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Security researchers have figured out how to break enclaves. Sort of. In papers published this week, two independent groups have revealed their latest exploits, Battering RAM and Wiretap. They both work by attacking memory where encrypted data is stored. Both Intel SGX and AMD SEV-SNP use deterministic encryption to store data in RAM for performance reasons. These attacks can replay the data in plain text form. The catch? You need to have a hardware device, called an interposer, between the CPU and the RAM banks. You also need to watch the RAM in a very specific spot to collect the data. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.
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Microsoft stopped a phishing attack that used AI-generated code to hide its malicious payload and trick victims. Hackers sent fake file-sharing emails from a compromised account, with an SVG file disguised as a PDF that contained hidden JavaScript. Microsoft’s Security Copilot flagged the code as AI-made because it was overly complex and unnatural, while Defender for Office 365 blocked the campaign by spotting suspicious behavior and infrastructure signals. Researchers noted that while AI makes attacks look more convincing, it also creates telltale signs that defenders can detect. The case shows how both attackers and defenders are using AI, making it crucial to prepare for more AI-driven threats. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.
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NVIDIA is doubling down on AI dominance with massive investments across cloud, chips, and infrastructure. It struck a $6.3B deal with CoreWeave to secure long-term GPU demand, is investing $5B in Intel to co-develop custom CPUs and PC chips that pair Intel processors with NVIDIA GPUs, and is committing up to $100B with OpenAI to build data centers requiring 10 gigawatts of power. These moves lock in demand, expand NVIDIA’s role across computing ecosystems, and cement its leadership in the race to scale global AI infrastructure. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Alastair Cooke and guest host Scott Robohn.
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CoreWeave, a cloud provider backed by NVIDIA, secured a $6.3 billion order for AI computing capacity, with NVIDIA agreeing to buy any unused supply through 2032. The deal highlights CoreWeave’s reliance on NVIDIA, its sole GPU supplier and investor, while boosting its role in powering AI workloads. Despite strong growth—$1.21 billion in Q2 revenue, up 207% year-over-year—the company remains unprofitable, losing $290.5 million. Major contracts, including an $11.9 billion deal with OpenAI, have fueled demand and pushed CoreWeave’s market value above $58 billion.
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A U.S. judge ruled Google does not have to sell its Chrome browser in an antitrust case. Instead, Google must end some exclusive deals and share parts of its search data with rivals. The decision kept Google’s core business intact and boosted Alphabet’s stock. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and guest host Ned Bellavance.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Zelle’s parent company, Early Warning Services, accusing it of failing to protect customers from widespread fraud that cost victims over a billion dollars between 2017 and 2023. The suit claims EWS ignored known vulnerabilities and failed to enforce anti-fraud rules on its partner banks. Experts say the case raises major questions about the responsibilities of real-time payment platforms, highlighting the need for stronger security, identity verification, and consumer education. While a victory for New York could result in fines and mandated reforms, it remains uncertain whether consumers will see meaningful change or restitution. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.
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Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle’s long-time Chief Security Officer, is leaving after nearly 40 years with the company. Known for both her leadership and controversial stances on security issues, her departure comes amid layoffs and a shift at Oracle toward AI-focused strategies. While not directly linked to recent security incidents, her exit reflects a generational change as the company brings in younger executives to tackle new cybersecurity and AI challenges.
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SoftBank is investing $2 billion in Intel by buying shares at $23 each, strengthening their partnership to advance U.S. semiconductor technology. Both companies said the deal supports innovation, AI growth, and next-generation digital infrastructure, with Intel playing a key role in U.S. manufacturing. The agreement is still subject to standard closing approvals. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.
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Microsoft is making GitHub part of its CoreAI team after GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced he’s leaving to start a new company. Dohmke will stay until the end of 2025 to help with the transition. Instead of hiring a new CEO, GitHub’s leaders will now report directly to Microsoft’s AI group, led by Jay Parikh. This move shows Microsoft’s plan to connect GitHub more closely with its AI tools and developer platform as it pushes forward in AI development. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Chris Grundemann.
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President Trump’s new tariffs on dozens of countries are shaking global markets and hurting major companies like Apple, Amazon, and carmakers by raising costs and causing delays. Apple expects to pay $1.1 billion in tariffs this quarter, and Ford estimates $2 billion for the year. The tariffs aim to fix trade imbalances but are disrupting supply chains, slowing product launches, and raising prices. Job growth is also slowing, and experts warn the economy could suffer more if costs are passed to consumers. Some believe the pressure will speed up the use of AI as companies look to cut costs. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with host Alastair Cooke and guest host Jeffrey Powers.
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Intel is cutting about 24,000 jobs this year—roughly a quarter of its core workforce—as part of a major restructuring led by new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The company is canceling projects in Germany and Poland, downsizing operations in Costa Rica, and slowing construction in Ohio. Intel says it overbuilt before securing enough demand and now aims to focus spending more carefully. Despite the cuts, Intel lost $2.9 billion last quarter, though it expects to save $17 billion this year and stay on track with upcoming chips like Panther Lake and Nova Lake. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.
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Hackers have used a serious, previously unknown flaw in Microsoft’s SharePoint server software to launch a major global cyberattack. The attack has hit U.S. government agencies, universities, energy companies, and more, but only affects on-site servers—not cloud services. Stolen data and encryption keys could let hackers keep access even after systems are patched. Microsoft has released a fix for some versions, but many servers are still at risk. Authorities in the U.S., Canada, and Australia are investigating, with over 50 organizations confirmed as affected so far. The attackers’ identity and goals are still unknown. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.
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A new law restores the FCC’s authority to auction spectrum and requires at least 800 MHz to be sold, potentially pulling it from the 6 GHz and CBRS bands currently used for Wi-Fi and rural broadband. While mobile carriers like AT&T and Verizon support the move for 5G expansion, critics warn it could slow Wi-Fi and harm small ISPs that rely on those bands. The law reverses earlier efforts to protect 6 GHz for unlicensed use and reflects growing pressure from the wireless industry, now backed by former FCC Chair Ajit Pai, who leads a major telecom lobby. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.
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Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees, about 4% of its workforce, even as it invests billions in AI technology. Company leaders say AI will eliminate many routine jobs but also create new opportunities in advanced areas. While thousands of tech workers were displaced, demand for AI experts soared, with companies offering high salaries to attract top talent. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Alastair Cooke and guest host Gina Rosenthal.
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The US Department of Justice has announced a settlement in their lawsuit agains the proposed HPE acquisition of Juniper Networks. The release says that in order for the deal to move forward, HPE must sell off the Instant On line of HPE Aruba Networking access points. Additionally, Juniper must auction a license for third parties to use Juniper AIOps for Mist. The details of the auction are complicated. Up to two companies can win the rights to the license through the bidding process and Juniper must make up to 55 employees available to be hired by one of the winners to work on the product, including incentives from Juniper for them to move companies.
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At AWS re:Inforce 2025, AWS introduced key security upgrades, including expanded identity tools, enhanced code and threat detection with Inspector and GuardDuty, and easier deployment through improved WAF and firewall features. New CISO Amy Herzog emphasized identity security, while AWS reinforced its focus on automation, secure development, and ecosystem collaboration.
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Cisco Live was last week and the opening keynote was dripping with AI. Cisco's product lineup for the rest of the year and into the future is going to embrace AI agents and information for networking operations and security as well. CEO Chuck Robbins and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel talked all about the integration of AI into their offerings. From dashboards to NVIDIA networking technology Cisco is pushing AI into the infrastructure. One of the big discussions was around AgenticOps, the Cisco term for agent-based network operations. They also discussed how they would help build the AI data centers for the future with pod-based architectures and more.
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At Microsoft Build 2025, Microsoft focused on agentic AI, making it central to their developer strategy. CEO Satya Nadella introduced the “agentic web,” where AI takes a bigger role in software creation. Key updates included evolving GitHub Copilot into a programming partner, new features for managing AI agents, and giving them identities and security controls. Microsoft also backed open standards like Agent2Agent and MCP. The event highlighted how AI will reshape developer roles, adoption challenges, and productivity gains, while noting the shift is still early. Success depends on real-world use, openness, and developer trust.
