She explained: “The idea would be, if I’m building an agent and I’ve got three sources, I shouldn’t have to go and build a whole data lakehouse for that.” Rather, she said, builders can point to required sources, and, in the background, the platform deploys the right-sized environments. “The agent building process becomes much, much faster.”
She added that with AI-ready data foundations, customers don’t need to worry about how data is configured or organized; Tanzu automatically organizes it based on type. “We put the data wherever it needs to be for the most efficient access,” Padmanabhan noted. “You simply point to your data sources, start ingesting them.”
She pointed to VMware’s strong data expertise, and said the platform is based on technology built into Tanzu Data Intelligence: “The warehouse, the bringing together of structured and unstructured data, the cleansing, the vectorization, then providing an MCP gateway: we know how to run these sandbox services at scale and use them for business applications in production,” she said.
