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September 3, 2026 · 3 min read

IPv6 Adoption: Dual Stack vs. IPv6-Only, and How to Decide What Your Edge Can Carry

IPv6 stopped being a someday problem years ago. The question left is whether dual stack or IPv6-only fits your edge, and that answer starts with an inventory.

September 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Backup and Disaster Recovery: What Replicating On-Premises Workloads to a Cloud DR Site Really Involves

Backup answers whether you can restore a file. Disaster recovery answers whether the business keeps operating, and that's a much bigger design problem.

September 3, 2026 · 3 min read

NSX Segmentation and What 'Zero Trust Ready' Actually Means at the Network Layer

Zero Trust gets used loosely in vendor marketing. At the network layer it means something specific, and NSX is where that specific thing gets enforced.

September 3, 2026 · 3 min read

vSAN vs. a Traditional Storage Appliance: When Local-Disk Distributed Storage Is the Right Call

Both approaches give a cluster a shared datastore, but they get there in almost opposite ways, and the right choice depends on what's already in the rack.

September 3, 2026 · 4 min read

VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Readiness: What Changes From vSphere 8, and How to Assess Your Hardware

VCF 9 is not a version bump, it's a different management model, and the hardware compatibility check has to happen before anything gets racked.