Ironically, when I interviewed for an analyst role at Gartner, I had to defend VMware’s relationship with developers for my panel defense. That was in 2014. I’ll reprise that role and try and make an elevator pitch for Tanzu.
What is Tanzu? That’s the wrong question. The question is, where are you on your hybrid-infrastructure journey, or what VMware would call your Cross-Cloud journey? VMware Tanzu is the set of technical solutions that enable your organization to move from operations based on VMs to a developer-focused model. Tanzu Mission Control, Tanzu Grid, Tanzue Application Services, Tanzu Application Platform, and the branding goes on are simply bits that help get you there.
The challenge is VMware is VM-ware. They must mitigate the history and strength of having 500,000 “legacy” customers.