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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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China Plays Hardball with Western Companies | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 12, 2023
China is reportedly blocking multiple mergers and is now investigating Micron for an unspecified cybersecurity concern. Delays include Intel’s acquisition of…
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Amazon Opens Sidewalk to Developers | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 5, 2023
If you're ready to start building out IoT networks and you want access to the largest one around Amazon is ready for you. Amazon Sidewalk is now open for…
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Gordon Moore Dies at 94 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 29, 2023
Computing pioneer and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore has died. His name is commonly used in reference to Moore's Law, which stated that processors would be…
Tech Field Day News RundownNvidia GTC Looms Large | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 22, 2023
Nvidia GTC is happening this week and there's lots of new hardware coming out. From the H100 card optimized for large language models to screaming fast GPUs…
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Analyzing What SVB's Failure Means for Enterprises | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 15, 2023
Unless you've been living under a rock, you heard about the failure of Silicon Valley Bank last weekend. But what does this mean for enterprise IT? The FDIC is…
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Brainchip Readies Generation 2 Akida AI | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 8, 2023
Brainchip is back again with the latest generation of their Akida AI engine. This second-generation offering provides performance increases while…
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SNIA Gets Smart with New Smart Accelerator Interface | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 1, 2023
SNIA is announcing a new way for memory to be utilized in devices. The Smart Data Accelerator Interface or SDXI, is designed to help optimize memory-to-memory…
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US Supreme Court Takes on Section 230 | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 22, 2023
The US Supreme Court took up a case this week that could have some far-reaching impacts on the future of content on the Internet. The case, Gonzalez vs…
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Apple's Zero Day Vulnerability May have Been Exploited | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 15, 2023
Looks like it's time to update your iPhones, Macs, and iPads again. Apple has released security fixes for all affected devices and they've acknowledged that it…
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Cisco Leans Into 5G, IoT, & Sustainability at Cisco Live EMEA | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 8, 2023
Cisco is looking to embrace the growing field of IoT with some new announcements around rugged switches and access points as well as a new dashboard designed…
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Intel Punts Pathfinder and Nixes Networking Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 1, 2023
Pat Gelsinger isn't done cutting just yet. This week brought news of two big changes for Intel. The first was news that Intel will no longer be developing…
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DoJ Says Google Doesn't Ad Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 25, 2023
The US Department of Justice has joined with 8 US states to take on Google's ad platform. In a filing this week they announced the suit claiming that Google's…
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Sapphire Rapids Servers are Launched | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 18, 2023
Supermicro, Dell, HPE, Cisco, and others have introduced the first server lines based on Intel's recently-announced 4th generation Xeon processors. And of…
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Intel 4th Gen Xeon Rides the Rapids | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 11, 2023
If you were curious as to when Intel would launch their fourth generation Xeon processors you can satisfy that curiosity. Intel's long-rumored Sapphire Rapids…
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Okta Source Code Nabbed from GitHub | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 4, 2023
Just in time for the holidays, Okta got a lump of coal in the form of a breach of their GitHub repository for souce code. The intrusion appears to have been…
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Year in Review 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 21, 22022
Join us for the Rundown of all our 2022 Rundowns! We’re looking at the big picture and linking the various stories throughout the year. See how things like DPU…
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Will Covid and Politics Strangle Manufacturing in China | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 14, 2022
Tech production in China is getting more concerning by the day. Between the pandemic and international technology transfer restrictions, this could become the…
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HPE Looking at Nutanix? | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 7, 2022
It's been a while since we've talked about Nutanix but they're back in the news with a big rumor. The market is abuzz with reports that HPE is looking to…
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Graviton CPU Variant for HPC | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 30, 2022
Graviton 3E is finally here. What does that mean? It's a CPU that is designed to accelerate floating point and vector math. That may not sound exciting to you…
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AMD Releases Genoa Epyc CPUs | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 16, 2022
AMD got the jump on Intel in the battle for fourth-generation server CPUs, announcing the so-called Genoa line at SuperComputing 22. AMD's new CPU line is a…
