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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 and AMD Release Earnings | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 2, 2022
Last week saw quarterly financial announcements from both Intel (Jan 26) and AMD (Feb 1) that help us see where things are going, at least in the short term…
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Intel is Officially Coming to Ohio | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 26, 2022
It's official! Intel's "Mega-Site" in New Albany, Ohio will house a massive chip fab, Intel's first all-new chipmaking facility in 40 years. NVIDIA's planned…
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PCI Express 6.0 Finalized | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 19, 2022
The PCI Special Interest Group (SIG) announced last week that they have finalized the specification for PCI Express 6.0. And as mentioned previously on the…
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Moxie Marlinspike Spins a Web3 | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 12, 2022
Someone who has done a lot of thinking about what Web3 represents is Moxie Marlinspike. In a recent piece on his blog he talked about the growing use of…
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CES has Two Big CPU Announcements | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 5, 2022
Although CES is traditionally a consumer show, we often see announcements there that are relevant in enterprise IT as well. That was certainly the case with…
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2021 Year End Rundown | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 22, 2021
Join us for a year-end rundown of the biggest stories each month of 2021. Stephen and Tom wrap up the year with their thoughts on the news that shaped the IT…
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Log4j Creates Lost Weekend of Patching | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 15, 2021
It wasn't a good weekend for security pros all over the world. Alibaba Cloud disclosed a vulnerability in a Java logging service named Log4j. The first reports…
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Intel in the Driver's Seat with MobilEye | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 8, 2021
Intel acquired Mobileye, the autonomous driving solution company, back in 2017 . They announced this week that they want to offer an IPO in mid-2022 to help…
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AWS re:Invent Keynote Highlights | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 1, 2021
AWS re:Invent is happening live and in-person through December 3rd and the event has a lot of attention. And Apple has announced a lawsuit against the maker of…
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CXL Merging with Gen-Z | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 17, 2021
Last week, Gen-Z, the open systems interconnect solution backed by AMD, Broadcom, Dell, Micron, and more, announced that they will be folding and will also be…
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NVIDIA GTC Announcements & AMD Strikes Back | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 10, 2021
This is a big week for NVIDIA as they held their GTC show and talked about all the newest advances they've been working on. And not to be outdone, AMD also had…
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Dell Spins out VMware | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 3, 2021
VMware is now an independent company, having been spun out of the Dell EMC behemoth. We discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown. For show…
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Intel Earnings Slide, AMD Earnings Soar | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 27, 2021
Intel announced their earnings were down in the client arena for Q3. On the other hand, AMD is thrilled because they were up across the board big time. We…
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Canonical Launches Ubuntu 21.10 | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 20, 2021
Big news this week for Linux fans: the newest version of Ubuntu has just released. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please…
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Google Goes Hybrid at Google Cloud Next | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 13, 2021
Google Cloud Next kicked off this week with the usually flurry of announcements around the technologies that the search and ad giant focuses on. And at VMworld…
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VMworld Looms Large, Capitola Redefines Memory | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 6, 2021
VMworld 2021 is happening this week, virtually of course, and there are a ton of new product announcements. The biggest one is perhaps Project Capitola. And…
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Pure Storage Launches Pure Fusion & Portworx Data Services | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 29, 2021
Yesterday was a big day for Pure Storage. As you may have seen from the live blog coverage on GestaltIT.com, Pure launched a couple of new offerings that…
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Cisco Shakes Up Security Team | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 22, 2021
The news out of Cisco this morning is some shuffling of the security executives. And the US Treasury announced sanctions against cryptocurrency exchange SUEX…
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Emergency Apple Update Targets Pegasus Spyware | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 15, 2021
This week, in an emergency update, Apple released a patch preventing Pegasus spyware from infecting any Apple device with a single click. Researchers have…
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Juniper Breach Related to Encryption Flaw Reveals More | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 8, 2021
