AI agents don't come to your data estate on a schedule. They come when they have a question. Most object storage platforms were never designed for that access pattern. Here's what that gap means for your infrastructure, and why NetApp StorageGRID was quietly built for exactly this moment.
There's a new interface layer being standardized across the web right now. It's written in plain text. It's been quietly adopted by Anthropic, Stripe, Cloudflare, and hundreds of others. And your enterprise almost certainly doesn't have one.
For the last two years, enterprise IT shops running hypervisor environments have been staring at a short menu of bad options. The NetApp and Nutanix alliance just added a fourth one.
After years buried in cloud, alliances, and AI infrastructure, I’m bringing DatacenterDude back online. Saltier, sharper, and with a lot more to say.
It’s pretty amazing what a couple of years away, some serious time off for passion projects, and building your own company can do for your perspective in life. What I’ve Been Up To Two years ago, in July of 2016,…
Last week, on May 19th, 2015, I was laid off from NetApp.
A comment was made on the podcast the other day and the first thing that came to mind was this. Let’s have a bit of a Reality Check for a moment. This whole notion of “Software-Defined” is not much…
As has become [almost] the status quo for tech bloggers, it’s borderline-mandatory that we do a “predictions for the next year” type of post, so that we can look back on it and laugh the following year. I didn’t get…
I’ve been waiting a long time to get to this post. I knew it needed to be talked about, I wanted to make sure we did it right, and I finally found the right person to speak as an SME…
So I’ve been thinking a lot lately. I keep coming back to an idea I theorized a year or so ago, where eventually, as x86 servers have now become, hypervisors themselves will eventually become a commodity. The theory extends around…