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New global tariffs are making it more expensive and complicated for enterprises to manage their cloud services across regions. These changes are causing unpredictable costs and creating challenges for global cloud strategies. To stay ahead, companies need to improve visibility, automate processes, and tailor governance to each region.Time Stamps:
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OpenAI has announced its largest acquisition to date, agreeing to acquire io, an AI device startup founded by former Apple executive Jony Ive, in an all-equity deal worth approximately $6.5 billion. The acquisition includes OpenAI’s existing stake in io. As part of the merger, Jony Ive will assume significant creative and design responsibilities across both OpenAI and io. Despite the merger, Ive’s design firm, LoveFrom, will continue to operate independently.
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The US government signed a new act into law that has opponents concerned about the ramifications of what it will be used to do. The Take It Down Act was proposed to allow for the rapid takedown of non-consensual intimate images, or NCII, from the Internet. The law requires social media platforms to remove identified content within 48 hours and people convicted of violating the law could face up to three years in prison. What's the catch? According ot the EFF and other freedom organizations, the law has been written so broadly as to let it apply to a broad range of content, including political speech. The law also could be used to pressure companies into weakening encryption and security to allow for easier detection of content being shared. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.
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Last week saw the release of a big new report from the Futurum Group around cybersecurity. The research says that the market is going to grow by 11.6% per year for the rest of the decade. By then it should be worth almost $300 billion. Fernando Montenegro states that cybersecurity is a cornerstone of the boardroom and key part of the enterprise risk management strategy. Additionally there are some great suggestions about which areas of security need to be addressed by organizations in the coming years. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.
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The demand for AI services is driving more growth in public cloud platforms, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have all continued investment in the public cloud platforms to keep up with generative AI. Andy Jassy highlighted triple-digit growth in AI revenues, Microsoft has committed to 40% more capacity in Europe, and Google is investing $17 Billion in cloud infrastructure.
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Intel is still looking to smooth out their operations under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The announcement came last week that Intel is going to be cutting more positions. Initial reports rumored that it could be as much 20,000 employees but CFO David Zinsner refuted that number last Friday. Instead, each department will assess their structure and decide whether to cut positions or offer voluntary packages. Zinsner cautioned that not all buyout offers would be accepted. Additionally, early retirements would not be offered, as previously these had led to other issues in the long term. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.
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Chris Krebs is a well-known figure in the cybersecurity space. As the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Krebs was responsible for directing security for the US federal government starting 2018. Krebs was fired from CISA in 2020 by President Donald Trump for his stance on the 2020 election. Last week, President Trump stripped Krebs of his security clearances for this 4-year-old issue. Krebs then announced that he would be stepping down from his role at security company SentinelOne in order to prevent the company from being harmed by what appears to be a personal issue between the president of the United States and a private citizen that dared to disagree with him.
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At Intel Vision 2025, CEO Lip-Bu Tan emphasized a customer-centric strategy, focusing on advancements in AI PCs, Gaudi 3 accelerators, and the 18A process node. He introduced the concept of “Physical AI,” highlighting Intel’s commitment to integrating AI into hardware solutions across various sectors. Tan’s leadership aims to position Intel at the forefront of AI-driven innovation by enhancing its product portfolio and foundry capabilities. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.
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Half a century is a long time for an IT business, and Microsoft is justified in making a lot of noise to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The celebration brought together three Microsoft CEOs: Gates, Balmer, and Nadella. Microsoft CoPilot isn’t quite as old as the company, but it was still at the center of the celebrations. Many Microsoft products have come and gone over fifty years. Is CoPilot going to be one of the keepers? This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.
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During the keynote for Intel VIsion 2025, new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told the attendees about his vision for the return of Intel. He said that intel needs to attract engineering talent, fix the balance sheet issues, and look at manufacturing processes. One of the biggest ways to take care of those last two that was proposed was Intel spinning off non-core business units. He also asked customers to be "brutally honest" with the company going forward. He also reiterated his focus in going to be on engineering talent, either by hiring new engineers or encouraging former Intel employees to return. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.
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This week has been a big one for messaging privacy. The news broke on Monday that the Editor-in-Chief for The Atlantic magazine was accidentally added to a Signal group where members of the US government were talking about highly classified military actions. The report kicked off a firestorm of Congressional hearings about the nature of data sharing and privacy for not only government officials but members of the defense and intelligence community. This has also raised questions about the way that those same officials will often circumvent policy to facilitate communications. While the nature of the group and their discussion topic is highly political in nature let's focus on the communications aspect. Why did they use Signal? How can we be sure it's safe? And what does this mean for government agencies that still want to create backdoors into secure protocols? This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.
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NVIDIA unveiled new AI-focused chips at its GTC conference, including the Blackwell Ultra series launching this year and the next-gen Vera Rubin GPUs set for 2026. CEO Jensen Huang emphasized the company’s shift to an annual release cycle, a departure from its previous biennial schedule. This move reflects NVIDIA's response to the growing AI market and increasing competition. This and more on the Rundown.
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We've spoken at length about the CHIPS Act for the past year or so and you know that we've been big proponents of bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the US. The latest news from the federal governement isn't so rosy though. According to reports, the current administration is trying to find ways to prevent the funding for the act from being disbursed. Options floated include firing the staff at NIST responsible for sending out the money as well as clawing back the funding for "non-performance" which is the only way for the money to be returned to the government. The news comes as the administration is contemplating tariffs on TSMC even after the announcement of $100 billion in US funding.
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13:16 - ASML Opening Chinese Facility
18:18 - Druva Powering Enhanced Azure Data Security
21:55 - Cerebras Opening New AI Accelerator Datacenters
28:20 - Is The CHIPS Act Crushed?
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I want to take you back to the halcyon days of just a few weeks ago when we discussed the ways that NVIDIA AI chips were showing up in China even though they were under US embargo not to be able to get this advanced technology. This came as a result of a last minute policy decision from the outgoing Biden administration that blocked the Chinese from buying these chips. Now, companies like Microsoft are urging the new presidential administration to rescind the ban to give them access to the growing AI market in China. Chinese authorities are firing back at the ban by tellling their researchers to avoid visiting the US. And third parties are making a fortune reshipping shipments of restricted items to China from places like Singapore, where police just arrested three men charged with running an operation of that nature. This and more on the Rundown.
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We've talked about quantum computing before but Microsoft created a quantum quake in the tech space last week. They announced a new quantum computer chip that took seventeen years to make. The Majorana-1 uses a brand new Topological Core technology that reduces error rates significantly and could create chips with as much as one million qubits of processing power per unit. Microsoft's researchers reportedly created a new state of matter in the accompanying research paper published to Nature to help them create the method for increasing the power of the chip. This and more on The Rundown.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:15 - Docker Pauses Pull Plans5:30 - Default Passwords Strike Again8:12 - Apple is Betting on AI Infrastructure12:00 - Cisco and NVIDIA Expand Their Partnership15:57 - T-Mobile Dials Up Cloud Efficiency Drive with Red Hat OpenShift19:37 - HP Ends 15 Minute Tech Support Wait Time24:37 - Microsoft's Quantum Computing Breakthrough with Majorana 1 Chip33:29 - The Weeks Ahead35:25 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkingnerd/Alastair Cooke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alastaircooke/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #AI, #Majorana1, @Docker, @Microsoft, @Apple, @HP, @TMobile, @Cisco, @NVIDIA, @GestaltIT, @NetworkingNerd, @DemitasseNZ, @TechFieldDay,
A report this week claims that Broadcom is investigating Intel's chip design business and is contemplating an acquisition. The news comes from the Wall Street Journal and says that while Broadcom is interested in chip design they are not interested in the foundry business. Analysts are intriguied because that means that Broadcom could either use Intel's designs to augment their existing lineup or perhaps package the businesses for sale to other partners or even competitors. Keith, do you think Broadcom is going to invest in Intel?
