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Tech Field Day News Rundown
The Tech Field Day News Rundown is a weekly look at the IT news of the week. Hosted by Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.
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Tech Field Day News RundownIntel Investors Everywhere | Tech Field Day News Rundown: August 20, 2025
SoftBank is investing $2 billion in Intel by buying shares at $23 each, strengthening their partnership to advance U.S. semiconductor technology. Both…
Tech Field Day News RundownMicrosoft Brings GitHub Closer to Its AI Team | Tech Field Day News Rundown: August 13, 2025
Microsoft is making GitHub part of its CoreAI team after GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced he’s leaving to start a new company. Dohmke will stay until the end…
Tech Field Day News RundownTrump’s New Tariffs Disrupt Tech and Auto Industries | Tech Field Day News Rundown: August 6, 2025
President Trump’s new tariffs on dozens of countries are shaking global markets and hurting major companies like Apple, Amazon, and carmakers by raising costs…
Tech Field Day News RundownMass Layoffs hit Intel | The Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 30, 2025
Intel is cutting about 24,000 jobs this year—roughly a quarter of its core workforce—as part of a major restructuring led by new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The company is…
Tech Field Day News RundownMassive Hack Hits Microsoft SharePoint Servers | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 23, 2025
Hackers have used a serious, previously unknown flaw in Microsoft’s SharePoint server software to launch a major global cyberattack. The attack has hit U.S…
Tech Field Day News RundownFCC Auction Power Returns Putting Wi-Fi Spectrum at Risk | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 16, 2025
A new law restores the FCC’s authority to auction spectrum and requires at least 800 MHz to be sold, potentially pulling it from the 6 GHz and CBRS bands…
Tech Field Day News RundownMicrosoft Cuts Jobs as Part of Their AI Restructure | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 9, 2025
Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees, about 4% of its workforce, even as it invests billions in AI technology. Company leaders say AI will eliminate many routine…
Tech Field Day News RundownDOJ Clears Way for the HPE Juniper Networks Deal | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 2, 2025
The US Department of Justice has announced a settlement in their lawsuit agains the proposed HPE acquisition of Juniper Networks. The release says that in…
Tech Field Day News RundownAWS re:Inforce 2025 Highlights Security, Identity, and Automation | Tech Field Day News Rundown: June 25, 2025
At AWS re:Inforce 2025, AWS introduced key security upgrades, including expanded identity tools, enhanced code and threat detection with Inspector and…
Tech Field Day News RundownCisco Bets it All On AI At Cisco Live | Tech Field Day News Rundown: June 18, 2025
Cisco Live was last week and the opening keynote was dripping with AI. Cisco's product lineup for the rest of the year and into the future is going to embrace…
Tech Field Day News RundownMicrosoft's Dev-Centric Agentic Al Strategy, Build 2025 | Tech Field Day News Rundown: June 11, 2025
At Microsoft Build 2025, Microsoft focused on agentic AI, making it central to their developer strategy. CEO Satya Nadella introduced the “agentic web,” where…
Tech Field Day News RundownTariffs hit Enterprise Cloud || Tech Field Day News Rundown: June 4, 2025
New global tariffs are making it more expensive and complicated for enterprises to manage their cloud services across regions. These changes are causing…
Tech Field Day News RundownOpenAI Acquires io for $6.4 Billion || Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 28, 2025
OpenAI has announced its largest acquisition to date, agreeing to acquire io, an AI device startup founded by former Apple executive Jony Ive, in an all-equity…
Tech Field Day News RundownUS Signs Take It Down Act || The Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 21, 2025
The US government signed a new act into law that has opponents concerned about the ramifications of what it will be used to do. The Take It Down Act was…
Tech Field Day News RundownFuturum Group Foresees Cybersecurity Futures || Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 14, 2025
Last week saw the release of a big new report from the Futurum Group around cybersecurity. The research says that the market is going to grow by 11.6% per year…
Tech Field Day News RundownAI Growth Driving Cloud Provider Investment || Tech Field Day News Rundown: May 7, 2025
The demand for AI services is driving more growth in public cloud platforms, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have all continued investment in the public cloud…
Tech Field Day News RundownAnother Round of Layoffs for Intel as they Streamline || Tech Field Day Rundown: April 30, 2025
Intel is still looking to smooth out their operations under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The announcement came last week that Intel is going to be cutting more…
Tech Field Day News RundownChris Krebs Resigns from SentinelOne || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 23, 2025
Chris Krebs is a well-known figure in the cybersecurity space. As the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Krebs was…
Tech Field Day News RundownEmbracing Physical AI at Intel Vision 2025 || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 16, 2025
At Intel Vision 2025, CEO Lip-Bu Tan emphasized a customer-centric strategy, focusing on advancements in AI PCs, Gaudi 3 accelerators, and the 18A process…
Tech Field Day News RundownMicrosoft Turns Fifty || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 9, 2025
Half a century is a long time for an IT business, and Microsoft is justified in making a lot of noise to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The celebration…
