About — The Binary Report

An independent technology publication.

The Binary Report covers the systems, companies, products, and ideas changing how we work and live. It publishes analysis, opinion, reviews, guides, and news across AI, cloud, data centers, enterprise software, and consumer technology.

Editorial standards.

Every story should be clear about what it knows, what it infers, and what remains uncertain. Analysis separates reporting from interpretation. Opinion is labeled. Reviews explain the context for a judgment. Corrections are made plainly when they are needed.

Starting small.

The current articles are labeled samples that demonstrate the reading experience and publication structure. Original reporting and writing will replace them as the publication grows.

About me.

I’m a technology professional, Army Intelligence veteran, and lifelong technology enthusiast with more than a decade of experience across enterprise IT, data centers, infrastructure, and technical solutions engineering.

My career has given me the opportunity to see technology from several perspectives—from working hands-on with mission-critical systems inside data centers to designing multimillion-dollar enterprise solutions and helping organizations determine which technologies actually make sense for their environments.

From the Data Center to Enterprise Solutions

I started my technology career as a field engineer supporting complex, mission-critical solutions in data center environments. That experience gave me a hands-on foundation in enterprise servers, storage, networking, virtualization, hardware, and infrastructure troubleshooting.

I later moved into solutions engineering and technical sales, where I worked with C-level decision-makers, IT leaders, engineers, and other stakeholders to architect enterprise infrastructure solutions spanning compute, storage, networking, virtualization, hybrid infrastructure, and emerging AI and high-performance computing technologies.

As a Senior Technology Sales Engineer, my work went far beyond recommending products. I worked through customer discovery, technical requirements, architecture and sizing, solution validation, bills of materials, implementation planning, technical presentations, and coordination among customers, engineering teams, technology partners, and implementation resources. At scale, the solutions and opportunities I supported represented tens of millions of dollars in technology investments.

Over the years, I’ve worked across technology ecosystems involving IBM, major x86 manufacturers, VMware, Cisco, NetApp, Pure Storage, Nutanix, Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA, WEKA, Windows, Linux, and other enterprise platforms.

My professional interests today are particularly focused on AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, enterprise storage, data centers, hybrid cloud, virtualization, networking, and the technologies shaping the next generation of computing.

Military Background

Before and alongside much of my technology career, I served in the U.S. Army as an Intelligence Analyst, including a combat deployment supporting operations in Iraq.

Working in military intelligence taught me lessons that continue to influence how I approach technology: understand the information available, question assumptions, evaluate risk, communicate clearly, and make decisions with the larger mission in mind.

It also gave me experience working with secure communications, sensitive information systems, mobile and satellite-connected networks, and technology operating in environments where reliability, security, and accountability mattered.

Continuing to Learn

Technology never stands still, and neither should the people working in it.

My curiosity extends well beyond my day job. In my homelab, I enjoy experimenting with new technologies, building projects, testing ideas, exploring business concepts, and thinking about how emerging technologies can solve real-world problems more efficiently.

For me, learning technology isn’t just about knowing how something works. It’s about understanding why it was built that way, what problem it’s trying to solve, where its limitations are, and what might come next.

Why I Started This Site

I’ve spent much of my career translating complicated technology into something people can actually understand and use.

There are already countless technology publications, websites, podcasts, and channels producing excellent content. But I’ve often found myself finishing an article or watching a discussion and still asking the same questions: Why does this matter? What if things were done differently? What happens next? And ultimately—so what?

Those questions are a big part of why I created The Binary Report.

Technology coverage can sometimes fall into one of two extremes: content simplified to the point that important details disappear, or highly technical content written primarily for people who already understand the subject.

I want The Binary Report to occupy the space in between.

Here, I’ll write about enterprise technology, artificial intelligence, data centers, cloud computing, hardware, software, emerging technologies, and the broader technology industry. Some articles will explain how a technology works. Others will examine products, companies, industry developments, or ideas that I simply find interesting.

But I also want to go beyond explaining what something is. I want to explore why it matters, how it might be used, where it could go, what its limitations are, and what the broader implications might be. Sometimes that means asking questions without having an immediate answer. Sometimes it means challenging conventional assumptions or looking at a familiar technology from a different perspective.

My perspective comes from someone who has worked inside the data center, in front of the customer, and behind the architecture of enterprise technology solutions.

I don’t claim to know everything—and in technology, anyone who does probably isn’t paying attention.

The Binary Report is a place to share what I’ve learned, investigate what I haven’t, ask better questions, and make complex technology a little easier to understand.

Welcome to The Binary Report.