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13:43 - HPE Announces Gen12 Ahead
16:24 - OpenSSH Found to Be Vulnerable to MITM Attacks
20:12 - Broadcom Wants Intel Chip Designs?
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A group of investors, led by Elon Musk’s startup xAI and other backers, has made a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI, aiming to refocus the organization on open-source AI and safety amid rising tensions between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over its shift to a for-profit model. Meanwhile, OpenAI is advancing its AI hardware strategy with plans to launch a custom-designed AI chip in 2024, fabricated by TSMC using 3-nanometer technology to reduce reliance on Nvidia. Initially deployed on a limited scale, the chip is designed to optimize AI model performance, with OpenAI’s expanding chip team already working on future iterations with enhanced capabilities. This and more on The Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown2:44 - Turn/River Capital Acquires SolarWinds5:21 - WEKA Restructure to Focus on AI9:23 - Cisco One Silicon Shows Big at Cisco Live EMEA12:50 - Hammerspace is Changing the AI Training Game17:31 - French President to Invest $112B in AI22:36 - Huawei Shows Revenue Growth Despite Ban26:49 - Sam Altman Says OpenAI is Not for Sale 33:06 - OpenAI to Take On NVIDIA with Proprietary Chip38:13 - The Weeks Ahead39:44 - Thanks for WatchingFollow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #AI, #ITNews, @SolarWinds, @WEKAIO, @Cisco, @CiscoNetworking, @Hammerspace_Inc, @Huawei, @OpenAI, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay, @DemitasseNZ, @SFoskett, @TheFuturumGroup, @TechstrongTV,
We heard the rumors back in November that the HPE deal to acquired Juniper Networks was getting a closer look from the Department of Justice. Last week we got confirmation that the DoJ will be filing suit to half the deal. The arugument from the government is that the result of the deal would be 70% of the market for networking equipment being held by just two companies. Specifically cited was the wireless LAN component, where the DoJ said there were only three major players. This was refuted quickly by both HPE and Juniper. The UK Competition and Markets authority and the EU have both cleared the deal. This and more on The Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to The Rundown1:10 - Intel Not Bringing Falcon Shores GPU to Market3:52 - NVIDIA Accelerates Storage Networking7:42 - Phishing attacks against Microsoft ADFS11:31 - Ventev Acquired by Hubbell Inc14:25 - AI and Cloud costs are driving a closer look at FinOps tools17:33 - Microsoft Stops TPM Bypass for Win11 Installs22:16 - DoJ Blocks HPE Juniper Deal31:22 - The Weeks Ahead33:46 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkingnerd/Alastair Cooke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alastaircooke/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #FalconShores, #DoJ, #AI, @Intel, @IntelBusiness, @NVIDIA, @Microsoft, @Ventev, @JuniperNetworks, @HPE, @GestaltIT, @NetworkingNerd, @DemitasseNZ, @TechFieldDay, @TheFuturumGroup,
As we mentioned earlier, the early days of a US government change invovle a lot of new orders and announcements. After a week in office the current US administration announced a plan to impose import tariffs on Taiwan for a variety of goods, including pharmaceuticals, steel, and chips. The tariff was reported to be 25% but could be as high as 100%. In further comments the president said the goal of the move was to lure companies back to the US to manufacture chips domestically. However, the CHIPS Act was specifically called out as being problematic because it simply gave money away instead of punishing companies with additional taxes to change their behavior. This is definitely a developing situation but lets dive in. Al, what's the ultimate goal here? This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown.
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0:00 - Welcome to The Rundown
1:23 - Pure Storage Gets Hyperscale Win
4:31 - Salt Typhoon Probe Potentially Disrupted
7:47 - AI Gets Trapped in a Maze
11:35 - Swedes Seize Ship Slashing Subsea Stuff
14:56 - OpenAI Announces Operator Agent AI
18:23 - DeepSeek Causes Deep Thoughts Among Tech
23:53 - TSMC Tariffs Could Cause Chaos
31:40 - The Weeks Ahead
33:12 - Thanks for Watching
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We spoke last week about the executive order issued by former President Biden around AI export controls. There has been some more information released about the reasoning behind the controls. One of those was that, as mentioned, third party actors are shipping restricted hardware to countries that were already banned from receiving it. Still others were able to access those systems through cloud computing in countries such as Malaysia and Brazil. The AI Diffusion Framework names 18 "friendly" countries with no restrictions and designates 23 countries under embargo with restrictions and caps on certain AI chips. The remaining nations of the world are categorized into a kind of limbo. The restrictions are based on a Total Processing Performance (TPP) metric that restricts exports based on the power of the chip. This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:05 - Futurum Asks CEOs About AI6:40 - HPE Investigating IntelBroker Claims9:51 - Former Meta Exec leads Microsoft's New AI Team13:41 - Gartner Says VM Migrations Won't Be Easy17:53 - Lenovo Acquires Infinidat22:05 - More on AI Diffusion Regulations37:24 - The Weeks Ahead39:55 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerdStephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskettFollow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #AIDiffusion, #AI, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay, @TheFuturumGroup, @NetworkingNerd, @SFoskett, @HPE, @Meta, @Microsoft, @Lenovo, @Infinidat,
The Biden presidential administration might be winding down but thre are still some things that are making news. Yesterday the president proposed a new framework for the export of chips used to developer AI. The rules seek to limit exports of the chips to some 120 countries, including Mexico, Israel, and Switzerland. The rules appear to be aimed at protecting US national security and the undercurrent in the order is aimed squarely at China. The administration says this is designed to close some of the loopholes in currently existing regulations on chip exports. NVIDIA released a statement calling the rules "misguided" due to the fact that they could impact the largest AI hardware company in the world. This and more on the Rundown.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:16 - Cohesity's CERT Service Boosted by Added Partners
3:43 - Building GenAI Apps Creating Headaches
7:01 - Eutelsat's 2-Day Outage and Resiliency
10:52 - Web Apps Exposed by AWS Configuration
14:28 - Oracle to battle for JavaScript Trademark
20:03 - An IT Exodus is Happening
23:46 - NVIDIA Comments on AI Diffusion
32:56 - The Weeks Ahead
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At CES 2025, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduced Cosmos, a new AI model trained on 20 million hours of video to help machines better understand and interact with the physical world, available via Hugging Face and NVIDIA’s GPU Cloud. He also urged businesses to adopt a three-computer AI system, featuring tools like Project DIGITS for AI development and the Llama Nemotron models for autonomous agents. Meanwhile, Dell announced a full rebrand, replacing familiar names like XPS and Latitude with Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, along with Plus and Premium tiers, aiming to attract customers seeking AI-powered PCs. Critics noted the naming is familiar, but it could help Dell appeal to new users. This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown.Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:38 - Anthropic Raising More Money6:15 - Net Neutrality Neutralized10:01 - GlobalFoundries and IBM Find Their New Years Resolution14:56 - FCC Opens Lower 6GHz Band for Low Power Devices19:54 - HashiCorp Acquisition by IBM Reviewed by UK24:41 - Ingram Micro To End Relationship with Broadcom/VMware28:59 - Big News from CES29:33 - NVIDIA Cosmos Brings AI Into the Real World43:48 - Dell to Rebrand PC Line54:24 - The Weeks Ahead55:26 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerdStephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskettFollow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #CES2025, #AI, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay, @NVIDIA, @AMD, @IBM, @DellTech, @Broadcom, @VMware, @IngramMicroUSA, @HashiCorp, @GlobalFoundries, @TheFuturumGroup, @AnthropicAI,
We're looking back at our reporting on the biggest enterprise IT stories of 2024 and telling you the trends that will be discussion points well into 2025. We're reconsidering Broadcom's moves with VMware, the fall of Intel, HPE's acquisition of Juniper, that fab CHIPS act, the evolution of data protection companies to security, power-hungry GPUs, Co-Pilot PCs, lots of AI infrastructure, a whole lot of hacks, including Snowflake and Salt Typhoon, and the government's actions against big tech.
