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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IBM owes $1.6 billion for BMC Poaching | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 8, 2022
June 08, 2022 16:38 - 28 minutes - 52.3 MBIBM 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 had been providing service on behalf of BMC for a number of years and had a very specific agreement that they wouldn't try to convince BMC customers to go directly to IBM. In this particular case BMC says that IBM violated that agreement back in 2015. IBM countered by saying that this whole thing was AT&T's decision and IBM in no way di...
Intel Announces Newest HPC Lineups at ISC 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 1, 2022
June 01, 2022 17:24 - 39 minutes - 73.6 MBIntel 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 flexible architecure past 2023 will be Falcon Shores. The Falcon Shores lineup continues the chiplet idea, with x86 and Xe cores mated together to create a very configurable solution somewhat akin to the Apple M1 with CPU and GPU running together with high-speed memory. Speaking of GPUs, Intel also showed of the Ponte Vecchio. This and more ...
Broadcom Looking to Buy VMware? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 25, 2022
May 25, 2022 18:01 - 37 minutes - 69.8 MBThe 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. The former stepchild of Dell and EMC was spun off less than a year ago into a separate company. The news mentioned that Broadcom has been looking to expand their software portfolio and VMware would join CA and Symantec in the Broadcom suite. Community reaction to the news was largely negative, with many analysts weighing in on the pot...
Intel Plans for 800 Gbos IPUs | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 18, 2022
May 18, 2022 17:08 - 24 minutes - 44.9 MBIntel 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 combination of ASICs and FPGAs. The ASIC model is a high-performance unit with very specific uses. The FPGA model is more programmable at the cost of peak output. The road map also lays out the future of Intel's plans for the next three years, maxing out at a unit capable of 800 Gbps by 2025. One of the keys to getting this kind of perfo...
A Look Into Dell's Future | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 11, 2022
May 11, 2022 17:24 - 24 minutes - 46.3 MBDell 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 several analysts in the audience. Per an article from Chris Mellor, some of the spotlight fell on Chuck Whitten, the current COO of Dell and the person that many have tapped as the heir-apparent to Michael Dell. Dell is in much better shape today than it was when it acquired EMC and spent a truckload of cash and stock to do it. Rumors are s...
Dell Brings APEX, Storage, and Alpine to Dell Technologies World | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 4, 2022
May 04, 2022 17:34 - 22 minutes - 42.7 MBAlthough Dell skipped inviting influencers to Dell Tech World this year, the company announced that they are expanding their APEX on-premises and public cloud cyber resilience services with a partnership with Snowflake. They also upgraded their PowerMax, PowerStore, and PowerScale storage offerings and PowerFlex HCI solution. Dell is also ramping up Project Alpine, which would follow competitors like NetApp and Pure Storage into the major public cloud providers. Head over to http://www.Gesta...
Facebook Doesn't Know Where Your Data Goes | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 27, 2022
April 27, 2022 17:27 - 25 minutes - 47.6 MBVice 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 the growing number of user privacy regulations around the world because the company cannot say where the user data they collect goes exactly or what the companies that collect it are doing with it. Facebook admits the problem is that the systems have open borders and very little regulation. It's like pouring ink into a lake and trying ...
Are We Really Muted? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 20, 2022
April 20, 2022 16:24 - 14 minutes - 27.4 MBIt 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 microphones & these apps have the ability to access audio data. So Stephen how do you feel knowing that Skynet could be listening to what were saying!? All this and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes, head over to http://www.gestaltit.com/.
Acquisitions Galore | Gestalt IT Rundown April 13, 2022
April 13, 2022 17:15 - 27 minutes - 51.3 MBIt'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 what this means for the companies involved. This and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes and more, head to http://www.gestaltit.com/
Acquisitions Galore | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 13, 2022
April 13, 2022 17:15 - 27 minutes - 51.3 MBIt'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 what this means for the companies involved. This and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes and more, head to http://www.gestaltit.com/
AMD Picks Up Pensando | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 6, 2022
April 06, 2022 18:29 - 22 minutes - 41.5 MBFresh 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 DPU maker for $1.9 billion. The move is designed to compete directly against NVIDIA's Bluefield DPU offerings as well as Intel's nacent IPU solution. In addition, this allows them to broaden their horizons as a maker of more than just CPUs according to our own Stephen Foskett. All this and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes pl...
