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

The Traditional Office is Dying – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

July 9, 2019

The traditional office is dying. Since the rise of telecommuting in the 90s, less and less people need to be in the office. With open offices killing productivity, in the near term, we’re going to see the traditional office become extinct. The roundtable debates how true this is, and what makes it worth it for a lot of organizations to still keep the office lights on.

Cloudfail | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 3, 2019

July 3, 2019

Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss the recent Cloudflare outage, how big the overall SaaS market is, if Huawei and the US are patching things up, and why Broadcom wants to buy Symantec.

VARs are Useless – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

June 25, 2019

Value-added resellers (VARs) are often characterized as useless, adding a needless cost for something that should be sold direct to customers. In this On-Premise IT Roundtable, the panel discusses where the value actually gets added and what benefits VARs can still provide. It was an interesting discussion with a lot of different perspectives.

The Raspberry Pi 4: Adding the Missing Piece

June 24, 2019

The Raspberry Pi SoCs have always been fascinating devices at a rock bottom price point. For all their potential, one thing has always held them back, IO. With the newly announced Raspberry Pi 4, the Raspberry Pi Foundation finally addresses that issue in a major way.

Intel Caught Barefoot | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 12, 2019

June 12, 2019

This week, Ken Nalbone and Stephen Foskett discuss some acquisitions: Salesforce acquiring Tableau and Have I Been Pwned up for sale. Then we turn again to China, and who Western Digital’s blockade of Huawei will hurt more. Finally, it’s Dropbox, and whether their enterprise pivot is going to work.

IoT Is Making Society Less Secure – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

June 11, 2019

On this episode, the roundtable discusses if IoT is making us less secure overall. They get into a discussion of what kind of attack surfaces IoT presents, whether these device impact privacy more than security, and why current IoT is based on a “no support” model.

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