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  <labs>
    <h1>Own your modernization journey</h1>
    <subtitle>VMware Tanzu Labs partners with organizations worldwide to accelerate the delivery of software and modernize legacy apps, while reducing operating costs and risk.</subtitle>
    <intro>We don’t just drop in, deploy, and leave—we’ll work side by side with your team to build capabilities and instill a process that shows immediate and lasting impact. Empower your teams to deliver the products your customers need.</intro>
    <duo>
      <item title="Hit the ground running" text="Let’s work on what matters first, starting on Day 1. We’ll partner with you to establish dedicated Platform Teams, assess your entire portfolio, and determine where to innovate, where to modernize, and how to excel at both."/>
      <item title="Make a habit of best practices" text="Learn by doing. Immerse your teams in the modern methodologies and technologies that help deliver the products customers want. So when you encounter similar problems in the future, you’ll have the tools and mindset to fix them."/>
    </duo>
    <quote>“[VMware Tanzu Labs] has proven to be a place where large enterprises can learn lean startup principles, and use them to build disruptive software products.”</quote>
    <quoted>Eric Ries, author of &lt;em&gt;The Lean Startup&lt;/em&gt;</quoted>
    <solve>Solve your toughest challenges</solve>
    <solvetext>Some problems require more than tools. Engage with VMware Tanzu Labs to start building the right thing for your users—and get it into production quickly.</solvetext>
    <solveblocks>
      <item title="Build apps" quote="“We need to build new apps our users will love.”" link="product-development" img="img-circle1.png" heard="[&quot;Our innovation has slowed, and startups are winning market share.&quot;, &quot;Our teams are focused on project tasks, not product backlogs.&quot;, &quot;Our teams aren’t releasing software fast enough.&quot;, &quot;Our teams aren’t certain they’re building the right apps for users.&quot;]" help="Build the right thing the first time. Learn how to use agile development to deliver the products your customers want. Refocus your teams around a new mindset and processes that quickly validate your concepts and get them from idea to production in days, not months."/>
      <item title="Modernize apps" quote="“We need to modernize our apps for the cloud.”" link="application-modernization" img="img-circle2.png" heard="[&quot;Our applications have monolithic architectures that hinder velocity.&quot;, &quot;We need to update our apps to take advantage of cloud elasticity.&quot;, &quot;Our legacy apps are driving up tech debt and operations costs.&quot;]" help="Go beyond lift and shift. We can help you quickly assess business-critical applications so you can start migrating legacy software immediately. Make the applications that matter more reliable, accessible, and scalable."/>
      <item title="Build a platform" quote="“We need a well-run platform that supports our devs.”" link="platform-development" img="img-circle3.png" heard="[&quot;We want to spur developer productivity using VMware Tanzu.&quot;, &quot;Our operational burden is skyrocketing, and we can’t apply security patches fast enough.&quot;, &quot;We need to scale usage of the platform to dozens of teams, not just a few early adopters.&quot;]" help="Run your platform at scale and make life better for your developers. Learn the new rules of cloud ops so you can ramp up your success with VMware Tanzu. Create a dedicated team that runs the platform like a product that continually evolves to meet the needs of your business."/>
    </solveblocks>
    <miniblocks>
      <item title="Education" link="education" header="Develop new skills and validate your progress" text="Learn new ways of thinking that build up your cloud native skills. Your teams will thrive and in turn, so will your business."/>
    </miniblocks>
    <ctaheader>Let’s start with one project.</ctaheader>
    <ctatext>Contact VMware Tanzu Labs.</ctatext>
    <waystoengage>Ways to engage</waystoengage>
    <whatweveheard>Common challenges</whatweveheard>
    <howwecanhelp>How we can help</howwecanhelp>
  </labs>
  <platform-ops>
    <h1>Build a custom app platform with Kubernetes</h1>
    <intro>For your organization to succeed, you need to deliver innovative products more rapidly and provide the value your customers expect. That requires a Kubernetes strategy, a cutting-edge platform, and the technical expertise to deliver it in production. And that’s where VMware Tanzu Labs comes in.</intro>
    <stats>
      <item>$2 million saved over four years</item>
    </stats>
    <statcta>Read about Synchrony</statcta>
    <statlink/>
    <h2>We pair alongside your team to show you how to build, manage, and scale Kubernetes.</h2>
    <h2sub>
      <item>Every organization is different. There’s no single right answer to many technology challenges. That’s why Tanzu Labs will work with you to design, build and scale a Kubernetes-based app platform using commercial products, pure open source components, or a mix of both.</item>
      <item>No matter your strategy, our world-class experts will help you implement and scale a production app platform that delivers enduring value for your business and a great developer experience.</item>
    </h2sub>
    <flextrio>