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0:00 - Programming Note
1:10 - Welcome to the Rundown
2:04 - The Fall of Intel
10:09 - Broadcom and VMware
20:53 - That's HPE's Juniper Buy!
26:59 - Fabulous Fabs and CHIPS!
34:37 - Transforming Data Protection
41:29 - Nuking GPUs in Pennsylvania
46:09 - My Co-Pilot is a Dog
52:44 - AI Infrastructure Baby!
1:00:10 - It's Snowing Data (Breaches)
1:03:25 - Crowd Strikes Back
1:07:14 - Salt Typhoon
1:10:18 - DOJ Gonna DOJ
1:14:53 - Thanks for Joining Us in 2024
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The big story this week is the continued fallout from Salt Typhoon. The US government is feeling the heat from the exposure of so many telecom companies and they want answers. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has announced a proposed set of rules that would require companies that participate in the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to have a yearly requirement to certify their cybersecurity risk management plans to prevent hackers from getting in. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has gone even further and proposed a draft bill to secure telecom networks with the FCC implementing specific requirements instead of simple certifications. 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:21 - StormForge Rightsizes JVMs4:11 - Cisco Switches Vulnerable to Verification Exploit7:29 - VMware by Broadcom Welcomes Partners Back to the Top11:16 - Google Stabilizes Quantum Qubit for an Hour16:49 - Open Source Flooded by Bad AI Bug Reports21:52 - Salt Typhoon Storms the Government32:57 - The Weeks Ahead34:19 - Thanks for Watching
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The biggest news of the holiday weekend dropped on Monday. Pat Gelsinger has retired from Intel, effective immediately. David Zinsner, CFO, and Michelle Johnston Holthaus, newly named CEO of the Intel Product subunit, have been named as Co-CEOs while the board searches for a permanent member. Gelsinger has been the CEO since 2021. He has been focused on returning Intel to dominance in the chip market while also facing headwinds from industry transitions to mobile and AI computing. Intel stock prices rose on the news. This and more on The Gestalt IT Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:14 - AWS Announces Nova AI Models5:35 - UK Company Bails on Broadcom Due to 1,000% Hike9:36 - Chinese Say US Chips No Longer Safe14:20 - EnGlobal Fighting Cyberattack17:49 - Intel Forced to Control Their Own Fabs for CHIPS Cash21:52 - Pat Gelsinger Retires from Intel36:50 - The Weeks Ahead38:30 - Thanks for ListeningHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerdStephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskettFollow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #PatGelsinger, #CHIPSAct, #Cybersecurity, #AI, @AWSCloud, @EnGlobal, @Intel, @IntelBusiness, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay, @TheFuturumGroup, @SFoskett, @NetworkingNerd,
The week before Thanksgiving is always busy and this year was packed with great conferences. Super Computing 24 took place in Atlanta and there was plenty to discuss with over 17,000 attendees learning about the latest technology. Let's dive in to a few key announcements.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:29 - Clumio Backtrack Announced by Commvault7:11 - Aryaka Unveils New Survey Report Exploring Network Security Trends in Manufacturing11:16 - Techstrong Launches PlatformEngineering.com 15:25 - ISPs Say Their Customer Service is Great 20:23 - Red Hat Donates Tools to CNCF 23:56 - Cybercrime Costs Brits Billions of Bills28:27 - Announcements from Supercomputing 202443:41 - The Weeks Ahead45:40 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerdStephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskettFollow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #Supercomputing24, #Cybersecurity, #Networking, #AI, @ClumioInc, @Commvault, @Aryaka, @TechstrongGroup, @TechstrongTV, @RedHat, @NVIDIA, @HPE, @HammerspaceInc, @Solidigm, @Purestorage, @AMD,
The US Department of Justice is looking at two big IT companies, potentially making waves in the enterprise IT space. They are asking a federal judge to force Google to sell or spin off its Chrome browser, arguing that integration with Google's other products, particularly Android, Search, and the Play store, is anti-competitive. At the same time, the DOJ is also looking at the proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
2:09 - NIST Can Hear When Your Battery is Going to Catch Fire
4:48 - StarTree Cloud Powers Real-Time Data
9:44 - Itential Debuts Automation Service at Networking Field Day
17:11 - SentinelOne reports on The State of Cloud Ransomware in 2024
21:38 - Cyber Defense Agencies reveal Most Exploited Vulnerabilities in 2023
25:34 - Lightbend Launches Akka 3
29:40 - US Antitrust Actions Challenge Tech Deals
38:44 - The Weeks Ahead
39:28 - Thanks for Watching
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Pay rates for IT security professionals are rising faster than inflation, but burnout and stress are growing faster. A survey of UK security professionals revealed the fast pace of modern security and the risk of unknown failure is causing skilled practitioners to leave the field. Would yet more pay fix the problem, or is there another way to address IT security staff retention? This and more on the Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:19 - Can AMD Top NVIDIA?3:50 - Quantum AI Isn't a Thing7:13 - MinIO Introduces AIStor12:23 - Amazon Employee Details Exposed in MoveIt Breach15:20 - Marslink is Further Away than Starlink18:19 - AI is writing Google's Code22:05 - Amazon Won't Go Nuclear26:41 - Is IT Security Too Stressful for the Money?35:45 - The Weeks Ahead37:23 - Thanks for WatchingHosts:Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkingnerd/Alastair Cooke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alastaircooke/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #AI, #AIStor, #CyberSecurity, #AWS, @NetworkingNerd, @DemitaasseNZ, @GestaltIT, @TechstrongTV, @TheGuturumGroup, @TechFieldDay, @AMD, @NVIDIA, @MinIO, @GoogleCloud, @Google, @AWSCloud,
Another Trump presidency could bring significant implications for enterprise tech, particularly through a focus on deregulation, increased M&A, and expanded Big Tech investments. this also extends to advancements in military technology, Israel’s influence on cybersecurity, the impact of initiatives like StarLink and rural broadband on connectivity, nuclear energy, AI, the CHIPS Act, and the expanding space industry. Altogether, these insights suggest that a pro-deregulation agenda, aiming to remove ten regulations for each new one introduced, could profoundly shape the future of enterprise technology. This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Hosts:Stephen Foskett: Foskett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sfoskett/Jack Poller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackpoller/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #AI, #CHIPsAct, #CyberSecurity, #PrivateCloud, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay, @TheFuturumGroup, @SFoskett, @Poller, @MitchellAshley, @OktaDev, @AWSCloud, @Microsoft, @Cloudera, @Google, @GoogleCloud, @Supermicro_SMCI, @NVIDIA,
Hatfields and McCoys. Lakers and Celtics. GIF versus GIF. The rivalries of our time are always storied. One of the biggest seems to be cooling, however. AMD and Intel have announced a new partnership aimed at countering the surge of ARM-based designs. The companies are trying to standardize aspects of the x86 instruction set in order to make it easier for ISVs to write code that runs on both Intel and AMD chips without a fragmented code base that reduces performance and encourages developers to move to a more unified architecture like ARM. This and more on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:41 - Platform9 Launches Private Cloud Director5:45 - xAI Builds The Biggest AI Supercomputer9:53 - Evading Sanctions for Profit15:34 - Satya Nadella Takes Pay Cut for Security Issues19:06 - OpenAI in Talks with Broadcom for Custom Chips24:13 - Salt Typhoon Sweeps Up Political Audio28:40 - AMD and Intel Reach Historic Partnership41:08 - The Weeks Ahead44:34 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerdStephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskettFollow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #PrivateCloud, #AISuperComputer, #CyberSecurity, @Platform9Sys, @xAI, @AMD, @Intel, @IntelBusiness, @Microsoft, @NVIDIA, @SFoskett, @NetworkingNerd, @TheFuturumGroup, @TechstrongTV, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay, #CFD21, #AIFD5,
