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

A Conversation with Congruity360 COO Mark Shirman

November 9, 2017

At Commvault GO 2017, Stephen Foskett sat down with Congruity360 COO Mark Shirman. They discuss how the company’s engineering talent allows them differentiate in their emerging services around infrastructure business. This builds on their legacy storage reseller business, but has expanded to providing services across the data center. This is all provided by their brand new 200,000 sq ft data center located in Fall River, MA. 

James Green – IT Origins

November 9, 2017

James Green takes his turn in the IT Origins hot seat. He reveals how he got started in IT (a career slightly delayed thanks to girls, beer, and video games), what he’s reading, how caffeine changed his life, and what tools he uses to stay organized.

Gestalt IT Rundown: November 8, 2017

November 8, 2017

Despite some technical hurdles, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino return to bring you the IT news from the week that was! In this episode they rundown new announcements from Nutanix, Cisco, AWS, and Sprint. They then dig into the two big stories of the week, the VMware acquisition of VeloCloud, and the merger of Broadcom and Qualcomm. 

Getting to Know Congruity360

November 7, 2017

If the name Congruity360 isn’t immediately familiar, don’t worry, you haven’t fallen out of the IT loop. The company was established in 2017 after a merger with Congruity and KNJ. Congruity itself was only established in 2016 after a prior merger between Rockland IT and MSDI. All this adds up to a company with a long legacy in data management, but without a lot of name recognition.

The CLI is Dead – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

November 7, 2017

The roundtable discusses the premise that the CLI is dead, or at least terminally ill. They look at why this is the prevailing narrative in networking and the greater IT landscape. Is the death of the CLI a forgone conclusion, or merely a framing device for moving to better processes in IT?

Gestalt IT Rundown: November 1, 2017

November 1, 2017

Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the news of the week, including public cloud earnings, fog computing, crowdfunded enterprise IT, and Backblaze’s hard drive reliability numbers.

Security BAD, Data Devalued, and an IT Origin from Gestalt Server News 17.9

October 31, 2017

In this iteration of Gestalt Server News:
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable discusses if security is a dumpster fire
– The Gestalt IT Rundown looks at the week that was in enterprise IT
– and we talk to Phil Gervasi about how he got started in IT
Plus a preview of Commvault GO 2017!

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