events
Explore 2027 moves to spring
Explore 2026 wrapped in Las Vegas with 4,700 attendees, and the 2027 event moves to spring. What that changes for anyone planning around it.
Presales solution architect, Sydney. Enterprise cloud and VCF, mostly in financial services. VMware vExpert. I write about the decisions, not the datasheets.
events
Explore 2026 wrapped in Las Vegas with 4,700 attendees, and the 2027 event moves to spring. What that changes for anyone planning around it.
security
Six thousand AI-generated patches were tested. A quarter of them fixed the vulnerability without breaking the application. The statistic is the easy part.
events
The hard part of enterprise AI was never the model. It's letting an agent use enterprise data without giving it access to enterprise data. Tanzu's answer is governed data products published to a marketplace. GA is Fall 2026.
events
An autonomous agent doesn't fit the user model or the service account model. Broadcom's answer gives agents identities, missions and runtime policy, and routes every action through a gateway that checks intent before execution.
news
Three announcements covering the platform, the automation underneath it, and the models that run on it. Here's the technical read and the questions I'd want answered before any of it lands in a design.
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news
Four days at the Venetian, and I'm following it from the wrong timezone. Here's the shortlist, and why the announcements from last week already tell you where the platform is going.
Deen
The Qur'an, the Sunnah and all four schools on riba, every serious argument for bank interest and the reply to it, and an investigation into where Australia's "Shariah-compliant" home finance money actually comes from.
Deen
The full record on marking the Prophet's ﷺ birth: the Quranic and hadith texts both camps rely on, the history from Fatimid Cairo to the Ottomans, the disputed date, and each side's scholars in their own words, with sources.
Deen
Did the salaf mark the Prophet's birthday, and does it matter that they didn't? The Quran and Sunnah on both sides, Ibn Taymiyyah and al-Suyuti in their own words, the disputed date, and a simple test for any gathering you're invited to.
architecture
Half of enterprise AI workloads already run on-premises or in private cloud. Nearly a third of organisations have repatriated a quarter or more of their workloads in the past year. If you're trying to fund a self-service platform, these are the numbers to put in front
operations
Auto-renewal in VCF 9.1 fires 60 days before expiry, which sounds like plenty of margin until you find out you can't switch it on for a certificate that's already inside that window. Here's how the renewal model actually works and what to