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

Nick Bowie – IT Origins

February 22, 2018

For this week’s IT Origins interview, we spoke with Nick Bowie, a Senior Technical Account Manager with VMware. Make sure to checkout how he’s seen IT change since the 90s, why he’s throwing Australia shade, and the power of Quake LAN parties in an IT career.

White Boxes and Cultural Lock-in

February 20, 2018

Gian Paolo Boarina and Nicola Arnoldi have an interesting exchange going on the role of white box networking in the enterprise and the exodus of intelligence from organizations to vendors.

Salon Tries Crypto Mining Monetization

February 20, 2018

When users block a site’s ads, how should they respond? Some give you a nagging window but still allow access, others prefer all out blocking of a site. But Salon is trying something new. Keep your ad-blocker, but opt-in to crypto mining in the browser.

Where AR We?

February 19, 2018

Will 2018 be the year of Augmented Reality? Rich Stroffolino breaks down why the landscape for AR fundamentally changed in 2017, but why inertia might keep it from emerging in the short term.

Flexible Scaleout, Tom Lyon, and Reveal(x) in Gestalt News 18.8

February 19, 2018

In this edition of Gestalt News:
– Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at ExtraHop Reveal(x)
– DriveScale’s Tom Lyon sits down for an IT Origins interview
– Russ White considers if flexible scaleout in design could have mitigated the Meltdown vulnerability

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