Max Mortillaro

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.

#A3TechLive

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...

cc: @arjantim.bsky.social

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 👇

cc: @maxmortillaro.bsky.social @arjantim.bsky.social

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.

Pure Storage is betting big on performance and density at #Accelerate2025: 300TB DFMs, FlashArray//ST, FlashBlade//S R2, Fusion updates & more.

But is cloud still the missing link?

Our take @osmiumdatagroup.bsky.social 👇

www.osmiumdatagroup.com/2025/06/18/p...

cc: @arjantim.bsky.social

- disabled Siri, Apple Intelligence and all sort of other annoyances of that kind

Side bonus: our iCloud offboarding initiative is almost complete, we just need to finish cleaning up iPhotos on a couple of family accounts.

- use a chrome extension to detect AI posts on LinkedIn
- switch from Google Search to Startpage (bonus: EU-based) to get rid of dumbass "AI Overview" feature
- get rid of most algorithmic feeds wherever possible, including YouTube (oh, the insanity and freshness of opening YT to a blank page)

I'm using ChatGPT daily, however I would kindly appreciate if everyone, their brothers/sisters, cats/dogs (including giant techbros) would STOP shoving their AI/Chatbot/whatever down my throat.

To cut the noise, I've had to make a few adjustments (1/X)

Solidigm is redefining AI storage with game-changing density & efficiency. 🧠 🌐

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@MaxMortillaro.bsky.social discusses how #Solidigm is using dense, fast, & efficient SSDs to power AI.

@TechFieldDay.com #AIIFD2 #AIInfrastructure #AI #SSD #LiquidCooling

Solidigm: Building AI Storage Foundations - Osmium Data Group Discover how Solidigm is laying the groundwork for AI‑optimized storage—leveraging high‑density QLC SSDs, power‑efficient architectures, and enterprise scalability to fuel modern AI pipelines.

My last post for @osmiumdatagroup.bsky.social (AI Infrastructure Field Day 2 coverage) is out: Solidigm: Building AI Storage Foundations

www.osmiumdatagroup.com/2025/06/10/s...

#AIIFD2 @techfieldday.com @smshadley.bsky.social @arjantim.bsky.social @demitassenz.bsky.social

This presentation is great because they brought a customer who is not only doing cool things themselves, but is showing how they've used Keysight to improve their services.

Wrapping up a marathon 4th day of #AIIFD2 with Keysight Technologies on how they position their offerings to actually figure out where this d*mn AI thing is running slow within DC infrastructure: by measuring performance at all slices of the 7-layer network salad, including the application layer 😍

A nice (and animated) picture of NS and EW traffic in #AI #ML scenario @Keysight #AIIFD2

Tune in now for #Keysight presenting at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2! @TechFieldDay.com #AIIFD2

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ICYMI @TechFieldDayPod.bsky.social for #AIIFD2: AI Should Become Boring - @guycurrier.bsky.social @cuthrell.com @maxmortillaro.bsky.social #TFDPodcast

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Nutanix is up presenting at AI Infrastructure Day 2 to talk about its Nutanix Enterprise AI solution.

#AIIFD2

In 30 minutes, #Nutanix will present at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2! @TechFieldDay.com #AIIFD2

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ICYMI @TechFieldDayPod.bsky.social for #AIIFD2: AI Should Become Boring - @guycurrier.bsky.social @cuthrell.com @maxmortillaro.bsky.social #TFDPodcast

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I'm not a networking guy, but Netris seems to do pretty solid stuff when it comes to automating network hardware operations at scale.

The diagram below provides a comprehensive overview.

#AIIFD2

Netris is now presenting at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2! #AIIFD2 - Join us on the live stream and ask your questions using the #AIIFD2 hashtag so a delegate can catch it and ask it to the vendor for you!