Helping to achieve an efficient and sustainable Private Cloud
Every few weeks, a headline tells me AI is draining the planet, and the next one says a single prompt costs about as much as a sip of water. After 25+ years in IT and private cloud operations, I distrust any number that arrives without its methodology. So let's break it down the way we … Continue reading How Much Power, Carbon and Water Does One AI Prompt Really Use?
Many customers I work with already hold VCF licenses and haven’t started on 9.1. When I ask why, the answer is almost always the same: “We don’t have spare hardware for a management domain.” With vSphere 8 reaching end of general support on 11 October 2027 (technical guidance continues to October 2029, but without new patches), … Continue reading No Spare Hardware? Reclaim It: A Practical Path to VCF 9.1 Before vSphere 8 Reaches End of Support
I was recently at a keynote on AI and cloud native applications when the speaker dropped a line that stuck with me: 0 × AI = 0. The point was simple. Whatever you feed an AI tool — data, context, a half-formed question — gets multiplied by the model's capability. But multiply anything by zero, … Continue reading 0 × AI = 0: Why Your Experience Is the Multiplier, Not the Bottleneck
Five exams, one stack. I recently completed all five VCAP-VCF 9 certifications — Automation, Operations, Storage, Networking, and VKS. Here is my exam-guide-plus-Hands-on-Labs preparation method, section by section, for anyone chasing the same goal.
