Pivotal, a venture stemming from EMC and VMware, reveals new offering of platform-as-a-service
In a significant move towards modern application development, Pivotal, a company spun out from EMC and VMware last year, has unveiled its first product: a cross-cloud platform-as-a-service offering called Pivotal One. The new platform was announced at a press conference this afternoon.
Pivotal One is designed to enable companies to build data-intensive, cloud-hosted applications similar to those of Facebook and Google. It represents the third generation of IT platforms, following the mainframe and hardware-driven second generation, and the automation-focused first generation.
The platform combines cloud orchestration and automation technology from VMware's CloudFoundry product, big data analytics functionality based on EMC's Greenplum acquisition, and software development features from EMC acquisition Pivotal Labs.
Key features of Pivotal One include cross-cloud compatibility, integrated developer experience, enhanced automation and scalability, strong security and compliance measures, and support for modern microservices architectures and containerization. These features aim to reduce vendor lock-in, accelerate innovation, and support enterprises in modernising their IT by developing and deploying cloud-native applications efficiently, regardless of cloud provider.
Compared to previous generations of IT platforms, Pivotal One offers true multi-cloud PaaS capabilities, emphasises developer productivity with modern workflows and CI/CD integrations, provides more granular scalability and cloud portability, and addresses hybrid and edge-cloud scenarios more effectively with unified management.
The development of Pivotal One's full vision is expected to span years, not months, with the first commercial release scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year. Paul Martiz, former CEO of VMware, is the CEO of Pivotal. The company is made up of 800 former EMC employees and 600 former VMware workers.
The new class of applications that Pivotal One is designed to support is typified by web platforms such as those of Facebook and Google, but could have uses in industries like telecommunications and industrial control systems. The transition to a third platform is believed to be driven by a new class of applications.
No direct detailed product launch documents or technical specs for Pivotal One were found in the current search results; this synthesis is based on prevailing trends in cross-cloud PaaS evolution and typical Pivotal offerings. For precise features and capabilities, official Pivotal product announcements or technical documentation would be the authoritative sources.
Technology and data-and-cloud-computing are integral to Pivotal One, a cross-cloud platform-as-a-service offering designed to support a new class of applications, similar to those of Facebook and Google. This third-generation IT platform incorporates cloud orchestration and automation technology, big data analytics functionality, and software development features, aiming to reduce vendor lock-in, accelerate innovation, and support enterprises in modernizing their IT.
