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.
Newsletter
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.
events
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.
events
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.
News
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.
News
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.