For any given service—be it provided by software (e.g., application, platform), hardware (e.g., infrastructure), or human (e.g, delivery, support, documentation)—there is a level of reliability required to achieve user satisfaction. While users, from end users of web or mobile applications to developers that use a platform, want to utilize a service's features, they care more about service reliability. After all, if the service is not working, they cannot make use of those features.

Many large organizations deploy Cloud Foundry atop the public cloud to deliver superior business outcomes. The app platform has proven to be a terrific way to adopt public cloud in an efficient, expedient, and secure fashion. There’s another benefit to deploying atop the public cloud—easy access to innovative, first-party services.

Kubernetes typically follows a quarterly release cycle. However, 2020 has been an unprecedented year so far, one that has impacted many contributors and businesses. The Kubernetes community responded to the challenges of 2020 by making some changes to the Kubernetes 1.19 release timeline. These changes extended the release cycle to allow more release candidates to be built while giving the community more time to focus on the enhancements that would be delivered.

For some startups, it can be tough to transition from a great idea to a usable product—especially if that product involves software. The same often goes for teams within large enterprises trying to capitalize on new opportunities, or to modernize existing applications to meet the demands of modern users. They know what result they want, but they don’t always know what to build to achieve that outcome, much less how to build it.

In today’s highly digitized world, a seamless digital experience is an important aspect of driving customer behavior. As businesses adopt commercial cloud stacks to run applications, a lack of both control and visibility paired with increasing cloud complexity can create situations that blindside business owners.

Since the VMware Tanzu portfolio was introduced last year at VMworld, we have brought to market multiple Tanzu products and services to help our customers deliver better software faster, by automating the modern app lifecycle, running Kubernetes across clouds, and unifying and optimizing multi-cloud operations.

You’re deploying Kubernetes, congratulations! This is an important first step toward a faster path to production. Your next step should be to download the new beta of VMware Tanzu Application Service. Better software does not add value unless it furthers an organization’s business goals, and regardless of what your organization’s business goals are, Kubernetes in combination with Tanzu Application Service will help you reach them.

Agile teams are designed to respond to change. But even for the most seasoned agile teams, responding to the changes brought about by COVID-19 was a pretty tall order. This is the story of how one agile team responded to the abrupt transition to remote work without missing a beat, and without losing its sense of synergy. If you’re in need of some tips on how agile software teams can maintain both their productivity and their morale while remote, this post is for you.

VMware Tanzu Application Service 2.10 is now generally available (GA) on the Tanzu Network. As SpringOne approaches, it’s only fitting to have a new Tanzu Application Service release to talk about. Spring and Tanzu Application Service is the dynamic duo that drives superior business outcomes for enterprises around the world.