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Introduction
At VMware Explore Barcelona, Broadcom announced a new Advanced Service for VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Tanzu Data Services, to provide fast, self-service access to popular data engines that developers expect, delivered through the private cloud. Tanzu Data Services provides built-in, validated configurations of proven data engines and curated extensions to provide pre-tuned, highly available versions of Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ, and Valkey with experts on call ready to assist teams with the most complex deployments. The solution delivers native fleet-level automated lifecycle management including deployment, backups, clustering, security patching, and updates that empower existing private cloud operators to manage complex data services with existing skills.
Bringing the speed and flexibility of cloud-like, self-service data offerings to the private cloud
Many developers are accustomed to the instant gratification of self-service data offerings from their favorite cloud provider. Tanzu Data Services offers a modern and consistent way to provision, manage, and process data in the private cloud. Supporting the proliferation of manually deployed data services on-premises has introduced delays and risks to the enterprise. These problems include:
- Ticket-based data service provisioning that adds to infrastructure and operation team workloads while resulting in long wait-times for application teams.
- The complexity and time it takes to properly set up and tune a deployment architecture that includes high availability, disaster recovery, and backups.
- Slow, manual patching of individual, persistent database servers that can result in errors or delays in operating system and database software patches.
- The proliferation of unverified and non-trusted open-source data engine packages and extensions of popular data services requested by developers to provide additional functionality.
- A lack of expertise required to support popular open-source data engines in-house such as Postgres and MySQL.
Tanzu Data Services for VMware Cloud Foundation addresses these problems by delivering a seamless experience for customers to consume, manage, and support best-in-class Tanzu Data Services in their VCF environments. Private cloud admins can leverage the VCF tools they are familiar with to deliver data services to their line-of-businesses and developers can consume data engines in minutes.
More specifically, Tanzu Data Services delivers a tight integration between VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) infrastructure and the data engines themselves to deliver true data services.
For private cloud admins who are responsible for delivering data services on private cloud, Tanzu Data Services for VCF delivers many benefits, including:
- Simplified lifecycle management: Admins can streamline the management of the underlying infrastructure and the data services, from initial deployment to decommissioning. Automated updates and upgrades ensure that databases are always running the latest, most secure versions, reducing the risk of vulnerabilities and improving overall system stability.
- Enhanced security and compliance: The solution offers advanced security features such as encryption, access controls, and audit logging to help customers protect sensitive data. Compliance with industry standards and regulations (including FIPS, HIPAA, and PCI DSS) is simplified through automated enforcement of security policies and regular audits.
- Experts on-call: Tanzu Data Services includes enterprise support from Broadcom with hundreds of experienced engineers on-call who specialize in these open-source data engines and can troubleshoot and answer the tough questions from your operations teams and app developers.
- Built-in configurations for high availability, multi datacenter replication, and backup: Free private cloud admins from manually building and orchestrating complex, mission-critical scenarios around data availability, replication, and backups.
Developers leveraging Tanzu Data Services to build applications benefit from:
- Seamless cloud experience: Developers can now seamlessly provision, clone, and restore Tanzu Data Services directly into their development workflows, accelerating time-to-market. The self-service capabilities and automation provided by Tanzu Data Services facilitate better collaboration between application and operations teams with API integration for observability.
- Compliance: Application teams using Tanzu Data Services have a range of vetted and tested data services versions to choose from, removing this burden from developers while giving IT organizations peace of mind that the data services in use comply with their organization’s policies and governance.
A growing collection of the most popular open-source data engines with enterprise support, all from one vendor
Tanzu Data Services provides enterprise-ready data solutions that integrate seamlessly with VMware Cloud Foundation, offering unique capabilities for mission-critical data management. Tanzu Data Services included are:
- VMware® Tanzu® for Postgres: A high performance, relational, transactional database platform that also includes PGvector for GenAI use cases.
- VMware® Tanzu® for MySQL: The classic web application backend that optimizes transactional data handling for cloud native environments.
- VMware® Tanzu® RabbitMQ®: Secure, real-time message queuing, routing, and streaming for distributed systems, supporting microservices and event-driven architectures
- VMware® Tanzu® for Valkey: Low-latency caching for high-demand applications, reducing strain on primary databases and ensuring fast data access.
With VMware Tanzu Data Services, the new Advanced Service for VMware Cloud Foundation, enterprises can deliver a full cloud-like experience that their developers expect within a predictable and manageable private cloud operation leveraging existing teams and talent.
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