The multitude of tools and approaches for approaching this work are “nearly overwhelming”, so the chances of any two teams doing it the same way are minuscule. “This is a governance and scaling nightmare,” he said. “If Broadcom can bring order and velocity to AI experimentation on its journey towards positive ROI, that would go a long way in taking the sting out of higher VMware subscription costs.”
Tanzu Platform 10.3
At VMware Explore the company also unveiled Tanzu Platform 10.3, which, it said, provides a series of new capabilities to help enterprises deliver AI applications and services, along with an AI reference architecture called the AI Starter Kit. The Starter Kit can also be leveraged by organizations using earlier versions of the platform.
“What we have done [with 10.3] is made it even easier for developers to collaborate by self publishing applications, AI agents, MCP servers that they are authoring into a governed marketplace, so that now the agents built by one team can be used by another team. We have also expanded the number of models and simplified the curation of these models so that they can they’re always secure, and they’re predictable. Consumption patterns in the enterprise, we have automated the modernization and upgrades of brownfield apps,” said Purnima Padmanabhan, vice president and general manager of Broadcom’s Tanzu Division, in a media briefing.
