family
How we came to Australia
Sultan, Naseem and five-week-old Sajid landed in Sydney on Boxing Day 1971. How it happened, told from the original letters and documents
Mohammad Siddiqui
architecture
The Engineer's Companion: Topology, Network, Storage and Integrations at Each Stage
The data plane barely changes across all four stages. The management plane triples. That is the real cost curve of adoption, and it belongs in front of an operations lead early.
lifecycle
The Staged Path From vSphere 8 to VCF 9.1
Rushing a full adoption to hit a compliance date produces a worse VCF outcome than staging it. Five stages, three stopping points, and the distinction that decides your scope.
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What’s new in the record - September 2026
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The Family Archive
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The Year of 1971
News
What 188 Sessions Tell You About Explore 2026
The shape of a conference programme is a statement about where a vendor thinks the conversation is. Five sessions on upgrade and migration. Seven on design. Out of 188.
architecture
The Platform Decision: How to Run the Evaluation Without a Recommended Answer
Most material on this question is written by people who already know what they want you to choose. This is the method instead — requirements first, weighted before you see a demo.
lifecycle
Cloud Director 10.6.2: A Migration Release, and a Lifecycle Statement
10.6.2 shares its end-of-life date with VCF 9.1. The migration timeline is no longer entirely yours to set
architecture
Centralising GitOps: Argo CD Lands Natively in VCF Automation 9.1.1
One Argo CD instance per hosting namespace, scoped to one region. It's Tech Preview, but the namespace design constraint applies now.
events
188 Sessions. Here Are the Ones Worth Watching.
Nine themes, the ten most-watched, and three picks worth your time. AgentMinder took the top slot, and the CPU scheduler session is badly undervalued.
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