in a challenging economic climate. The updates include Tanzu Application Platform 1.5, which supports secure software deployment and developer productivity, and significant improvements in Kubernetes operations management. Additionally, the Aria portfolio offers intelligent insights for multi-cloud governance, cost management, and performance optimization, now including support for Alibaba Cloud. The integration with Aria Observability aims to streamline cloud infrastructure management and enhance operational efficiency across various environments.

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  • Launch of Tanzu Application Platform 1.5 enhances software development speed and security.
  • Improvements in Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations increase security and operational efficiency.
  • VMware Aria solutions provide valuable cost and performance insights for multi-cloud environments.
  • Integration of Alibaba Cloud in Aria Cost improves cost visibility and management.
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New VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria platform capabilities help businesses drive both innovation and cost management in today’s volatile financial environment

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today’s businesses must prioritize software agility to enable resilience amidst turbulent macroeconomic times. But adoption at scale is challenging given the different clouds, tools, methodologies, and skills needed to successfully accelerate and mature application delivery. As cloud native concepts and adoption grows, it’s essential to invest in capabilities that accelerate developer productivity, drive revenue, and stay competitive. VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced new capabilities across the VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria platforms to empower customers with the capabilities to take a cloud-smart approach to modern application delivery across any cloud.

“Our customers across the enterprise are engaged in a cumbersome balancing act -- juggling multiple tools, teams, clouds, and operating models while at the same time keeping developers productive and the operations team equipped to keep pace. This scenario demands a new approach around a common cloud native app platform and a multi-disciplinary platform engineering team,” said Purnima Padmanabhan, General Manager and SVP, Modern Applications and Management Business Group, VMware. “Customers tell us they need to rapidly innovate while at the same time manage cost, security, and performance. In response, we expedited the launch of new capabilities across VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria. We are committed to helping customers drive innovation and optimization every step of the app development and cloud management journey.”

Tanzu Application Platform 1.5, with new capabilities will enable companies to build and deploy more software, more quickly and securely, through a rich set of developer tooling. It offers pre-paved, more secure golden paths to production customized to their business. The Tanzu Application Platform 1.5 release enhances end-to-end app security, streamlines developer and platform engineering experiences, and expands support for leading third-party integrations, including improved developer and platform engineering experiences, more streamlined deployments at scale on EKS with AWS QuickStart, expanded Azure support, out of-the-box and expanded customer choice of security tools like auto-configuration of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and support for external security tools for secrets management.

As part of its commitment to supporting customers at every stage of Kubernetes platform maturity, VMware also announced several updates to Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations that aim to increase security, choice and operational efficiency of multi-cluster and multi-Kubernetes platform operations across any cloud. Tanzu Mission Control now supports full lifecycle management of new and existing AWS EKS clusters, the ability to mutate the security context for containers and pods and allows the modification of OPA Gatekeeper policy settings at all levels such as organization, cluster group, and cluster. These capabilities enable platform teams to adopt a ‘shift-left’ approach to security and greater flexibility to navigate the ever-changing world of Kubernetes security policy management.

Additionally, the company is introducing innovations across the VMware Aria platform including Aria Hub powered by Aria Graph, Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, and Aria Guardrails. VMware Aria solutions help cloud operations teams to harness multi-cloud capabilities with intelligent insights into distributed environments, and provide the capabilities that enable optimized cost, performance, and security of applications and infrastructure aligned to business priorities. In times of increased budget scrutiny, the increased governance, security, and cost management that the VMware Aria portfolio provides is vital for business leaders focused on efficiency and scale.

VMware improves multi-cloud visibility with the addition of Google Cloud support in VMware Aria Hub Free Tier alongside AWS and Azure, adds support for Kubernetes environments with a new infrastructure dashboard with service-to-service topology view, and adds VMware Aria Guardrails capabilities, including landing zones policies templates and config drift management, to the Free Tier.

For expanded multi-cloud cost management, VMware Aria Cost now includes support for Alibaba Cloud, enabling customers and partners to gain visibility into all Alibaba Cloud costs and usage in a single platform and streamline decision-making. The addition of Alibaba Cloud expands existing VMware Aria Cost support for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, VMware Cloud on AWS (beta), data center, and containerized environments. VMware Aria Cost is also expanding its Kubernetes reporting capabilities by introducing the ability to right-size Kubernetes environments to optimize cloud-native application environments in addition to the cloud.

Lastly, VMware continues to automate and streamline cloud infrastructure management with full-stack visibility across private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. VMware Aria Operations introduces a new integration with Aria Observability (a multi-cloud observability solution) to enable IT teams to gain contextualized visibility across their infrastructure, Kubernetes environments and applications with the aim to eliminate the need for disparate tools to effectively manage multi-clouds and provides a holistic platform view enabling faster troubleshooting and reducing mean-time-to-resolution to improve application performance.

For more information on VMware’s Tanzu and VMware Aria solutions, access these blogs and webpages:

VMware Tanzu Application Platform 1.5 Offers Faster, More Secure Paths to Production
Tanzu Application Service 4.0 improves DevX with Dev Portal and enhances Platform Engineering
VMware Aria Continues Momentum with Additional Innovations
Business agility depends on fast and predictable app delivery

About VMware

VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. As a trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, VMware software gives businesses the flexibility and choice they need to build the future. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to building a better future through the company’s 2030 Agenda. For more information, please visit www.vmware.com/company.

VMware, Tanzu, Aria, and CloudHealth are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other jurisdictions.

Emily Mullen

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Claire Hultin

VMware

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chultin@VMware.com

Source: VMware, Inc.

FAQ

What are the new features of VMware Tanzu Application Platform 1.5?

VMware Tanzu Application Platform 1.5 includes enhanced security, streamlined developer experiences, and support for various third-party integrations.

How does VMware Aria improve multi-cloud cost management?

VMware Aria Cost now supports Alibaba Cloud, enabling consolidated cost visibility and optimized decision-making across multiple cloud platforms.

What is the significance of the updates in Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations?

The updates in Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations enhance security and flexibility in managing multi-cluster operations across cloud environments.

How does VMware's new platform help businesses amid economic challenges?

The new capabilities in VMware Tanzu and Aria platforms facilitate innovation and cost management, crucial for maintaining competitiveness in volatile markets.

What is the role of Aria Observability in cloud management?

Aria Observability provides full-stack visibility across multi-cloud environments, aiding IT teams in managing infrastructure effectively and improving application performance.

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