architecture
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.
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.
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.
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
architecture
Every infrastructure budget conversation this year has the same shape: hardware costs up, refresh budgets flat, and the supply environment for GPUs, memory, and NVMe tightening the “2026 hardware crunch” that has its own session track at VMware Explore this month. When the hardware line item grows, it pressures everything
architecture
Las Vegas, 31 August – 3 September. Strip away the keynote schedule and there’s a specific set of sessions that matter for regulated-industry platform teams. The technical selection, with the reasoning whether you attend or catch the recordings. VMware Explore 2026 runs 31 August to 3 September at the
operations
Not every VCF journey starts with an empty rack. VCF 9.1’s installer wizard and import workflows convert existing vCenter estates into management or workload domains the mechanics, the constraint surface, and the assessment that decides import versus migrate. The majority of VCF adoption conversations start from infrastructure that
architecture
DBaaS on your own infrastructure: policy-scoped self-service provisioning, lifecycle automation across PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server, and integration with VCF Automation. The technical architecture, the governance model, and where it fits in a regulated estate. Databases are usually the last workload class to join any platform’s operating
kubernetes
Kubernetes admission policy is where workload security stops being advisory. Broadcom’s new policy bundle for vSphere Kubernetes Service packages the baseline controls the engineering question is how you operate policy at fleet scale without breaking application teams. The technical read. Broadcom shipped a policy bundle for vSphere Kubernetes Service
architecture
When a new VCF release lands, my first read isn’t the announcement blog. It’s the what’s-new section of the release notes, line by line, with a notepad open. I want to know which lines will appear in customer HLDs over the next six months, and which
Newsletter
Baseline-based host patching has been deprecated since vSphere 8.0 and cannot carry you into vSphere 9.