Nick Howell
Still learning.
Still building.
Still calling out the hype.
30 years of enterprise infrastructure. Storage, networking, virtualization, cloud, AI inference, home lab, and whatever else is worth writing about this week.
Recent Writing
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I Was Busy Arguing with Reality
After years buried in cloud, alliances, and AI infrastructure, I’m bringing DatacenterDude back online. Saltier, sharper, and with a lot more to say.
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Resurrecting the Tech Community … in Discord?!
It’s hard to keep track of just how many forums, chat apps, user accounts, email addresses, and passwords we’ve had to endure the last 25 years. Enter DISCORD.
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Working Remotely & How to Prepare
In 2011, I relocated from Los Angeles to RTP to join NetApp. I didn’t even make it 2 years before having to head back to LA in 2013 for my own sanity. Since then, I have been considered a remote worker. Working from Home (WFH) has been a way of life for me these last…
The DatacenterDude Dispatch
Longer takes on Substack. Goes out when there is something worth saying.