Humans transmit information using language, but how often do you stop and examine information sources for the content you consume? Originally, humans shared stories to transmit this information. Then our scholars and holy men began to write the information down. Eventually, thanks to the printing press, information that was written down could be produced and […]
Dell Technologies World – On-Site Report
I’m writing this on Day 2 of Dell Technologies World 2018. The conference in this timeframe in years past was EMC World. When Dell and EMC merged, the show was named Dell EMC World. This year, the name was changed to Dell Technologies World to reflect the companies that are part of the Dell world. […]
A Bad Reputation - what are you willing to risk for brand awareness?
Do you have a bad reputation? We need to talk about bad reputations and the winner-take-all philosophy in tech. Our companies compete for the same deals, and sometimes they go hard. But, how far is too far when you’re trying to win big deals? Would we know it when we see it? Scandal is what […]
Severless for the traditional infrastructure admin
Serverless is the new buzzword everyone loves to hate. Is it a real thing? Is it a poorly named marketing buzzword? Is it something I need to learn about? What everyone thinks it is When I asked people on Twitter for a definition of serverless, I got some interesting answers. Event-driven functional architectures — […]
Predictions for the Data Center in 2030
How will we manage the data center in 2030? The history of tech tells us that a lot can happen in 12 years. For example, lets look at what has happened in the past 12 years beginning in 20016. Technology has changed significantly with advances that have included the iPhone, Facebook, Twitter, Flash storage drives, […]
Keep Your Sanity: 5 Ways to Slow Down
We are going through yet another time of intense change in the IT industry. Since it is the end of the year, the pundits will start pontificating their view of how the world will look once we get through this transition period. The data center is dead! If you’re not on the public cloud your […]
Virtualize deep learning environments - is it possible?
As an industry, we have years of experience virtualization applications, but can we virtualize deep learning? In my last post, I mentioned HPC applications are architected in several ways. But how can we architect virtual environments if we don’t understand the applications we’ll run on them? In this post, I’ll describe deep learning applications, and discuss […]
Can you virtualize HPC Workloads?
You may have heard about high-performance computing (HPC), but have you ever wondered if you can virtualize HPC workloads? It is an interesting question. Data Scientists build HPC applications to do frame rendering that creates realistic animations, numerical simulation that helps build state-of-the-art jets, even modeling and simulations that create the financial models that our economies […]
Solaris changed our industry; lighting a candle
Solaris changed our industry. But according to reports, the Solaris operating system may be nearing death. Oracle, who acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, has laid off most of the remaining staff who were working on Solaris. There will be support for the OS until 2030, but this news feels like it needs a memorial. […]
Can rock stars fuel impostor syndrome, and what you need to know to protect yourself
If you’re in tech, you’ve probably heard of impostor syndrome. You’ve also most likely encountered so-called rock stars. But have you ever wondered if one feeds into the other? If the two are related, what can you do to protect yourself and keep a healthy view of your own talents and accomplishments? Words construct our […]