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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Europe Just Hit Cancel | DCD Dispatch #02
Europe is in the middle of a coordinated rebuild of the software stack out from under American hyperscaler dependency. The licensing extortion got the procurement teams’ attention. The open source apps and the sovereign cloud are finally ready.
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Your Slack Workspace Trained Your Replacement
Defunct startups are selling Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads to AI labs for six figures. The privacy outrage and gold rush takes are missing the actual story: this is a data lifecycle failure infrastructure veterans solved 30 years ago, in a tier the SaaS vendors quietly excused themselves from governing.
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That’s No Moon… it’s a LEO Datacenter
“Look at the size of that thing.” Eight orgs racing to orbit. A million satellite filings in a single week. The pitch only works if three things all go right.
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