Gestalt IT Rundown
284 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Gestalt IT Rundown is a weekly look at the IT news of the week. Hosted by Tom Hollingsworth and Stephen Foskett. Brought to you by Gestalt IT, http://GestaltIT.com
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Dell Tech World Looks to Appeal to All | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 31, 2023
May 31, 2023 17:34 - 30 minutes - 35.3 MBDell 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 technologies move closer to the cloud. Dell APEX storage for public cloud was a key piece. APEX is a software defined storage platform for AWS and Azure that integrates with existing tools to create a hybrid multicloud experience. Also of note was Dell NativeEdge, a software platform that can help manage deployment of applications and device...
Ransomware Rampage: Cyber Threats and Costly Consequences | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 24, 2023
May 24, 2023 18:40 - 39 minutes - 44.9 MBRansomware attacks continue to pose a significant threat across various sectors, with recent incidents targeting critical industries and causing substantial financial and operational damages. Federal authorities have issued warnings about a surge in cyberattacks exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Veeam software that enables unauthorized access and raises the risk of data heft and ransomware deployment. With healthcare organizations heavily reliant on Veeam software for data protecti...
AI Controversies Hit Enterprise IT | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 17, 2023
May 17, 2023 18:55 - 29 minutes - 33.8 MBControversy 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 litigation against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI just as the US Congress heard testimony by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. And of course IT pros everywhere are grappling with the various ways their jobs will be affected by AI. Let's take a closer look at AI in the enterprise. This and more on this week's Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the R...
Aruba Atmosphere Announcements Abound | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 10, 2023
May 10, 2023 17:46 - 33 minutes - 38.5 MBAruba 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 integration of Aruba, now known as HPE Aruba Networking, into the wider HPE company portfolio. The wireless fans had lots to cheer about with a new update to Aruba Central that offers better visibility as well as integration with HPE GreenLake. Security experts loved seeing how the acquisition of Axis Security is providing new edge security capa...
The Legacy of the Biggest Supply Chain Hack | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 3, 2023
May 03, 2023 17:15 - 28 minutes - 32.5 MBThanks 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 end of 2020. You may recall that SolarWinds was compromised by Russian hackers and their software was infected and used to breach the US government as well as Microsoft, Mandiant, and more. In this article we're learning even more interesting information, such as the source of the attacks from the Russian SVR which is their version of...
Google Cloud Turns a Profit and Extends the Life of Servers | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 26, 2023
April 26, 2023 17:23 - 31 minutes - 35.8 MBIn the three years since reporting financial metrics Google's cloud business has announced they have turned a profit. Their offerings under this umbrella include Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace. These two products now account for 10 percent of parent company Alphabet's total revenue. Buried in an SEC filing is news that Google will extend the estimated useful life of its servers and networking equipment to 6 years. While this is phrased as financial engineering, it also reflects a...
Intel's Transformation Continues | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 19, 2023
April 19, 2023 17:19 - 36 minutes - 41.2 MBIntel 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 they are going to get Sapphire Rapids out the door. Instead, they are selling off their server integration business. The recipient of this windfall is MiTAC, an edge-to-cloud solutions provider and ODM partner of DSG. Intel is giving MiTAC the rights to manufacture existing designs. In addition, they announced the end of their Blockscale ...
China Plays Hardball with Western Companies | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 12, 2023
April 12, 2023 16:42 - 23 minutes - 26.4 MBChina is reportedly blocking multiple mergers and is now investigating Micron for an unspecified cybersecurity concern. Delays include Intel’s acquisition of Tower Semiconductor, Maxlinear’s purchase of Silicon Motion, Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, and Microsoft’s bid for Activision Blizzard, as well as the long-delay in Cisco’s acquisition of Acacia and the called-off purchase of NXP by Qualcomm which we reported on previously. The latest move against Micron seems designed to antagonize...
Amazon Opens Sidewalk to Developers | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 5, 2023
April 05, 2023 17:10 - 31 minutes - 36.3 MBIf 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 developers to start testing. Sidewalk is Amazon's IoT-focused solution for edge devices that utilizes both Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and 900 MHz wireless networks to provide coverage. Sidewalk is generated from Amazon's Ring cameras and Echo speakers and has 90% coverage across the US according to reports. Tom, what's Amazon hoping to acco...