Swiss-based firm, ProtonMail, is under bombardment for strict privacy questions. After five years of mystery, more information is coming to light about the…
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Astronomical Cosmos DB Vulnerability in Microsoft Azure | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 1, 2021
Microsoft is seeing stars this week as the disclosure of a galaxy-sized vulnerability was reported. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown. For…
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Hot Chips 33 News Roundup | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 25, 2021
We're reacting to some of the big announcements that came out of Hot Chips 33 this week. We discuss these announcements and many more stories on this week's…
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Intel Shuts Down RealSense AI Cameras | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 18, 2021
Intel is "winding down" RealSense AI cameras to focus more on chip production. There is a massive IoT bug that could cause a potential super botnet to emerge…
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Chip Shortage Pushing Governments to Act | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 11, 2021
Chip shortages are pushing governments to act, including South Korea agreeing to parole disgraced Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong. Extreme Networks is buying Ipanema…
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NVIDIA Runs into Arm Acquisition Snag | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 4, 2021
The NVIDIA acquisition of Arm, which we discussed last week, may take a bit longer than expected. And the amount of available memory chips is now considered a…
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Intel Announces 2025 Roadmap | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 28, 2021
Intel has announced their chipmaking roadmap for the next few years, N-Able announced their first trade on the NYSE after splitting from their parent company…
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Pegasus Flies To Exploit Journalist Phones | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 21, 2021
Pegasus, a software used to infect phones, was being sold by an Israeli firm called NSO group and was being used against journalists, activists and even…
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Amazon Called to Testify About JEDI Involvement | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 14, 2021
Members of the U.S Congress believe that Amazon may have been more involved in attempting to win the initial JEDI contract and SolarWinds is under fire again…
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US Government Strikes Down JEDI | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 7, 2021
The US Government strikes down the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) and we have another ransomware attack as the prolific REvil ransomware crew…
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Intel Sapphire Rapids Rushes Back to 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 30, 2021
Intel pushes back its next-generation Xeon processor series, known as Sapphire Rapids, to Q2 of 2022; LinkedIn leaks data on 92% of users and My Books has been…
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Intel Excited About Big Semiconductor Bill | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 23, 2021
Intel is excited about the big semiconductor bill that was just passed by the U.S. Senate, over 8.4 billion passwords have been leaked in an enormous 100GB…
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Supreme Court Narrows CFAA Scope | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 16, 2021
The US Supreme Court has overturned the verdict in Van Buren vs. United States and Time Cache looks to time out CPU side channels. We discuss these stories and…
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FBI Goes Mobile to Disrupt Crime with the "FBIphone" | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 9, 2021
The FBI has gone mobile to disrupt Crime with the FBIphone, the FBI also stole a march on the ransomware crew responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown…
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Keerti Melkote Stepping Down at Aruba | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 2, 2021
Keerti Melkote is stepping down at Aruba, Cloudera is going private in $5.3 billion acquisition and US beef product has been impacted by Ransomware. We discuss…
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NAND Inventor Wants to Replace DRAM | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 26, 2021
NAND Inventor wants to replace DRAM, Google had a lot to say at I/O last week, and Freenode Staff flees after new owner seizes. We discuss these stories and…
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Apple Faces Potential Issues in China | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 19, 2021
We take a deeper dive into VMware's new CEO and Apple faces potential issues in China. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes…
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VMware Names New CEO and President | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 12, 2021
Breaking News on this week's Rundown: VMware Names New CEO and President. Also in this week's show: Wi-Fi Vulnerable to Fragmentation Attacks, IBM Creates 2nm…
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IBM Buys Turbonomic | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 5, 2021
IBM Buys Turbonomic, HPE GreenLake Gets Cloudy Storage, Dell Announces APEX Storage-as-a-Service and Aryaka buys Secucloud for SASE. We discuss these stories…
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Scality Announces ARTESCA | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 28, 2021
Scality just announced their newest cloud-native storage object solution, ARTESCA. Secure messaging app, Signal, has discovered Vulnerabilities in Celebrite…
