VMware Tanzu, powering the complete AI suite.

In 2025, VMware Tanzu made significant strides in advancing AI adoption for enterprises with the launch of Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 at VMware Explore 2025. Designed to address the evolving needs of AI-driven businesses, Tanzu delivers a unified, AI-ready data platform and an enhanced application development experience that together empower organizations to accelerate generative AI and agentic AI innovation securely and at scale.

At the core of VMware Tanzu’s AI offering is Tanzu Data Intelligence, a data lakehouse platform optimized for modern AI workloads. It provides enterprises with unified, low-latency access to data of all types—structured, unstructured, native, or federated—allowing seamless integration and activation of enterprise data regardless of where it resides. This enables AI models, agents, and applications to efficiently access the right data at the right time without costly data movement or duplication.

Tanzu Data Intelligence includes several specialized components supporting the AI data lifecycle:

• Ingestion and Workflow Orchestration: Streaming and batch pipelines allow data to flow seamlessly across diverse sources, enabling real-time and event-driven AI applications.
• Federated Query Services: Intelligent query layers provide unified access to distributed data stores with high concurrency and workload optimization, empowering AI services to query across massive data volumes using standard SQL without needing data centralization.
• Container Compute Services: When coupled with Tanzu Platform, this service enables elastic scaling of compute resources to meet the dynamic needs of AI, analytics, and application workloads, giving data science teams compliant, self-service environments for faster model development and testing.
• Real-Time Data Services: In-memory and transactional data layers deliver millisecond-latency access for operational AI use cases such as fraud detection, personalized customer experiences, and real-time monitoring.
• Advanced Analytics and AI/ML Support: Embedded predictive models, vector processing, and agentic workflows empower developers to build generative AI-powered applications rapidly, supporting complex AI workloads including semantic search and recommendation engines at enterprise scale.

Complementing this data platform is Tanzu Platform 10.3, VMware’s AI application development platform updated to enhance operational control, security, and collaboration. It features observability dashboards, a new vulnerability dashboard, and the ability to self-publish AI microservices in the Tanzu Platform Marketplace, facilitating reuse of AI components across teams. Tanzu Platform 10.3 supports automated modernization of legacy applications, accelerating their AI integration.

To assist organizations in adopting AI faster, VMware also introduced an AI Starter Kit for Tanzu Platform, providing developers with tools, templates, and guides for deploying first AI applications in production environments efficiently.

VMware Tanzu’s AI solutions respond to enterprise demand for converged application, data, and AI stacks designed with unified governance, security, and privacy controls. By bridging the gap between data accessibility, AI model deployment, and application development, Tanzu helps enterprises realize business value from AI investments with speed, safety, and scale.

In a competitive Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem, VMware Tanzu sets itself apart by integrating AI readiness deeply into enterprise data and application management, positioning itself as a strategic platform for the next generation of AI-powered digital transformation initiatives.