Gordon Moore Dies at 94 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 29, 2023
March 29, 2023 16:54 - 39 minutes - 45.1 MBComputing 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 exponentially more complex, but he was much more than this. Moore was a visionary, who guided Intel through the DRAM market in the early years and then lead the transition of the company to lay the foundation for modern microcomputers. He quiet and polite, unlike Robert Noyce and Andy Grove, but everyone trusted Moore's thoughtful and cons...
Nvidia GTC Looms Large | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 22, 2023
March 22, 2023 16:46 - 30 minutes - 35 MBNvidia 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 for laptops and workstations Nvidia has something for everyone. We've already referenced the announcements around Bluefield 3 but Nvidia has also announced a new supercompute cluster with DGX cloud that you can totally rent for $37,000 a month. 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 0:42 | SSE Revenues Growing per Dell'Oro 4:09 | Nutanix CIO Out...
Analyzing What SVB's Failure Means for Enterprises | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 15, 2023
March 15, 2023 16:54 - 31 minutes - 36.5 MBUnless 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 covering all depositors, even beyond the traditional $250,000 limit, but are they able to access their money? And what ripple effects will this failure have on ventur capital, startups, the enterprise IT ecosystem, and most importantly tech workers? Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 0:37 | CelerData Launches StarRocks Ve...
Brainchip Readies Generation 2 Akida AI | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 8, 2023
March 08, 2023 17:34 - 20 minutes - 39 MBBrainchip is back again with the latest generation of their Akida AI engine. This second-generation offering provides performance increases while simultaneously offering more energy efficiency. That includes a new low-power mode that can be run on edge computing devices for specific workloads. Akida v2 is focused on providing enhancements for time series data processing and vision processing. This and more on this week's Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 0:27 | Pure...
SNIA Gets Smart with New Smart Accelerator Interface | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 1, 2023
March 01, 2023 17:33 - 33 minutes - 62.5 MBSNIA 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 data movers. If this sounds like next-gen Direct Memory Access to you then you'd be right! The goal is to help SNIA members build more integrations with CXL as well as building on the disaggregated computing research that has been going on. This and more on the Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 0:40 | IBM Sto...
US Supreme Court Takes on Section 230 | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 22, 2023
February 22, 2023 17:44 - 34 minutes - 63.1 MBThe 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. Google, covers whether or not Google is liable for content that was uploaded to YouTube that later led to deaths in a terrorist attack. The case has garnered a significant amount of media attention as it applies to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This rule is the one that allows you to post a comment on a video or blog post an...
Apple's Zero Day Vulnerability May have Been Exploited | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 15, 2023
February 15, 2023 18:03 - 30 minutes - 35.4 MBLooks 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 maybe have been actively exploited. Jon, is this a huge concern and should we be updating our devices immediately? Why is this happening more and more? This and more on the Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 0:36 | AWS Modular Data Center for U.S. Department of Defense 3:19 | EDB Adds Encryption for PostgreSQ...
Cisco Leans Into 5G, IoT, & Sustainability at Cisco Live EMEA | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 8, 2023
February 08, 2023 18:24 - 37 minutes - 69.4 MBCisco 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 to address the needs of operations teams. The new Cisco IoT dashboard allows existing IT teams to manage Cisco IoT offerings, such as the IE3100 Rugged Series Switch and the IW9165 Series Access Point. The goal is to provide more integration between these teams to help create synergy as well as provide enhanced security monitoring throu...
Intel Punts Pathfinder and Nixes Networking Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 1, 2023
February 01, 2023 16:55 - 29 minutes - 54 MBPat 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 networking switches. You may recall that Intel picked up startup Barefoot Networks back in 2019 and was integrating the Tofino ASIC in a number of products. Intel's offerings had been facing stiff competition from Nvidia, Broadcom, and others and the move comes as Intel is trying to restructure after a massive loss in Q4 of 2022. Intel has...
DoJ Says Google Doesn't Ad Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 25, 2023
January 25, 2023 18:05 - 24 minutes - 44.6 MBThe 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 dominant position in the market affords them the ability to monopolize and eliminate their competition. Per Merick Garland, US Attorney General, Google controls the tech used to display ads, the tools used to buy that ad space, and the ad exchange that matches advertisers to publishers. The government wants Google to divest their ad ma...
Sapphire Rapids Servers are Launched | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 18, 2023
January 18, 2023 17:33 - 25 minutes - 47.5 MBSupermicro, Dell, HPE, Cisco, and others have introduced the first server lines based on Intel's recently-announced 4th generation Xeon processors. And of course Nvidia is also supporting these new processors with their H100 DGX platform. Let's take a look under the hood and see how Sapphire Rapids brings new capabilities to these devices! Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 1:42 | Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Touts AWS Innovation 3:47 | Global IT Spending 1% Below Expectations in 2022 ...
