Cloud computing has changed the enterprise-level IT infrastructure, and container technology has changed the mode of enterprise users developing and operating various applications (Apps). This of course will bring more and more convenience to enterprise users, but it also hides some problems that have to be solved: for example, in a multi-cloud environment, how should enterprise users establish a relationship between infrastructure and applications? A unified management mechanism and business operation model, so that all emerging technologies can truly play their respective capabilities, but also can be coordinated to ensure speed and stability?
VMware has a basic philosophy that the digital transformation of enterprises is a trend. But at the same time, companies have to solve two very important challenges in the process of this transformation. The problem of coordinated development between the infrastructure and application models faced by enterprise-level users can actually be considered from the perspective of enterprises upgrading their own application (Apps) models and put them in a continuous evolutionary process.
The issues that companies need to consider can be summarized into two points: First, how to create new applications in the future while ensuring that the current applications can continue to support the company's existing business, so as to help the company obtain a continuous and healthy capability development curve; Second, how to use the platform capabilities of the infrastructure to provide enterprises with the ability to continuously optimize overall efficiency in a multi-cloud environment.
For enterprise-level users, the transmission of IT capabilities from infrastructure to applications is not just a single point of capability iteration and improvement, but a problem of mutual restraint and overall coordinated development from the two dimensions of IT and business. Therefore, for companies, "it is like replacing the engine during the flight of an airplane."
This actually simplifies the idea of solving the problem, but it increases the technical difficulty of solving the problem: There are many products in the industry that can provide enterprise-level users with infrastructure and modern application (Apps) tools, but they can really help as a whole. There are not many companies that provide a unified solution platform from IT infrastructure to business modern applications-VMwareTanzu. The product portfolio announced by VMware in August 2019 seems to provide VMware with a comprehensive ability to solve this problem. .
Anyone who knows VMware knows that "connecting any application through any cloud and any device, and finally completing the digital transformation of the business" is VMware's overall technical strategy and product path. In the past ten years or so, VMware has built vSphere (computing capabilities), vSAN (storage capabilities) and NSX (network capabilities), plus SDDCManager, VMwareCloudFoundation, etc., including those with AWS, Alibaba Cloud, IBM, and Microsoft Azure. Cooperation, in fact, VMware technically guarantees that it can provide enterprise users with "any cloud" cross-cloud capabilities; while VMware WorkspaceONE based on the cloud/network platform solves the terminal side application problem of "any device".
With the acquisition of Seattle startup Heptio at the end of 2018, the announcement of the acquisition of Pivotal for US$2.7 billion on August 23, 2019, the announcement of the acquisition of Bitnami in May 2019, and the announcement of the launch of VMwareTanzu in August 2019, VMware has actually been widely recognized by the industry. , Has acquired more core technologies and talents about Kubernetes-Heptio was co-founded by Kubernetes co-founders JoeBeda and CraigMcLuckie. Its business is dedicated to helping companies build and run a Kubernetes-based container architecture; Pivotal is a cloud The creator of the original concept was once a technical department within VMware. Its core capability is to deploy and run IT applications derived from real business needs in the cloud; Bitnami is an application packaging solution provider that aims to pass Automatic update, packaging and deployment tools to deliver "proven solutions" to customers in the form of multiple clouds, formats and markets.
From this perspective, the launch of Tanzu, on the one hand, is to solve the problem of "arbitrary applications" in the VMware strategy, trying to help enterprise users change the model of building, running and managing applications (Apps) on Kubernetes, thus providing enterprises with a solution The overall solution from infrastructure to applications (Apps); more importantly, VMware is continuing to expand its technical advantages in the cloud computing field to the cloud native field by establishing a way to penetrate IT technology into real enterprise applications , Stepping into the cloud native, so as to closely associate IT capabilities with modern applications (Apps) of the enterprise, and finally realize that IT technology truly affects the real business of the enterprise, from completing digital transformation to completing business model transformation.
On March 11, 2020, VMware announced the launch of the first products in the VMwareTanzu product portfolio, including VMwareTanzuKubernetesGrid, VMwareTanzuMissionControl and VMwareTanzuApplicationCatalog. 
The development of modern applications may be in a private cloud, and its deployment may be in a public cloud, and the public cloud is not only a public cloud, it can be deployed in Azure, AWS, or other public clouds... So customers Faced with multiple Kubernetes environments, in the past, customers needed to manage multiple Kubernetes environments manually. Now you can use the Tanzu Mission Control provided by VMware to help customers manage various similar environments on multiple clouds through a single management console, so we can manage these multiple similar environments as a whole to unify the above. Security and configuration.
There are three main products in the Tanzu product family. TanzuApplicationCatalog uses Bitnami's technology and specializes in application releases, while TanzuKubernetesGrid is derived from Heptio and is the release version of VMware's Kubernetes. It includes standard open source Kubernetes components and also contains some Commonly used tools for Kubernetes.
With the launch of the Tanzu product portfolio, VMware has also upgraded the original products, including VMwareCloudFoundation4 and the new VMwarevSphere7. "In August 2019, VMworld released the ProjectPacific technology preview. Now, ProjectPacific has become a real product and solution. The foundation of this solution is called VMwarevSpherewithKubernetes, and its purpose is to refactor vSphere into an open platform using Kubernetes API. , Provide a cloud-like experience for developers and operation and maintenance personnel. Kubernetes is built into the vSphere7 platform. It can be said that this is the largest evolution of vSphere in ten years. Now on vSphere7, it can also support the operation of native applications and support modern The application.
The infrastructure is upgraded to be able to perceive the application, and at the same time, the application declines, so that the infrastructure can provide the high efficiency and security required by the application while ensuring that the application push, management, and operation and maintenance A complete system of modern and traditional applications.
VMware's VMwareTanzu product portfolio, as well as Tanzu's automated turnkey hybrid cloud platform VMwareCloudFoundation4 and the new VMwarevSphere7, can in fact provide enterprise-level users with platform capabilities covering everything from infrastructure to modern applications, thus breaking the gap between traditional developers and operation and maintenance personnel. Traditional barriers have brought applications down.