Tag: governance
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Vertex AI IAM, CMEK, and Data Governance (Google Cloud Gen AI Series, Part 10)
IAM decides who may call your Vertex AI models, CMEK decides who holds the encryption key, and data governance decides what Google keeps. Here is how to set all three without breaking production.
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Governing Private AI Consumption in VCF Automation: GPU Quotas, Policies and Roles (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 35)
GPU is the most expensive resource you will ever put behind self-service. Here is how to govern Private AI consumption in VCF Automation 9.1 with namespace GPU quotas, consumption policies, roles and per-namespace activation, without touching the AI stack itself.
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Troubleshooting, Hardening and the Verdict on VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 30)
The finale: where to look when a VCF Automation deployment fails, the hardening that actually matters including the certificate-rotation trap, and an honest verdict after 30 parts on who the product is for and when it is overkill.
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Approval, Lease and Day-2 Policies in VCF Automation: Governing the Catalog (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 16)
A self-service catalog without policies is unsupervised spending. Here is how approval, lease and day-2 action policies work in VCF Automation 9, how they combine when several match, and the one missing policy that fills your cluster with zombie VMs.
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Projects in VCF Automation: Members, Roles, Resource Limits and Constraints (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 8)
If the tenant is the wall, the project is the room. Members and roles, namespaces and resource limits, cloud zones, and constraints as the governance tags that steer placement.
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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