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

Allison Sheridan – IT Origins

January 4, 2018

In this week’s IT Origins interview, we were lucky enough to talk to podcaster, engineer, and IT pro Allison Sheridan. In the interview we discuss her move from mechanical engineering to IT, the gradual departmentalization of IT throughout her career, what is IT’s role in business, and the liberating definition of waste.

Gestalt IT Rundown – January 3, 2018

January 3, 2018

This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss Intel’s potentially disastrous kernel memory leak. The give a quick overview of what the issue is, what’s being done to remediate it, and how it will impact the enterprise.

Welcome the New Year with Gestalt News 18.1

January 2, 2018

A New Year, a new iteration of Gestalt News!
On tap for this week:
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable discusses Intent-Based Networking
– The Gestalt IT Rundown looks at the biggest news stories of 2017
– and Rich Stroffolino debates is data is the new…solar?

A 2018 File System

January 2, 2018

An interesting piece of marketing from Qumulo got me thinking, what would a ground up enterprise file system in 2018 look like?

Intent-Based Networking Isn’t Just SDN – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

January 2, 2018

Intent-based networking is the new hotness, but what does it actually mean? In this episode, the panel discusses how it differs from older SDN ideas. IBN integrates an abstraction layer and orchestration into a system that identifies a single source of truth that isn’t the network itself.

Thanks For Spending 2017 with Gestalt IT!

December 29, 2017

2017 was a busy year for Gestalt IT. We launched a podcast, interview series, and live weekly news rundown. On top of that, we continued to cover the latest and greatest in enterprise IT. Thanks for checking out our site this year. Look forward to lots of new additions in 2018!

Seagate’s Vaguely Unsettling Multi-Actuator Drives

December 28, 2017

Mechanical hard drives are fighting a losing war against flash in most markets. That doesn’t diminish the fact that they are marvels of engineering. The precision needed to add increasing density and platters is truly a remarkable feat of technology. Seagate just upped the technical “wow” quotient by announcing upcoming drives with multiple independent actuators.

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