DatacenterDude

Nick Howell

Nick Howell reads DatacenterDude.com aloud. Audio versions of the essays, blogs, and newsletter issues. AI infrastructure, data-center reality, and notes from 30 years in the fight.

  1. Productivity Dependency Outpacing Governance

    May 13

    Productivity Dependency Outpacing Governance

    We've watched this pattern play out across four generations of enterprise IT. AI tooling is next, and this time there's nothing to repatriate.

    17 min
  2. Mainframes! We Are SO Back, Baby!

    May 11

    Mainframes! We Are SO Back, Baby!

    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 mainframe became a punchline. Turns out it was just patient.

    15 min
  3. Europe Just Hit Cancel | DCD Dispatch #02

    May 7

    Europe Just Hit Cancel | DCD Dispatch #02

    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 sovereign cloud are finally ready.

    13 min
  4. Your Slack Workspace Trained Your Replacement

    May 6

    Your Slack Workspace Trained Your Replacement

    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 infrastructure veterans solved 30 years ago, in a tier the SaaS vendors quietly excused themselves from governing.

    13 min
  5. That’s No Moon… it’s a LEO Datacenter

    May 4

    That’s No Moon… it’s a LEO Datacenter

    "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.

    9 min
  6. Cloudflare Unweight is actually a Storage Problem

    Apr 27

    Cloudflare Unweight is actually a Storage Problem

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

    19 min
  7. The Day I Stopped Pretending I Knew Everything | DCD Dispatch #01

    Apr 23

    The Day I Stopped Pretending I Knew Everything | DCD Dispatch #01

    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.

    14 min
  8. AI is Giving Object Storage Its Moment

    Apr 20

    AI is Giving Object Storage Its Moment

    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.

    11 min
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Nick Howell reads DatacenterDude.com aloud. Audio versions of the essays, blogs, and newsletter issues. AI infrastructure, data-center reality, and notes from 30 years in the fight.

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    Nick Howell
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    15
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    Explicit
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