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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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Apple M1 Chip To Power New Macs | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 11, 2020
Apple is making their own chips for their new Mac line and Intel seems to be squarely in the sights of Agent P. We'll these stories and much more on this…
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Juniper Installed Backdoor For NSA | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 4, 2020
Juniper installed backdoor For NSA, NetApp goes 'storageless', hackers hunting for Oracle exploit and Starlink releases open Beta. We'll talk about all this…
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HashiCorp Announces Nomad Container Orchestration | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 28, 2020
HashiCorp announces Nomad Container orchestration, AMD is buying Xilinx for $35 billion, and we expand on last week's discussion on the US DOJ suing Google…
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SK hynix Acquires Intel's NAND Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 21, 2020
SK hynix finalized a deal to purchase Intel's NAND flash memory and SSD operations, the United States Justice Department just filed an antitrust suit against…
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IBM Splitting Into Two Companies | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 14, 2020
IBM splitting off professional services, big flaw in Apple's T2 security chip, and still more tech acquisitions happening. We'll talk about it all in this…
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Cisco to Pay $2 Billion In Patent Dispute? | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 7, 2020
Cisco may have to pay up in a patent infringement case, the US Treasury is warning against paying ransomware crews, and acquisitions galore on this episode of…
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Converging Conference Communities in the Cloud | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 30, 2020
VMworld announcements galore, Intel nomenclature, and even more on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown! For show notes, make sure to visit…
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Pure Storage Acquires Portworx | Gestalt IT Rundown - September 23, 2020
Pure Storage is buying Portworx, Snowflake has a big IPO, and Western Digital has a breakup. All these stories and more on this episode of the Gestalt IT…
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NVIDIA To Buy ARM for $40 Billion | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 16, 2020
NVIDIA is buying ARM, TikTok may belong to Oracle now, and Silicon Valley paying less to remote workers? It's all here in the September 16 edition of the…
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AWS Rebuffs JEDI Contract Award | Gestalt IT Rundown September 9, 2020
AWS Strikes Back Against JEDI, ARM News galore, and one less Chef making Progress in the kitchen in this week's episode of the Rundown! You can also check out…
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Russians Attempt to Cripple Tesla | Gestalt IT Rundown September 2, 2020
Russians gunning for Tesla, CenturyLink goes down, Nutanix making changes, and more on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown! For show notes and more…
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China to Enforce TLS 1.3 Ban | Gestalt IT Rundown August 26, 2020
This week Tom and Max Mortillaro take a look at the winding down of Lumina Networks, Uber's former security chief getting in hot water with the feds, and China…
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Tofino2 and Power10 Debut - Gestalt IT Rundown August 19, 2020
Join us for the Gestalt IT Rundown for August 19! We have stories about Intel's newest chips, IBM's take on AI processors, News from Cohesity and Pure Storage…
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Nutanix Goes to AWS | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 12, 2020
Nutanix launches Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Gartner's IaaS report has some surprises, LinkedIn sells SlideShare, and Have I Been Pwned is going open source. All…
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Nvidia, Arm, and SoftBank | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 5, 2020
Why does Nvidia want to buy Arm? Why is public cloud revenue growth slowing down? How can Backblaze help overcome cloud egress fees? Why are we asking so many…
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Garmin's Ransomware Outage | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 29, 2020
Garmin goes dark for days due to a ransomware outage, Intel's 7nm delay forces a major reorganization, New Zealand tries to make algorithms accountable, and…
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EU Lowers Its Privacy Shield | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 22, 2020
The EU Court of Justice invalidates the EU-US Privacy Shield framework, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the implications for SMBs. Plus Dell…
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What Will HPE Do With Silver Peak? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 15, 2020
HPE bought Silver Peak, Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth break down what the company will do with the SD-WAN stalwart. Then they discuss the latest GCP…
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Why Did VMware Buy Datrium? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 8, 2020
VMware gets some interesting DR assets with Datrium, Alphabet's Loom starts internet balloon service in Kenya, most passwords are bad, and Dfinity opens up its…
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AWS Goes to Space | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 1, 2020
Amazon launches the Aeronautics and Satellite Solutions to go to space, Salesforce tries to remove gender bias from AI, and Microsoft launches initiatives to…
