Introducing VMware Cloud on Dell EMC With Tanzu Services

Customers who have discovered VMware
Cloud on Dell EMC love how this service provides a
balance of the best attributes of on-premises and the public cloud.
Customers really enjoy the custom-sized, modern infrastructure delivered
on-premises; preloaded with VMware’s compute, storage, and
networking software and the 24 x 7 support and full life cycle management
of the hardware and software in the predictable monthly bill. VMware Cloud on
Dell EMC provides a world class cloud service with consistent
infrastructure without the burden of managing the hardware. This innovative
service provides an ideal IT hosting environment for
handling any modern workload while moving forward with organizational
digitalization goals. While support for modern workloads is important – optimal
administration and management of these modern workloads is paramount.  

Today, we are announcing general availability of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC with Tanzu services. This innovative solution delivers enterprise-class Kubernetes to VMware Cloud on Dell EMC customers and is essential in providing the tools they need to accelerate their application modernization initiatives efforts forward while effortlessly maintaining their traditional workloads.

Support of Tanzu services for
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC enables customers to run and manage the growing number
of modern applications they have more effectively. VMware Cloud on Dell
EMC with Tanzu services enables operators to deliver Kubernetes
as a Service through the VMware Cloud console quickly and easily to
developer teams, while leveraging a multi-cloud Kubernetes control
plane to centrally manage all their Kubernetes clusters across data centers and
clouds securely and efficiently. It provides intelligent
orchestration, management and simplification features that make it much easier for enterprises to administer and manage their containerized
workloads.  

An example where VMware Cloud on Dell EMC with Tanzu Services provides an ideal modern workload environment could be in the modernization of Healthcare IT. Modern Healthcare organizations are highly software-centric, which often results in costly and complex IT infrastructures to support the number and breadth of different applications needed to run the organization. Tanzu services helps eliminate this infrastructure complexity through providing a consistent infrastructure to run any type of workloads – both VM-based workloads and container workloads – with efficient and consistent operations and governance.

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC with
Tanzu services includes Tanzu Kubernetes Grid services, which
enables quick provisioning of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters via the VMware Cloud
Console, and Tanzu Mission Control Essentials, a multi-cloud Kubernetes
management platform, allowing central management of your Tanzu
Kubernetes clusters and any conformant clusters running anywhere in terms of
access, security and cluster lifecycle etc. Tanzu services
are included within VMware Cloud on Dell EMC delivered as a
single service offering, and available to all the VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
customers at no cost.

For customers looking to
operationalize their IT costs while at the same time update their IT
infrastructure to handle modern workloads, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC with Tanzu
services is an ideal solution that removes the burden of managing the compute
and container infrastructures so that they can focus on digitalizing and
growing their businesses. VMware Cloud on Dell EMC with Tanzu services is
available through the November 2021 release update for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
announced today. For more information, please visit the VMware
Tanzu or VMware
Cloud on Dell EMC page.