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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.
Episodes
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NVIDIA, Microsoft, and OpenAI Face Potential Investigation | The Gestalt IT Rundown: June 12, 2024
The US Justice Department and FCC have announced an agreement that gives them each a role to play in potential antitrust investigations against the biggest…
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Announcements from Qlik Connect | The Gestalt IT Rundown: June 5, 2024
At Qlik Connect in Orlando, significant announcements affecting the industry were examined. Key highlights included the integration of Talend Cloud to enhance…
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Tech Giants Working Closely on AI Compliance in EU | The Gestalt IT Rundown: May 29, 2024
The world’s leading internet firms are actively collaborating with regulators in the European Union to ensure compliance with the bloc’s stringent data…
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Announcements from Dell Tech World and Dell's New AI PCs | The Gestalt IT Rundown: May 22, 2024
Pat Moorhead and Daniel Newman sat down with Sam Burd to discuss AI PCs at Dell Tech World. These new PCs include significant new AI integrations, and Dell…
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AI Supercomputing Hits New Level with NVIDIA Grace Hopper | The Gestalt IT Rundown: May 15, 2024
The June 2024 Top500 supercomputer list was released at ISC 2024, and there is a lot to unpack. The latest Top 500 Supercomputers list highlights significant…
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Red Hat Summit Brings AI and Announcements from RSA | The Gestalt IT Rundown: May 8, 2024
The annual security party known as RSA kicked off this week and one of the things you can count on is big announcements from companies at the event and we've…
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AI Startups Investment vs. Business Reality | The Gestalt IT Rundown: May 1, 2024
You don't need an algorithm to know that AI is the hottest invements right now outside of frozen concentrated orange juice. Investors are seeing the mountain…
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FTC Bans Non-Compete Clauses | The Gestalt IT Rundown: April 24, 2024
In a landmark ruling from the US Federal Trade Commission, non-compete clauses in employment agreements are no longer valid and all existing non-compete…
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Google Cloud Next | The Gestalt IT Rundown: April 17, 2024
Our eyes were on Google Cloud Next last week, as the hyperscaler announced new ARM chips, lots of partnerships, and of course wall-to-wall AI. Google's Vertex…
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New Online Privacy Protection Plan Revealed | The Gestalt IT Rundown: April 10, 2024
In a historic move, key federal lawmakers, including Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy…
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US and UK Join Forces for AI Safety | The Gestalt IT Rundown: April 3, 2024
The US and the UK have allied to make sure AI is developed safely. A new memorandum of understanding has laid out proposals for testing and information sharing…
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Revisiting the Impact of NVIDIA GTC | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 27, 2024
NVIDIA GTC event was the big story last week, both on the Rundown and in the tech industry generally. NVIDIA is clearly the company to beat in AI and HPC and…
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NVIDIA GTC News and NVIDIA Blackwell Systems | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 20, 2024
This week is NVIDIA GTC, or as Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman called it "the Woodstock of AI". There's been a lot of discussion about the ascendant NVIDIA and…
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VAST Data Announcements from the Tech Field Day Showcase | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 13, 2024
Yesterday VAST Data announced what they are calling the AI Factory, and we got a detailed look at this during a Tech Field Day Showcase. VAST is collaborating…
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NetApp Improves their Cybersecurity | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 6, 2024
NetApp is updaing their ransomware protection solutions. They've made some new additions to their Automated Ransomware Protection (ARP) platform to address new…
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Broadcom Redefines VMware | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 28, 2024
In a series of bold moves, Broadcom has restructured VMware shifting to subscription-only licenses across all offerings. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan wants VMware to…
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Feds Let Fancy Bear Embers Die Out | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 21, 2024
The US Department of Justice is at it again with a new team for Operation Dying Ember. Sounds spooky, right? This time it was to undertake a secret court order…
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Cohesity to Acquire Veritas Technologies | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 14, 2024
Cohesity is set to acquire the data protection assets of Veritas in a huge deal. Cohesity will be picking up the NetBackup portfolio as well as SaaS offering…
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Cisco Live EMEA Embraces New Technologies | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 7, 2024
Cisco Live EMEA is happening this week and we're here learning all the great things that Cisco is investing in and bringing to the market. We thought it would…
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Juniper Networks Reveals First AI-Native Networking Platform | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 31, 2024
Juniper Networks is putting more Marvis in everything. In a major announcement this week they released several new products. One of those was expanding the…
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Should We Be Concerned About Growing Electricity Demand? | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 24, 2024
