Rich Stroffolino

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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

Profiting from DNS and Cyptomining | Gestalt IT Rundown | January 23, 2019

January 23, 2019

Join us for the January 23, 2019 episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown! Tom flies solo today and discusses the impending end of Mobile Windows 10 , EU fines for Google’s crimes, the silver lining to illicit cryptomining, a cloud revenue stream for Veeam, and a warning expressed about insecure DNS.

Windows 10 Mobile Support Ends in December

January 22, 2019

Microsoft announced that support for Windows 10 Mobile ends in December. It’s a quiet end for an OS that always seemed resigned to playing for third.

5G will Replace Traditional Networks – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

January 22, 2019

In this episode, the roundtable discusses what impact 5G will have on traditional networking. They dig into why wireless is a more finite resource than wired networking, the difficulty of service degradation, and how to justify rolling out 5G for fixed end points. 

NetBeez Gets Hip To SSID Hopping

January 17, 2019

NetBeez uses Raspberry Pis to provide sophisticated client-side network monitoring at a reasonable cost. Now with version 1.5, the company is adding SSID hopping to the equation.

HCI Storage Efficiency

January 16, 2019

How does HCI cluster size impact storage efficiency? Howard Marks has been looking into how economies of scale benefit HCI deployments.

Wiliot: The Power’s In The Air

January 16, 2019

Traditionally, powering a SoC requires wiring it up to the mains, or plugging in a battery. But a startup called Wiliot is trying to create chips powered by ambient radio frequencies. If they can pull this off, there are some interesting potential applications in the enterprise.

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