VMware Tech Showcase

Today at VMware Explore, VMware announced the Tech Showcase program created by the VMware xLabs team part of the VMware Office of the CTO (OCTO) team. Tech Showcase is a free program that will give you early access to products before they are fully released to the public.

It’s similar to VMware Flings, what sets it apart is that the feedback you provide will go directly to the teams working on the product, this allow for collaborations with you that will help shape the future of that product.

A good way to think of it is if you had access to VMware Tanzu before Tanzu existed and you could provide feedback to the teams building Tanzu to help shape what Tanzu is today.

The two Showcase Services that are being offered at launch are Project Keswick and Project Trinidad. VMware plans to add more in the future.

Project Keswick is like a Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) but it runs ESXi and the PE is actually an optimized version of Kubernetes that you can use to deploy your edge workload. I’m very curious about how this will evolve. You can read more about Project Keswick in VMware’s documentation here or you can read the original announcement on the OCTO blog here.

Project Trinidad is like an EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) type product for APIs that run in Kubernetes. I suspect it will have some nice integrations with Project Keswick, if it doesn’t you can always leave some feedback to request that. You can read more about Project Trinidad in VMware’s documentation here or you can read the original announcement on the OCTO blog here.

Currently, the focus of Tech Showcase is on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) products for now but in the future that may change to include on-premises products too.

I’ll be interested to see how Tech Showcase evolves and I will be extra happy if they do end up expanding it to include on-premises products.

If you want to learn more about VMware Tech Showcase you can do so by going to vmware.com/showcase