Paul Bryant is a Principal Multicloud Architect at Dell Technologies, sharing expert insights on hybrid cloud, HCI, and enterprise IT transformation.
154 articles from this blog
A guide to selecting and implementing AI gateway patterns for enterprises, covering API management, LLM proxies, edge gateways, and agent tool gateways.
Explores VMware Cloud Foundation multi-tenancy using a city metaphor, detailing how to design secure tenant neighborhoods on a shared platform.
Designing NSX microsegmentation with distributed firewall policy around applications, using a vault metaphor for workload isolation.
AI coding tools boost code volume but create operational bottlenecks in review, security, and ops, requiring new CIO metrics.
Learn how to build an operating model for AI gateways, covering identity, policy, observability, and cost controls for production readiness.
Microsoft Azure Arc extends Azure management to hybrid, multicloud, and edge resources, enabling a unified operating model for governance, security, and monitoring.
A scorecard with 12 questions for CEOs and boards to assess AI readiness before scaling enterprise AI initiatives, focusing on governance, value, and risk control.
AI gateways are becoming the control point for enterprise AI, handling identity, routing, governance, and observability.
This article discusses how CIOs should redesign IT operating models for AI-augmented work, emphasizing centralized control with federated business ownership and clear accountability boundaries.
Explains NSX as a nervous system for network connectivity, covering segments, gateways, security, and telemetry with practical design insights.
Explores how enterprise AI context windows need explicit memory, reset, and retrieval boundaries to prevent drift and errors.
An analysis of technology concentration risk for CEOs and CIOs, covering AI, cloud, chips, and vendor dependency, with strategies for resilience.
Explores why neoclouds need vendor-neutral AI infrastructure orchestration to differentiate beyond GPU capacity, focusing on lifecycle management and platform services.
A practical guide comparing private AI cloud, sovereign cloud, and neocloud for enterprise AI infrastructure decisions.
This article explains how to build an IT AI insight engine that connects operational signals like tickets and incidents into a governed context layer for better decisions.
A runbook for VCF 9.1 management-component backup and fleet disaster recovery, focusing on protecting the recovery control plane.
VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1 enables self-service disaster recovery via VCF Automation, balancing tenant autonomy with governance controls.
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.
