VMware Tanzu Hub serves as a centralized multi-cloud management platform that aims to simplify visibility, governance, and collaboration. However, cloud management by nature can be complex and demanding. Platform teams need to balance business goals, manage costs and security, and provide necessary performance (among many other concerns), all while managing multiple clouds and answering to different stakeholders. Any way to make this mountainous task easier helps, especially if it enhances time to value and ease of use for platform teams juggling these responsibilities.
At VMware Explore Las Vegas, we are extremely excited to announce the tech preview of new generative-AI assisted capabilities that can reduce the complexity associated with managing your multi-cloud environments. VMware Tanzu Hub with Intelligent Assist is a large language model capability that enables you to complete management tasks (such as those mentioned above) in less time with reduced friction that is often associated with these tasks. These capabilities will enable searching and exploring all of the resources across your environment and will later expand to more complex use cases such as generating and executing infrastructure as code based on your requirements.
Intelligent Assist enables you to search your cloud environment through natural language and without following a specific query format. Simply ask Intelligent Assist in VMware Tanzu Hub what you are looking for, and the results will include the relevant resources, data, configuration, and status within your cloud environment and restricted to your access privileges. You can refine the results and see your resources with additional context. For example, you can ask Intelligent Assist to display a list of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances of a certain type in a certain region, and the results will be returned to you in seconds along with the GraphQL query that corresponds to the request you made through natural language.
Searching with Intelligent Assist in VMware Tanzu Hub enables you to explore a step further and makes it easier to interact with your cloud resources in context. After your natural language search, you can explore the results delivered by the platform by following links to relevant pages containing additional context necessary for your review and decision-making. This context could include dependencies, security findings, and other relevant metrics. Furthermore, your search and conversation histories follow you as you navigate, further reducing the context switching and swivel chair management that VMware Tanzu Hub lessens.
Intelligent Assist is a faster way to take advantage of the graph data store that powers the platform. The significance of the graph data store lies in its ability to capture many-to-many relationships for dependency mapping and configuration status, and that this capability can scale to meet your business’ needs. To fully take advantage of this capability, a user would input a GraphQL query to request their desired information, which would quickly be displayed on the platform. With Intelligent Assist, users can now simply interact through natural, conversational language to request these same queries. While the user experiences a natural conversation with Intelligent Assist, a corresponding GraphQL query is created for programmatic use and the ability to edit as necessary.
Centralized Notifications
In addition to Intelligent Assist in VMware Tanzu Hub, we are excited to announce the initial availability of centralized notifications. Centralized notifications can make it easier for you to track what is happening in your environment and automate external tasks from a single location and includes all the integrated services in VMware Tanzu Hub.
With more and more integrations with VMware Tanzu Hub, including VMware Tanzu Insights announced at VMware Explore this week, users can benefit from a central service for notifications from VMware Tanzu Hub and all integrated services. Within this notification center, you can automate external tasks, such as sending a message to a specific stakeholder or group, that are triggered by specific events or notifications from VMware Tanzu Hub. Automated tasks currently supported include Slack messages and emails, with support for webhooks coming soon.
Geographic Expansion to Frankfurt Region
We are planning to expand our platform hosting to the Frankfurt region to facilitate the use of VMware Tanzu Hub for our European customers. As the platform grows, we continue to look for future geographic expansion opportunities in other strategic locations across the globe.
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Disclaimer: VMware makes no guarantee that features and services announced in preview or beta will become available at a future date. The information in this press release is for informational purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.
