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Tanzu, AgentMinder, and the Difference Between a Bind and a Grant

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AgentMinder + Tanzu on VCF. What changed when I stopped building my own agent infrastructure by hand and started running it on a real platform.

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Why I moved my AI-ITOps and coding work from Claude to Cursor

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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The reason to build an MCP server is not the reason you think

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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 infrastructure.

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I've turned Claude into my first officer on the Starship Enterprise

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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 for me on the Enterprise.

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I told the agent not to do the one thing that would have fixed my problem

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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We're Taking Zero Trust for Multi-Cluster VKS to VMware Explore in Vegas

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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 the warm-up for it.

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I Let Claude Code Deploy My VCF 9.1 Home Lab, and This Is What Happened

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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 place before letting it.

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Agents are like genies in a bottle, be careful what you wish for

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

why you can't glue deterministic systems on non deterministic agents

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Shared Memory Across Agents Is an Identity Problem: The Story of the Badge and the Filing Room

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

What a journey to shared memory taught me about agent identity.

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I Put Claude Code in Charge of Hermes, and Then I Couldn't Leave the Room

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I made Claude Code be orchestrator above Hermes and it was exhausting.

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Nemo vs. Hermes: The Track to Get My Agent to Stop Lying to Me

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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Llamagate: A Gateway in Front of My Home Lab's Ollama

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Llamagate is a transparent reverse proxy for Ollama that adds token usage counting today, with observability and access control on the roadmap — built for small, self-hosted Ollama setups like a home AI lab on an NVIDIA DGX Spark.

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Home AI Lab, Chapter 1: Unboxing the Gold Box

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I bought an NVIDIA DGX Spark here are the first few hours of setup actually looked like.

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Our Blog Series: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Private AI with Broadcom

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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 microsegmentation to governing agentic workloads.

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VMUG Global 2026 with Chris McCain - Microsegmentation for VMs and Containers

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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 Explore session, up for the People's Choice Awards.

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Vote for Our VMware Explore 2026 Session — Zero Trust for Apps Across Multi-Cluster VKS

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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 the community decides who makes the stage.

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VCF 9 and the Private AI Control Plane

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

What enterprise platform teams can learn from running AI workloads at home — isolation, policy, and the operator experience.

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CatWatch: Computer Vision on the Edge

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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