[ Infrastructure ] 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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[ Tech field day ] 6 min read
Commvault at TFDx RSAC 2026: Clean Recovery Is a Different Problem Than Fast Recovery
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” — Mike Tyson One organization Chris Bevil worked with had a genuinely good disaster recovery program. Tabletop exercises, tested runbooks, the whole thing. When …
[ Tech field day ] 7 min read
Object First at TFDx RSAC 2026: If You Can Turn It Off, It Wasn't Immutable
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” — Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking-Glass (1871) I’ve lost count of how many storage conversations I’ve sat through where immutability …
[ Tech field day ] 6 min read
Veeam at TFDx RSAC 2026: Three Generations of Resilience (And You Need to Prepare for All of Them)
Rick Vanover, CTO of Veeam, opened his segment at Tech Field Day Extra RSAC 2026 with a statement that was either refreshingly honest or a very good bit of self-aware marketing: “Our audience has a very highly calibrated …
[ Security ] 4 min read
Security Audits
If you work in IT for even a few minutes, you’ll almost assuredly run headlong into the wonderful world of security audits—ostensibly, services to help you better secure your organization and its assets from internal and …