At Open Compute Summit this past week, key trends shaping the future of computing and infrastructure were discussed. One major concern is the global data center energy consumption, which is projected to triple by 2030, highlighting the urgent need for more efficient energy solutions. As technology advances, the shift from a 3nm process to a 2nm process is proving costly, with design costs estimated to reach a staggering $725 million, according to ARM. In response to both power demands and design challenges, liquid cooling is gaining momentum, emerging as a vital technology to improve efficiency and manage the increasing heat output from advanced computing systems.Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:36 - BMC Starts Two New Companies4:06 - CEO Indicted for Fraud7:10 - Microsoft goes agentic AI10:37 - Amazon Teams Up with US Department of Justice14:30 - Perplexity Is getting Sued by Media Giants16:44 - Sophos Acuires Secureworks20:00 - Exciting Developments from Open Compute Summit31:41 - The Weeks Ahead32:56 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkingnerd/Jon Swartz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonswartz/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #OCPSummit24, #AgenticAI, @NetworkingNerd, @JSwartz, @GestaltIT, @TechstrongGroup, @TechstrongTV, @TheFuturumGroup, @BMCSoftware, @Microsoft, @AWSCloud, @Sophos, @Secureworks, @perplexity_ai, @OpenComputePrj,
At Commvault SHIFT 2024, The Futurum Group's Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead sat with CEO Sanjay Mirchandani, who discussed Commvault's strategic pivot towards a cloud-first approach in cyber resilience. This shift involves key acquisitions, such as Appranix and Clumio, and new partnerships with AWS and Google, aimed at enhancing cloud data protection and recovery. Mirchandani also introduced the concept of "Continuous Business," highlighting its distinction from traditional business continuity by emphasizing ongoing readiness and adaptability in a dynamic digital landscape.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown2:57 - Chip Boom Continues with Record-Breaking Demand5:47 - Accenture Pushes Agentic AI Built on NVIDIA10:53 - AMD AI Chips to Challenge NVIDIA13:22 - Geopolitics' Impact on Digital Infrastructure16:53 - Cisco sells their stake in Rubrik20:49 - CTERA's Data Intelligence Enhances GenAI with File Data25:28 - Commvault Shift's Cyber Resilience for the AI Era38:51 - The Weeks Ahead40:21 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Stephen Foskett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sfoskett/Alan Shimel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanshimel/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #CommvaultShift, #AgenticAI, @Accenture, @NVIDIA, @AMD, @GarethEdwards86, @RubrikInc, @Cisco, @CTERA, @Commvault, @TheSixFiveMedia, @TheFuturumGroup, @SFoskett, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay, @TechstrongTV, @AShimmy,
A big cyberattack attributed to groups backed by the Chinese government has telecom providers worried. In this new report, investigators have determined that the group, known as Salt Typhoon, has had months-long access into the network infrastructures of companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies. That access includes visibility over the infrastructure used for lawful intercept, which is the Internet version of tapping a phone. Per the report, the Salt Typhoon hackers appeared to be engaged in a data collection mission, trying to obtain as much data as possible from US businesses as well as those that they do business with. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:06 - Samsung Begins 1TB QLC 9th-Gen V-NAND Production4:26 - Dust Bunnies on the Attack: Datacenter Maintenance Issues Pose Security Threats7:41 - Equinix joint venture to spend $15B building 1.5GW of AI datacentres11:28 - Cisco Teams Up With Coreweave14:58 - Commercial Wordpress hosting stoush18:51 - Oscium Acquires MetaGeek22:24 - Nation State Actors Tap the Taps31:12 - The Weeks Ahead33:09 - Thanks for Watching Hosts:Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkingnerd/Alastair Cooke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alastaircooke/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #Datacenter, #AI, #CyberSecurity, @GestaltIT, @NetworkingNerd, @DemitasseNZ, @TheFuturumGroup, @TechFieldDay, @Samsung, @Oscium, @MetaGeek, @Wordpress, @Cisco, @Coreweave, @Equinix,
Microsoft has revamped its AI-powered Recall feature, shifting from automatic to opt-in use with enhanced security measures like full encryption and Windows Hello authentication, addressing privacy concerns. California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB-1047, which aimed to regulate AI models, citing concerns that smaller models outside the regulation's scope might pose greater risks. Meanwhile, OpenAI is facing a leadership shakeup as CTO Mira Murati and other key executives depart, coinciding with a shift in the company's focus toward a more traditional startup model under Sam Altman's leadership. This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown0:58 - Rackspace Gets Attacked, Logically4:09 - Hurricane Helene Disrupts Critical Supply Chain8:34 - Tech Giants and Government Support Spark a New Nuclear Renaissance?14:11 - F5 Launches NGINX One17:34 - NIST Gives Tips on Passwords22:20 - AI Safety Roundup40:39 - The Weeks Ahead42:37 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkingnerd/Jack Poller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackpoller/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #Cybersecurity, #AISafety, #AI, @GestaltIT, @TheFuturumGroup, @TechFieldDay, @NetworkingNerd, @Poller, @Rackspace, @NGINX, @NIST, @OpenAI, @Microsoft,
We're happy to have Dr. Bob Sutor joining us this week on the Rundown, since he covers quantum and advanced computing for The Futurum Group. IBM made two important announcements in the quantum space this week. The first announcement was Qiskit, a quantum SDK that runs on Python for quantum computers. This promises to bring quantum compute to a more mainstream audience and converting the underlying code to Rust. This solution is much faster than competing solutions from Google, Amazon, and Quantinuuum. IBM is also putting together an app store for quantum applications and runtime functions, including from third-party developers. This matches the moves that we have seen in areas like cloud and AI, and serves to push IBM as the leader in quantum computing.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:57 - Qualcomm to Buy Intel?4:11 - Kioxia No Longer Planning IPO6:42 - Announcements from Dreamforce16:32 - Commvault Buys Clumio20:07 - CISA Wants to Say Ciao to Ivanti EOL Units22:47 - Veeam Acquires Alcion25:29 - Qiskit and IBM's New Quantum Innovations34:27 - The Weeks Ahead35:48 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Stephen Foskett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sfoskett/Bob Sutor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobsutor/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #QuantumComputing, #Qiskit, #Dreamforce, @IBM, @Veeam, @Alcion, @Commvault, @Clumio, @Salesforce, @Qualcomm, @Intel, @IntelBusiness, @SFoskett, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay, @TheFuturumGroup,
We have talked at length this year about Intel's efforts to turn the ship and add more profitability to the ledger. One of the crown jewels in that portfolio is the foundry business. It has been the recipient of a large amount of government funding through the CHIPS Act. But it is also playing catch up with TSMC and others. New broke yesterday that Intel has announced that the foundry business will be spun off into separate susidiary entity. The new unit will have it's own board and be free to seek outside funding, perhaps even going public at some point. Intel stock jumped 8% in after hours trading on the news. This follows a long string of changes for the company during Pat Gelsinger's tenure.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
0:55 - OpenAI and o1
3:22 - Fortinet Suffers Data Breach (Again)
6:18 - Salesforce, NVIDIA get together to develop AI-powered avatars.
