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Their staff got smooshed together with Pivotal and a few other acquired odds-and-ends and largely set to work building a suite of Kubernetes-related products un
by natbennett 3y ago
Their staff got smooshed together with Pivotal and a few other acquired odds-and-ends and largely set to work building a suite of Kubernetes-related products under the “Tanzu” brand. This included a Kubernetes manager (TKG) and an application platform (TAP) that were supposed to replace the BOSH-based Kubernetes installer (TKG-i, formerly known as PKS) and application platform (TAS, formerly known as PCF, better known as Cloud Foundry).
They got stirred around a few times via reorg, then the Heptio founders retired. Last I heard everyone in Tanzu was trying to get themselves reclassified as somehow part of the Cloud Foundry/BOSH stuff because it has significant revenue and was believed to be safe(r) from Broadcom layoffs.
- bogomipz 3y agoWow, what a mess. Thanks for the recap. So is the Tanzu product going away then and were they hit hard in these layoffs?
- regalli 3y agoThe exact opposite. Tanzu is a cash cow due to their customer base from pivotal. Its a mix between they left the good parts of the Tanzu portfolio alone while they chased their Kubernetes vision. The commercialized version of Cloud Foundry never went away post pivotal acquisition, the “legacy” products VMware tried so hard to move away from accounted for a overwhelming majority of Tanzu’s revenue stream disclaimer: ex tanzu support
- natbennett 3y agoYeah I don’t know what they’re doing with the new parts of Tanzu that don’t have revenue (will ask the next time I talk to folks, but I mostly don’t know people in that part of the org) but I haven’t seen any sign they’re cutting TAS. The only folks I know who got laid off so far took an optional severance package that was offered to everyone. The continuing offers were strong. Cloud Foundry customers really, really like Cloud Foundry, and are uninterested in running it without support from a vendor.