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Vmware propels app modernisation

on any cloud

s organisations come to grips with journey,” said Ajay Patel, senior vice president and general manager, Modern Apps
the reality of a permanent digital- & Management Business Group, VMware. “With the breadth and depth of the Tanzu
Afirst world, the pressure to digitise portfolio, VMware is uniquely positioned to meet customers where they are now, providing
and modernise operations remains high. the tools, training, enablement and services that will help them progress along their entire
While this modernisation is imperative, app modernisation journey, across infrastructure, applications, and any cloud.”
it’s equally difficult; true digitisation and
transformation efforts are complex, VMware Tanzu application platform adds capabilities to beta release
extensive and must happen without Introduced in its first beta at VMware SpringOne 2021, Tanzu® Application Platform
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compromising a company’s ability to delivers a superior developer experience for enterprises building and deploying apps and
support ongoing business needs. Teams APIs on any Kubernetes. It gets software teams to production faster and sustains them
are challenged to build applications that over time by automating source-to-production-pipelines and coordinating the efforts of
are more reliable, secure, intelligent and development and operations teams.
adaptive and must deliver them faster, at
scale and across any cloud. At VMworld, VMware announced new capabilities to the Tanzu Application Platform Beta
At VMworld 2021, advances to that will deliver the full end-to-end developer and operator experience including:
its VMware Tanzu portfolio enable • Supply chain choreography: based on the open-source cartographer project, allowing
management and operation of app operators to create pre-approved paths to production for developers that integrate
applications at scale, and provide Kubernetes resources and existing tool chains.
developers with the autonomy to build • Developer tooling including IDE plug-ins: giving developers the opportunity to interact
and deploy apps on any cloud. with the platform or its open-source components easily and efficiently to execute
“The changes brought on by important and frequent pre-commit development tasks.
accelerated digital transformation • Intrinsic security: adding features for signing, scanning and storing images along the
initiatives mean software development path to production.
teams are challenged to build apps that • Service bindings: Operators can specify how end points and credentials from data
are more reliable, secure, intelligent and services are exposed to workloads in a portable and Kubernetes-native way.
adaptive. They must deliver them faster, • Source controller: Enables app developers to create or update workloads from local
at scale, and across any cloud. That’s source code.
a daunting prospect no matter where • Convention service: a framework for platform operators to configure policies of
an organisation is in its modernisation deployed workloads to enable all workloads to follow the best practices.

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