9:35 - Mastercard Acquires RecordedFuture
12:17 - HPE Pursues $4 Billion in Damages
14:36 - Kubecost Acquired by IBM
18:56 - Intel Foundry Business To Become Subsidiary
28:59 - The Weeks Ahead
30:41 - Thanks for Watching
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AT&T has decided enough is enough. They have filed a lawsuit over the tactics they claim are putting first responders and critical government services at risk. AT&T is claiming breach of contract because of the new support policy enacted by Broadcom after the VMware acquisition. The key point comes in an amendment in their support agreement that says that AT&T can renew their current support contracts for up to two more years provided they do so before the expiration of their current contract. They are exercising that option now but VMware by Broadcom is not honoring the renewal. AT&T stated they don't have an issue with the business model change, just that it affects them right now and is making them pay more.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:05 - Juniper Enhanced Data Center Networking with AI
4:01 - AWS and Oracle Team Up
8:36 - Feds Force Focus on Fixing Flaws in BGP
12:40 - Broadcom Earnings Show Issues with Chips
19:09 - Airvine Debuts Concrete-Proof Ethernet
23:20 - Broadcom Sued by AT&T
34:17 - The Weeks Ahead
36:15 - Thanks for Watching
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This year, at the smallest VMware conference in many years, Broadcom made some important announcements. As we've previously discussed, VMware Cloud Foundation 9 was detailed, along with Tanzu Platform 10, an enhanced Edge Orchestrator platform, VeloCloud Software-Defined Edge, and more. Although we miss the community coming together at VMworld every year, this smaller VMware Explore conference is very much in line with the direction taken by Broadcom since their acquisition of the company.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:40 - AnandTech Shuts its Doors3:02 - Rumors Fly that Intel is Changing Course6:43 - Cloud providers consuming all the GPUs for AI9:54 - Hammerspace Pulls Out a Server12:25 - AMD Is Ready to Take On NVIDIA15:13 - California Readies an AI Kill Switch18:05 - A Smaller VMware Explore Still Delivers News28:02 - The Weeks Ahead29:09 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Stephen Foskett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sfoskett/Alastair Cooke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alastaircooke/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #VMwareExplore, #AI, @VMware, @Broadcom, @AMD, @NVIDIA, @Intel, @IntelBusiness, @AnandTech, @DemitesseNZ, @SFoskett, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay, @TheFuturumGroup,
This week kicked off the annual Hot Chips conference and AI has once again dominated the conversation. There were a lot of stories to talk about, from wafer scale chips to silicon photonics, Cerebras' giant leap into AI Inferencing, Microsoft Azure's MAIA 100 AI Accelerator, IBM's On-Chip DPU, Broadcom's AI Compute ASIC, Intel's Guadi 3, and more. Let's dive in on this episode of The Rundown.
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0:00 - Welcome to The Rundown
0:54 - Kioxa Files for IPO
4:18 - Cisco to Acquire Robust Intelligence
7:46 - NVIDIA Previews Blackwell Datacenter GPUs
11:56 - Apica Ascent adds Multiple Agent Central Telemetry Data Management
13:37 - VMware Reveals VCF9
17:51 - Veeam Overtakes Veritas in Market Share
20:58 - Announcements from Hot Chips
40:57 - The Weeks Ahead
43:29 - Thanks for Watching
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Our big story this week is from AMD. They're opening up their wallet to the tune of nearly $5 billion to buy ZT Systems. The two companies have had a preexisting partnership, with ZT having collaborated on the EPYC processor lines. ZT's biggest customers are AWS and Azure, as ZT specializes in hyperscale AI systems that are bought by the rack. This move follows a very recent acquisition of Silo AI, which we covered on the Rundown, as well as their last big acquisition of Xilinx. There's a lot to unpack here and the Futurum Group has had some amazing coverage of this deal so far. Stephen, let's start with you. What does ZT Systems have that makes them so attractive to AMD.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:48 - Morpheus Data Acquired by HPE
5:31 - Launchable Acquired by CloudBees
8:26 - Kioxia Reveals Broadband SSD
12:43 - DigiCert to Acquire Vercara to Expand Security Portfolio
16:25 - Western Digital Races Past NetApp with All-Flash OpenFlex
20:11 - Massive Data Leak From Plaintext Passwords
24:34 - ZT Systems to be Acquired by AMD
40:15 - The Weeks Ahead
42:19 - Thanks for Watching
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Black Hat was last week and Hacker Summer Camp never fails to disappoint. There were some big takeaways from the show, such as Moxie Marlinspike telling DevOps they're the problem with security as well as a whole host of exploits, like the ones we've covered above. However, AI is king in 2024 and we knew everyone was going to be talking about it. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to The Rundown1:13 - IBM Storage Scale using Blue Vela AI supercomputer4:46 - AMD Chips Hit with Sinkclose8:24 - BMC Uses AI For Mainframe Operations12:38 - NIST Finalizes Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards17:00 - RedHat's OpenShift Gets GenAI 20:32 - Pliops Kalray Merger Falls Through23:14 - Announcements and Takeaways from Black Hat23:48 - HPE Leverages AI for Security 28:18 - Copilot Insecure by Design 33:36 - More from Black Hat38:20 - The Weeks Ahead40:00 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerdStephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskettFollow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT Tags: #Rundown, #BlackHat2024, #Copilot, #AI, @IBM, @AMD, @BMCSoftware, @RedHat, @OpenShift, @Pliops, @Karlay, @HPE, @Microsoft, @NetworkingNerd, @SFoskett, @GestaltIT, @TheFuturumGroup, @TechstrongTV,
It's not a great day for Intel and some 15,000 workers. In the earning call last week the CPU giant revealed that while they hit their revenue target numbers this past quarter there are storm clouds on the horizon. Challenges from AI companies as well as issues with some of their most recent chip designs has Pat Gelsinger looking to cut costs. The way that was expressed to the industry was through massive layoffs. Intel is shedding 15% of their overall workforce and suspending the payment of dividends through the end of the year. Analysts, including our own Daniel Newman, have said that Intel is facing some headwinds and they have projects on the table that they need to deliver upon. This is a pretty big story so I'm going to let you start, Jon.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:16 - Delta Unhappy with Crowdstrike
3:54 - European Commission Approves HPE's Juniper Networks Acquisition
8:04 - Google Loses Antitrust Suit
12:03 - US DoJ Says Crawl to NVIDIA's Run:ai Acquisition
17:32 - Intel's Mass Layoffs 26:41 - The Weeks Ahead
28:42 - Thanks for Watching
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Microsoft has released an accountability notice after the big Crowdstrike outage. According to the release, Microsoft is going to change and innovate in the area of end-to-end resilience. This includes things like VBS enclaves, which require no kernel mode drivers, as well as Azure Attestation, which determines secure boot posture. The messaging indicates that Microsoft sees kernel access is their biggest issue and they are going to try and develop new tools that eliminate the need for it.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:24 - SK hynix Considers US IPO for Solidigm
6:37 - Marvell Teralynx Leaps into Production
10:54 - Marvell Structures DDR4 With CXL 2.0
15:08 - Secure Boot Totally Insecure
20:46 - VMware Takes Group Authentication Exploit to New Highs
26:02 - DigiCert Underscores Certificate Revocation Woes
30:40 - Microsoft's Resiliency Notice And Path Forward
44:43 - The Weeks Ahead
46:29 - Thanks for Watching!
