Last February, we were excited to announce that Data Services Manager was part of VMware Cloud Foundation, our full-stack private cloud solution. This powerful combination empowers your developers to be more productive. By embracing cloud-native and AI technologies, they can deliver apps and services to market faster. Read more about the announcement here.
In this blog post, we’ll dive deeper into what’s new with the integrated data services capabilities of VCF and explore how it helps IT organizations accelerate application innovation.
What VMware Cloud Foundation Data Services?
VMware Cloud Foundation empowers IT organizations with key native VMware Cloud Foundation data services enabling two main use cases:
- Database as a Service (DBaaS): enterprise-hardened data services that are easy to manage.
- Private AI: vector databases to improve the quality of enterprise LLM outputs with RAG workflows.
What’s New?
To meet the growing demand from our customers to deliver and support next-generation cloud-native and AI-powered applications across private and hybrid clouds, we’re ramping up automation for infrastructure and application services, including data services. Read the full blog post for more details.
Data Services Manager v.2.0.2 (available now) introduces a new set of capabilities through integration with Aria Automation. This includes a new custom resource that allows provisioning of DSM PostgreSQL and MySQL databases directly from Data Services Manager using Aria Automation. If your organization already uses Aria Automation and needs a DBaaS solution, this is a game-changer! Learn more about the deployment process in this blog by Cormac Hogan.
If you want to talk to our product team directly and try out early releases of the product, sign-up here.
Private AI Use Case
In March, we announced at NVIDIA GTC the initial availability of VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. Read the full announcement here. VMware Cloud Foundation, a full-stack private cloud infrastructure solution, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end, cloud-native software platform, form the bedrock of VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. Together, they provide enterprises with the capability to launch private and secure Gen AI models.
Data Services Manager delivers and manages vector databases that have become very important for RAG workflows. They enable fast querying of data and real-time updates to enhance the outputs of the LLMs without requiring retraining of those LLMs, which can be very costly and time-consuming. These have become the de facto standard for GenAI and RAG workloads. Read the reference architecture here.
Conclusion
Because data services are fundamental components of our customers’ private cloud infrastructure, VMware Cloud Foundation provides native support for PostgreSQL (including pgvector) and MySQL. These natively integrated data services are optimized for VMware environments, come equipped with enterprise-grade features, and are fully certified and supported by VMware. As a result, VMware Cloud Foundation offers the ideal platform for deploying a ubiquitous, flexible, and integrated private cloud infrastructure that empowers customers to accelerate application innovation and harness the potential of new technologies like AI.
Stay tuned,
Michael
