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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DCD Dispatch

The infrastructure newsletter.

Every issue covers what’s actually shifting in enterprise infrastructure — AI, storage, networking, cloud, and the career decisions that come with all of it. No noise. Delivered to your inbox.

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The Podcast

Every post, narrated.

Same ideas, my voice. Each post has an inline player. Follow on Spotify and new episodes land in your feed automatically.

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Community

600+ engineers. One server.

Vendor-neutral. Hype-resistant. Infrastructure practitioners from across the industry — AI, storage, networking, homelab, and everything in between. Est. March 2020.

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About

30 years. Still in the rack.

From cabling contractor to Global Field CTO. The full story of how a kid who failed out of the Merchant Marine Academy ended up helping shape AI infrastructure strategy for one of the world’s largest storage companies.

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Media & Contact

Speaking, press, and working together.

Available for keynotes, conference panels, podcast appearances, and advisory conversations. If you’re covering the AI infrastructure space or building in it, let’s talk.

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