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Google is looking to make their biggest acquisition ever. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Alphabet will be making a bid to purchase Wiz for $23 billion. Wiz has spent the past four years developing a cloud security platform that has detected some big problems in a number of providers, including one in Microsoft Bing. Google is finding itself increasingly under fire from a varity of attackers. The move comes as Google is facing antitrust charges from the Department of Justice and could have even called off a potential purchase of HubSpot.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:18 - Cerabyte's Laser Etched Petabyte-Scale Storage
7:02 - Veeam a Target in Malware Attack
9:00 - Mirantis Updates its Kubernetes Platform
12:27 - Snowflake Says Yay to MFA
15:29 - RAG Optimized by Qdrant BM42 Vector Search Algorithm
18:56 - Google Looking to Make Magic with Wiz
26:18 - The Weeks Ahead
28:12 - Thanks for Watching
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a comprehensive guide to bolster operational security (OPSEC) for election officials. This guide aims to enhance the security of election infrastructure by offering detailed strategies for identifying and mitigating potential risks within the election context. This and more on The Rundown.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:34 - Japan Bids Farewell to Floppy Disks
4:15 - NetApp to Focus on AI Integration and Data Resilience
9:04 - Broadcom Launches Omnissa while Streamlining VMware
12:26 - Billions upon Billions of Passwords Published on the Dark Web
16:02 - Douglas Gourlay Takes the Reins at Qumulo
20:27 - Cloudflare Shields Users From Data-Harvesting AI Bots
23:59 - CISA Focuses on Election Security
36:33 - The Weeks Ahead
38:43 - Thanks for Watching
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The US government is worried there might not be enough trained workers to fill the needs of the CHIPS act. President Biden has announced a Workforce Partner Alliance (WFPA) to ensure the gap for skilled workers will be closed as soon as possible. WFPA is designed to reward providers with grants of between $500,000 and $2 million to provide the training for these new chip facilities. Is this something that we can count on? Or will it turn into another boondoggle like ITT Tech? This and more on this week's Rundown.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to The Rundown
1:19 - CIQ Offers a CentOS Bridge
6:12 - CyberRatings Gives Cisco's Enterprise Firewall a "Caution" Rating
10:32 - AI Innovation in Oracle HeatWave GenAI
17:35 - OpenSSH A Little TOO Open
21:39 - AI Power Draw Dims Net Zero Promises
29:06 - Nokia to Acquire Infinera
33:27 - CHIPS Act to Train Workers to Avoid Labor Shortages
44:49 - The Weeks Ahead
46:30 - Thanks for Watching
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has launched a private cloud solution leveraging the KVM hypervisor, aiming at customers upset by the Broadcom-VMware merger. This is added to the existing bare-metal and container solutions in HPE's Private Cloud offering. HPE is also the latest major IT vendor to partner with NVIDIA on a suite of private cloud solutions designed to accelerate the deployment of generative AI in enterprise environments. This includes a complete turn-key AI hardware solution, including new servers equipped with the latest NVIDIA H200 accelerators, which are also available on-demand through GreenLake. HPE is also announcing the OpsRamp AI copilot for automated IT operations and HPE Private Cloud AI to accelerate customer AI application deployment.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Cold Open
0:24 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:11 - OpenAI Acquires Rockset to Target the Enterprise
4:05 - Hack Takes Down 15,000 Car Dealerships
7:17 - SUSE Offers CentOS Customers a Liberty Linux Lite Lifeline
11:33 - Broadcom Radically Simplifies VMware Offerings
15:57 - Announcements from Pure Accelerate 24
20:33 - Discovering the Latest News from HPE, Including Aruba Networking
35:11 - The Weeks Ahead
37:05 - Thanks for Watching
Amazon Web Services recently held their re:Inforce conference, as the company attempts to partner with customers to deliver a securre environment. Following the shared responsibility model concept that was the focus last year, it seems that the company is emphasizing that security is a job for everyone in the modern cloud. We also saw product announcements from AWS, including enhancements to Nitro that control access to the underlying infrastructure.
Time Stamps:0:00 - Cold Open0:54 - Welcome to the Rundown1:47 - Veeam Looks to Cyber-Resiliency6:21 - Enthusiasm for AI in the Enterprise is Waning10:44 - Microsoft to Improve Security after Recall Delay14:16 - Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI Join Forces17:33 - Pure Storage Confirms Unauthorized Access19:53 - Google Shares the Scope of Enterprise Cloud at Cloud Field Day25:16 - Announcements from AWS re:Inforce37:33 - The Weeks Ahead39:56 - Thanks for Watching
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The US Justice Department and FCC have announced an agreement that gives them each a role to play in potential antitrust investigations against the biggest players in the AI market. Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI were named in the agreement specifically according to insider reports. This follows reports that antitrust investigators have big concerns about AI and how companies developing it get their data to train the models. This agreement is modeled on a similar one from 2019 that eventually saw lawsuits brought against Meta, Amazon, and Google for antitrust violations. Back in January the US FTC had asked many companies to provide investment information as well as partnerships with generative AI companies.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown0:57 - Broadcom Axes AWS Elasticity2:38 - Snowflake's Security Continues to Melt5:53 - Intel halts $25B fab investment in Israel7:15 - FCC Plans to Require BGP Security11:09 - Citrix Follows Broadcom Steps?13:20 - Fortinet Ties Up Plans for Lacework17:30 - NVIDIA, Microsoft, and OpenAI Face Potential Investigation30:25 - The Weeks Ahead
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At Qlik Connect in Orlando, significant announcements affecting the industry were examined. Key highlights included the integration of Talend Cloud to enhance data pipeline capabilities and the introduction of Qlik Answers, an AI-powered knowledge assistant tailored to enterprise data. The partnership with the United Nations to support climate change initiatives by leveraging data analytics was also discussed. Additionally, Qlik announced the formation of an AI Council composed of experts to guide their AI strategy. The discussions on data quality and seamless integration were particularly impressive and insightful. This and more on The Rundown. Thanks to Gina Rosenthal for cohosting.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Welcome to the Rundown
1:39 - Ticketmaster Hacked in Data Breach
4:42 - NVIDIA Reveals Next-Gen AI Chips "Rubin"
7:29 - Google Cloud Customer Account Wiped
10:59 - Infinidat Announces G4 Storage Platform
14:35 - Cisco's AI Innovations and Investments
18:04 - A Closer Look1
8:16 - Qlik Answers
23:42 - Qlik Talend Cloud
25:29 - Qlik's AI Council
26:26 - Qlik's Support of the UNFCCC
30:34 - The Weeks Ahead
31:50 - Thanks for Watching
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The world’s leading internet firms are actively collaborating with regulators in the European Union to ensure compliance with the bloc’s stringent data protection rules. According to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which serves as the lead EU regulator for major tech companies including Alphabet’s Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, and OpenAI, these firms are taking extensive measures to ensure that their artificial intelligence (AI) products do not violate data privacy regulations. Arjan, is EU governmental involvement a good or a bad thing, and what other EU regulations are impacted by this?
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:09 - OpsMill Releases InfraHub
4:37 - EU probes Telegram, because size matters for regulators
8:19 - FBI Seizes Stolen Data Bazaar BreachForums
12:17 - VPN Provider Sanctioned for Crime Traffic
15:51 - T-Mobile Picks Up US Cellular
21:45 - Top EU data regulator says tech giants working closely on AI compliance
33:37 - The Weeks Ahead
36:07 - Thanks for Watching
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Pat Moorhead and Daniel Newman sat down with Sam Burd to discuss AI PCs at Dell Tech World. These new PCs include significant new AI integrations, and Dell expects these to initiate a "super cycle" of PC upgrades. We discussed the importance of Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite earlier in the program, but what should we make of the market for AI PCs? This and more announcements from Dell Tech World on The Rundown.
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0:00 - Welcome to The Rundown1:00 - Dell Writes a HYCU in their PowerProtect DataDomain3:36 - GitHub Patches Massive Security Hole in Enterprise Servers6:45 - Palo Alto Networks Acquires IBM QRadar10:35 - Exabeam and LogRhythm to Merge to Strengthen AI-Driven Security Future14:00 - PC Makers Debut AI PCs with Microsoft CoPilot+19:36 - CoPilot+ Totally Recalls Everything23:09 - Announcements from Dell Tech World23:55 - Dell AI Factory Using NVIDIA for AI Adoption26:55 - Dell collaborates with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and ServiceNow on Dell NativeEdge32:50 - Dell PowerStore using APEX AI innovations to Improve Storage Performance, Efficiency, and Resiliency36:08 - Dell's AI PCs using Copilot+47:22 - The Weeks Ahead
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The June 2024 Top500 supercomputer list was released at ISC 2024, and there is a lot to unpack. The latest Top 500 Supercomputers list highlights significant trends in the supercomputing landscape, as NVIDIA takes 7 spots with Grace-based systems, including 3 of the top 20. Although the balance between Intel and AMD remains static, there is a shift towards co-packaged CPUs and accelerators just as Intel announces they will sunset Ponte Vecchio, their entry in this space, and skip the next generation. Interestingly, HPE was a big winner here, leading in new systems and enabling 8 of the 10 Grace and MI300A entrants. And we see Arm well-represented here, with 8 new servers on the list.
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown3:03 - Zscaler Reportedly Breached by Profit-Minded Criminals5:06 - Adam Selipsky Steps Down from AWS7:45 - F5 BIG-IP Suffers a Big Breach9:53 - VMware Makes Workstation Pro and Fusion Free for Personal Use12:41 - GPT-4o Launched by OpenAI15:05 - NetApp Announces New All-Flash Storage and StorageGRID for the AI Era18:18 - Top500 Supercomputing31:55 - The Weeks Ahead33:40 - Thanks for Watching
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The annual security party known as RSA kicked off this week and one of the things you can count on is big announcements from companies at the event and we've collected a few of them.
