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

VMWorld Day 1 Thoughts

August 30, 2018

VMworld generates so much news and announcements that it can be hard to keep up. Here’s what resonated with Nathaniel Avery after the first day of the event.

Future:NET Live Blog – Digital Transformation at the Speed of Digital Transactions

August 29, 2018

Ken Owens, Vice President Cloud Native Engineering at Mastercard, will be presenting a session at Future:NET, Digital Transformation at the Speed of Digital Transactions. Our own Tom Hollingsworth will be live blogging the session with Roger Lund. Make sure to tune in at 1:15pm PT to catch their thoughts on this prescient topic

Future:NET Keynote Live Blog

August 29, 2018

If you’re not able to attend Future:NET this year, never fear! Gestalt IT is here with a live blog of the keynote. Join Tom Hollingsworth and Roger Lund on Thursday, August 30 at 10am PT for their take on all the news and announcements.

Nick Janetakis – IT Origins

August 23, 2018

Nick Janetakis sat down for an extensive IT Origins interview. We dig into his early days on the web, his approach to development, how containers have changed the game, and why caffeine is “meh”.

Tom’s Twitter Take | Gestalt IT Rundown, August 22, 2018

August 22, 2018

It’s time to talk about the IT news of the week with Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth. They discuss the first acquistion by Pure Storage, coming chip releases from ARM and Intel, Twitter killing APIs, and what a Mac Mini Pro will look like.

Deep Learning: Training vs Inferencing

August 21, 2018

The terms training and inferencing get thrown around a lot with machine learning, but what do they actually mean? This video by Thomas Henson breaks down the concepts.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 20 Series: The Death of General Purpose?

August 21, 2018

Nvidia’s new Turing architecture marks a significant departure for the company, offering dedicated ray tracing and tensor processors. On their workstation cards this make sense. But for consumers, is the added complexity and power worth the benefits?

A Critique of Network Coding and Automation

August 16, 2018

Network code and automation are taking over a lot of enterprise networking. While these concepts are starting to fundamentally change networking, their shortcomings are often underreported. Pete Welcher does a great job reviewing the current issues surrounding these important concepts.

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