Tanzu, AgentMinder, and the Difference Between a Bind and a Grant
AgentMinder + Tanzu on VCF. What changed when I stopped building my own agent infrastructure by hand and started running it on a real platform.
DGX Spark — connecting
Why I moved my AI-ITOps and coding work from Claude to Cursor
More models to choose from, an auto mode that took me from a $120 subscription to a $20 one, and a tidier way to run agents.
The reason to build an MCP server is not the reason you think
An MCP server across 7,698 VCF operations bought me four things. Three are nice. The fourth is the only one that matters for agents on real infrastruc…
I've turned Claude into my first officer on the Starship Enterprise
Talking to an agent in human language is wasteful, and until that changes I decided to at least enjoy it. What happened when I told Claude it works fo…
I told the agent not to do the one thing that would have fixed my problem
Where agents belong and where they don't, why hallucinations aren't the real failure mode, and an ESXi 9 certificate mismatch that cost five bring-ups…
We're Taking Zero Trust for Multi-Cluster VKS to VMware Explore in Vegas
The session with Chris McCain made it through the People's Choice vote. Tuesday September 1, 10:15am PDT in Las Vegas, plus the VMUG session that was…
I Let Claude Code Deploy My VCF 9.1 Home Lab, and This Is What Happened
Zero to nested VCF on a bare HP ML350, with an agent doing the work and me playing Xbox. It worked. The interesting part is what you have to put in pl…
Agents are like genies in a bottle, be careful what you wish for
why you can't glue deterministic systems on non deterministic agents
Shared Memory Across Agents Is an Identity Problem: The Story of the Badge and the Filing Room
What a journey to shared memory taught me about agent identity.
I Put Claude Code in Charge of Hermes, and Then I Couldn't Leave the Room
I made Claude Code be orchestrator above Hermes and it was exhausting.
Nemo vs. Hermes: The Track to Get My Agent to Stop Lying to Me
Moving from NemoClaw to Hermes, the fabrication problem that came with it, and the track to get grounding right, from SOUL.md to the harness itself.
Llamagate: A Gateway in Front of My Home Lab's Ollama
Llamagate is a transparent reverse proxy for Ollama that adds token usage counting today, with observability and access control on the roadmap — built…
Home AI Lab, Chapter 1: Unboxing the Gold Box
I bought an NVIDIA DGX Spark here are the first few hours of setup actually looked like.
Our Blog Series: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Private AI with Broadcom
A four-part deep dive with Agustin Malanco, Will Arroyo, and Oren Penso on securing a complete private AI stack — from GPU tenancy to zero-trust micro…
VMUG Global 2026 with Chris McCain - Microsegmentation for VMs and Containers
A session with Chris McCain at VMUG Global Virtual 2026 on applying microsegmentation across VMs and containers — and it's a preview of our VMware Exp…
Vote for Our VMware Explore 2026 Session — Zero Trust for Apps Across Multi-Cluster VKS
Our session with Chris McCain on automating zero trust security across multi-cluster VKS is up for the VMware Explore 2026 People's Choice Award — and…
VCF 9 and the Private AI Control Plane
What enterprise platform teams can learn from running AI workloads at home — isolation, policy, and the operator experience.
CatWatch: Computer Vision on the Edge
A family project — detecting which cat is at the door using a local model, because cloud APIs don't need to know about my cats.