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Is Dell Selling VMware? | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 24, 2020
Dell is reportedly investigating a VMware spinoff, a bill in the US Senate would require tech companies to help break encryption, Intel launched Gen 2 Optane…
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Cisco SecureX Reaches General Availability | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 17, 2020
Cisco announces that its SecureX platforms becomes generally available on June 30th, GitHub will change repository names from "master" to "main", and Intel…
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NetApp Buys Spot.io | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 10, 2020
NetApp buys Spot.io, VMware gets LastLine, IBM exits the facial recognition business, and Slack cozies up to AWS. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino…
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Cisco Postpones Cisco Live | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 3, 2020
This week we're doing a headlines only version of the Gestalt IT Rundown. Cisco announced it is postponing Cisco Live, ThousandEyes and Edgewise Networks are…
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How is COVID-19 Impacting Digital Transformation? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 27, 2020
This week on the Rundown, Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth dig into a new survey of IT pros asking how COVID-19 is impacting digital transformation. Are…
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Catching Up On Microsoft Build 2020 | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 20, 2020
This week we're focused on the big announcements from Microsoft Build. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino break down the latest updates with Office, Azure…
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Dell EMC Unifies Midrange Storage with PowerStore | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 13, 2020
Dell EMC releases PowerStore to unify its midrange storage options, Windows and Linux PCs have a big Thunderbolt vulnerability, and Google unifies the…
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Why Did Nvidia Buy Cumulus Networks? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 6, 2020
Nvidia buys Cumulus Networks, Nutanix furloughs 25% of its staff, ransomware disclosures to the FTC spike, and Salt vulnerabilities are rapidly exploited. Tom…
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Google's Cloud Business Rising? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 29, 2020
Google's Cloud business reports revenue while it plans to grow Google Meet, Arm wants to give startups the first license taste for free, and can OpenCL 3.0…
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What Will Verizon Do With BlueJeans? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 22, 2020
Verizon buys teleconferencing provider BlueJeans Network, Dropbox offers bug bounties for vendors, Alkira comes out of stealth, and Google releases advanced…
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An Extra Virtual VMworld | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 15, 2020
VMware announced that VMworld US and WMworld Europe will be combined into a virtual event held in September, GitHub opens up private repositories to all users…
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How to Solve Zoombombing | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 8, 2020
Zoombombing is becoming a problem and the industry, and Zoom itself reacts. Plus the MANRS group gets lots of new members to improve internet routing security…
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Palo Alto Networks To Acquire CloudGenix | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 1, 2020
Palo Alto Networks reached an agreement to buy CloudGenix. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss why they made the move and whether SD-WAN is just a…
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O’Reilly Closes Event Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 25, 2020
O’Reilly closes its event business, Microsoft has a font of exploits, the power of Folding@Home, and Storj Labs decentralizes cloud storage. Rich Stroffolino…
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GitHub Acquires npm | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 18, 2020
GitHub acquires npm to better secure the open source software supply chain, FireEye sees human triggered ransomware increase over 800%, a wormable SMB flaw is…
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It's x86 Vulnerability Week | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 11, 2020
New vulnerabilities are published for AMD and Intel Processors, and we get an early look at the performance of Amazon's Graviton2 processor. Join Rich…
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The Enterprise Response to COVID-19 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 4, 2020
Google, Cisco, Zoom, and Microsoft offer free teleconferencing to help stop COVID-19 spread, 80 Arm cores come to the datacenter, bill passes to rip and…
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FreedomFi To Offer Private LTE Networks | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 26, 2020
FreedomFi is using open spectrum for private LTE networks, Azure Sphere goes GA, Intel still makes 5G things, and Cisco launched SecureX. Join Rich Stroffolino…
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Dell Technologies Sells RSA Security to Private Equity Fund | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 19, 2020
Dell Technologies sells RSA Security, Arista buys Big Switch, Google restructures its cloud business, and Microsoft updates Dynamics 365. Rich Stroffolino and…
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The End to No Breach Ransomware? | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 12, 2020
