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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Cisco SecureX Reaches General Availability | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 17, 2020
June 17, 2020 17:28 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBCisco announces that its SecureX platforms becomes generally available on June 30th, GitHub will change repository names from "master" to "main", and Intel integrates CET into Tiger Lake CPUs. All this and the rest of the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, streaming live at 12:30pm ET every Wednesday. https://youtu.be/WVPdJbxkbp4
NetApp Buys Spot.io | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 10, 2020
June 10, 2020 17:23 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBNetApp buys Spot.io, VMware gets LastLine, IBM exits the facial recognition business, and Slack cozies up to AWS. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss all this and more of the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. https://youtu.be/wxVnFPYzYPU
Cisco Postpones Cisco Live | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 3, 2020
June 03, 2020 16:36 - 13 minutes - 30.4 MBThis 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 acquires, OpenAI details a new learning model, and Zoom will provide end-to-end encryption to only paid users. https://youtu.be/ydnIjOWT4u8
How is COVID-19 Impacting Digital Transformation? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 27, 2020
May 27, 2020 17:14 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBThis 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 these changes long term strategic changes or short term mixes? Plus HPE announces aggressive cost savings, 44.2 Terrabit per second internet is a thing, and GDPR hits the terrible twos. All this and more on the Rundown this week.
Catching Up On Microsoft Build 2020 | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 20, 2020
May 20, 2020 17:36 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBThis week we're focused on the big announcements from Microsoft Build. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino break down the latest updates with Office, Azure, AI, and open source. There's a lot to unpack from this major Microsoft event. https://youtu.be/k3fBp7ybcao
Dell EMC Unifies Midrange Storage with PowerStore | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 13, 2020
May 13, 2020 17:24 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBDell EMC releases PowerStore to unify its midrange storage options, Windows and Linux PCs have a big Thunderbolt vulnerability, and Google unifies the leadership for its messaging products. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss all of this and more this week. https://youtu.be/_4cvSZ1Izt8
Why Did Nvidia Buy Cumulus Networks? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 6, 2020
May 06, 2020 17:37 - 30 minutes - 28 MBNvidia buys Cumulus Networks, Nutanix furloughs 25% of its staff, ransomware disclosures to the FTC spike, and Salt vulnerabilities are rapidly exploited. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss these and all the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. https://youtu.be/ixq0IuxE5B4
Google's Cloud Business Rising? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 29, 2020
April 29, 2020 18:22 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBGoogle'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 roll back the clock? Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss these and all the IT news of the week, live at 12:30pm ET on the Gestalt IT Rundown! https://youtu.be/nZLJG91Gdyk
What Will Verizon Do With BlueJeans? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 22, 2020
April 22, 2020 18:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBVerizon buys teleconferencing provider BlueJeans Network, Dropbox offers bug bounties for vendors, Alkira comes out of stealth, and Google releases advanced remote access tools. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss all the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, streaming live at 12:30pm ET. https://youtu.be/X5CuzS-acLc
An Extra Virtual VMworld | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 15, 2020
April 15, 2020 17:54 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBVMware 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, IBM opens up resources to help with the dearth of COBOL programmers, and more. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss these and more during the show today. Be sure to subscribe on YouTube to catch the live stream every Wednesday at 12:30pm ET.
How to Solve Zoombombing | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 8, 2020
April 08, 2020 17:51 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBZoombombing 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, the Linux Foundation is working with a microkernel and the FCC is set to vote on 6GHz. Join Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth as they discuss on the Gestalt IT Rundown!
Palo Alto Networks To Acquire CloudGenix | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 1, 2020
April 01, 2020 17:28 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBPalo 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 SASE feature now. Plus they discuss why the bloom is off Zoom, if COVID-19 revealed a critical flaw in modern startups, and why Microsoft is trying to pitch Teams to consumers. https://youtu.be/esROLCNMV7k
O’Reilly Closes Event Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 25, 2020
March 25, 2020 17:28 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBO’Reilly closes its event business, Microsoft has a font of exploits, the power of Folding@Home, and Storj Labs decentralizes cloud storage. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss all this and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown this week, with special guest Stephen Foskett.
GitHub Acquires npm | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 18, 2020
March 18, 2020 17:27 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBGitHub acquires npm to better secure the open source software supply chain, FireEye sees human triggered ransomware increase over 800%, a wormable SMB flaw is published, and Amazon might use the Linux Foundation's Dent project to open source cashierless tech. All this and more on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth break down the IT news of the week.
It's x86 Vulnerability Week | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 11, 2020
March 11, 2020 17:16 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBNew vulnerabilities are published for AMD and Intel Processors, and we get an early look at the performance of Amazon's Graviton2 processor. Join Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth as they discuss all the IT news of the week!
The Enterprise Response to COVID-19 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 4, 2020
March 04, 2020 19:31 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBGoogle, 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 replace Huawei equipment for rural ISPs, and things are looking bad for the commodity server market. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss all the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown! This week on the Rundown: Wi-Fi Dissassociation Bug Libra Lessons MediaTek Rootkit Honeywell Goes Quantum Teleconference vs COVID-19 ...
