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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.
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Explore 2027 moves to spring
Explore 2026 in Las Vegas wrapped on 3 September. 4,700 attendees, more than 400 sessions across four tracks, and seven product announcements before lunch on day one. This is the index. Everything I wrote during the week, in one place, plus the two things from the closing day that
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Only 26% of AI-Generated Patches Worked. That's Why TrueSource Exists.
Broadcom's supply chain announcement rests on an uncomfortable number, and the number is the most useful thing in it. AI finds vulnerabilities faster than people can. It still can't be trusted to fix them alone.
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Governed Data for Agents Tanzu's AI-Ready Data Foundations
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.
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AgentMinder and the Problem Your IAM System Wasn't Built For
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.
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VMware Private AI Cloud What Broadcom Announced, and What to Ask About It
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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Explore 2026 Starts Today What I'm Watching From Sydney
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.
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VMware Explore 2026 The FSI Architect’s Technical Session Guide
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