      <item icon="platformops/icon1.svg" title="Build a platform developers want to use" text="Use the best tooling for both infrastructure and developer needs, using VMware Tanzu and open source components to build an app platform for your unique business objectives." list="[&quot;Design an app platform that considers both apps and infrastructure.&quot;, &quot;Collaboratively install, configure, and integrate the components for a dev-centric, production-ready platform.&quot;, &quot;Enable a dedicated platform team to manage and develop your cloud native platform.&quot;, &quot;Automate platform deployments, patching, upgrades, and operations.&quot;]"/>
      <item icon="platformops/icon-team.svg" title="Migrate apps and onboard developers" text="Speed up platform adoption and success at scale within your organization. Build developer confidence in your platform through enablement and fast feedback loops." list="[&quot;Establish a Kubernetes-based path to production for apps.&quot;, &quot;Create a developer on ramp for low-friction, self-service migration.&quot;, &quot;Minimize source code changes.&quot;, &quot;Drive platform features based on common app patterns.&quot;, &quot;Establish processes for continued app migration.&quot;, &quot;Evolve capabilities to meet changing app and developer needs. &lt;a href='https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/white-papers/why-you-should-treat-platform-as-a-product'&gt;Learn how to treat your platform like a product.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;]"/>
      <item icon="platformops/icon3.svg" title="Evolve your practices to keep pace" text="Master the skills and tooling needed to run a modern app platform. Then establish practices for sustained cloud native success. Empower a small team to change the production process and the platform itself—and scale future DevSecOps initiatives." list="[&quot;Update and patch your platform to achieve vulnerability and legacy budgets, while maintaining availability goals.&quot;, &quot;Respond to incidents and learn through retrospectives.&quot;, &quot;Extend your platform with new features to meet business needs.&quot;, &quot;Enable consistent visibility into platform metrics.&quot;, &quot;Work together to define SLOs for the platform.&quot;]"/>
    </flextrio>
    <platformcta>Why You Should Treat Platform as a Product</platformcta>
    <ebookcta>Production Kubernetes</ebookcta>
    <h3>Our services</h3>
    <h3sub>Your customers demand a seamless experience, and we can help you provide it. Shorten your product development lifecycle and deliver high-quality software that solves real problems—and learn to do it consistently, efficiently, and cost-effectively.</h3sub>
    <quad>
      <item title="Tanzu Navigator" text="Turn your Kubernetes goals into a plan of action and a design that can be implemented in production. We’ll research and test your hypotheses around user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility." img="img3.jpg"/>
      <item title="Platform Deployment" text="We’ll help you identify the platforms you want to build and offer to users. We’ll install, configure, integrate, and extend VMware Tanzu or another Kubernetes platform in your environment." img="img3.jpg"/>
      <item title="Platform Development" text="Our Kubernetes architects can help you design, build and scale a production-ready app platform leveraging VMware Tanzu, Kubernetes, commercial and open source building blocks. Provide your developers with an app platform tailored to your portfolio and business objectives." img="img4.jpg"/>
      <item title="Platform Management" text="We offer a fully managed platform service including patching, updates and 24/7 incident response in alignment with your availability objectives. Or we provide hands-on enablement to teach your team how to expertly manage your platform." img="img4.jpg"/>
      <item title="Continuous Delivery" text="Optimize your path to production and improve app lifecycle management in all environments. We’ll help you build or adapt existing CI/CD pipelines, providing you with enhanced security, compliance and consistency through automation." img="img4.jpg"/>
      <item title="Modern Platform Governance" text="Prioritize platform feature delivery while achieving your security and compliance objectives. Together, we’ll internally market your VMware Tanzu or another Kubernetes platform to acquire users and workloads and build a super-user community. Our experts pair with your people to establish and enable your dedicated Platform Team." img="img1.jpg"/>
      <item title="Health Check" text="A 360-degree assessment of your platform health, ensuring that the dedicated people in your Platform Team and the VMware Tanzu technology can provide mission-critical services to your customers. We’ll build a plan for continued refinement, identifying opportunities for improvement of people, process, application/platform design and technology to support you in getting the best results from your platform." img="img2.jpg"/>
    </quad>
    <quote>“We engaged with VMware Tanzu Labs to learn how to create a developer experience and not just operate a platform.”</quote>
    <quoted>Miranda LeBlanc, &lt;a href="/customers/liberty-mutual"&gt; Liberty Mutual&lt;/a&gt;</quoted>
    <ctaheader>Let’s start with one project.</ctaheader>
    <ctatext>Contact us about platform development.</ctatext>
