Private Compute, Public Burden
$64 billion in blocked projects. A statewide moratorium in Maine. Eleven states considering similar action. The industry keeps calling this a NIMBY problem. It isn't.
What Even Is Vibe Coding?
Everyone's either mocking the phrase or evangelizing it. Both camps are missing the point. "Vibe coding" is a dumb name for something that's actually reshaping who gets to build software, and what your 20 years of infrastructure experience is suddenly worth in that world. I have opinions. Lots of them.
Modernization Without the Meltdown
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.
Before We Begin | DCD Dispatch #00
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.
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.
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.
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…
Just When I Thought I Was Out … They Pull Me Back In!
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,…
What’s this Orbital Jigsaw stuff, DatacenterDude?
A lot of the responses to my previous post on taking a sabbatical that I received privately were inquiries about what I was up to, and a lot of questions around what all this Orbital Jigsaw mumbo-jumbo is about. So, rather…