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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It’s a F**king Mainframe.
AI isn’t primarily a UX story. It’s an infrastructure control story wearing a conversational mask, and a lot of old-school operators are more relevant to this era than they think.
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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.
The DatacenterDude Dispatch
Longer takes on Substack. Goes out when there is something worth saying.