The start of VMworld 2019 in San Francisco is underway, and Pat kicked off the general session talking about his excitement for being back in San Francisco, while poking fun at us “Vegas lovers”. Pat also talked about technology, our digital lives, and technologies role being a force for good. He talked about charities, and cancer research foundations.

Pat Then talked about The Law of Unintended Consequences, and how technology has advanced, we as a society have given up certain aspects of Privacy, the need to combat disinformation at scale available widely on the social media platforms.

Surprisingly, according to Pat, Bitcoin is Bad and contributes to the climate crisis.

First Major Announcement with Kubernetes, as VMware has been focussing on containers

Pat then announced the creation of VMware Tanzu, which is the initiative to have a common platform that allows developers to build modern apps, run enterprise Kubernetes, and platform to manage Kubernetes for developers and IT..

Second Major Announcement, Project Pacific. An ambitious project to unite vSphere and Kubernetes for the future of modern IT

Interestingly, Project Pacific was announced to be 30% faster than a traditional Linux VM, and 8% faster than solutions running on bare metal.

Project Pacific brings Kubernetes to the VMware Community, and will be offered by 20K+ Partner resellers, 4K+ Service providers and 1,100+ technology partners.

Tanzu also comes with mission control, a centralized tool allowing IT Operations to manage Kubernetes for developers and IT.