He's also observed that developers expect to be able to provision data services without having to raise a ticket to IT or otherwise slow CI/CD pipelines.
At the VMware Explore Europe conference in Barcelona today, the under-offer outfit announced version 2.0 of the product. Karamanolis thinks that's a misnomer and this version really represents the product reaching general availability status.For users, the update means Google's AlloyDB Omni – the run anywhere version of the software first offered as Google Cloud's homebrew database – and MinIO's object store can now be deployed using Data Services Manager.
VMware's sovereign cloud program has added the ability to manage deployment of data services – namely MongoDB, Kafka, and Greenplum. Again, the aim is to ensure developers can get self-service access to tools they want, as VMware doesn't want sovereign clouds to be less flexible than border-spanning affairs.
VMware thinks the latter – especially fourth-gen Xeons – can handle some AI workloads all by themselves and the Intel collab will show how to make that happen. It's a handy option, given the price and scarcity of GPUs. Virtzilla is keen on Intel's GPUs too – a fillip for Chipzilla as its accelerators are immature and largely ignored during conversations about AI workloads given Nvidia's dominance of the field.