SOLUTION BRIEF

VMware’s Solutions for

Modern Apps
Innovate and grow your business on any and many clouds—fast

CHALLENGES FOR CLOUD NATIVE Drive Business Growth with Cloud Native Apps
ADOPTION AT SCALE
Software is a strategic corporate asset. Your ability to innovate and deliver new
software-based products and services, quickly and continuously, is your strategic
Recent surveys found that there are still advantage. Meanwhile, a security breach or data leak can cost millions in lost revenue
significant obstacles to modern apps. and fines, not to mention that it can decimate your brand. Keeping up in today's dynamic
Developer productivity challenges include: business environment means navigating today's equally complex IT landscape.

• 37% struggle with legacy

platforms/developer tools*
Whether you are all-in on public cloud, or are managing a hybrid application
• 36% have difficulty integrating new
infrastructure, your software estate is likely a combination of new cloud native apps and
tools*
microservices, and long-standing, monolithic apps, all of which require constant care and
• 34% have too many manual and/or iteration. In all these cases, you must be great at software. Being great at software
ticket-based processes* means focusing on the full lifecycle of building, delivering, and managing the apps, as well
• 30% have application portability as the platforms and infrastructure on which they run, including public cloud, containers
challenges/complexity (e.g., between and VMs. And you must attain this culture of innovation while controlling costs and
clouds, Kubernetes) * enforcing governance.
• 29% say security is not well integrated
into development process*
The combined offerings from VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria include a range of
Kubernetes management challenges solutions, managed services, platforms, and practical consulting that can help you build
include:
the internal practices needed to foster innovation, modernize your operating models, and
support technology initiatives that control the bottom line. Take advantage of open
• 40% struggle with providing secure
source innovation, securely, while optimizing the investments you have made in
configurations**
infrastructure, and employee upskilling.
• 36% need to apply security policy
more consistently** Enable better collaboration across development, security, platform/cloud engineering
and cloud operations teams with a clear separation of concerns and automation so:
• 33% have challenges with application
performance monitoring Ø Developers can focus on delivering innovative business logic.
• 31% indicate they lack Kubernetes Ø Security teams can reduce risk and ensure compliance guardrails are
skillsets continuously integrated, and automated.
Ø Platform Engineering and Operations teams can focus on building and running
*Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting secure, scalable, and useful platforms on any cloud or Kubernetes distribution.
on behalf of VMware, March 2022
**Source: ESG: VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations Delivers
Ø Cloud Engineering and Management teams can unify operating models across
for Application Modernization, 2022 cloud and hybrid environments and optimize cloud spend.

With VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria, you can harness the power of cloud native
technologies and practices to empower collaboration and drive your business forward.

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BENEFITS OF VMWARE TANZU AND

VMWARE ARIA

Build and deploy more software - more

quickly and more securely with VMware
Tanzu.
• A single solution: End-to-end,
integrated platform that provides a rich
set of developer tooling and prepaved
paths to production.
FIGURE 1: Modern software workflow from supporting developer velocity to operating
• A consistent developer experience:
apps in production at scale.
For use across multi-cloud and multi-
Kubernetes services and offerings.

• Easy and automated paths: Out-of- VMware Tanzu Use Cases

the-box, centralized secure supply VMware Tanzu is a modular, cloud native application platform that enables development
chain management for faster
and operations teams to deliver business value faster and more securely to any cloud—
app building and deployment, plus
and manage apps at scale across clouds. Using VMware Tanzu, you can reduce the
repeatable processes for onboarding
complexity of building, delivering, and operating cloud native apps in a multi-cloud
teammates.
world—enabling innovation to happen on your terms. VMware delivers streamlined
• Freedom in flexibility: Modular paths to production with automated platform operations at scale for optimal cost,
capabilities allow teams to swap in their performance, security, and governance at every step of the cloud native journey.
preferred third-party tools.

• Enterprise security: Intrinsic

compliance, controls, vulnerability The following use cases provide more details of how VMware Tanzu can help your
dashboards, and more. organization.
• Reduce administration by 70-80%
with robust multi-cluster, multi-cloud
Kubernetes management so you can Faster, More Secure Paths to Production
offer developers self-service access to
preferred Kubernetes with guardrails. Your business is at its best when you have happy developers creating value for your
customers. Developers should be able to focus on getting their code working in
• Reduce risk by intelligently
production, and not spending time on packaging, security, or infrastructure—or trying to
detecting and securing service-to-
figure out Kubernetes.
service connectivity across distributed
Kubernetes with hardened runtime
environment, patching, logging, and VMware Tanzu offers a superior developer experience for building and deploying
authentication. software quickly and securely on any compliant public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes
• Decrease time-to-value by 3-5x cluster. Developers can access preconfigured cloud native app templates to jumpstart
through automating platform lifecycle development along with a rich set of developer tooling for rapid iteration, able to debug
and improving consistency of package code straight from their IDE. Developers can also maintain visibility of applications at
management for greater operational runtime to troubleshoot and improve their apps. Your teams can experience…
efficiency.
• Improve scalability & resiliency of
• Consistent Delivery & Deployment of Apps – Reduce friction and streamline
your apps. Unprecedented enterprise path to production with out-of-the-box Golden Paths, repeatable best practices
scalability enables app operators to supported by I/O, security, and platform teams.
increase reliability and portability.
• Improved Developer Experience – through masking complexity and issuing
preconfigured templates for cloud native patterns.
Add to this VMware Aria’s centralized
governance and automated cloud • Continuous Security of Apps – with secure software supply chains with
management at multi-cloud scale for a continuous vulnerability scanning, container image verification at time of build,
complete, cloud native solution for modern and pre-set policy enforcement.
apps.

