I work in a niche inside a niche. I deal with terabytes of storage, massive servers, a variety of storage tech, and I’ve been in interested in computers in general for… Around 40 years. (Yeah, I’m old.)

I have my own single person company and have worked in 40+ US states, done assignments in the UK, Norway.

AMA.

  • _spiffyEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    What kind of upcoming tech do you see coming out in the next little while that could make a big difference in your field?

    • TemporaryBoyfriendOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The migration to cloud is a big deal. Learning about cloud storage is straightforward, but there’s a huge number of new services offerings that don’t nearly fit into the way the existing tech was built 25+ years ago. I’m “scaroused” at the idea of having to learn how all this works.

      • _spiffyEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        My organization is moving a bunch of on prem stuff to the cloud over the next few years and its been interesting to see how things are changing, Azure has a TON of features but is overwhelming when I look at my deployment now and where I want to get to in the future. But I will get there, one piece at a time.

        • TemporaryBoyfriendOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, given that the software I specialize in is proprietary and built on a very limited number of supported configs (OS / DB / Storage Management) it’s unlikely to be affected by so many cloud changes, but I can see how it might enable a HUGE number of competitors to build something similar just by clicking together cloud services like a box of lego blocks.