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.
Recent Writing
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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.
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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.
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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.
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