Tech Field Day News RundownLip-Bu Tan Lays Out Intel Recovery Plans || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 2, 2025
During the keynote for Intel VIsion 2025, new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told the attendees about his vision for the return of Intel. He said that intel needs to attract…
Tech Field Day News RundownJust How Secure Is Signal? || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 26, 2025
For shownotes, head to the episode website post This week has been a big one for messaging privacy. The news broke on Monday that the Editor-in-Chief for The…
Tech Field Day News RundownNVIDIA Reveals Rubin AI and Blackwell Ultra || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 19, 2025
Visit Episode Post for Show Notes NVIDIA unveiled new AI-focused chips at its GTC conference, including the Blackwell Ultra series launching this year and the…
Tech Field Day News RundownIs The CHIPS Act Crushed? || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 12, 2025
Visit Episode Post for Show Notes We've spoken at length about the CHIPS Act for the past year or so and you know that we've been big proponents of bringing…
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China is Getting Banned Blackwell? | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 5, 2025
I want to take you back to the halcyon days of just a few weeks ago when we discussed the ways that NVIDIA AI chips were showing up in China even though they…
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Microsoft's Quantum Computing Breakthrough with Majorana 1 | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 25, 2025
We've talked about quantum computing before but Microsoft created a quantum quake in the tech space last week. They announced a new quantum computer chip that…
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Broadcom Wants Intel Chip Designs? | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 19, 2025
A report this week claims that Broadcom is investigating Intel's chip design business and is contemplating an acquisition. The news comes from the Wall Street…
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OpenAI Not For Sale as They Prepare Proprietary Chip | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 12, 2025
A group of investors, led by Elon Musk’s startup xAI and other backers, has made a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI, aiming to refocus the…
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DoJ Blocks HPE Juniper Deal | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 5, 2025
We heard the rumors back in November that the HPE deal to acquired Juniper Networks was getting a closer look from the Department of Justice. Last week we got…
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TSMC Tariffs Could Cause Chaos | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 29, 2025
As we mentioned earlier, the early days of a US government change invovle a lot of new orders and announcements. After a week in office the current US…
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More on AI Diffusion Regulations | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 23, 2025
We spoke last week about the executive order issued by former President Biden around AI export controls. There has been some more information released about…
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NVIDIA Comments on AI Diffusion | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 15, 2025
The Biden presidential administration might be winding down but thre are still some things that are making news. Yesterday the president proposed a new…
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Big News from CES | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 8, 2025
At CES 2025, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduced Cosmos, a new AI model trained on 20 million hours of video to help machines better understand and interact…
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The Biggest Enterprise IT Stories of 2024 Revisited | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 18, 2024
We're looking back at our reporting on the biggest enterprise IT stories of 2024 and telling you the trends that will be discussion points well into 2025…
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Salt Typhoon Storms the Government | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 11, 2024
The big story this week is the continued fallout from Salt Typhoon. The US government is feeling the heat from the exposure of so many telecom companies and…
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Pat Gelsinger Retires from Intel | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 4, 2024
The biggest news of the holiday weekend dropped on Monday. Pat Gelsinger has retired from Intel, effective immediately. David Zinsner, CFO, and Michelle…
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Announcements from Supercomputing 2024 | The Gestalt IT Rundown: November 27, 2024
The week before Thanksgiving is always busy and this year was packed with great conferences. Super Computing 24 took place in Atlanta and there was plenty to…
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US Antitrust Actions Challenge Tech Deals | The Gestalt IT Rundown: November 20, 2024
The US Department of Justice is looking at two big IT companies, potentially making waves in the enterprise IT space. They are asking a federal judge to force…
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Is IT Security Too Stressful for the Money? | The Gestalt IT Rundown: November 13, 2024
Pay rates for IT security professionals are rising faster than inflation, but burnout and stress are growing faster. A survey of UK security professionals…
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What Another Trump Presidency Means for Enterprise Tech | The Gestalt IT Rundown: November 6, 2024
