Nick Howell

Still learning.
Still building.
Still calling out the hype.

30 years of enterprise infrastructure. Storage, networking, virtualization, cloud, AI inference, home lab, and whatever else is worth writing about this week.

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Recent Writing

  • 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.

  • Your Website Doesn’t Speak AI Yet

    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 certainly doesn’t have one.

  • Private Compute, Public Burden

    $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.

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