FreedomFi To Offer Private LTE Networks | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 26, 2020
February 26, 2020 18:35 - 29 minutes - 27 MBFreedomFi is using open spectrum for private LTE networks, Azure Sphere goes GA, Intel still makes 5G things, and Cisco launched SecureX. Join Rich Stroffolino and Josh Fidel to get caught up on all the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. This Week on the Rundown: Mozilla Makes DNS Over HTTPS Default UK Accounts Go to the US Google Cloud Security Updates McAfee Buys Light Point Security CXL FTW Intel Still Does 5G Azure Sphere Goes GA Cisco SecureX Gonna Give It To Ya ...
Dell Technologies Sells RSA Security to Private Equity Fund | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 19, 2020
February 19, 2020 18:22 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBDell Technologies sells RSA Security, Arista buys Big Switch, Google restructures its cloud business, and Microsoft updates Dynamics 365. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss this and more today for the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly IT news briefings. This week on the Rundown: IBM Cancels on RSA Conference More JEDI Drama EU To Investigate Emerging Tech Markets The Free Speech of Maine ISPs Google Closes on Looker Dell Makes RSA Conference Awkward Google Cloud Restructuri...
The End to No Breach Ransomware? | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 12, 2020
February 12, 2020 18:20 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBNew ransomware attacked exfiltrate data prior to encryption for blackmail, IBM standardizes on Slack, the impact of India's proposed data privacy law, and more this week. Rich Stroffolino is joined by Keith Townsend this week for the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly IT news briefings. This week on the Rundown: The End to No Breach Ransomware? SaaS-as-a-Security IBM Gives Itself Some Slack Impacts of India's Proposed Privacy Law Is Chrome Too Opinionated? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Da...
VMware per-CPU Cost Changes | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 5 ,2020
February 05, 2020 18:27 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVMware 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 ActiveScale, Intel drops its Nervana chip line, and Google Cloud reveals revenue numbers. All this and more with Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown. This week on the Rundown: VMware Per-CPU Licensing Change WireGuard To Linux Western Digital Sells ActiveScale Intel Drops Nervana HPE Acquires...
Cisco Live Europe Reactions | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 29, 2020
January 29, 2020 18:17 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBReactions from Cisco Live Europe, VMware layoffs hit hard, Google looking to compete with Microsoft Teams. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about all these and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly IT news briefing. This week on the Rundown: Google Bug Bounty Payouts up 91% Thunderbird Goes Corporate App Maker Shutdown LoRaWAN Security Issues? ServiceNow Shifts Focus Google Testing Comms App for Business Proposed UK IoT Rules VMware Layoffs AI But For WebEx
Is Open-Source Licensing Broken? | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 22, 2020
January 22, 2020 18:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBA new survey shows that open-source projects are abandoning copyleft licensing, VMware acquires the network analytics startup Nyansa, and IBM actually increased revenue. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about these and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown, your source for the IT news of the week. This week on the Rundown: Canonical Announced Anbox Cloud Low Tide for Digital Ocean? Cloud Computing Like It's 1988 Google Partners with Airtel Chromebooks Getting Updates Through...
Veeam Acquired by Insight Partners | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 15, 2020
January 15, 2020 21:23 - 30 minutes - 28 MBGoogle announced it acquired AppSheet, a no-code development platform for workplace apps like CRM, field inspections or personalized reporting. Google plans to integrate this into Google Cloud and focus it on specific verticals like financ Veeam will be acquired by Insight Partners for $5 billion, Packet gets bought by Equinix, billions of medical images found stored in unsecured servers, and IBM fights the patent trolls. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about these and mo...
AI Patent Trolls | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 8, 2020
January 08, 2020 18:45 - 27 minutes - 25 MBTom 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 first impacts of CCPA.
2019 in Review | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 18, 2019
December 18, 2019 18:23 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look back at 2019. They discuss the biggest IT news, from new regulations and acquisitions, to new product releases and partnerships. It was a busy year, but they help put the news in context in this episode.
India's New Data Regulation Bill | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 11, 2019
December 11, 2019 19:23 - 30 minutes - 35.9 MBThis 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 to GDPR, but with important new wrinkles. Plus they discuss China taking government computing domestic within three years, why Intel might make quantum computing boring, and in AWS being investigated by the FTC is a big deal.
Machine Learning Dominates at AWS re:Invent 2019 | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 4, 2019
December 04, 2019 18:15 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBTom 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 acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, why looking at IT as a cost center is a problem for political candidates, and the EU sanctioning the EU.
Mirantis Contains Docker Enterprise | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 20, 2019
November 20, 2019 20:14 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBThis week on the Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss Mirantis acquiring Docker Enterprise, Intel's openAPI programming model, why the US Supreme Court will debate Java, and how Google broke Chrome for Citrix users.
Disney Nonplussed | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 13, 2019
November 14, 2019 03:52 - 32 minutes - 60.8 MBTom 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 getting ahead of regulation, and what caused service disruptions for Disney+.
