[ Infrastructure ] [ Ai and llms ] 21 min read
It's a Series of Buildings
Data centers are eighty years old and already 99% full. We need considerably more of them, and we're making a hash of deciding where they go.
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[ Everything else ] [ Infrastructure ] 5 min read
Moving to Hugo
Since its inception, this blog has run on WordPress. I hosted it with a hosting provider, who gave me a dedicated VM on which I installed WordPress and the assorted tools, themes, and plugins to make it run how I wanted …
[ Tech field day ] [ Infrastructure ] 6 min read
Uila: Visions of the Future
If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then nascent software company Uila has written a novel with their breakout software product for monitoring, and performing root cause analysis on, virtualized and …
[ Tech field day ] [ Infrastructure ] 6 min read
ZeroStack — Simplified and Automated OpenStack
“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.” ~ Edward Tuft In the ever-so-neatly packaged and marketed buzzword bingo world that we know as “cloud,” there are two generally accepted …
[ Tech field day ] [ Infrastructure ] 3 min read
Virtualization Field Day 6
I’m sitting here watching an episode of Top Gear as I write this, and waxing contemplative on my recent invitation to both a Tech Field Day one-day event and Virtual Field Day 6 . Both are being held in the same week, …
[ Infrastructure ] 4 min read
Musings on Storage
I know I haven’t exactly been filling the blog-space with useful tidbits, random ramblings, or musings on clown psychology lately. To be fair, however, I have been pretty heads-down in two different areas: one on my CCIE …
[ Infrastructure ] [ Networking ] 7 min read
Nexus Crash
As is typical in the world of IT, problems have a way of sneaking up on you when you least expect it, then viciously attacking you with a Billy-club. Often this happens when you are asleep, on vacation, severely …