GigaOm has once again placed VMware Tanzu Service Mesh within the leader ring of its Radar Report on Service Mesh. This year Tanzu Service Mesh has been upgraded to the Outperformer label, moving closer to the center and marking its heightened recognition as an industry leader. This is not only a testament to our robust enterprise capabilities and broad support for various application platforms, public clouds, and runtime environments, but also a validation of our strategic approach.

Kubernetes offers undeniable benefits—scalability, portability, reliability—and enterprises everywhere are jumping on the bandwagon to adopt it. However, as incredible as Kubernetes is, its adopters are learning a difficult lesson: Without taking the steps to standardize Kubernetes adoption across the organization, costs and risk can skyrocket.

Applications are the center of your organization’s business. Success (or failure) depends on how quickly you can respond to dynamic market demands driven by cultural shifts, technical innovation, and global events. This business agility is driven by fast, predictable application delivery. The past few years have seen IT leaders in the public sector and private industry alike rushing to get better and faster at delivering applications and services to their customers, employees, and constituents.

VMware SQL with MySQL for Tanzu Application Service is a top choice for customers seeking a multi-cloud, easy-to-use, on demand MySQL service for enterprise applications. Customers who have adopted our solution affectionately refer to it as MySQL tile. Our solution provides tangible benefits over open source and third-party offerings for the VMware Tanzu Application Service platform. To call out a few.

Since 2018, our annual State of Kubernetes survey has consistently found that organizations achieve significant operational benefits from using Kubernetes, especially “improved resource utilization.” This year, we wanted to understand how Kubernetes impacts the business as a whole. The results are unequivocal.

Corey Dinkens and Carol Pereira contributed to this blog post. As enterprises deploy modern containerized applications to their Kubernetes clusters, managing data protection centrally is necessary to run critical business applications, especially in multi-cloud distributed environments.

One month after the MOVEit vulnerability was first reported, it continues to wreak havoc on U.S. agencies and commercial enterprises. Unfortunately, the victim list keeps growing and includes organizations such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Energy, Merchant Bank, Shell, and others.

This post was co-written by Nazhin Beiramee, Jazmin Childress, Kevin Clark, and Nick Weiss. Advancement in technology, along with the ever changing political landscape (e.g., the Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government, as well as billions in funding to support this mandate, and a potential administration change after the 2024 election) uncover new needs, opportunities, and demands for government organizations.

Last month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) organized a one-day software bill of materials (SBoM)-centric conference, both amusingly and aptly entitled SBoM-a-Rama. It was a hybrid event allowing for both in-person and remote participation; I chose the latter. As a long-term security practitioner, I’ve been observing the development of this field with great enthusiasm, but always from the periphery.

One day a few years ago, Sushil Kumar, our head of DevOps, was worried. A key admin on his team in charge of private and public cloud infrastructure had just given notice that he was leaving in two weeks. Even after scheduling a knowledge transfer session to other team admins, Kumar saw that their operations would be at risk. And he was right. Kumar and his team spent the next 18 months dealing with the fallout.