It’s inspiring to see all of the customers that are delivering great applications securely and at scale with VMware Tanzu Application Service on any cloud as well as on-premises. One great example is Albertsons, which has managed a tremendous increase in e-commerce and grocery delivery traffic with zero downtime during the COVID-19 crisis.

VMware Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes, the powerful distributed API gateway loved by application developers like you no matter what programming language you use, has been improved with some brand new capabilities. Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes now supports the loading of your own extensions so you can customize them to your own specific needs. Capturing metrics and trace data into your observability tools of choice is also easier than ever before.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out VMware Tanzu Mission Control, you’re missing out on one of the greatest tools available to manage Kubernetes. However, it’s not just for managing one cluster; rather, it delivers “fleet-wide” management with a focus on policy. Policy management is powerful because it enables us to, for example, limit access to certain users or prohibit pulls from specific container registries.

Companies today are adopting software as a service (SaaS) at a rapid pace. There are many factors contributing to this trend, including: Many large enterprises, particularly in banking and financial services, have been hesitant to adopt SaaS because it challenges existing risk management models already in place for software.

Today we’re announcing a new feature of VMware Tanzu SQL called Data Management for VMware Tanzu. It offers a convenient user interface that simplifies the operation, automation, and scalability of Tanzu SQL databases (Postgres and MySQL); this same convenience is also available from a comprehensive set of APIs.

Back in March, during our Cloud Transformation event, we released the public beta of Cloud Native Runtimes for VMware Tanzu, which is based on Knative serving and eventing technology. Today, we have a couple of new, exciting announcements to make about Cloud Native Runtimes.

One of the key metrics IT leaders care about is the total time it takes for a release to go from development to being live in production. The metric used to measure that duration is called the “release lead time.” It can range from days to months, depending on factors such as team agility, enterprise constraints, and interdependencies.

When the VMware Tanzu Community Engagement team assembled three years ago, we did so with the belief that strong, sustainable community engagement is a crucial component of successful open source projects. With a mission of helping to build up and improve communities, we set out to support several VMware-originated open source projects.

Enterprise applications rely on large amounts of data that needs to be distributed, processed, and stored. Data platforms offer data management services via a combination of open source and commercially supported software stacks. These services enable accelerated development and deployment of data-hungry business applications. Building a containerized data analytics platform comprising different software stacks comes with several deployment challenges.

In order to stay competitive, enterprise organizations are engaged in an ongoing drive to optimize and scale the delivery of their products and services. Data has become a critical solution component of achieving these goals.