New ransomware attacked exfiltrate data prior to encryption for blackmail, IBM standardizes on Slack, the impact of India's proposed data privacy law, and more…
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VMware per-CPU Cost Changes | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 5 ,2020
VMware changes up its per-CPU pricing to reflect the proliferation of CPU cores, WireGuard VPN is coming to the Linux kernel, Western Digital finds a buyer for…
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Cisco Live Europe Reactions | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 29, 2020
Reactions from Cisco Live Europe, VMware layoffs hit hard, Google looking to compete with Microsoft Teams. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are talking…
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Is Open-Source Licensing Broken? | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 22, 2020
A new survey shows that open-source projects are abandoning copyleft licensing, VMware acquires the network analytics startup Nyansa, and IBM actually…
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Veeam Acquired by Insight Partners | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 15, 2020
Google announced it acquired AppSheet, a no-code development platform for workplace apps like CRM, field inspections or personalized reporting. Google plans to…
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AI Patent Trolls | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 8, 2020
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss if AI should be able to get patents, if Microsoft getting into Teams hardware spells trouble for Cisco, and the…
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2019 in Review | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 18, 2019
This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look back at 2019. They discuss the biggest IT news, from new regulations and acquisitions, to new product…
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India's New Data Regulation Bill | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 11, 2019
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the details of a new data regulation bill from India. Some are comparing it…
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Machine Learning Dominates at AWS re:Invent 2019 | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 4, 2019
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look at the big announcements from AWS re:Invent, with a heavy dose of machine learning. Plus they cover the latest…
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Mirantis Contains Docker Enterprise | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 20, 2019
This week on the Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss Mirantis acquiring Docker Enterprise, Intel's openAPI programming model, why the US…
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Disney Nonplussed | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 13, 2019
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino are talking about the latest annual user report from GitHub, why 5G security flaws are a good thing, the fine art of…
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Glass Effect | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 6, 2019
This week, Rich Stroffolino is flying solo and discussing one major story, the first proof of concept of Microsoft's Project Silica. This glass based storage…
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The Last JEDI | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 30, 2019
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino are talking about the state of public cloud, why Microsoft is the last JEDI, and why the patent shoe is on the other…
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Microsoft's First Movere Advantage | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 23, 2019
Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth talk about the IT news of the week, including a look at IBM's financials since acquiring Red Hat, the Air Force SACCSing…
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Sudon't Make Me a Sandwich | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 16, 2019
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look at the news from Commvault GO, the increasing attrition in the Libra Association, how AWS made Oracle sad, and why…
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VMware Takes the Carbon Black | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 9, 2019
This week, Stephen Foskett and Rich Stroffolino discuss VMware closing on the acquisition of Carbon Black, why Workplace by Facebook is growing so fast, how…
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WeWork's IP-No | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 2, 2019
Rich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone discuss the IT news of the week, including Docker's quest for more funding, PDF encryption problems, WeWork cancelling their…
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Not Hot For Bots | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 25, 2019
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss Western Digital exiting the enterprise storage market, Microsoft getting into the SIEM, and Cloudflare hitting…
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Leaving the Ecuador Open | Gestalt IT Rundown, September 18, 2019
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone are joined by Justin Warren live from Pure Accelerate. They're talking about the big news…
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Don't Hate, Regulate | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 11, 2019
This week on the show, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the raft of investigations into big tech and how likely they are to lead to meaningful…
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Commvault Buys Hedvig | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 4, 2019
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss what Commvault gets by buying Hedvig, why ads in your terminal aren't…