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AI Performance is On Display with MLPerf | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 9, 2022
We have some breaking news to cover today as ML Commons releases the results of their training, HPC, and tiny benchmark suites. Every company in the machine…
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Elon Musk purchases Twitter and Does what Musk Does | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 2, 2022
While not completely enterprise tech, we felt like it was necessary to cover the Twitter saga since so many of us use social media to share information and…
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FAA Wants 5G Limits | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 26, 2022
The story that never seems to fly away has circled back once again. The FAA has as the FCC once again to delay the deployment of C-Band 5G frequencies around…
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Nutanix Looking For A Buyer? | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 19, 2022
The rumors are swirling that there is interest in Nutanix being sold or taken private. A number of reports appeared at the end of the week last week noting…
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Alder Lake Leaks BIOS Source | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 12, 2022
Intel isn't happy that the source code for their Alder Lake BIOS has been leaked online. The UEFI code was nabbed by someone and posted to the Internet as a 6…
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AMD Takes On the World in the Datacenter and Cloud | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 5, 2022
Since taking over AMD's enterprise chip business in 2014, Forrest Norrod has built the perennial also-ran into a CPU powerhouse. Now that AMD is truly a major…
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Gelsinger's New Intel - How's It Looking? | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 28, 2022
Intel Innovation 2022 is happening this week and that means lots of coverage of the things that Intel is talking about and showing off. Pat Gelsinger has been…
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Oracle on Verge of Becoming World’s Hottest Cloud Vendor | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 21, 2022
Oracle released it’s fiscal 2023 Q1 results and it showed massive year-on-year cloud-revenue growth. The numbers could only mean one thing – Oracle is set to…
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Nvidia Aces MLPerf with H100 | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 14, 2022
MLCommons released the latest wave of machine learning training and inferencing benchmarks, and Nvidia's next-generaltion H100 really aced the results…
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China Blocked in the GPU and AI Market | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 7, 2022
The United States turned up the heat on China last week, announcing that export or sale of advanced GPUs from Nvidia and AMD would not be allowed. This…
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VMware Explores the Future of Enterprise IT | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 31, 2022
VMware's annual conference is taking place in San Francisco this week, and Stephen Foskett is on-site to cover the event for Gestalt IT. It's been a tumultuous…
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Qualcomm Taking a Nuvia Look at Server CPUs | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 24, 2022
Chipmaker Qualcomm is aiming to jump back into the server CPU market. The avenue is coming from last year's acquisition of Nuvia. We covered this deal on the…
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Flash Memory Summit in a Flash | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 17, 2022
Flash Memory Summit happened last week but we didn't want to let it go by without having our own storage expert comment on some of the announcements there…
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Intel has an AEpic Security Problem | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 10, 2022
It's Black Hat and DEFCON week and it wouldn't be a show without the disclosure of a few big bugs. The winner so far seems to be a new exploit found in Intel's…
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Optane Train Out of Steam? | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 3, 2022
The name Optane is one that should be familiar to almost everyone in the IT industry. Heralded by some as a revolution in computer architecture, the promise of…
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Chipmakers in China Report Reduced Demand and Lower Pricing | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 27, 2022
We've been talking about the shortage of integrated circuits and the race to build more production capacity for over a year, but maybe there's more to this…
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Industrial Systems Coming Under Siege | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 20, 2022
Attackers are starting to target the critical infrastructure that runs industrial and manufacturing facilities. That may not sound like a new thing but the…
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Apple is Working on the Lockdown | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 13, 2022
Apple has quietly added a new "Lockdown Mode" to iOS 16, iPadOS16, and macOS Ventura that allows users to restrict the channels often used by the most…
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NIST Approves Quantum-Resistant Crypto | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 6, 2022
NIST has announced their selections for quantum-safe encryption algorithms. The competition has been running since 2016 when the standards body realized that…
Tech Field Day News RundownML Commons Unveils MLPerf Training v2.0 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 29, 2022
The artificial intelligence community is buzzing about the just-released ML Commons MLPerf Training v2.0 results, which were announced today. NVIDIA, Intel…
