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Kubernetes Costs Less, But Less Than What?

Sure, compared to traditional IT, Kubernetes is great, but not much will beat public cloud in the long run. Let’s start with some gospel: In IT, there is no gospel. No definite “thou shalts” that always apply, 100% of the time. Thus spake Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO: “Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.” This goes for all smart IT strategies. The right answer for a given team in a certain circumstance won’t necessarily apply to another team in a slightly different circumstance. “It depends” is the only…

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7 Ways To Turn Developer Experience Into A Competitive Edge

At a time when rapid innovation has become a strategic business imperative, application development and developer experience are more important than ever. Why has developer experience (DevX) become so essential to business success? First, in today’s dynamic business environment, meeting customers’ shifting demands and accelerating time to market is vital to growth. Organizations need developers to spend time delivering business value and shipping software quickly. Second, development is expensive. When developers have to stitch together services and components, they aren’t shipping software, which directly impacts (and increases) your business costs. In fact, a McKinsey study found that companies with a higher developer velocity…

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Multi-Cloud, Still An Actual Thing After All These Years

The 2023 edition of VMware’s annual State of Kubernetes report is now out, and it’s got a lot of great information about how organizations are using Kubernetes today, as well as the benefits and challenges that go along with that. In this blog post, I’m focusing on one area: multi-cloud. The concept of going multi-cloud is less contentious than it used to be, now that more and more non-tech enterprises are using lots of public clouds. Whether intentionally or through years of siloed departments and company acquisitions, large organizations tend to run their applications on many different types of infrastructure and clouds.…

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Announcing Our Anthos Hybrid Environment Reference Architecture

your environment, we’re excited to announce a new Anthos reference architecture. Written in collaboration across our product, engineering, support, and field teams, this new reference architecture helps you plan, deploy, and configure the required components for Anthos hybrid environments. Anthos hybrid environments give you the flexibility to deploy on-premises components that run container-based workloads and VMs using Anthos clusters on VMware and Anthos clusters on bare metal. You can continue to utilize existing investments in your on-premises infrastructure, and start to add components like Anthos Config Management. When you’re ready to bring everything together, you can add additional Google Cloud-based services like Artifact Registry, Cloud…

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Multi-Cloud

VMware Unveils New Security Capabilities To Help See And Stop More Threats

VMware, Inc., (NYSE:VMW) today announced new capabilities that deliver strong lateral security across multi-cloud environments so customers can better see and stop more threats. VMware Contexa, a threat intelligence cloud powering VMware’s suite of security solutions, finds that cybercriminals make only 2-3 lateral moves to reach their target. 1 Preventing lateral movement requires an end-to-end view across users, devices, networks, apps, and data. At RSA Conference 2023, VMware unveiled enhanced features for its suite of security solutions to address the increasing sophistication and scale of cyberattacks. These enhancements include: “As the cyber threat landscape evolves, our customers require their infrastructure to play a more active role…

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Google Workspace Extends Enterprise-Grade Security And Device Management For Hybrid Work With Okta And VMware

Google Cloud today announced a series of new security alliances to bring more choice, capability, and simplicity to enterprise and public sector IT teams tasked with managing hybrid work at scale. Google Workspace comes with industry-leading security built into its cloud-native, zero trust architecture. These capabilities combine threat defenses powered by Google AI, client-side encryption, data privacy controls, and simple access to Google Cloud cybersecurity products like BeyondCorp Enterprise and Chronicle Security Operations, to automatically stop the vast majority of online threats before they emerge—while also supporting customers’ regulatory and sovereignty needs. Through its ecosystem of cybersecurity partners, Google Workspace…

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New VMware Research Suggests Businesses And Employees At Odds Over Workplace Innovation

More companies with hybrid working policies use formal metrics to measure impact over their office-only counterparts Automation technology investments seen as key to making hybrid work a success PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Two thirds (66%) of all survey respondents believe their organization is more innovative if employees are in the office, according to research unveiled today by VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software. The study, “The Distributed Work Dilemma: When Innovation and Job Satisfaction Compete,” conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of VMware, highlights how survey respondent’s views on where they feel they are most innovative are at odds with where…

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Here’s How Anthos Helps You Do Cluster Lifecycle Operations In Your Hybrid And Multicloud Environment

Anthos is a cloud-centric container platform to run modern apps anywhere consistently at scale. Anthos manages your Kubernetes clusters not only on Google Cloud, but also in on-premises data centers and edges, as well as in other public clouds such as AWS and Azure. Anthos meets you where you are and helps you modernize applications in place.Last year, we introduced a cloud-hosted multicloud API for performing lifecycle management of Anthos clusters on AWS and Azure. This year, we’re focused on bringing a consistent experience across hybrid, multicloud and Google Cloud environments, and are pleased to announce that a similar cloud-backed…

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VMware Tanzu Operations Manager 3.0 Now Generally Available

VMware Tanzu Operations Manager is a software appliance designed for platform operators to use BOSH, the infrastructure-as-code automation powerhouse, a much more pleasant and straightforward experience. BOSH can provision and deploy software over hundreds of virtual machines, and it also performs monitoring, failure recovery, and software updates with zero-to-minimal downtime. Here are the flagship features that are now available within Tanzu Operations Manager 3.0. Updated NATS version for BOSH – The existing version of NATS running on Tanzu Operations Manager was going to end-of-life and needed upgrading. Tanzu Operations Manager 3.0 now ships with NATS version 2.7, ensuring the appliance runs a supported…

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DevOps

VMware Application Catalog Now Supports Red Hat Universal Base Images

VMware Application Catalog (formerly Tanzu Application Catalog) is a catalog of trusted, continuously updated, scanned, and verified open source images, custom-built to enterprise specifications, and privately delivered directly to a customer’s registry of choice. Its aim is to make the lives of developers and operators easier by enabling them to focus on innovation, while taking care of all tedious Day 0 tasks involved in working with open source software (OSS) applications. We have always remained committed to maintaining the VMware Application Catalog as a truly platform-agnostic offering by being a product that can augment developers’ capabilities, rather than trying to force-fit…

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