Howard Dyckoff is an IT professional with experience at Fortune 500 firms, including Chevron IT, Sybase, and Wells Fargo. He is an agile project manager and Certified Scrum Master. Now supporting projects at Open Oakland, the Code for America brigade working to open government and foster greater civic engagement Oakland, CA. His technical writing and journalism work includes Tech Target and Linux Gazette, with an emphasis on the new tech scene in Oakland via the Oakland Tribune and Oakland Local.

IoT Conference

Symposium on Securing the IoT Conference

Howard Dyckoff

June 11, 2018

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is putting autonomous computing devices and sensors on the internet at breakneck speed.

VMWorld Goes All In On The Cloud

At its annual conference, VMware rolls out several new products.

Howard Dyckoff

October 2, 2017

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This year’s VMworld showed new directions for VMware, which previously seemed a bit disoriented in the cloud computing revolution.

On The Road

Thoughts From The 2016 RSA Conference

Editor’s note: The 2016 RSA Conference was held February 29 to March 4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Howard Dyckoff

May 11, 2016

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Editor’s note: The 2016 RSA Conference was held February 29 to March 4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Powering Edge Data Centers

On Demand An edge data facility is still a data center. One still and must consider design, construction, and operational habits that result in high levels of system availability, maintainability, and resiliency. The disaggregation that edge poses will distribute compute and storage assets, and the challenge will be placing edge assets into sufficiently robust facilities or enclosures outside of traditional data centers where those local solutions can equally sustain those IT operations and systems.

How to future-proof your infrastructure as power demands grow

As power consumption requirements of both server and switch components within the IT stack expand, users are having to reconsider their power distribution strategies to balance and manage power more effectively. More power means more heat, thicker cabling and overall denser environments, which requires infrastructure upgrades. Learn key considerations for high density rack environments and effective power distribution strategies to better future-proof your infrastructure.

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Mission Critical Magazine

July/August 2019

Mission Critical’s 2019 July/August issue focuses on green data centers, intelligent power management, cooling options, and another installment of our State of the Mission Critical Industry roundtable article.

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