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RSA and Cisco Live: Viral Events | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 22, 2022
The last two weeks have been filled with conferences. RSA happened June 6-9 and Cisco Live was June 12-16. There were also gatherings for Splunk, Juniper, and…
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Pure Storage Revs Up FlashBlade and Portworx | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 15, 2022
Pure Storage held their annual Accelerate event in Los Angeles last week. The key new introduction was the next generation of their FlashBlade scale-out…
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IBM owes $1.6 billion for BMC Poaching | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 8, 2022
IBM finally lost a court case this week and nows owes BMC $1.6 billion. Why? Well, the reasoning is that IBM stole one of BMC's biggest customers - AT&T. IBM…
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Intel Announces Newest HPC Lineups at ISC 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 1, 2022
Intel has some new codenames in the works for their high performance computing lines. The new AI GPU is code named Rialto Bridge and the next generation…
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Broadcom Looking to Buy VMware? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 25, 2022
The biggest shock to the virtualization community in months hit this past weekend when the press noted that chip giant Broadcom is in talks to purchase VMware…
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Intel Plans for 800 Gbos IPUs | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 18, 2022
Intel is ready to ramp up the market for add-on cards. Their roadmap for Infrastructure Processing Units, which is what Intel calls a DPU, are focusing on a…
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A Look Into Dell's Future | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 11, 2022
Dell Technologies World happened last week and while the response online was somewhat muted compared to years past, there was one thing that stood out to…
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Dell Brings APEX, Storage, and Alpine to Dell Technologies World | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 4, 2022
Although Dell skipped inviting influencers to Dell Tech World this year, the company announced that they are expanding their APEX on-premises and public cloud…
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Facebook Doesn't Know Where Your Data Goes | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 27, 2022
Vice got their hands on a leaked memo from Facebook that sheds light on some troubling privacy issues on the platform. Per the memo, Facebook is worried about…
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Are We Really Muted? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 20, 2022
It appears just when you think you’re muted you’re really not!? Some individuals found that a ton of popular video conferencing apps fail to disable device…
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Acquisitions Galore | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 13, 2022
It's been a very busy week for companies getting acquired! We thought it would be best to collect them all together so we could give you a quick overview of…
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AMD Picks Up Pensando | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 6, 2022
Fresh off an appearance on stage during Aruba Atmosphere, Pensando is now off the market thanks to AMD. The other big chipmaker in the space is picking up the…
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Aruba’s Atmosphere and Location Aware Wi-Fi | Gestalt IT Rundown: March, 30, 2022
Aruba introduced location-aware Wi-Fi access points for precise indoor location and is partnering with third parties like Tile to create a new OpenLocate…
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NVIDIA Wows with the Next-Generation Hopper GPU Platform | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 23, 2022
Jensen Huang is back with another NVIDIA GTC keynote, launching the next-generation Hopper GPU architecture and a raft of new products for cloud, HPC…
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Hacked Companies Have New Reporting Rules | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 16, 2022
In a new directive from the US Congress, companies that are critical to the national interest will face new rules about whether or not they have been hacked or…
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Tech World Turns Away from Russia | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 9, 2022
With the world focused on the situation between Ukraine and Russia it's hard to keep up with the pace of news. One thing that has stood out from the tech side…
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Can Cryptocurrency Sidestep Sanctions? | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 2, 2022
World news is very busy this week with stories focusing on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One of the biggest news items is that many of the countries in the…
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Time for a Cyber Social Contract? | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 23, 2022
An interesting proposal appeared this week in an article penned by Chris Inglis, US National Cyber Director, and Harry Krejsa. In it, a suggestion is made for…
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Cisco Goes Spelunking for Splunk | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 16, 2022
Friday afternoon saw a huge breaking announcement from the Wall Street Journal. Reports indicated that Cisco had made a $20 billion offer to acquire Splunk. We…
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Failed Deal Costs NVIDIA ARM and a Leg | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 9, 2022
NVIDIA announced that they are finally dropping their plans to acquire chip maker ARM. The final nail in the coffin comes with a steep price tag, as ARM and…