Max Mortillaro

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The desert area around Las Vegas is -to me at least- way better than the city. Glad you had some "you" time!

It's true and that works both ways. I was able to find out more about my great-grandmother parents in a relative tree, but that also helped me discover the entire family branch through tedious study of Italian archives and presumably get all the way back to 1763 on a previously unknown branch.

Just seeing this now... I'm also using gramps-web via docker-compose but make all changes in the Gramps thick client and syncing over. I miss some of the features from MyHeritage, but I'm now at the point where it's a lot of data clean-up / curation, plus cross-verifying sources.

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Phison’s aiDaptiv+ uses flash memory unification to cut costs and make large AI models accessible without top-tier GPUs.

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YouTube video by Osmium Data Group Data Sovereignty in 2025: Why Europe’s Digital Future Depends on It

We have things to say about data sovereignty in Europe. Here's the link to our latest Osmium Update, where @arjantim.bsky.social and I discuss the matter.

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Is the Intel relationship too lucrative to break? Could Dell even afford to build Arm-based servers with such low margins? Does Dell (the man and company) have the will to be more of an innovator and designer of hardware?

So, could Dell afford to move into the build market with Arm, compared to the assembly market with Intel? Overall gross margin is only 21%. Net Income is only 5% (5.2% in CSG, 9.7% in ISG).

Dell spends a tiny amount of money on R&D. Last quarter was $808 million of $23.4 billion revenue, about 3.5%. Historically, the spend was more like 5-5.5% but has declined. The company spends almost 4x this on sales & marketing.

Contrast this to Arm, with no finished product. Dell would need to do the whole "Apple" ecosystem thing and design & build themselves. Dell came from the JIT manufacturing process (more assembly really), so the need to get into design/manufacturing may not be desirable.

Second, Dell takes "finished product" in the form of already manufactured hardware. I don't know if Dell outsources motherboard & server design, but I suspect this is a "lean" process at the moment, as each new processor generation is released.

Agreed. I see a few points of note. First, we have no idea of the Dell/Intel commercial relationship. I expect Dell receives substantial discounts for buying Intel processors and preferential access to development labs before new products are released.

Thanks for the thorough background research here! Pity I checked only today (and glad I did!). The question you raise about both the company and the man seems self-explanatory.

It's a really good take on Dell, @chrismevans.me. The long term question is what happens to Dell in a future where we eventually shift over to Arm architectures. Are they doing any sort of R&D in there, or are they happily sitting on the laurels of their x86 legacy? Things went down fast for Intel.

Good to hear from you Chris, although I already avidly follow your posts on LinkedIn as well. Interesting developments in our industry for sure!

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Heya, regular check-in to see if this place is alive.

How Big Tech Is Killing Productivity For the past year and something, I've been on an inner journey, a personal quest to improve my life across multiple aspects such as health, relationships, skills, focus, etc. Doing so required unders...

This piece was in my head for a long time and somehow I found three hours of contiguous time to fully focus on writing it.

I hope you will find it useful and enjoyable. I had a great time writing it in one go, lovingly handcrafted in Obsidian before releasing it into the world.

Well, it's time to tell these people "Fuck you and your horrible capitalist system".

May the fleas of a thousand camels bite the face of the mothers of people who implement those useless chatbots.

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I like some of the aspects of the @piqlfilm.bsky.social solution so far (much more productized), even if I need to learn more about the medium itself. The mention to long-term storage in Svalbard is also one I like.

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Last session at #A3TechLive today with @piqlfilm.bsky.social - the company seems to offer a long-term archival solution stored on film.

As a (rusty) film photographer, I like the idea very much! We got a film with slides and some data apparently, and a matching biz card.

Walk through Ithilien, take the pass of Cirith Ungol, cross the Isar, and voila!

Building Efficient Data-Centric Storage Architectures in the AI Era - Osmium Data Group In the age of AI, efficient data-centric storage architectures have become crucial to any organization’s data strategy. The rise of large-scale AI workloads demands storage that can keep up – not just...

@hammerspace.com is presenting at #A3TechLive in Munich, talking about its architecture and Tier-0 Storage. We covered this topic a few months ago on our blog at @osmiumdatagroup.bsky.social

www.osmiumdatagroup.com/2024/11/16/b...

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Looks like the hotel I've been sleeping in last night in Munich. Didn't know it's close to Mt. Doom.

Keepit - SaaS Workload Data Protection First - Osmium Data Group TECHunplugged analysts Arjan Timmerman & Max Mortillaro recently had the opportunity to travel to Munich, Germany to attend A3 Technology Live!, an event organized by A3 Communications Ltd. One of the...

We're covering Keepit right now at #A3TechLive

We wrote about the company last year in this article: www.osmiumdatagroup.com/2024/05/19/k...

Great meeting industry friends here in Munich, from left to right:

@arjantim.bsky.social (my partner in crime at @osmiumdatagroup.bsky.social )
@stiefkind.bsky.social
Andrea Mauro
Yours truly

Enjoying the presentations at #A3TechLive

Cerabyte technology is very interesting. As someone who loves history, I like how they refer to it as "durable as hieroglyphs".

The illustration with a clay tablet also makes me happy.

#A3TechLive - www.cerabyte.com

Pure Storage //Accelerate 2025: Key Announcements - Osmium Data Group Discover key takeaways from Pure Storage //Accelerate 2025, including 300TB DFMs, FlashArray//ST, FlashBlade//S R2, Fusion updates, and more.

At #Accelerate2025, Pure Storage unveiled major updates: 300TB DFMs, FlashArray//ST, FlashBlade//S R2, Fusion & more.

High performance & density lead the way, yet cloud still feels like a future chapter.

Read Osmium’s take 👇

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