LAS VEGAS – On Tuesday, VMware launched Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3, products that provide agent AI data accessibility and accelerated AI adoption of enterprise applications.
At this week's Explore 2025 event, VMware introduced Tanzu Data Intelligence. TanzuDataIntelligence is a data lakehouse platform that provides unified, low-latency access to multimodal data to push faster, secure analytics, applications, and agent AI.
The vendor also promoted Tanzu Platform 10.3, which was updated since the 2024 Platform 10 release. This will integrate new tools into developers with the generation AI capabilities along with observability features.
With Tanzu, Broadcom's VMware is fighting against large competitors in the Kubernetes market, including Docker and the Google Kubernetes engine. In the Paas landscape, which holds a small portion of the market, Tanzu faces a crowded field of established competitors.
Creating valuable AI-oriented services can help with that, according to Steven Dickens, CEO and principal analyst at HyperFrame Research.
“It makes sense to add something AI, and it's very 2025,” Dickens said. “They have a more difficult lift with Tanz considering their market position. The base is very certain – the stubborn guy VMware has certified forever – but it will be a hard lift with space for the Kubernetes market.”
Purnima Padmanabhan, vice president and general manager of Broadcom's Tanzu Division, said product updates are based on the company's demand for more AI integration and security.
“You can see that AI is actually actually creating jump ball effects. Most customers are reassessing and looking at the application and data stack… leveraging AI to incorporate AI. “The Enterprise winners are those who can converge and see apps, data and AI as an integrated stack with perfect common safety and governance.”
Tanzu Data Intelligence Features
According to VMware, Tanzu Data Intelligence provides unified, rapid access to unstructured, unstructured data, whether native or federated, and provides the ability to scale up to petabytes of millisecond latency.
The platform includes several components to support data and AI applications, including intake and workflow orchestration, federated query services, container computing services, real-time data services, and advanced analytics for generating AI-powered applications.
“Because the data intelligence platform is at the heart of it, it allows us to bring all our data together, whether it's on the platform or federated,” Padmanavan said.
Tanzu Platform 10.3 benefits
Broadcom has also announced the latest version of VMware's AI Application Development Platform. The company said that Tanzu Platform 10.3 will provide better operational control with a dashboard of visibility and observability. The company's PAAS model works with the VMware Cloud Foundation.
Platform 10.3 provides service publishing with Tanzu Platform Marketplace, Granular AI Model Service Plans, automated modernization of existing applications, security insights with new vulnerability dashboards, and observability of integrated data services.
“Platform … is an end-to-end solution that allows you to develop and deploy applications at extremely fast speeds,” says Padmanabhan. “What we did was that developers could even more easily collaborate on self-published applications. Agents built by one team are now available for use by another team.”
To help platform teams create AI apps quickly, VMware has also created an AI starter kit for the Tanzu platform. The kit includes tools and custom code for AI services, as well as how-to guides to set up a small foundation for deploying your first AI application.
A veteran journalist with over 20 years of experience, Shane Snider covers IT infrastructure with Informa TechTarget.