    <timelineheadline>What we’ll do together</timelineheadline>
    <timeline>
      <item image="development-plan.jpg" headline="Plan" subhead="The first step" text="This is the most important part of the engagement. We lay the foundation for what’s to come, and define success for the rest of your organization." list="[&quot;Identify areas of opportunity, risk, and mitigations for your app platform and targeted apps.&quot;, &quot;Get an outcomes-based roadmap and plan how to achieve your key business objectives based on research and evidence.&quot;, &quot;Plan for increased security, stability, and speed of feature delivery.&quot;, &quot;Provide executive awareness of goals, challenges, opportunities and next steps.&quot;]"/>
      <item image="development-evolve.jpg" headline="Build and Evolve" subhead="Develop a platform developers want to use" text="Here, we’ll build a Kubernetes-based app platform. Our team will work with your team to leverage the best tooling for both infrastructure and developer needs." list="[&quot;Design an app platform that considers both apps and infrastructure.&quot;, &quot;Collaboratively install, configure and integrate the components needed for a developer-centric, production-ready platform.&quot;, &quot;Enable a dedicated platform team in user-centered, iterative approaches to manage and develop your cloud native platform.&quot;, &quot;Automate platform deployments, patching, upgrades and operations.&quot;, &quot;Evolve capabilities to meet changing needs of your developers and applications. Learn how to treat your platform like a product.&quot;]" capabilities="[{:headline=&gt;&quot;Kubernetes installed&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Cluster bootstrapping and lifecycle management handled.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Storage Integration&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Integrate underlying storage providers with containers.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Container Networking&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Provide container networking plugin, configure with best practices, and integrate with underlying network.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Service Routing&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Expose applications, balancing load, and securing traffic.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Observability&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Logging, monitoring, alerting, and tracing for the cluster and applications.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Platform Security&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Admission control, identity, and runtime security.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Platform Adopted&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Application running on the platform.&quot;}]"/>
      <item image="development-launch.jpg" headline="Launch and Adopt" subhead="Migrate apps and on-board developers" text="Accelerate platform adoption and success at scale. Here’s how we’ll do it." list="[&quot;Establish Kubernetes-based path to production for apps&quot;, &quot;Create a developer on-ramp for low-friction, self-service, migration&quot;, &quot;Minimize source code changes required&quot;, &quot;Drive platform features based on common application patterns&quot;, &quot;Build confidence in your platform with your developers&quot;, &quot;Establish processes for continued app migration&quot;]" capabilities="[{:headline=&gt;&quot;Kubernetes Available&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Platform built atop Kubernetes made available for Developers.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Developer Workflow&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Application development, build, and testing lifecycles.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Application Enchancements&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Application practices to enable resilience, observability, and scaling of an application.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Build and Packaging&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Building, containerizing, versioning, and packaging applications.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Application Lifecycle&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Automating advanced application lifecycles such as stateful workloads.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Observability&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Tracing, logging, and monitoring practices for cloud native apps.&quot;}, {:headline=&gt;&quot;Cloud Native Apps&quot;, :text=&gt;&quot;Application deploying, running, and scaling successfully on cloud native infrastructure&quot;}]"/>
      <item image="development-manage.jpg" headline="Manage" subhead="Evolve practices and tooling to keep pace" text="Master the skills needed to run a modern platform. Then establish modern practices for sustained cloud native success." list="[&quot;Update and patch your platform to achieve vulnerability and legacy budgets, while maintaining availability goals.&quot;, &quot;Respond to incidents and learn through retrospectives.&quot;, &quot;Extend your platform with new features to meet business needs.&quot;, &quot;Enable consistent visibility into platform metrics.&quot;, &quot;Work together to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the platform.&quot;]"/>