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Dell Spinning off VMware | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 21, 2021
Dell Technologies announced that they will spin off their share of VMware to help pay off some of their corporate debt and the FBI Remotely Patches Exchange…
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Nvidia's GTC Announcements | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 14, 2021
Join us as we discuss Nvidia's 2021 GTC announcements and many other stories on this week's Rundown! For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
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Intel Introduces Ice Lake | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 7, 2021
Intel finally released its next-generation server platform, Ice Lake, yesterday. We discuss this story and much more with special guest host Calvin…
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Cisco Adds Network as a Service | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 31, 2021
Cisco is adding network as a service with Cisco Plus, Cohesity announced that it has risen in value this year, and Amazon is reportedly looking into making…
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Intel Finally Launching Ice Lake Xeon | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 24, 2021
Intel is finally launching Ice Lake, Cloud spending outstrips on-premise investments for the first time and Microsoft may be buying Discord. We discuss these…
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Micron Exits 3d XPoint Business | GestaltIT Rundown: March 17, 2021
Micron Technology announced that they are getting out of the business of 3D Xpoint, a fire at OVHCloud last week caused several website outages and AMD…
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Buffer Releases New Work From Home Study | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 10, 2021
Buffer has released a new work from home study, thousands have been infected thorough Microsoft Exchange and Intel announced chips for Homomorphic…
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HPE Acquires CloudPhysics | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 3, 2021
HPE is acquiring CloudPhysics, VMware vCenter needs to be patched and Google Research fires AI Bias Experts after they point out biases in AI. We discuss these…
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SolarWinds Topic of Senate Panel Discussion | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 24, 2021
SolarWinds is testifying before a Senate panel and Malware is hiding backup control servers on the Blockchain. We discuss these stories and much more in this…
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AWS is the Biggest Enterprise Storage Vendor | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 17, 2021
AWS is the biggest enterprise storage vendor and the Super Micro hack was kept secret for years. We'll discuss these stories and much more on this week's…
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SpaceX Starlink Opens Up New Orders | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 10, 2021
SpaceX Starlink opens up new orders and "hackers" tamper with Florida water. We discuss these stories and much more in this week's Rundown. For show notes…
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Andy Jassy Steps Up as Amazon CEO | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 3, 2021
Andy Jassy is stepping up as Amazon's CEO, AfriNIC has been caught illegally reselling IP addresses and DriveNets catches a big Series B. We discuss these…
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Slack Outage Caused by AWS | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 27, 2021
Slack's early-January outage was caused by AWS, Intel's New CEO is rehiring CUP Architects, there was a Verizon FIOS outage on the East Coast and AWS Forks…
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MalwareBytes Bitten by Dark Hero | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 20, 2021
MalwareBytes is bitten by Dark Hero, Hackers nab Mimecast certificate from Microsoft and Qualcomm is buying Nuvia. We'll discuss these topics and much more on…
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Intel CEO Stepping Down in February | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 13, 2021
Breaking news in this week's Rundown: Intel's CEO is stepping down in February. We'll discuss more Intel news and many other stories in this week's Rundown!…
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Google Workers Unionize | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 06, 2021
Google workers unionize, Russia hacked Microsoft too and Intel is urged to explore new deals. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown…
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2020 Year End Rundown
What a year 2020 has been! We’ve covered a lot of stories in the last 12 months and Stephen and Tom wanted to go back and take a look at some of the ones that…
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SolarWinds Orion Hacked | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 16, 2020
SolarWinds' flagship Orion platform has been hacked and the CentOS team moves to Stream. We'll discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown! For show…
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Juniper Buying Apstra| Gestalt IT Rundown: December 9, 2020
Juniper is buying Apstra, AWS is scaling EBS to compete with SANs, SCOUTS is looking at CFAA and DeepMind is using AI to solve protein folding. We'll discuss…
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HPE Is Texas Bound| Gestalt IT Rundown: December 2, 2020
HPE is Texas bound, IBM creates quantum-safe encryption and AWS has a Kinesis problem. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown! For…
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Microsoft Making Pluton for Security| Gestalt IT Rundown: November 18, 2020
Microsoft is making Pluton for Security, Celona Partners with Aruba to Expand CBRS and the launch of MacOS Big Sur. We'll discuss these topics and much more on…