Glass Effect | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 6, 2019
November 06, 2019 18:00 - 9 minutes - 18.6 MBThis 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 offers a potential archival alternative to tape that could have huge applications as a cold storage medium. Learn about the details in this episode!
The Last JEDI | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 30, 2019
October 30, 2019 17:29 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBTom 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 foot for Intel.
Microsoft's First Movere Advantage | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 23, 2019
October 23, 2019 17:48 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBRich 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 floppies, Microsoft's recent acquisitions, and another week of terrible data leaks. Fun times!
Sudon't Make Me a Sandwich | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 16, 2019
October 16, 2019 17:30 - 26 minutes - 21 MBTom 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 you might want to say "sudon't make me a sandwich."
VMware Takes the Carbon Black | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 9, 2019
October 09, 2019 17:18 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBThis week, Stephen Foskett and Rich Stroffolino discuss VMware closing on the acquisition of Carbon Black, why Workplace by Facebook is growing so fast, how Puppet is going after cloud-native development with Project Nebula, and why semi-custom silicon is the new hotness.
WeWork's IP-No | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 2, 2019
October 02, 2019 19:22 - 29 minutes - 54.2 MBRich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone discuss the IT news of the week, including Docker's quest for more funding, PDF encryption problems, WeWork cancelling their IPO, and why Congress is interested in DNS-over-HTTPS.
Not Hot For Bots | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 25, 2019
September 25, 2019 18:56 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MBTom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss Western Digital exiting the enterprise storage market, Microsoft getting into the SIEM, and Cloudflare hitting the bots hard.
Leaving the Ecuador Open | Gestalt IT Rundown, September 18, 2019
September 18, 2019 17:23 - 20 minutes - 16.8 MBThis 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 from the show, a data leak the size of Ecuador, Oracle suddenly offering free stuff, and so much more!
Don't Hate, Regulate | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 11, 2019
September 11, 2019 18:17 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBThis 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 regulation. Then they discuss Amazon expanding its blockchain offerings, a Exim server exploit, and Google open sourcing differential privacy. Editors note: Apologies for Rich's audio quality, the wrong mic input was used.
Commvault Buys Hedvig | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 4, 2019
September 04, 2019 17:59 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBThis 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 happening anytime soon, and who's at fault with Supermicro's BMC security exploit.
Of Chips and Acquisitions | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 21, 2019
August 21, 2019 17:27 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBRich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss the IT news of the week, including big VMware acquisitions, AI chips from Intel, and OpenPower going open source (sorta).
AMD Wasn't Built In A Day | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 14, 2019
August 14, 2019 17:19 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBThis week we talked about the WeWork IPO, why misconfigured EBS snapshots are the new misconfigured S3 buckets, and why AMD's new server chips weren't built in a day.
Jira and the Definition of All | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 7, 2019
August 07, 2019 17:41 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBKen Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss configuration issues leading to privacy breaches with Jira, why the FCC set rules for new broadband coverage maps, Microsoft's Azure Security Lab, and if Facebook's Workplace redesign can spur adoption.
What's In Your Bucket | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 31, 2019
July 31, 2019 19:18 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBTom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week, including what we know about the big Capital One data leak, if Dish can become a viable 4th carrier, if Very Low Power Wi-Fi will be useful, and more!
VPNemy at the Gates | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 24, 2019
July 24, 2019 17:27 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBKen Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss if browser extensions are an under evaluated threat surface, if you can store a SQL database in DNA, what Microsoft's investment in OpenAI means, and so much more this week.
Germany Drops the Hessians on Microsoft | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 17, 2019
July 17, 2019 19:44 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBStephen Foskett and Rich Stroffolino discuss why the German state of Hesse says Office365 is illegal for schools, the FTC dropping a $5 billion fine on Facebook, Oracle's complaint over the JEDI contract being dismissed, and more.
FUD: Fear, UK and DNS | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 10, 2019
July 10, 2019 17:32 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBTom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino are talking about the IT news of the week, including Zoom's nasty security vulnerability, Cisco buying Acacia, the UK vs Mozilla, and why 7-11 isn't known for making apps.
Cloudfail | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 3, 2019
July 03, 2019 17:55 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBKen Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss the recent Cloudflare outage, how big the overall SaaS market is, if Huawei and the US are patching things up, and why Broadcom wants to buy Symantec.
HCI See What You Did There | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 26, 2019
June 26, 2019 18:07 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBTom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss what Extreme Networks is getting by buying Aerohive, what the latest marketshare numbers spell for Nutanix in the HCI market, why Micron beat on its earnings expectations, and more!
Nvidia Arms Itself | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 19, 2019
June 19, 2019 18:01 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBKen Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss all the announcements from HPE Discover, Nvidia bringing CUDA to ARM, Huawei slashing revenue, and the League of Entropy.
Azure and Oracle Connect | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 5, 2019
June 05, 2019 17:10 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBThis week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss the Oracle-Microsoft cloud bromance, forthcoming antitrust investigations into hyperscalers, and why the tape industry is trying to kill itself.