Rich Stroffolino

About the Author:

Rich has been a tech enthusiast since he first used the speech simulator on a Magnavox Odyssey². Current areas of interest include ZFS, the false hopes of memristors, and the oral history of Transmeta.

Articles by Rich Stroffolino

Gestalt News for the Week of February 25, 2019

February 25, 2019

Get up to date with all that’s new at Gestalt IT with Gestalt News. This week we had posts about why picking a cloud provider doesn’t need to be a binary choice, a podcast episode on the death of the storage array, and post on refactoring monolithic apps for the cloud.

UK OK With Huawei | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 20, 2019

February 20, 2019

The Gestalt IT Rundown gets you up to speed on the latest IT news. This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino talked about an interesting acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, the UK’s plans for 5G infrastructure, AI on the edge, and more!

The Storage Array is Dead – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

February 19, 2019

The monolithic storage array used to be the standard of storage, but it’s time has come and gone… or has it? The roundtable discusses what specifically we mean when we talk about storage arrays, why they are increasingly irrelevant, and if their decline is permanent, or a temporary reaction to recent IT trends.

Gestalt News for the Week of February 18, 2019

February 18, 2019

Get all the latest from Gestalt IT with Gestalt News. This week we have pieces by Ken Nalbone, looking at the importance maintaining infrastructure beyond Day 0, and Paul Stringfellow giving a breakdown of Hammerspace’s presentation at Tech Field Day.

The Evolution of the Storage Pod

February 18, 2019

Backblaze seems to relish providing transparency into their infrastructure. We’ve been sharing their annual drive failure reports whenever we come across them, because it gives a fascinating real world look into overall drive reliability.Now the company has given an overview of how their Storage Pod rack infrastructure has evolved over time.

AI All The Things | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 13, 2019

February 13, 2019

The Gestalt IT Rundown is your weekly look at the IT news of the week. We had a technical issue with the video this week, but we’ve got the latest headlines and takes for you right here anyway. This week saw a ton of AI news, a key new API for G Suite, Android Things changes, and yet another massive data breach.

Gestalt News for the Week of February 11, 2019

February 11, 2019

This week in Gestalt News, Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone led a great Gestalt IT Rundown, the On-Premise IT Roundtable discussed the role of sensors in analytics, and we debate if open source projects should fight strip mining. Subscribe to get it in your inbox each week!

Comparing File System Performance on Oracle

February 11, 2019

File system performance is often something that goes unconsidered, but can have a noticeable impact. Andre Leibovici recently compared Oracle performance on XFS versus EXT4. The results show why you might want to give your file system of choice a little closer look.

Intel’s Swan Song | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 6, 2019

February 6, 2019

Get caught up on the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone discuss calls from Cisco for GDPR-like privacy regulation in the US, what new Intel CEO Bob Swan means for the company’s future, Slack’s first steps toward going public, and more.

You Need Sensors for Analytics – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

February 5, 2019

Tom Hollingsworth leads a discussion around how important sensors are for analytics and data. Is network monitoring enough? What about something in software? Or is the added expense of a dedicated out-of-band physical sensor the price you have to pay? The roundtable is pretty evenly split on the subject, and discusses where each approach works best. 

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