VMware Upgrades Tanzu and Aria Platforms to Expedite Modern App

New VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria platform capabilities help businesses drive both innovation and cost management in today’s volatile financial environment

In today’s volatile macroeconomic climate, businesses must prioritize software agility to remain resilient. However, scaling adoption is challenging due to the varying clouds, tools, methodologies, and skills required to accelerate and mature application delivery successfully. As cloud-native concepts gain popularity, it is crucial to invest in capabilities that can enhance developer productivity, drive revenue, and ensure competitiveness. VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) has announced new capabilities across its VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria platforms to empower customers to adopt a cloud-smart approach to modern application delivery across any cloud.

According to Purnima Padmanabhan, General Manager, and SVP, Modern Applications and Management Business Group, VMware, customers across the enterprise are managing multiple tools, teams, clouds, and operating models, making it challenging to keep developers productive while keeping pace with operations. She stressed the need for a new approach around a common cloud-native app platform and a multi-disciplinary platform engineering team to rapidly innovate while managing cost, security, and performance. VMware is committed to helping customers drive innovation and optimization at every step of the app development and cloud management journey.

Tanzu Application Platform 1.5, with new capabilities, allows companies to build and deploy software more quickly and securely through a rich set of developer tooling. It offers pre-paved, more secure golden paths to production customized to their business. The release enhances end-to-end app security, streamlines developer and platform engineering experiences, and expands support for leading third-party integrations, including improved deployments at scale on EKS with AWS QuickStart, expanded Azure support, and out-of-the-box and expanded customer choice of security tools like auto-configuration of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and support for external security tools for secrets management.

To support customers at every stage of Kubernetes platform maturity, VMware announced several updates to Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations that aim to increase security, choice, and operational efficiency of multi-cluster and multi-Kubernetes platform operations across any cloud. Tanzu Mission Control now supports full lifecycle management of new and existing AWS EKS clusters and allows the modification of OPA Gatekeeper policy settings at all levels. These capabilities enable platform teams to adopt a “shift-left” approach to security and greater flexibility to navigate the ever-changing world of Kubernetes security policy management.

Furthermore, VMware is introducing innovations across the VMware Aria platform, including Aria Hub powered by Aria Graph, Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, and Aria Guardrails. VMware Aria solutions help cloud operations teams harness multi-cloud capabilities with intelligent insights into distributed environments, enabling optimized cost, performance, and security of applications and infrastructure aligned with business priorities. The increased governance, security, and cost management that the VMware Aria portfolio provides are vital for business leaders focused on efficiency and scale in times of increased budget scrutiny.

VMware is also improving multi-cloud visibility with the addition of Google Cloud support in VMware Aria Hub Free Tier alongside AWS and Azure, adding support for Kubernetes environments with a new infrastructure dashboard with service-to-service topology view, and adding VMware Aria Guardrails capabilities, including landing zone policies templates and config drift management, to the Free Tier.

For expanded multi-cloud cost management, VMware Aria Cost now includes support for Alibaba Cloud, enabling customers and partners to gain visibility into all Alibaba Cloud costs and usage in a single platform and streamline decision-making. The addition of Alibaba Cloud expands existing VMware Aria Cost support for various environments, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, VMware Cloud on AWS (beta), data center, and containerized environments. VMware Aria Cost is also expanding its Kubernetes reporting capabilities by introducing the ability to right-size Kubernetes environments to optimize cloud-native application environments in addition to the cloud.

Lastly, VMware continues to automate and streamline cloud