Paul Bryant is a Principal Multicloud Architect at Dell Technologies, sharing expert insights on hybrid cloud, HCI, and enterprise IT transformation.
177 articles from this blog
Explains VMware Cloud Foundation as a vertical city mental model, highlighting how its layers (compute, storage, networking, governance) work together for private cloud architecture.
Explores treating prompt engineering as an enterprise operating model, covering versioning, evaluation, governance, and lifecycle management for production prompts.
Guide to designing NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet fabrics for AI factories, covering topology, RoCE, congestion control, and validation.
Explores Azure Local as a distributed infrastructure platform using a power grid metaphor, covering architecture, governance, and operational benefits.
Explores how AI ROI can decline in production despite stable model quality, advocating for a living AI value contract to track business case validity.
Designing a shared VCF 9.1 recovery site for vSAN, VMFS, and NFS workloads, covering architecture, sizing, and migration considerations.
Building an on-premises ransomware clean room with VCF 9.1, focusing on trusted recovery, isolation, validation, and controlled promotion.
A framework for CEOs/CIOs to decide between private and public cloud AI, focusing on cost, control, and speed via five operating models.
Analyzes the myth that multicloud automatically ensures resilience, showing how shared dependencies can negate benefits and offering practical guidance.
Explore VCF 9.1 Private AI security architecture using NSX and vDefend to protect models, data, and GPU workloads in VMware Cloud Foundation.
A runbook for diagnosing AI assistant failures in production, covering handoffs, latency, hallucinations, and user loops, emphasizing system-level triage.
VMware Live Recovery is renamed to VCF Protection and Recovery in VCF 9.1, explaining the layered protection model and key changes.
A guide to migrating NVIDIA GPU scheduling from Kubernetes device plugins to Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA), covering safe migration strategies and best practices.
Analysis of VMware vDefend in VCF 9.1, turning NSX East-West security into a private cloud fabric, focusing on microsegmentation and workload-centric security.
Explains hybrid AI assistant architecture, comparing NLU, RAG, deterministic flows, and LLMs for enterprise use.
Explores how AI-driven productivity can create 'capability debt' by reducing learning opportunities, weakening expert pipelines, and increasing future operational risk.
Compares VMware Cloud Foundation, Dell AI Factory, and HPE Private Cloud AI for enterprise private AI, focusing on operating models.
Explore the evolution from VMware SRM 8.8 to VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1, highlighting how disaster recovery became an integrated platform capability.
Enterprise AI readiness depends on modernizing data, APIs, identity, and infrastructure, not just choosing models. CIOs must align modernization with AI use cases.
Guide to fixing VKS cluster upgrade blocks caused by SystemChecksSucceeded condition, covering PDB and webhook issues.
