Commits to containerized Tanzu portfolio too – perhaps heading off chatter it could be sold
Broadcom won't repeat that tactic. He argued that Symantec was a mature company in a mature industry, while VMware has plenty of upside as it pursues a future as a manager of multiple workloads spanning multiple clouds."Customers are enthusiastic about the multi-cloud vision and, with increased resources from Broadcom following transaction close, the potential to implement it as VMware grows and increases momentum in the space," he wrote.
The post also includes a commitment to retain and commit to VMware's cloud-native application platform, Tanzu. VMware spent years trying – and largely failing – to articulate how it would move beyond its strength in IT operations to address the need for infrastructure that is more responsive to the needs of developers and suited to the needs of cloud-native applications.
Tanzu is its attempt to do so, but is a sprawling collection of products and services that the company says is best adopted in conjunction with the bits of Pivotal Labs that VMware absorbed in 2019. For Tanzu to succeed, VMware will also have to win the hearts and minds of developers, an audience it has not traditionally wooed but which is very well known to rivals such as Red Hat that has an arguably more mature cloud native offering in the form of OpenShift..