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• 動 The 12-month window when TPM libraries can't fix their own records The Way of Maintenance · 5 min When two large third-party-maintenance databases consolidate — merger, acquisition, portfolio rollup — their public EOSL libraries usually go stale for a year or more while the URL structure gets rebuilt. Buyers who rely on those libraries during the window see out-of-date dates, dead links, and empty rows. Here is how consolidations happen, why fresh-content dates are the signal to watch, and how to hedge.
• 空 Why TPM libraries show "Date Not Published" — and how to read past it The Way of Maintenance · 6 min Open any major third-party-maintenance library and you'll hit rows that just say "Date Not Published" or a bare dash where the EOSL date should be. The reason isn't laziness; it's the shape of the vendor-disclosure market. Here is what that empty cell actually means, how to triangulate the answer yourself, and why Bushido shows a confidence-scored estimate instead.
• 護 Why past-EOSL hardware becomes a CVE liability — and what your real options are Defense & Vigilance · 8 min End of service life isn't a compliance-calendar event. It's the day the vendor stops shipping firmware for the CVEs that will land on your gear next quarter. Here is the honest map of what still works, what stops working, and how to think about the risk without panicking or ignoring it.
• 審 How to vet a third-party maintenance provider without getting burned The Way of Maintenance · 6 min A buyer's checklist. Six honesty markers that separate a real TPM shop from a fresh-domain lead generator. Bushido doesn't sell contracts, so we have no dog in the fight — but we've watched enough procurement cycles to know exactly where the surface cracks first.
• 道 The case for keeping it The Way of Maintenance · 5 min Sometimes the right answer is to maintain. A discipline for recognizing when replacement is the lazy choice, not the wise one.
• 網 Why switches outlast servers (and when they don't) Networks & Edge · 5 min Network gear has different lifecycle physics than compute. A working framework for when a 10-year-old switch is fine and when it is a liability.
• 速 Spindle to silicon: why all-flash won the enterprise Storage & Performance · 5 min The economic crossover happened around 2021 and most SMB infrastructure has not caught up. A working framework for when SSD is the cheaper choice and when it is not.
• 警 BEC is the new ransomware: why email security is your highest-ROI control Defense & Vigilance · 6 min Ransomware gets the headlines. Business email compromise drains more money quietly. The math on email security has changed; here is what to actually do about it.