Intel 4th Gen Xeon Rides the Rapids | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 11, 2023
January 11, 2023 17:19 - 35 minutes - 65.3 MBIf 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 architecture is now official as of this week. The biggest takeaways from the official coverage are the inclusion of accelerators on the CPU die to help increase performance for specific workloads such as SSL, 5G, and networking built around DPDK. This features comes alongside Intel On Demand, a service that allows you to purchase a CPU...
Okta Source Code Nabbed from GitHub | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 4, 2023
January 04, 2023 16:24 - 16 minutes - 31.3 MBJust 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 targeted at the Workforce Identity Cloud solution and an automated tool was able to access and dump the code. GitHub declined to offer details on how the code was accessed but assured users that customer data was not impacted and Auth0 products were not affected. This attack comes on the heels of Okta being breached by Lapsus earlier in ...
Year in Review 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 21, 22022
December 21, 2022 14:38 - 43 minutes - 80.9 MBJoin 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 and ARM drove companies like AMD and Intel to make big moves in the industry. How did technologies like 5G and Quantum Computing impact the world? Are companies looking to move away from China’s chipmaking dominance? Will hackers steal your info? Tune in for a super-sized Rundown of all these stories and more! Time Stamps: 0:00 | We...
Will Covid and Politics Strangle Manufacturing in China | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 14, 2022
December 14, 2022 16:51 - 28 minutes - 53.7 MBTech production in China is getting more concerning by the day. Between the pandemic and international technology transfer restrictions, this could become the big story of 2023. China had tried to keep the Covid genie in the bottle since the pandemic started but is now shifting gears, relaxing testing and quarantine, and seemingly hoping for the best. This follows repeated interruptions to life and business in China, including technology manufacturing, over the last two years. But the countr...
HPE Looking at Nutanix? | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 7, 2022
December 07, 2022 17:10 - 27 minutes - 51.6 MBIt'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 acquire the leader in hyperconverged infrastructure. The two companies are already partnered together for HPE Greenlake infrastructure-as-a-service which lends credence to the reports. Nutanix ousted founder and former CEO Dheeraj Pandey almost two years ago and has been coasting along ever since. A report from Seeking Alpha says that Nutan...
Graviton CPU Variant for HPC | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 30, 2022
November 30, 2022 17:37 - 32 minutes - 59.9 MBGraviton 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 but for high performance computing environments that's exactly what the doctor ordered. This custom unit is going to be aimed at giants that are looking to eake out the last drop of performance from those life sciences models. At the same time, Amazon introduced the Nitro version 5, the latest in their groundbreaking DPU family. Amazo...
AMD Releases Genoa Epyc CPUs | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 16, 2022
November 16, 2022 19:37 - 26 minutes - 49.3 MBAMD 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 massive upgrade, with more cores, accelerator instructions, and CXL. And it comes ahead of Intel's delayed Sapphire Rapids Xeon announcement, which is widely expected early next year. Let's take a closer look at the AMD Genoa CPU line. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:36 - VMware Purchases Ananda Networks 2:38 - NetApp's...
AI Performance is On Display with MLPerf | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 9, 2022
November 09, 2022 18:31 - 38 minutes - 72.5 MBWe 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 learning space found something to talk about here, with Intel showing Sapphire Rapids and Habana Gaudi 2, Nvidia showing H100, and ARM's tiny inferencing results really shining. But not everyone was happy, with some players complaining that the tests are being gamed by the big players. This and more on this week’s Rundown. Head to Gestal...
Elon Musk purchases Twitter and Does what Musk Does | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 2, 2022
November 02, 2022 16:47 - 36 minutes - 67.5 MBWhile 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 build our communities. The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk closed on Thursday after the market closed. From there the new owner of the platform fired the CEO, CFO, and chief legal counsel. He dismissed the board of directors this week to become the sole head of the company. He also brought in a number of engineers from Tesla and Space...
FAA Wants 5G Limits | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 26, 2022
October 26, 2022 17:15 - 25 minutes - 48 MBThe 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 airports. The line of reasoning is still that flights could be disrupted becaue of the potential impact of these frequencies on plane altimeters. A new wrinkle in the discussion is that the FAA now states that even the radio filters that are being rapidly installed in airplanes may not be enough to shield them from spurrious transmissio...
