DatacenterDude

<p>Fifty years ago, enterprise computing lived on one box. Then the PC arrived, and we spent the next five decades distributing everything that wasn't nailed down. Client/server. Virtualization. Containers. Cloud. The...

<p>Europe is in the middle of a coordinated rebuild of the software stack out from under American hyperscaler dependency. The licensing extortion got the procurement teams' attention. The open source apps and the...

<p>Defunct startups are selling Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads to AI labs for six figures. The privacy outrage and gold rush takes are missing the actual story: this is a data lifecycle failure...

<p>"Look at the size of that thing." Eight orgs racing to orbit. A million satellite filings in a single week. The pitch only works if three things all go right.</p>

<p>Cloudflare's new lossless LLM compression tool isn't really an AI story. It's a storage architecture story applied to GPU memory.</p>

<p>A year ago I hit a moment every infrastructure veteran eventually hits. I didn't know what I was looking at. Here's what I did about it, and why your 20 years of experience matter more than ever if you start now.</p>

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>$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.</p>

<p>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...

<p>The introductory issue of the DCD Dispatch newsletter. An introduction to me, where I've been, and what you can expect from subscribing.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>After years buried in cloud, alliances, and AI infrastructure, I’m bringing DatacenterDude back online. Saltier, sharper, and with a lot more to say.</p>