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VMWARE TANZU LABS Automate Kubernetes Platform Operations

Technology is only part of any
Chances are your enterprise is living in today’s multi-cloud reality and so is your
modernization initiative. You may need
support and expertise on your journey to
Kubernetes infrastructure. Managing these separate environments can be a heavy lift and
deliver the outcomes you want in the unscalable, especially as more development teams start to use Kubernetes platforms.
timeframe you need. VMware Tanzu provides a set of capabilities that empower your platform operations
teams to provision, manage, connect, secure, and observe a multi-cloud Kubernetes
VMware Tanzu LabsTM can empower your platform. From a centralized SaaS management hub, you can manage security and
teams to respond faster to your customers’ access policies for all compliant Kubernetes distributions. You can impose networking
needs and deliver the results that drive your and security measures at multiple layers to meet the strictest security and compliance
business. With Tanzu Labs, you can:
requirements. You can also gather and analyze platform and application metrics to
• Build and modernize applications. proactively detect and fix anomalies, as well as fine tune your infrastructure and
Quickly assess business-critical applications for best performance. You can simplify, secure, and optimize your multi-
applications so you can start
cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes estate as follows:
migrating existing software
immediately. • Consistent Cluster Lifecycle Management - Simplify container provisioning,
• Develop a Kubernetes-based app management, monitoring, and observability by providing consistent and scalable
platform and run it at scale, making management across clouds.
life better for developers along the
way. • Strengthen Security & Compliance - Deliver secure, end-to-end connectivity to
• Adopt modern practices and culture all your apps and platforms for improved compliance.
changes that are necessary for
meaningful transformation and • Optimize Kubernetes Operations - Centrally manage, automate, and monitor
sustained success. diverse Kubernetes distributions and operations across any cloud, for any
cluster type, by many teams for increased ROI.
Learn more about VMware Tanzu Labs.

Centralize Multi-cloud Governance & Policy

VMware Aria is a transformational, multi-cloud management solution that complements

VMware Tanzu’s solutions. VMware Aria provides a single platform unifying performance,
configuration, and delivery automation to optimize business outcomes for any cloud, any
platform, any tool, and every persona. Built to address the scale and speed that cloud
native applications need, with VMware Aria you can experience…

• Centralized Multi-cloud Policy Management – Define and deploy guardrail

templates for any cloud with consistent experience.

• Automatically Detect Drifts & Violations – Gain full visibility into cloud
environments, continuously monitor, and detect drifts and violations from
desired state.

• Continuous Compliance Enforcement – Enforce desired state to ensure

continuous compliance, automating drift and violation remediation.

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VMware’s ‘Cloud Smart’ Solutions for Modern Apps

Deliver a superior multi-cloud developer experience on Kubernetes with VMware

Tanzu Application Platform

Often, developers must build their software pipelines on Kubernetes by combining bags
of parts from infrastructure providers and public clouds, with technologies and tools they
must source from the fragmented cloud native ecosystem. VMware Tanzu Application
Platform is a modular, application-aware platform that provides a rich set of developer
tooling and pre-paved paths to production to build and deploy software quickly and
more securely on any compliant public cloud, or on-premises, Kubernetes cluster.

Implement a simplified, consistent approach to container deployment, scaling, and

management with VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations

VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations provides the foundation for building a modern
Kubernetes-based container infrastructure at scale across all clouds. It helps simplify
container management with tools, automation, and data-driven insights that boost
developer productivity, secure applications, and data, as well as optimize infrastructure
performance across all your clouds.

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Summary
Companies like yours are moving to the public cloud in some capacity. In fact, most
organizations are multi-cloud – either by happenstance or by design, or inclusive of one
or more public clouds, private clouds, and edge. With silos of cloud usage, you can have
inconsistent experiences for operations and development, which makes application
delivery, security, and management across clouds a significant challenge. And, even if
you are concentrated on a single public cloud, in many industries, this can still cause
business risk.

By abstracting applications from infrastructure, VMware Tanzu offers a consistent

developer and operation experience for any Kubernetes on any cloud, as well as the
ability to operate all Kubernetes as one for maximum efficiency and security. This model
enables you to provide more flexibility in public cloud adoption. It also lets your business
needs dictate cloud usage and helps you to avoid lock-in to any single cloud vendor or
set of tools.

To learn more visit VMware Tanzu Cloud Native Application Platform for Multi-cloud.

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