Nutanix Looking For A Buyer? | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 19, 2022
October 19, 2022 17:04 - 27 minutes - 50.7 MBThe 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 that discussions had been taking place with private equity investors about buying up outstanding shares in the company to take it off of Wall Street. The value of Nutanix today is reported to be about $6 billion, which is down from the valuation last year of over $9 billion but also much better than the $3.1 billion that was reported as l...
lder Lake Leaks BIOS Source | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 12, 2022
October 12, 2022 17:10 - 29 minutes - 54.5 MBIntel 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 GB file containing all kinds of secret things. One of the big finds is the private key for Intel Boot Guard, a seuciry feature designed to create a secure booting environment. No official word has been released on who leaked the data but signs point to an ODM in China that created a Github repository that was cloned and distributed rap...
Alder Lake Leaks BIOS Source | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 12, 2022
October 12, 2022 17:10 - 29 minutes - 54.5 MBIntel 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 GB file containing all kinds of secret things. One of the big finds is the private key for Intel Boot Guard, a seuciry feature designed to create a secure booting environment. No official word has been released on who leaked the data but signs point to an ODM in China that created a Github repository that was cloned and distributed rap...
AMD Takes On the World in the Datacenter and Cloud | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 5, 2022
October 05, 2022 17:07 - 31 minutes - 59.2 MBSince 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 player in CPUs, the company has broadened into network adapters (acquiring Xilinx and Pensando for DPUs) and is seeing traction in ML. The Next Platform sat down with Norrod for an in-depth interview covering the competition with Intel, the development of CXL, why they bought Xilinx and Pensando, and what the future holds. This is some...
Gelsinger's New Intel - How's It Looking? | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 28, 2022
September 28, 2022 17:26 - 45 minutes - 85.8 MBIntel 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 on the job for a little less than two years and he's been working tirelessly to keep Intel relevant. From the admission that Moore's Law isn't dead just yet but may involve chiplets to the end of Optane and the anticipation for Sapphire Rapids there is a lot of buzz going on. Stephen, there's a lot to discuss around the announcements b...
Oracle on Verge of Becoming World’s Hottest Cloud Vendor | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 21, 2022
September 21, 2022 18:57 - 30 minutes - 56.7 MBOracle 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 win the race against other cloud vendors. With its accelerated growth, it may very well one-up Google Cloud and become the fastest growing cloud vendor in the industry. This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Gestalt IT Rundown 1:23 - Arm Announces Neoverse ...
Nvidia Aces MLPerf with H100 | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 14, 2022
September 14, 2022 16:33 - 34 minutes - 64.4 MBMLCommons released the latest wave of machine learning training and inferencing benchmarks, and Nvidia's next-generaltion H100 really aced the results, delivering up to 4.5 times the performance of the leading Nvidia A100. But there are some other gems in the results, including a surprisingly strong showing for the Biren Technology BR104 and good enough performance from Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeon to eliminate the market for low-performing inferencing hardware. What do the MLPerf results te...
China Blocked in the GPU and AI Market | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 7, 2022
September 07, 2022 16:36 - 21 minutes - 40.6 MBThe 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 escalation of the trade war also reflects the war in Ukraine, with western governments seeking to keep most technology out of Russian hands. But this comes just as two Chinese firms have announced advanced GPU designs of their own. Will this move hold China back or will it backfire? This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.c...
VMware Explores the Future of Enterprise IT | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 31, 2022
August 31, 2022 16:31 - 32 minutes - 60.7 MBVMware'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 event, the first from VMware since the pandemic, and it's returning with a new name and theme. VMware Explore is different from VMworld in many ways, not least for the focus on multi-cloud management and entierprise IT developers, but we're also trying to see the future, since the company will soon be purchased by Broadcom. Along with...
Qualcomm Taking a Nuvia Look at Server CPUs | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 24, 2022
August 24, 2022 16:40 - 28 minutes - 52.4 MBChipmaker 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 Rundown last January and mentioned that the company was founded by former Apple engineers that wanted to focus on bring ARM to the datacenter. At first the acquistion seemed to refocus Nuvia on mobile device CPUs but Qualcomm appears to be looking to the future and restarting development efforts on servers. Qualcomm has a big market for...
