VMware Explore returns to Barcelona in less than one week, from November 6-9! We’re excited to share more about the updates we previously announced in Las Vegas, including the latest from VMware Tanzu Hub and the introduction of VMware Tanzu Intelligence Services.
Tanzu Hub serves as the common control plane across the VMware Tanzu portfolio, allowing customers to accelerate their application delivery by developing, operating, and optimizing with Tanzu.
Tanzu Intelligence Services is a new Tanzu product family designed to supercharge Day 2 operations for platform engineering and cloud operations. Because getting an application deployed is just the beginning, Tanzu Intelligence Services helps you address the important considerations and challenges to scale and run with the highest efficiency at the lowest possible cost while keeping your apps continuously secure. Tanzu Intelligence Services includes VMware Tanzu CloudHealth (formerly VMware Aria Cost by CloudHealth), VMware Tanzu Guardrails (formerly VMware Aria Guardrails), VMware Tanzu Insights (formerly VMware Aria Business Insights), and VMware Tanzu Transformer (formerly VMware Aria Migration).
Continue reading to learn about all that we have planned at VMware Explore Barcelona across keynotes, breakout sessions, expert roundtables, the Expo, hands-on labs, and more!
Must-see content
Before making any other plans at VMware Explore Barcelona, it’s a necessity to add our Solution Keynote, Accelerate Application Delivery for Continuous Innovation, to your schedule. Taking place on Tuesday, November 7 at 12:15 PM CET, this keynote presentation will teach you about the Tanzu portfolio as a whole and provide critical context for Tanzu Hub and Tanzu Intelligence Services. The keynote will include demonstrations of bleeding edge capabilities from Tanzu Intelligence Services products in Tanzu Hub that allow platform and operations teams to proactively optimize the cost, performance, and security of applications across clouds.
For an even closer look at Tanzu Intelligence Services, join us on Wednesday, November 8 at 11:30 AM CET for our breakout session: Introducing Tanzu Intelligence Services. This session will cover each of the products in the Tanzu Intelligence Services product family and how together they help platform teams get the best performance out of, and security for, their applications at the lowest cost.
Additionally, if you are planning to attend the conference on Monday, November 6, our tutorial Platform Engineering Done Right: Providing a Developer Platform with VMware Tanzu at 3:00 PM CET will include deeper demonstrations of Tanzu Intelligence Services products as part of a larger narrative on the role of platform teams. This tutorial will show you specifically how to optimize environments for both functional and cost outcomes as part of a broader view into the capabilities of the Tanzu portfolio.
If you have specific questions you’d like to ask about Tanzu Hub or Tanzu Intelligence Services, make sure to join our meet the experts roundtable: Ask Me Anything: VMware Tanzu Hub, Tanzu Guardrails, and Tanzu Insights. These discussion-based roundtables will take place on Wednesday, November 8 at 12:00 PM CET and Thursday, November 9 at 10:00 AM CET. You can also find us at the VMware booth (#419) in the Expo to learn more.
Product-specific content
If you are interested in learning more about a specific product at VMware Explore Barcelona, we have plenty of content planned in each product area. Please see below for a list of recommendations to help you navigate the wide array of content available!
Tanzu Hub
VMware Tanzu Hub is an application delivery and multi-cloud management platform upon which Tanzu Intelligence Services products sit. We are excited to share how the Tanzu Hub graph data store allows these products to work together for exponentially increased value in the platform, as well as unveil our new generative AI chatbot, Tanzu Intelligent Assist.
- 60 Minutes of Virtually Speaking Live: Cloud Data Management (MAPB1277BCN) - Tuesday, Nov 7, 11:45 PM CET
- Machine Learning in VMware Tanzu Hub (MAPB1085BCN) - Wednesday, Nov 8, 10:15 AM CET
- Intelligent Assist in VMware Tanzu Hub: Cloud Management with Generative AI (VBT2616BCN) - Wednesday, Nov 8, 4:00 PM CET
Tanzu CloudHealth
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth is a multi-cloud financial management (FinOps) platform that helps organizations optimize and control their cloud spend. Join these sessions to learn about FinOps, its intersection with GreenOps, and how both direct customers and managed service providers are leveraging Tanzu CloudHealth to enhance their cloud management practice.
- How to Build a Successful FinOps Service with VMware Tanzu CloudHealth (MAPB1724BCN) - Wednesday, Nov 8, 9:00 AM CET
- From FinOps to GreenOps – Public Cloud Sustainability and Compliance (MAPB1429BCN) - Wednesday, Nov 8, 12:45 PM CET
- UK Health Security Agency Streamlines Cloud to Accelerate Digital Healthcare (MAPB1443BCN) - Tuesday, Nov 7, 1:00 PM CET
- Ask Me Anything: VMware Tanzu CloudHealth (MAPM1564BCN) - Tuesday, Nov 7, 12:30 PM CET and Wednesday, Nov 8, 11:00 AM CET
- VMware Booth (#419), “Optimize and Control Multi-Cloud Spend”
- Hands-on lab (self-paced): VMware Tanzu CloudHealth – Getting Started (SPL-HOL-2422-01-CMP)
Tanzu Guardrails
VMware Tanzu Guardrails is a multi-cloud governance service to automate and scale end-to-end policy enforcement across clouds and Kubernetes. We invite you to attend the sessions and engage with experts who will share some best practices for consistently implementing cloud standards that help regulate costs, reduce risk, and optimize performance.
- A Unique Approach to Automate and Scale Governance in Cloud Environments (MAPB2173BCN) - Wednesday, Nov 8, 3:15 PM CET
- VMware Booth (#419): “Visibility and Policy Control Across Clouds at Scale”
- Hands-on lab (self-paced): VMware Tanzu Guardrails – Getting Started (SPL-HOL-2421-02-CMP)
- Quick talk in the hands-on labs room: “Preventative and detective cloud governance with VMware Tanzu Guardrails”
Tanzu Insights
VMware Tanzu Insights (formerly VMware Aria Business Insights) leverages AI/ML along with other data sources to intelligently organize trends and dceliver actionable insights across applications and infrastructure. Attend these deep dive sessions to learn how metrics, events, logs, and traces are visualized and how root cause analysis helps reduce mean time to resolution on a singular platform.
- Achieve AI/ML-Based Insights with Full-Stack Contextual Observability (MAPB1747BCN) - Wednesday, Nov 8, 2:00 PM CET
- Achieve AI/ML-Based Insights with Full-Stack Contextual Observability (VBT2620BCN) - Wednesday, Nov 8, 6:00 PM CET
- VMware Booth (#419): “Get Intelligent, Actionable Insights with Observability”
Tanzu Transformer
Join us to learn more about VMware Tanzu Transformer (formerly VMware Aria Migration), a new solution for accurate and efficient cloud migration. Tanzu Transformer helps you discover your current application environment using machine learning, assists in understanding migration costs, and provides suggested migration waves before you start planning a move to the cloud.
- A Multi-Cloud Assessment and Migration with VMware Tanzu Transformer (MAPB2292BCN) - Wednesday, Nov 8, 12:45 PM CET
- Ask Me Anything: VMware Aria Operations for Networks and Tanzu Transformer (MAPM2302BCN) - Monday, Nov 6, 12:00 CET and Thursday, Nov 9, 12:00 PM CET
- VMware Booth (#419): “Accelerate Workload Migration and Day 2 Cloud Ops”
- Hands-on lab (self-paced): VMware Tanzu Transformer – Getting Started (SPL-HOL-2402-03-CMP)