Aruba’s Atmosphere and Location Aware Wi-Fi | Gestalt IT Rundown: March, 30, 2022
March 30, 2022 22:17 - 17 minutes - 33.1 MBAruba introduced location-aware Wi-Fi access points for precise indoor location and is partnering with third parties like Tile to create a new OpenLocate service. We discuss these stories and more on this week’s Rundown. For show notes please visit https://gestaltit.com/
NVIDIA Wows with the Next-Generation Hopper GPU Platform | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 23, 2022
March 23, 2022 16:32 - 26 minutes - 30.9 MBJensen Huang is back with another NVIDIA GTC keynote, launching the next-generation Hopper GPU architecture and a raft of new products for cloud, HPC, datacenter, automotive, and beyond. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Hacked Companies Have New Reporting Rules | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 16, 2022
March 16, 2022 17:00 - 26 minutes - 30.9 MBIn 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 paid to remove ransomware. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Tech World Turns Away from Russia | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 9, 2022
March 09, 2022 17:46 - 35 minutes - 40.4 MBWith 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 is the number of tech companies that have severed business ties with Russia as a form of dissent or punishment for their actions on the world stage. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Can Cryptocurrency Sidestep Sanctions? | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 2, 2022
March 02, 2022 17:51 - 41 minutes - 47.3 MBWorld 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 western world are using economic sanctions to show their distaste for the military moves being made. Is cryptocurrency a way to stymie the sanctioning used to avoid all-out war? We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Time for a Cyber Social Contract? | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 23, 2022
February 23, 2022 17:29 - 34 minutes - 39.6 MBAn 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 a new cyber social contract to help build trust and security with the public. We discuss this story and more in this week's Rundown. For show. notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Cisco Goes Spelunking for Splunk | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 16, 2022
February 16, 2022 17:44 - 32 minutes - 37.7 MBFriday 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 discus this story and more on this week's Rundown. Special guest host Girard Kavelines joins us today. You can follow him on twitter at @GKavelines. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Failed Deal Costs NVIDIA ARM and a Leg | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 9, 2022
February 09, 2022 17:27 - 38 minutes - 44.2 MBNVIDIA 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 SoftBank are entitled to keep up to $2 billion in fees paid at the outset of the deal. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Intel and AMD Release Earnings | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 2, 2022
February 02, 2022 17:53 - 40 minutes - 46.9 MBLast 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. And Chinese regulators have finally approved the AMD deal to purchase Xilinx. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit:https://gestaltit.com/
Intel is Officially Coming to Ohio | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 26, 2022
January 26, 2022 17:29 - 26 minutes - 30.3 MBIt'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 takeover of chip rights company ARM looks to be off. Stephen and special guest host, Chris Grundemann, discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
PCI Express 6.0 Finalized | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 19, 2022
January 19, 2022 17:28 - 37 minutes - 43.3 MBThe 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 Rundown, the 5G spectrum expansion in the C-Band is starting to heat up. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Moxie Marlinspike Spins a Web3 | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 12, 2022
January 12, 2022 17:28 - 34 minutes - 39.2 MBSomeone 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 blockchain, cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens (NFT), and how they all collide into a mashup called Web3 that doesn't quite live up to expectations. We discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
CES has Two Big CPU Announcements | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 5, 2022
January 05, 2022 17:26 - 37 minutes - 43 MBAlthough 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 two big CPU announcements from Intel and AMD this week. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
2021 Year End Rundown | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 22, 2021
December 22, 2021 17:31 - 47 minutes - 54.3 MBJoin 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 world. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Log4j Creates Lost Weekend of Patching | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 15, 2021
December 15, 2021 17:28 - 34 minutes - 39.7 MBIt 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 were seen as vulnerabilities in Minecraft servers but the attack surface quickly exploded as the number of programs and platforms that incorporated Log4j grew. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Intel in the Driver's Seat with MobilEye | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 8, 2021
December 08, 2021 17:30 - 29 minutes - 33.8 MBIntel 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 unlock the soaring value found in autonomous cars and the software that runs them. And things aren't going so hot for NVIDIA. The FTC has filed a lawsuit in federal court to halt the proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip maker ARM. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestal...
