Broadcom Advances VMware Tanzu with AI, Data Intelligence and App Modernization Tools
Broadcom today revealed it has updated its Tanzu platform provided by its VMware business unit to make it simpler to build, deploy, secure and manage cloud-native applications.
Announced at the VMware Explore 2025 conference, Broadcom also announced that VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence, a data lakehouse platform that it created for its distribution of Kubernetes, is now generally available.
Version 10.3 of the VMware Tanzu Platform now includes a framework for identifying, refactoring and automating application migration and modernization initiatives, along with a set of data observability and vulnerability management dashboards.
Additionally, Broadcom has included a marketplace that enables application developers to offer their applications as services.
Finally, Broadcom has added a service plans capability for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads deployed on the VMware Tanzu Platform, which provides IT teams with more granular control over how much Kubernetes infrastructure resources an AI model or agent might be allowed to consume.
Purnima Padmanabhan, vice president and general manager of the Tanzu Division at Broadcom, said collectively these capabilities and services make the VMware Tanzu Platform the most attractive option available to developers of cloud-native applications using a platform based on an instance of the open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-service (PaaS) environment enable enterprise IT organizations to build and deploy applications at higher level of abstraction as an alternative to previous versions of the Tanzu platform that was based on Kubernetes.
For example, the VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence service provides access to an integrated framework for securely ingesting, processing and querying data at scale. That service also includes a vector search capability that is especially critical for application development teams that are building and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on top of Kubernetes clusters, said Padmanabhan.
Broadcom has also made available an AI Reference Architecture to help application development teams accelerate the building of AI application environments, along with an “AI Starter Kit” for Tanzu Platform that includes tooling and custom code that automate the provisioning of Tanzu Platform services and a set of How-to-Guides for deploying AI applications.
It’s not clear how much traction the VMware Tanzu Platform has gained since VMware was acquired by Broadcom in 2023. Broadcom in addition to providing VMware Tanzu Platform also provides an instance of Kubernetes that has been integrated into the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform for deploying both legacy monolithic and cloud-native applications. Additionally, Broadcom today revealed it is extending the reach of the VCF platform to include support for the Ubuntu operating system provided by Canonical.
One way or another, Broadcom is making it clear that it views the building and deployment of cloud-native applications as a core element of its ongoing effort to enable IT teams to build and deploy applications. Each IT team, based on its level of investment in previous generations of VMware platforms, will need to determine which path makes the most sense for them. However, for organizations building greenfield cloud-native applications, Broadcom is making it clear that it continues to invest in a Tanzu platform..
