Originally published on the Dell Technologies Blog on 9/24/2026
Sovereign AI Is a Control Problem, not a Location Problem
Beyond Hope: Why Your Cybersecurity Budget Can't Wait
In a bunch of my work lately, a number of CISO's have said that they wished they had just paid the money for better security than gone through the headache of the last 10 months or so, trying to recover from a breach they had. Invest now for cyber attacks. Hope is not a strategy.
Long-term Data Retention
The Storage Alchemist Gets a Facelift
The Storage Alchemist has now a much simpler, cleaner look and feel thanks to my friends at Business Blender
Facebook Storage Infrastructure w/o FB IT Costs
In 2012 I did a blog post on Facebook going public. The premise of the piece wasn’t about the fad that surrounds social media or that a social media company was going public, it was that the group of IT practitioners that manage Facebook’s storage infrastructure had deployed something pretty amazing.
In 2009 I quoted a few simple stats:
Facebook had about 1 billion users - remember, each user has a mailbox for messagesUsers were… Read more »