Flash Memory Summit in a Flash | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 17, 2022
August 17, 2022 17:18 - 32 minutes - 60.8 MBFlash 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. Lots of talk around CXL happened along with the ever-present discussion of the impending issues with Intel Optane, as covered by Stephen on the Gestalt IT Checksum. Oh, and that tiny little 128TB SSD that Samsung showed off. Stephen, what were your big takeaways from Flash Memory Summit? This and more on this week's Rundown. Head to Gesta...
Intel has an AEpic Security Problem | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 10, 2022
August 10, 2022 16:38 - 29 minutes - 54.7 MBIt'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 SGX memory encryption technology. Per pre-briefing ahead of a talk happening today, security researchers found a flaw in the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) that allows them to read uninitialized memory that could contain stale data before it's cleared by the CPU. Unlike Spectre and Meltdown, this isn't a side channe...
Optane Train Out of Steam? | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 3, 2022
August 03, 2022 17:05 - 31 minutes - 58.2 MBThe 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 persistent memory seemed to always be just over the horizon. That horizon has faded away this week as Intel made mention in their Q2 earnings report of a winding down of the Optane memory business buried in a forward-looking footnote statuement. The impairment to the bottom line amounted to $559 million which was more than the total q...
Chipmakers in China Report Reduced Demand and Lower Pricing | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 27, 2022
July 27, 2022 17:13 - 30 minutes - 56.3 MBWe'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 story. News out of Taiwan suggests that production capacity for mature ICs is exceeding demand, and price reductions are coming. Companies like SMIC in mainland China and smaller firms there and in Taiwan are dropping prices over 10% as demand falls. Given that the CHIPS Act was just passed in the United States and companies are making hu...
Industrial Systems Coming Under Siege | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 20, 2022
July 20, 2022 16:35 - 39 minutes - 73.4 MBAttackers are starting to target the critical infrastructure that runs industrial and manufacturing facilities. That may not sound like a new thing but the speed and sophistication with which they're increasing their attacks is. Security firm Dragos hast noted in a recent post that there has been a significant increase in the number of people using password cracking tools on industrial equipment such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Where the real devilish genius comes into play is ...
Apple is Working on the Lockdown | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 13, 2022
July 13, 2022 16:18 - 18 minutes - 34.9 MBApple 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 intrusive exploits and hacks. It's designed to protect journalists, dissidents, and others at risk of state-sponsored snooping. This and more on this week's Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for shownotes. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:35 - Celona Calls Google on Their Own 5G 3:08 - StorCentric is Feeling Gravity's Pull ...
NIST Approves Quantum-Resistant Crypto | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 6, 2022
July 06, 2022 16:56 - 27 minutes - 51.6 MBNIST has announced their selections for quantum-safe encryption algorithms. The competition has been running since 2016 when the standards body realized that quantum computing could potentially impact RSA-based public key encryption. The new encryption method, CRYSTALS-Kyber, as well as digital signature methods named CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON, and SPHINCS+, are designed to be implemented in the coming years for highly senstive data that could come under attack from advanced threats as well...
ML Commons Unveils MLPerf Training v2.0 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 29, 2022
June 29, 2022 17:01 - 32 minutes - 61.1 MBThe artificial intelligence community is buzzing about the just-released ML Commons MLPerf Training v2.0 results, which were announced today. NVIDIA, Intel Habana, Google, and Graphcore all submitted at least partial results, and everyone is crowing about their performance. NVIDIA is the only one to cover the field, and has a strong showing despite still relying on their A100 GPUs. Intel's Habana Gaudi 2 also shows great performance per watt in the tests they submitted, with the Graphcore Bo...
RSA and Cisco Live: Viral Events | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 22, 2022
June 22, 2022 16:19 - 33 minutes - 62.7 MBThe 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 others around the same time in San Francisco and Las Vegas. While the general mood of the conferences seemed to be focused on how good it was to get people back in person the reality of what that looks like a world still affected by a global pandemic came into focus after everyone started getting back home. RSA, according to reports, h...
Pure Storage Revs Up FlashBlade and Portworx | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 15, 2022
June 15, 2022 17:37 - 28 minutes - 52.4 MBPure Storage held their annual Accelerate event in Los Angeles last week. The key new introduction was the next generation of their FlashBlade scale-out storage solution. They claim that it is "disaggregated" because CPU and storage can be mixed and matched, and that it scales past a petabyte. Pure also went GA with Portworx Data Services, which brings the company into the market for database as a service. This and more on the Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes. Time Stamps: ...