According to a recent report from the IEA, data center electricity demands are set to rise over the next three years. The report discusses the CO2 emissions…
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Synopsys to Acquire Ansys | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 17, 2024
Two of the biggest players in the networking space are about to become one. Rumors started swirling on Monday evening that HPE was looking to acquire Juniper…
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HPE Acquiring Juniper Networks for $14 Billion | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 10, 2024
Two of the biggest players in the networking space are about to become one. Rumors started swirling on Monday evening that HPE was looking to acquire Juniper…
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Intel's AI Ecosystem and AI PCs | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 3, 2024
It has been a big year in the enterprise IT industry for many reasons. Pat Gelsinger and Intel continue to refocus its business, the SEC gets serious with…
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Top Enterprise IT Stories of 2023 | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 20, 2023
It has been a big year in the enterprise IT industry for many reasons. Pat Gelsinger and Intel continue to refocus its business, the SEC gets serious with…
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VMware Simplifies Offer Lineup through Broadcom | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 13. 2023
Change is in the air and it's licensed. The biggest news this week came from VMware (by Broadcom) as they announced a simplification of their licensing model…
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IBM and Meta's AI Alliance Launched This Week | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 6, 2023
IBM and Facebook parent company Meta have decided to advocate for a more open approach to AI. They've announced a joint AI Alliance group. The companies are…
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Announcements from AWS re:Invent | The Gestalt IT Rundown: November 29, 2023
Amazon announced that they will be using Nvidia's NVSwitch to create new rackscale AI platforms. This allows customers to use Nvidia technology like Grace…
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OpenAI Chaos Reigns Supreme | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 22, 2023
It's been a wild week for OpenAI. On Friday, the board notified CEO Sam Altman that he was being removed. Then President and Chairman Greg Brockman quit…
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Existential Questions about HPC and AI | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 15, 2023
As Supercomputing 2023 is held in Denver this week, we're on the lookout for all the latest news. We have a new list of Top-500 supercomputers, more Nvidia…
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Okta Breach Blamed on User's Personal Google Login | The Gestalt IT Rundown: November 8, 2023
Okta hasn't had a very good run of security headlines lately, and the latest is a breach that resulted in the theft of session tokens of several customers from…
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Executive Order for Federal AI Standards Signed | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 1, 2023
President Joe Biden has signed a comprehensive executive order addressing the safety and governance of artificial intelligence in the United States. The order…
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ISS Cleveland and the Current Market | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 25, 2023
We are at the 21st annual Information Security Summit in Cleveland today, and it's been an interesting event for us. Not only is this close to home in…
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AMD CEO Lisa Su leaves Cisco Board of Directors | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 18, 2023
Big news this week from the boardroom as Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, has announced her departure from the Cisco Board of Directors. The move comes as a surprise in a…
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US-China Tech War now Focused on RISC-V chip Technology | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 11, 2023
In the ongoing geopolitical battle between the United States and China, a new front has emerged, focusing on the open-source chip technology known as RISC-V…
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Programmable Solutions Group Spun-off by Intel | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 4, 2023
Intel is set to spin off its Programmable Solutions Group as an independent business, aiming for an IPO in 2-3 years. PSG, led by Intel's current Data Center…
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Cisco Set to Acquire Splunk | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 27, 2023
Well, it finally happened folks, and I guess the third time is the charm. If rumors are to be believed, Cisco had approached Splunk on two separate occasion to…
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Microsoft's Security Leaks Get Worse | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 20, 2023
Microsoft's AI division just found out they made a mistake. Three years ago they accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of data to a public GitHub repo while…
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Cybercriminals Gain Attention from International Criminal Courts | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 13, 2023
In an excellent article, Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court has started to make the case that cybercriminals should be subject to international law…
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Dell & AMD Partner for Accessible High Performance Computing | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 6, 2023
Dell Technologies and AMD are at the forefront of high-performance computing (HPC), driving innovation in various fields, such as space exploration, wildfire…
