Hey y'all!
I make AI infrastructure make sense.
I’m Gina Rosenthal. If you’ve read this blog for a while, you may know me as Gina Minks. Same person, same opinions.
How I got here
My first real tech job was in EMC’s training organization, teaching mainframe SEs how to connect Symmetrix arrays to UNIX and Windows hosts. Talk about sink or swim. I’ve been explaining infrastructure to people ever since.
From there I moved into storage and data protection. I did community and evangelism for Dell’s storage lines and product marketing for Dell AppAssure, then SaaS backup at Spanning.
At VMware I worked on vSphere messaging with Dell. I also worked with the Office of the CTO on HPC and AI, which is how I ended up at Supercomputing and NVIDIA GTC long before GPUs were dinner table conversation.
In 2019 I started Digital Sunshine Solutions and spent almost seven years doing product marketing for infrastructure companies like RackN and Druva.
Along the way I covered 27 Tech Field Day events as an independent analyst, co-hosted the Tech Aunties podcast, and spoke in the Misinformation Village at DEF CON.
Today I’m Director of Product Marketing & Content Strategy at Klique (formerly ClearML).
What you’ll find here
I write about AI infrastructure for the people who have to buy it, run it, and explain it to their boss. That covers compute, storage, networking, and the IT operations holding it all together. Expect event writeups, notes from vendor briefings, and plain English explainers. Sometimes there’s a Star Wars or Marvel analogy, because Rogue One really is the best backup and recovery story ever told.
My bias, for the record: I think a lot of AI projects stall because nobody asked the boring infrastructure questions before the budget got spent. I also have a soft spot for calling out AI-washing.
The fine print
I have a day job, and this isn’t it. Opinions here are mine, not Klique’s. When I write about a company I’ve worked with, been briefed by, or traveled to see on someone else’s dime, I’ll say so at the top of the post.
A few other things about me:
- vExpert, 2017
- EMC Elect, 2016
- Pragmatic Institute Ambassador, 2025 and 2026
- BS in Information Studies and MS in Instructional Systems, Florida State University
At Florida State I founded the American Indian Student Union. Instructional Systems is a fancy way of saying I studied how to improve human performance. Turns out that’s most of what a product marketer does.
Say hi
You can find me on LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Mastodon, or email me at gina@digitalsunshinesolutions.com.
If you’re running AI infrastructure right now, I’d love to hear what keeps breaking. What’s the question your team keeps getting stuck on?
