We’re happy to announce that VMware Utility Catalog is now usually obtainable for our Subscription Cloud Service Suppliers as of September 15, 2022. This launch additional expands the supply of VMware Utility Catalog for Cloud Service Suppliers by providing them the selection to devour VMware Utility Catalog by means of a subscription-based license mannequin.
VMware Utility Catalog (previously referred to as Tanzu Utility Catalog) is a catalog of trusted, constantly maintained, and verifiably examined open supply photos, custom-built to enterprise specs and privately delivered on to a buyer’s registry of alternative. The providing leverages over 10 years of expertise from the Bitnami by VMware workforce and can allow Cloud Service Suppliers to supply true enterprise-grade open supply software program (OSS) utility parts for his or her prospects in a approach that’s absolutely curatable and customizable to the wants of their improvement groups. These OSS parts are examined on a number of deployment platforms and are constantly verified and robotically up to date for each new vulnerability repair (together with these of dependencies) by means of an automatic inner construct pipeline.
With the most recent launch, Cloud Service Suppliers can now devour VMware Utility Catalog in a subscription mannequin, along with the present possibility of buying through the direct license buy mannequin. Which means Cloud Service Suppliers can now pay for energetic artifacts – the customizable open supply utility photos that type the bottom output items of VMware Utility Catalog – on a month-to-month foundation, moderately than paying for them upfront on an annual foundation. All the identical capabilities of the VMware Utility Catalog providing can be found with this subscription license mannequin as with the direct license buy mannequin.
Why is VMware Utility Catalog essential for Cloud Service Suppliers?
Based on 2021’s State of Software program Provide Chain report, 95 p.c of enterprises use OSS, of which 94 p.c admit to safety considerations about utilizing OSS in manufacturing. Cloud Service Suppliers that presently present OSS to their prospects by means of cloud marketplaces might not be capable of handle this ache level, because the catalog of options they supply are extra suited to dev and check environments versus manufacturing environments. With the customizable, constantly verified, production-ready OSS photos provided by VMware Utility Catalog, Cloud Service Suppliers can handle the safety considerations and enterprise wants of the huge variety of enterprises utilizing OSS in manufacturing.
VMware Utility Catalog affords OSS photos as containers, Helm charts, and digital machines that may be deployed wherever – there isn’t a requirement that the energetic artifacts obtained from the product should be consumed inside VMware platforms. The artifacts are delivered to a non-public repository from the place they are often consumed and deployed to any platform of buyer’s alternative, thus enabling the Cloud Service Suppliers to satisfy their prospects the place they’re.
Lastly, with VMware Utility Catalog, Cloud Service Suppliers working with prospects in extremely regulated industries resembling banking, monetary providers, healthcare, and authorities, can higher serve their prospects’ safety and compliance wants.
What values can Cloud Service Suppliers ship to their tenants utilizing VMware Utility Catalog?
VMware Utility Catalog affords enterprise-grade utility constructing blocks for patrons trying to convey their total software program improvement, construct, and lifecycle administration operations into their Cloud Service Supplier. On the identical time, subscription-based pricing permits them to reap the benefits of consumption-based pricing to scale back their total prices.
With VMware Utility Catalog, Cloud Service Suppliers might help their prospects notice the next advantages:
- Quicker time to manufacturing: Builders can construct purposes sooner and transfer them to manufacturing shortly utilizing the trusted, self-service OSS photos examined throughout a number of platforms
- Flexibility and customization: Prospects can select the bottom OS for his or her purposes from the record of supported base OS, or a {custom} OS picture, they usually also can choose their personal registry into which they’ll push the validated parts
- Automation: Operators can let go of all handbook picture packaging, testing, and upkeep actions, as they’re completed behind the scenes, at scale, by VMware Utility Catalog’s automated pipeline
- Safety & compliance: Safety and operations groups can acquire full visibility into code provenance, dependencies, OSS licenses, which facilitates auditability and robust compliance with safety insurance policies
In brief, VMware Utility Catalog helps Cloud Service Suppliers ship added worth to their prospects’ DevSecOps groups by enabling them to give attention to innovation with out worrying concerning the many handbook duties concerned in guaranteeing safety, compliance, and manufacturing readiness.
Be taught extra about VMware Utility Catalog for Cloud Service Suppliers
Trying to study extra about VMware Utility Catalog? Register now for our vmLIVE session, and be part of us on September 22, 2022, between 9:30 AM & 10:30 AM PDT to listen to from our product consultants on how one can ship a safe library of production-ready open supply photos to your prospects.
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