Enterprise IT has a noise problem.
Every week brings another wave of vendor announcements, licensing changes, "strategic realignments," and breathless AI press releases. Somewhere inside all of it are the three or four things that will actually change how you design, run, or budget your environment. Finding them is a part-time job nobody gave you hours for.
That's the job I'm taking. Welcome to Enterprise Techie.
Who's writing this
I'm David Davis. I've spent 25+ years in enterprise IT: CCIE, VMware vExpert, 100+ published courses on Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning, and co-founder of ActualTech Media, where we spent a decade translating enterprise tech for millions of IT pros before the company was acquired. I've sat on both sides - running infrastructure and interrogating the vendors who sell it.
What you'll get here
Analysis - the decode on what vendor moves actually mean, across AI platforms & infrastructure, AI in the enterprise, virtualization & private cloud, cloud & Kubernetes, enterprise storage, data protection & resilience, and cybersecurity.
Education - practical guides and deep dives that make you better at running this stuff, from a CCIE with 100+ published courses.
News - the handful of announcements each week that deserve your attention: what changed, why it matters, and what to do about it, in ten minutes or less.
Where we start
The timing isn't an accident. Enterprise IT is mid-upheaval: the Broadcom era is rewriting VMware licensing math, cloud bills are forcing repatriation conversations, and AI workloads are stressing infrastructure everyone thought was "done." The decisions made in the next couple of years will echo for a decade - and most coverage is written for investors, not for the people who have to run it. This briefing is for the people who have to run it.
Start here
Three recent decodes so you can see exactly what you signed up for:
One ask before you go: hit reply and tell me what stack you run and the problem that's eating your week. I read every reply, and it decides what gets covered.
See you in the brief,
- David