Octavian Tanase

Chief Product Officer Hitachi Vantara

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

The @Raiders are off to a good start this season. Will it last? Nobody knows, however the changes they made: personnel and culture, are likely to pay off.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

The planes are old, food is either frozen or overcooked, the flight attendants are baby boomers. Which airline am I talking about?

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

@sterlingmsnow Never forget. Respect.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

25 years ago I was an engineer at Sun Microsystems working on the file system for a project called StorEdge Media Central.

The events on 9/11 brought a lot of stress into our household as my wife was pregnant with our first child. And while much in the world has changed since, we were lucky. The child was healthy, we kept our jobs, our family has thrived.

Every year on this anniversary I take a moment to reflect on humanity, the global impact of that sad event, I remember those who were lost and I honor them.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

Twists and turns.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

Pond, land and ocean.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

Most IT Ops people are drowning in alerts. A recent blog “Manage by Exception, Not by Exhaustion” shows how AIOps anomaly detection learns normal storage behavior and surfaces only real issues, cutting burnout, MTTR, and preventable outages. @HitachiVantara

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

@mehdig Indeed.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

Tech tip - the race to agentic AI isn't about who adopts AI first, it's about who scales it safely. As autonomous systems gain access to enterprise data and decision-making, governance, explainability, cyber resilience, and data protection become competitive advantages. The winners won't be those with the fastest AI, but those that pair autonomy with trust, visibility, and recovery.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

@RealRossMc I believe many of these tasks will become autonomous, just how emergency breaking work on a modern car.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

The most common LLM prompt in the world: "was this written by AI".

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

Is AI the future of entertainment? The folks at https://t.co/4QlwdSzoGG believe they can turn attention into IP.

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@NPR Tell us more.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

Credentialism does not build trust in a company. Demonstrating competence and a honest/genuine engagement does.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Credentialism

I despise credentialism and believe it is a disease that is eating away at the soul of the USA in the same way that matters of class and nobility have festered in countries like England for centuries.

I define “credentialism” as follows:

A individual’s unwarranted belief that one is morally, physically and/or intellectually superior to others based solely on something written on a piece of paper (diplomas, resumes, etc.).

When I speak on credentialism, I often have red herrings thrown in my face in a attempt to refute my position, so let me please make clear that there are two things that are NOT “credentialism”:

1. Indicators of basic competency are not credentialism. Certain fields require certain credentials to be trusted for a minimum level of competence. I WANT my dentist to have a DDS or a DMD. I WANT the guy servicing my A/C unit to have an HVAC certificate. I WANT my Army Infantry platoon sergeant to be a Ranger school graduate. These are all indicators of a basic level of competency in a chosen field, and a functioning society cannot exist without them.

2. Statements of lived experience are not credentialism. A survivor of a Nazi death camp possesses valuable views on the Holocaust that others do not. An experienced EMT has valuable views on the consequences of fentanyl addiction that others do not. An Olympic gold medal champion understands the discipline of athletic training better than most. When such people cite their lived experience to back up a claim directly related to that experience, this is not the same as credentialism.

Credentialism eats away at our nation when presented as follows:

-When a credential is presented as a marker of all-around intellectual, physical and/or moral superiority.
-When like credentials are dismissed based on an unwarranted sense of superiority; i.e., a mistaken belief that a degree from Yale is somehow superior to a degree from Clemson.
-When credentials are used as an unjust gating item to dismiss an otherwise highly qualified individual.
-Credentials as exclusionary clubs—“Sorry dear, he’s not one of our kind.”
-A mistaken belief that only one with a certain credential can understand certain things when knowledge about those things is generally available to all.
-Dunning-Kruger credentialism: “Because I have credentials in one area, this makes me an expert in areas for which I have no credentials.”

Put simply, credentialism is snobbery, and snobbery is antithetical to the American way of life. In America each of us can rise and fall on our own two feet based on what we demonstrate as INDIVIDUALS in our actual deeds, accomplishments and failures, and mere pieces of worthless paper do not change that.

One last thing: nothing is more cowardly and despicable than the credentialist who trumpets their own credentials while dismissing the credentials they lack as being irrelevant. If one wants to commit the sin of credentialism, one also needs to accept that the credentials they lack are a mark against them, using their own standard. People who engage in such a practice are morally bankrupt, insecure, sniveling weasels.

This was on my mind.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

https://t.co/HtxNZLuPvZ
AI is evolving from advisor to autonomous actor. One can easily build agentic AI modules to recommend, monitor, act, and execute data workflows such as auto-tagging data, optimizing storage, predictive maintenance, and rapid cyber response. Much of the effectiveness demands a solid data foundations + strong governance for trusted autonomy.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

This 👇

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I hear all the time about how Gen Z is turning socialist because they have no economic hope and how I just don’t understand that we need to do more socialist stuff so they’ll still vote for us.

Well….

I’ve spent quite a bit of time as a Silicon Valley startup/VC lawyer, and there is no quicker way to turn a young leftist into a junior Milton Friedman than starting their own business.

I saw it over and over and over—smart twenty somethings with coding skills, blue hair and a Che Guevara poster gradually becoming more and more conservative as they slowly comprehend just how many regulatory hurdles there are to running a business and raising capital (and the amount of money they had to pay me to help do that navigation).

We should all be encouraging young people to start their own businesses. They don’t need to be some novel tech business that attracts VC funding either. Every community has service and product needs just itching to be filled by someone with a little energy and smarts.

The way out of Gen Z’s economic malaise is not going back to school to get a master’s because you can’t get a job you think is good enough for you.

No, the cure is entrepreneurship.

Us olds should be pointing the youngs in that direction. We’ll grow a new generation of conservatives, and OBTW the best route to true wealth is to own your own business and not work for somebody else.

[Octavian Tanase @octav]

Norway demonstrated why discipline wins matches.

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Meaningful perspective on what makes the USA special and what must be done to evolve (not just preserve) it for future generations.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

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[Octavian Tanase @octav]

There is an optimism about the US. It’s intoxicating, uplifting many people who expect to raise through meritocracy.

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

bets still on the table America, yet.