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Intel, Arm, AMD, and More Announcements from Hot Chips 2023 | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 30, 2023
At Hot Chips 2023, Intel unveiled Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids Xeon processors targeting data centers. Sierra Forest is Intel's first E-core Xeon with 144…
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Announcements from VMware Explore | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 23, 2023
VMware just can't stop talking about GenAI, which incorporates many different developments. The company is adding AI assistants to many products and is also…
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Business Source License Adopted by HashiCorp | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 16, 2023
Do you love licensing drama? Last week HashiCorp made headlines with an announcement by CTO Armon Dadgar that they're changing licensing models. HashiCorp is…
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Announcements from Flash Memory Summit | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 9, 2023
We are at the annual Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara this week, with the event showcasing the latest advancements in the storage industry. Let's take a…
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Ultra Ethernet Consortium Founded & Event Season is Heating Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 2, 2023
Some of the biggest names in the HPC and hyperconvergence space are banding together to standardize Ethernet. The new Ultra Ethernet Consortium counts AMD…
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Cybersecurity Threats, Simple Errors, and the Death of an Icon | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 26, 2023
Cybersecurity remains a critical concern, dominating headlines with its persistent threats and sophisticated attacks. Recent incidents, such as the stolen…
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NVIDIA and Lambda Labs Team Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 19, 2023
Nvidia accelerates its venture capital investments in cloud and AI software startups, taking an equity stake in Lambda Labs, a competitor to Amazon Web…
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The Battle Over Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 12, 2023
The Linux world is abuzz with controversy as IBM Red Hat puts the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) behind a paywall, leaving CentOS Stream as…
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Checking In on the State of the IT Economy Half Way Through 2023 | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 5, 2023
Now that half of 2023 is behind us, let's take a closer look a the state of the global economy, with a special focus on the enterprise IT industry. As we've…
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MLPerf 3 Upsets the AI Apple Cart | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 28, 2023
Training 3.0 benchmark results show performance gains of up to 1.54x compared to six months ago and 33-49x improvement over the first round, driving innovation…
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Intel Expanding Chip Fabs in Foreign Locations | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 21, 2023
Intel is looking to expand their chip making facilities outside of the US. The first story this week involves a huge $25 billion dollar investment in…
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Pure Storage Takes Aim at Disk Storage | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 14, 2023
We're at Pure Storage's Pure Accelerate conference this week, and the buzz is focused on the company's continuing quest to push hard disk drives out of the…
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Announcements from Cisco Live | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 7, 2023
At Cisco Live 2023, Cisco unveiled a range of solutions for SSE, network management, observability, and a new cloud-native application security solution called…
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Dell Tech World Looks to Appeal to All | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 31, 2023
Dell Tech World was the talk of the industry last week. In part it's because Dell is rolling out initiatvies to try and address their key areas as those…
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Ransomware Rampage: Cyber Threats and Costly Consequences | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 24, 2023
Ransomware attacks continue to pose a significant threat across various sectors, with recent incidents targeting critical industries and causing substantial…
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AI Controversies Hit Enterprise IT | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 17, 2023
Controversy over AI, from ChatGPT to Bard, have been all over the news, and the impact of Large Language Models is hitting enterprise IT. We're seeing…
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Aruba Atmosphere Announcements Abound | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 10, 2023
Aruba Atmosphere was the talk of the town and we're here to cover the exciting announcements from the event. There was a lot of discussion about the…
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The Legacy of the Biggest Supply Chain Hack | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 3, 2023
Thanks to Gina Rosenthal for sharing a wonderful article from Wired about the details behind the SolarWinds Orion supply chain hack that we covered back at the…
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Google Cloud Turns a Profit and Extends the Life of Servers | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 26, 2023
In the three years since reporting financial metrics Google's cloud business has announced they have turned a profit. Their offerings under this umbrella…
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Intel's Transformation Continues | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 19, 2023
Intel made a couple of big moves this week. The first was the surprise news that they are exiting the server market. No, they aren't giving up on Xeons and…