    </timeline>
    <services>
      <item headline="Tanzu Navigator" text="[&quot;Turn your Kubernetes goals into a plan of action and a design that can be implemented in production. We’ll research and test your hypotheses around user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.&quot;]" icon="icon-tanzu-navigator.svg"/>
      <item headline="Platform Deployment" text="[&quot;We’ll help you identify the platforms you want to build and offer to users. We’ll install, configure, integrate, and extend VMware Tanzu or another Kubernetes platform in your environment.&quot;]" icon="icon-platform-deployment.svg"/>
      <item headline="Platform Development" text="[&quot;Our Kubernetes architects can help you design, build and scale a production-ready app platform leveraging VMware Tanzu, Kubernetes, commercial and open source building blocks. Provide your developers with an app platform tailored to your portfolio and business objectives.&quot;]" icon="icon-platform-development.svg"/>
      <item headline="Platform Management" text="[&quot;We offer a fully managed platform service including patching, updates and 24/7 incident response in alignment with your availability objectives. Or we provide hands-on enablement to teach your team how to expertly manage your platform.&quot;]" icon="icon-platform-management.svg"/>
      <item headline="Health Check" text="[&quot;A 360-degree assessment of your platform health, ensuring that the dedicated people in your Platform Team and the VMware Tanzu technology can provide mission-critical services to your customers. We’ll build a plan for continued refinement, identifying opportunities for improvement of people, process, application/platform design and technology to support you in getting the best results from your platform.&quot;]" icon="icon-health-check.svg"/>
      <item headline="Modern Platform Governance" text="[&quot;Prioritize platform feature delivery while achieving your security and compliance objectives. Together, we’ll internally market your VMware Tanzu or another Kubernetes platform to acquire users and workloads and build a super-user community. Our experts pair with your people to establish and enable your dedicated Platform Team.&quot;]" icon="icon-modern-platform.svg"/>
    </services>
  </platform-ops>
  
  
  
  
  <app-modernization>
    <h1>Move your apps to the cloud in weeks</h1>
    <intro>Migrating your existing apps can be daunting—but it doesn’t have to be. We’ll help you develop a tailored app modernization strategy that delivers production outcomes. Improve agility while reducing costs and tech debt with our proven Cloud Native Readiness techniques.</intro>
    <stats>
      <item>85% reduction in install and update work</item>
    </stats>
    <statcta>Read about Yahoo! Japan</statcta>
    <h2>Achieve breakthrough speed, resiliency, and savings</h2>
    <h2sub>Go beyond tactical solutions to create a proven and lasting strategy for your application migration. VMware Tanzu Labs teaches you how to modernize your most business-critical apps first and rapidly make impactful architectural improvements. We’ll help you start small, and scale fast.</h2sub>
    <casestudies>
      <item img="dicks-thumbnail.jpg" title="DICK’S Sporting Goods: What is the Future of Retail in a Cloud App World?" link="tanzu.vmware.com/.../jul-11-dicks-sporting-goods-what-is-the-future-of-retail-in-a-cloud-app-world-webinar" cta="Watch the webinar"/>
      <item img="liberty-moto.jpg" title="Modernizing Legacy Software is Paying Off for Liberty Mutual" link="tanzu.vmware.com/.../justin-stone-liberty-mutual-insurance-modernizing-legacy-software" cta="Read the story"/>
    </casestudies>
    <rightpoints>
      <item>Modernize decades of complex legacy systems in weeks, not months</item>
      <item>Automate the path to production for quicker release cycles</item>
      <item>Deliver apps to production atop Kubernetes</item>
      <item>Improve your security posture with zero&amp;#8209;downtime patching</item>
      <item>Sunset legacy licensing costs and align IT budget with innovation</item>
      <item>Establish patterns for subsequent migrations</item>
    </rightpoints>
    <h3>Put your apps on the right track</h3>
    <h3sub>We’ll analyze your app portfolio to develop and execute a modernization strategy that delivers results quickly. You’ll have a sustainable roadmap for application modernization, aligned with new delivery practices that result in lasting improvement and meaningful outcomes.</h3sub>
    <step1>Start small</step1>
    <step1text>During a brief VMware App Navigator engagement, we’ll get to work using targeted technical spikes and business analysis to determine an ideal set of apps with low technical risk and high business value to start with, depending on your target infrastructure and business objectives.</step1text>
    <step1link>TIME Analysis</step1link>
    <step2>Learn sustainable practices</step2>
    <step2text>As we rehost, replatform or refactor apps and deploy to production, you’ll have a cookbook of patterns and practices tailored to your portfolio to streamline and accelerate future modernization work.</step2text>
    <step2link>Guides</step2link>
    <step3>Break down big apps</step3>
    <step3text>Transition monolithic systems into microservices that can boost feature velocity across your development organization.</step3text>
