family
Mohammad Siddiqui
Eleven Posts, Four Days, and a Date for Sydney
Eleven posts from Explore week in one place. Plus the replays are live, Vegas 2027 moves to spring, and On Tour reaches Sydney on 3–4 March 2027.
security
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later What Post-Quantum Actually Means for Your VCF Estate
RSA-2048 gets deprecated in 2030 and disallowed in 2035. That's closer than it sounds when the migration touches Secure Boot, TPMs, code signing and every certificate authority you run. Here's the honest position, including the parts that don't need fixing.
Newsletter
Eleven Management Packs in One Day: What VCF Operations Just Became
Five of the eleven are databases. That isn't a coincidence, and neither is the timing. What shipped, what changed underneath it, and the licensing detail that decides whether you can use any of it.
lifecycle
VCF 9.1.1 Is Billed as a Maintenance Release. The Networking Documentation Says Otherwise.
The release notes say supportability improvements and an updated BoM. Six capabilities got added to the Distributed VXLAN Connectivity Model, and there's a patch ordering dependency that will break your window if you miss it.
operations
The Layer Below the Hypervisor Why Bare-Metal Lifecycle Became a Compliance Problem
Adding a host to a VCF cluster still means a manual, a firmware lookup and a twelve-step checklist. DORA Articles 8 and 11 now have opinions about that, which turns an operational annoyance into a regulatory one.
security
The ARIE Track A Security Certification That Actually Names the Technologies
Three paths, forty hours at the deep end, and a curriculum list specific enough to tell you what Broadcom thinks a hardened VCF estate looks like. Useful even if you never sit the exam.
security
Assess, Architect, Implement, Upskill Broadcom's Frontier AI Security Programme, Read as a Design Method
A four-stage security framework with a scored assessment underneath it. The interesting part isn't the programme, it's the five pillars it scores you against, and the fact that one of them is people.
architecture
EVPN as the Meeting Point VCF Networking and Cisco Nexus One
The open networking strategy stops being an announcement and becomes an interoperability story. For anyone running NSX beside an existing Cisco fabric, this is the direction that decides your next design.
architecture
A Real GPU Reference Architecture VCF 9.1 on Supermicro HGX, Down to the Cable
Two B200 nodes, one liquid-cooled and one air-cooled, 3.2 Tb/s of GPU fabric per node, and a four-host EPYC management domain. This is what the AI Factory announcement looks like when somebody actually builds it.
Deen
How Islam Travelled
What came first, what came after, and how each school reached the countries it holds today, the routes, the mechanisms, and the dates.
Deen
The House and the Schools
One family, a hundred branches, and an honest attempt at the question everyone actually wants answered: who stays closest to Qur'an and Sunnah.