Another Trump presidency could bring significant implications for enterprise tech, particularly through a focus on deregulation, increased M&A, and expanded…
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AMD and Intel Reach Historic Partnership | The Gestalt IT Rundown: October 30, 2024
Hatfields and McCoys. Lakers and Celtics. GIF versus GIF. The rivalries of our time are always storied. One of the biggest seems to be cooling, however. AMD…
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Exciting Developments from Open Compute Summit | The Gestalt IT Rundown: October 23, 2024
At Open Compute Summit this past week, key trends shaping the future of computing and infrastructure were discussed. One major concern is the global data…
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Commvault Shift's Cyber Resilience for the AI Era | The Gestalt IT Rundown: October 16, 2024
At Commvault SHIFT 2024, The Futurum Group's Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead sat with CEO Sanjay Mirchandani, who discussed Commvault's strategic pivot…
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Nation State Actors Tap the Taps | The Gestalt IT Rundown: October 9, 2024
A big cyberattack attributed to groups backed by the Chinese government has telecom providers worried. In this new report, investigators have determined that…
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OpenAI's Executive Exodus & California Vetoes Safety Bill | The Gestalt IT Rundown October 2, 2024
Microsoft has revamped its AI-powered Recall feature, shifting from automatic to opt-in use with enhanced security measures like full encryption and Windows…
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Qiskit and IBM's New Quantum Innovations | The Gestalt IT Rundown: September 25, 2024
We're happy to have Dr. Bob Sutor joining us this week on the Rundown, since he covers quantum and advanced computing for The Futurum Group. IBM made two…
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Intel Foundry Business To Become a Subsidiary | The Gestalt IT Rundown: September 18, 2024
We have talked at length this year about Intel's efforts to turn the ship and add more profitability to the ledger. One of the crown jewels in that portfolio…
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Broadcom Sued by AT&T | The Gestalt IT Rundown: September 11, 2024
AT&T has decided enough is enough. They have filed a lawsuit over the tactics they claim are putting first responders and critical government services at risk…
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A Smaller VMware Explore Still Delivers News | The Gestalt IT Rundown: September 4, 2024
This year, at the smallest VMware conference in many years, Broadcom made some important announcements. As we've previously discussed, VMware Cloud Foundation…
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AI Heats Up Hot Chips 2024 | The Gestalt IT Rundown: August 28, 2024
This week kicked off the annual Hot Chips conference and AI has once again dominated the conversation. There were a lot of stories to talk about, from wafer…
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ZT Systems to be Acquired by AMD | The Gestalt IT Rundown: August 21, 2024
Our big story this week is from AMD. They're opening up their wallet to the tune of nearly $5 billion to buy ZT Systems. The two companies have had a…
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Announcements and Takeaways from Black Hat | The Gestalt IT Rundown: August 14, 2024
Black Hat was last week and Hacker Summer Camp never fails to disappoint. There were some big takeaways from the show, such as Moxie Marlinspike telling DevOps…
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Intel's Mass Layoffs | The Gestalt IT Rundown: August 7, 2024
It's not a great day for Intel and some 15,000 workers. In the earning call last week the CPU giant revealed that while they hit their revenue target numbers…
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Microsoft's Resiliency Notice And Path Forward | The Gestalt IT Rundown: July 31, 2024
Microsoft has released an accountability notice after the big Crowdstrike outage. According to the release, Microsoft is going to change and innovate in the…
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Crowdstrike Update Strikes Microsoft's Cloud Services | The Gestalt IT Rundown: July 24, 2024
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:03 - NVIDIA's B20 AI Chip 5:35 - Wiz Denies Google's $23 Billion 9:15 - AMD Acquires Silo AI 14:07 - BMC Announces…
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Google Looking to Make Magic with Wiz | The Gestalt IT Rundown: July 17, 2024
Google is looking to make their biggest acquisition ever. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Alphabet will be making a bid to purchase…
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CISA Focuses on Election Security | The Gestalt IT Rundown: July 10, 2024
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a comprehensive guide to bolster operational security (OPSEC) for election officials…
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CHIPS Act to Train Workers to Avoid Labor Shortages | The Gestalt IT Rundown: July 3, 2024
The US government is worried there might not be enough trained workers to fill the needs of the CHIPS act. President Biden has announced a Workforce Partner…
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Discovering the Latest News from HPE, Including Aruba Networking | The Gestalt IT Rundown: June 26, 2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has launched a private cloud solution leveraging the KVM hypervisor, aiming at customers upset by the Broadcom-VMware merger…
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Announcements from AWS re:Inforce | The Gestalt IT Rundown: June 19, 2024
Amazon Web Services recently held their re:Inforce conference, as the company attempts to partner with customers to deliver a securre environment. Following…