    <step4>Automate everything</step4>
    <step4text>Identify waste in your development workflow and replace manual processes with automation to streamline the path to production and improve outcomes.</step4text>
    <quote>“VMware Tanzu Labs is unique in their approach to modernizing and building cloud native enterprise apps.”</quote>
    <quoted>Lenny Jaramillo, &lt;a href="/customers/northern-trust"&gt; Northern Trust&lt;/a&gt;</quoted>
    <sides>
      <item img="wp-tackle-app-modernization.jpg" type="White Paper" title="Tackle Application Modernization in Days and Weeks, Not Months and Years" link="tanzu.vmware.com/.../tackle-application-modernization-in-days-and-weeks-not-months-and-years" ctatext="Download the white paper"/>
    </sides>
    <lgctatitle>App Modernization Recipes</lgctatitle>
    <lgctatext>We’ve helped many customers migrate their software to the cloud over the years. As a result, we’ve zeroed in on the patterns and techniques we believe work best.</lgctatext>
    <lgctalink>Get our latest App Modernization Recipes</lgctalink>
    <ctaheader>Let’s start with one project.</ctaheader>
    <ctatext>Contact us about modernizing apps.</ctatext>
  </app-modernization>
  <product-development>
    <h1>Deliver the apps your customers crave</h1>
    <intro>Partner with us and match proven product development methods with modern technology—and revitalize the way you build software.</intro>
    <stats>
      <item>&lt;strong&gt;30%&lt;/strong&gt;increase in subscribers</item>
      <item>&lt;strong&gt;5x&lt;/strong&gt;faster to production</item>
      <item>&lt;strong&gt;70%&lt;/strong&gt;developer time spent coding</item>
    </stats>
    <statcta>Read about SambaSafety</statcta>
    <h2>We help companies like yours get ahead—and stay there</h2>
    <h2sub>VMware Tanzu Labs has refined our product development process through decades of practice. We can help you validate your concepts and quickly build software that creates incredible customer experiences.</h2sub>
    <rightpoints>
      <item title="Rapidly develop valuable software and iterate continuously" img="icon-iterate.svg"/>
      <item title="Reduce risk and eliminate waste" img="icon-risk.svg"/>
      <item title="Rebuild organizational culture around delivering outcomes at speed" img="icon-organization.svg"/>
    </rightpoints>
    <h3>Master the key components for building modern software</h3>
    <h3sub>Your customers demand a seamless experience, and we can help you provide it. Shorten your product development lifecycle and deliver software that solves real problems—and learn how to do it consistently, efficiently, and cost-effectively.</h3sub>
    <flextrio>
      <item type="Development" title="Extreme programming" text="React to change with consistent speed and quality. Extreme programming (XP) helps your teams build working software in the face of changing requirements." how="[&quot;Work in collaborative, cross-functional teams.&quot;, &quot;Practice pair programming and test-driven development.&quot;, &quot;Deliver in short iterations with continuous integration/deployment.&quot;]" img="img1.jpg"/>
      <item type="Design" title="User-centered design" text="Focus your product design on what your customers need. User-centered design takes an evidence-based approach to ensure the software you build solves real problems." how="[&quot;Conduct user research.&quot;, &quot;Produce prototypes and user interfaces.&quot;, &quot;Integrate accessibility.&quot;, &quot;Practice service design and experience strategy.&quot;]" img="img2.jpg"/>
      <item type="Product Management" title="Lean product management" text="Decrease risk and reduce waste. Lean uses constant validated learning to reduce the risk of building the wrong product while still being able to comfortably change direction." how="[&quot;Define a minimum viable product (MVP).&quot;, &quot;Conduct lean experiments.&quot;, &quot;Identify and test assumptions.&quot;, &quot;Make data-driven decisions.&quot;]" img="img3.jpg"/>
    </flextrio>
    <roadmapcta>Practical Advice for Product Roadmaps</roadmapcta>
    <h4>Build better with balanced teams</h4>
    <h4sub>We bring more to the table than sticky notes. The multidisciplinary experts on Tanzu Labs’ Balanced Teams bring diverse skills and perspectives to your product development. Our cross-functional product teams succeed because each team member has unique expertise and perspectives that everyone can learn from. This shared knowledge helps us make quick, informed decisions and reduce waste by eliminating handoffs.</h4sub>
    <h3cta>Download the white paper</h3cta>
    <quote>“[VMware Tanzu Labs'] immersion-style training left the team I visited visibly fired up about developing in new ways. They had both the skills and the energy to make fundamental changes to their work style. [Tanzu Labs] has taken the Extreme Programming of 20 years ago, gathered hundreds of thousands of hours of experience on live projects, and reimagined it for today’s developer. I would recommend their training for anyone seeking rapid improvement.”</quote>
    <quoted>Kent Beck, author of &lt;em&gt;Extreme Programming&lt;/em&gt;</quoted>
    <ctaheader>Let’s start with one project.</ctaheader>
    <ctatext>Contact us about building apps.</ctatext>
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