AWS re:Invent Keynote Highlights | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 1, 2021
December 01, 2021 17:38 - 29 minutes - 33.6 MBAWS 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 the Pegasus intelligence software, NSO Group, that we've previously covered here on the Rundown. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
CXL Merging with Gen-Z | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 17, 2021
November 17, 2021 17:33 - 46 minutes - 53.3 MBLast 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 absorbed into competitor Compute Express Link (CXL). And NVIDIA has hit yet another roadblock in its acquisition of ARM. We discuss these stories and more in this week's Rundown! For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
NVIDIA GTC Announcements & AMD Strikes Back | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 10, 2021
November 10, 2021 17:54 - 39 minutes - 45.1 MBThis 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 some big announcements this week. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Dell Spins out VMware | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 3, 2021
November 03, 2021 16:30 - 34 minutes - 39.8 MBVMware 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 notes, please visit https://gestaltit.com/
Intel Earnings Slide, AMD Earnings Soar | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 27, 2021
October 27, 2021 16:29 - 37 minutes - 42.7 MBIntel 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 discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Canonical Launches Ubuntu 21.10 | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 20, 2021
October 20, 2021 17:00 - 18 minutes - 21.3 MBBig 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 visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Google Goes Hybrid at Google Cloud Next | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 13, 2021
October 13, 2021 16:39 - 43 minutes - 50.3 MBGoogle 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 2021 the virtualization giant announced a whole slate of "projects", which is a term used by the tech giant to refer to software releases which aren't ready to go out the door yet and need more testing. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
VMworld Looms Large, Capitola Redefines Memory | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 6, 2021
October 06, 2021 16:30 - 39 minutes - 45 MBVMworld 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 did you hear that Facebook wend down Monday? You likely did because your parents called you and started asking weird questions about DNS and BGP. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown! For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/about/
Pure Storage Launches Pure Fusion & Portworx Data Services | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 29, 2021
September 29, 2021 16:29 - 35 minutes - 40.6 MBYesterday 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 encompass their vision for the future of storage. Also happening this week, the FCC announced that they will be starting a program worth up to $1.9 billion to help remove networking equipment from Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes pease visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Cisco Shakes Up Security Team | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 22, 2021
September 22, 2021 16:29 - 38 minutes - 43.7 MBThe news out of Cisco this morning is some shuffling of the security executives. And the US Treasury announced sanctions against cryptocurrency exchange SUEX OTC for their part in handling payments from crews holding data hostage. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com
Emergency Apple Update Targets Pegasus Spyware | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 15, 2021
September 15, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes - 37.7 MBThis week, in an emergency update, Apple released a patch preventing Pegasus spyware from infecting any Apple device with a single click. Researchers have uncovered a new exploit in Microsoft's Azure cloud services, this time in regards to their "container-as-a-service" Kubernetes offering. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Juniper Breach Related to Encryption Flaw Reveals More | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 8, 2021
September 08, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes - 37.8 MBSwiss-based firm, ProtonMail, is under bombardment for strict privacy questions. After five years of mystery, more information is coming to light about the attack made on Juniper Networks and their NetScreen firewall in 2015. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Astronomical Cosmos DB Vulnerability in Microsoft Azure | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 1, 2021
September 01, 2021 16:32 - 25 minutes - 29.7 MBMicrosoft 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 show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Hot Chips 33 News Roundup | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 25, 2021
August 25, 2021 19:39 - 42 minutes - 48.8 MBWe'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 Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Intel Shuts Down RealSense AI Cameras | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 18, 2021
August 18, 2021 16:30 - 31 minutes - 36.1 MBIntel 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 for nefarious purposes. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Chip Shortage Pushing Governments to Act | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 11, 2021
August 11, 2021 16:29 - 24 minutes - 28.2 MBChip shortages are pushing governments to act, including South Korea agreeing to parole disgraced Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong. Extreme Networks is buying Ipanema SD-WAN solution from Infovista. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
NVIDIA Runs into Arm Acquisition Snag | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 4, 2021
August 04, 2021 17:00 - 25 minutes - 29.3 MBThe 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 "matter of national security." We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Intel Announces 2025 Roadmap | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 28, 2021
July 28, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes - 34 MBIntel 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, and AMD has announced their earnings for the past quarter. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Pegasus Flies To Exploit Journalist Phones | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 21, 2021
July 21, 2021 16:32 - 39 minutes - 44.7 MBPegasus, 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 governmental officials. Also, IBM has bounced back from backup MQ and is REvil really gone? We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Amazon Called to Testify About JEDI Involvement | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 14, 2021
July 14, 2021 16:51 - 26 minutes - 30.1 MBMembers 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. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
US Government Strikes Down JEDI | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 7, 2021
July 07, 2021 17:16 - 27 minutes - 31 MBThe US Government strikes down the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) and we have another ransomware attack as the prolific REvil ransomware crew exploited Kaseya VSA. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Intel Sapphire Rapids Rushes Back to 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 30, 2021
June 30, 2021 16:30 - 42 minutes - 49 MBIntel 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 wiped clean in an exploit. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Intel Excited About Big Semiconductor Bill | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 23, 2021
June 23, 2021 16:30 - 35 minutes - 40.7 MBIntel 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 text file leak and HPE goes big with Green Lake. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/