Red Hat Summit 2024 is also happening this week. The big news from the event is all about AI. The first big announcement is InstructLab, an open-source project aimed at improving LLM outputs. The other big news is Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, a platform designed to run IBM Granite LLMs.
Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown0:55 - Intel, Qualcomm Export Licenses Revoked to Sell to Huawei3:47 - StarTree Grows New Features8:39 - Healthcare Giant Pays Ransom over Recent Attack11:48 - IBM to Enhance Deployment with AWS14:22 - Zerto's Cyber Resilience Vault Integrated with HPE Allerta Storage MP17:15 - RSA Runneth Over with Product Announcements21:26 - Red Hat Summit Brings AI26:49 - The Weeks Ahead28:40 - Thanks for Watching
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You don't need an algorithm to know that AI is the hottest invements right now outside of frozen concentrated orange juice. Investors are seeing the mountain of money that Nvdia is making and giving startups all the funding they could hope for. While massive funding for startups in Silicon Valley is old news this recent wave has seen the huge investments coming in the very early stages instead of later rounds after a product has been developed and is ready to be put on the market. 2023 saw almost $22 billion in AI startup funding, with an average deal of $55 million per company, which is well above the $8 million startup average. Investors are starting to ask questions about revenue and startups are having a hard time answering. This and more on the Rundown.
Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:06 - NVIDIA Finally Acquires Run:ai4:58 - Net Neutrality Restored by FCC9:39 - Amazon to Build Data Centers in Indiana12:44 - Hackers Spying on Governments says Cisco16:39 - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat Released by Canonical21:04 - Broadcom Introduces Omnissa24:41 - AI Startups Investment vs. Business Reality36:44 - The Weeks Ahead39:25 - Thanks for Watching
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In a landmark ruling from the US Federal Trade Commission, non-compete clauses in employment agreements are no longer valid and all existing non-compete clauses are null and void starting in 120 days. The government argues that non-competes stifle wages and reduce the talent pool for companies to draw from. Businesses counter that argument with the need to protect intellectual property. The ruling came after nearly 26,000 public comments. After the ruling was issued, the US Chamber of Commerce immediately filed suit, challenging the ruling and the standing of the FTC to decide it. Simliar action was expected from the National Labor Relations Board in the near future, with some saying the FTC action may have been a race to see who could get the news out the fastest.
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7:37 - Micron to Recieve $6 Billion in Chip Funding
12:05 - BMC Set to Acquire Netreo
15:04 - IBM Closes In on Acquiring HashiCorp
18:01 - Security Exploit Targeting VMware EXSi
21:31 - FTC Bans Non-Compete Clauses
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Our eyes were on Google Cloud Next last week, as the hyperscaler announced new ARM chips, lots of partnerships, and of course wall-to-wall AI. Google's Vertex AI Agent Builder allows no-code deployment of agents, Google Vids targets video editing, and the search giant is leaning into Retrieval-Augmented Generation or RAG. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown0:40 - BREAKING: The Futurum Group Acquires Techstrong Group2:23 - Commvault Acquires Appranix4:53 - IBM Invests in $150 Million Fundin Round for Cohesity7:20 - Meta Introduces New Chips for AI Hyperscalers 10:08 - Zscaler Acquiring Airgap12:51 - SK hynix Gets Packaging and Samsung Gets Their Share17:13 - VMware's Perpetual License Support Extended21:32 - Google Cloud Next33:25 - The Weeks Ahead35:38 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerdStephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskettFollow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT Tags: #Rundown, #GoogleCloudNext, #AIHyperscalers, @VMWare, @Broadcom, @Google, @GoogleCloud, @Commvault, @Appranix, @IBM, @Cohesity, @Meta, @Zscaler, @Airgap_it, @SKhynix, @Samsung, @TheFuturumGroup, @TechstrongGroup, @SFoskett, @NetworkingNerd, @GestaltIT, @TechFieldDay,
In a historic move, key federal lawmakers, including Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers unveiled a sweeping proposal aimed at granting consumers extensive rights to manage the use of their personal data by tech giants like Google, Meta, and TikTok. The proposed legislation, titled the American Privacy Rights Act, establishes a national baseline for data collection, usage, and transfer on the internet, allowing users to opt out of certain practices such as targeted advertising. The bipartisan agreement also addresses long-standing issues surrounding federal versus state laws and outlines enforcement mechanisms through civil lawsuits for violations. However, its prospects in Congress remain uncertain amidst looming deadlines and complex negotiations.
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10:21 - Starburst Launches Managed Icehouse Implementation
13:45 - IPO Filed by Rubrik
15:48 - CHIPS Act Direct Funding Up to $6.6 Billion for TSMC
19:00 - New Online Privacy Protection Plan Revealed
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The US and the UK have allied to make sure AI is developed safely. A new memorandum of understanding has laid out proposals for testing and information sharing to ensure that AI is being safely written and maintained to prevent harm to anyone using it. The ultimate goal, as stated by representatives from both governments, is harnessing the potential of AI while ensuring the risks are understood and mitigated.
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5:04 - Backdoor Found in Popular Linux Utility
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12:41 - Keysight Acquires Spirent for $1.5 Billion
15:54 - AI to Drive Microsoft's Stargate
21:05 - Redis to use Dual Source-Available Licensing
25:33 - US and UK Join Forces for AI Safety
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NVIDIA GTC event was the big story last week, both on the Rundown and in the tech industry generally. NVIDIA is clearly the company to beat in AI and HPC and this has the entire industry on its toes. Every company in tech is emphasizing their partnership and joint offerings with NVIDIA. But there's a reaction from their competitors, too, with Google, Qualcomm, and Intel announcing their intent to undermine NVIDIA's dominance.
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This week is NVIDIA GTC, or as Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman called it "the Woodstock of AI". There's been a lot of discussion about the ascendant NVIDIA and how they plan on capitalizing on a hot market.
NVIDIA unveiled Blackwell, their newest architecture. The chip was named after American mathematician David Blackwell and math is most definitely the strong suit of this product line. It has 208 billion transistors to power a second-generation transformer engine for accelerating inferencing. There is also support for fifth-generation NVLink and NVLink Switch connectivity for GPU clusters with speeds of up to 1.8 terabytes per second of bidirectional throughput, which means Blackwell could process the entire bandwidth of the Internet in just 11 units. Blackwell is being integrated into The GB100 and GB200 superchip systems which focus on Tensor core performance and can be combined into new clusters of water-cooled units of up to 72 Blackwell GPUs.
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13:03 - Broadcom Announces First Co-Packaged Optics for Scalable AI Systems
17:35 - Mustafa Suleyman to Lead Copilot for Microsoft
21:50 - Selector AIOps Solution Integrates GenAI
25:22 - NVIDIA GTC News and NVIDIA Blackwell Systems
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Yesterday VAST Data announced what they are calling the AI Factory, and we got a detailed look at this during a Tech Field Day Showcase. VAST is collaborating with NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Run:ai to demonstrate their ability to operationalize AI at scale. Highlighting their rapid growth and partnerships, VAST Data's architecture supports new capabilities like VAST DataBase and VAST DataEngine. Discussions cover integrating VAST Data with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, optimizing for Supermicro hyperscale servers, and running full-stack AI operations with Run:ai. The showcase emphasized the benefits of DPUs, power savings, and strategic partnerships. It also explored the complexities of deploying AI at scale, emphasizing the integration of data processes and the role of Run:ai in managing GPU resources.Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:04 - $1 Billion Invested by SK Hynix into AI Chip Tech4:27 - Kubernetes Distributed Cloud Firewall Revealed by Aviatrix8:24 - Azure Native Qumulo Cold Announced11:26 - Russian Military WebEx Meeting Leak Confirmed by German Officials16:11 - HP Shows Off the AI PC at Amplify23:11 - Internet Cables in the Red Sea Seemingly Damaged28:18 - VAST Data Announcements from the Tech Field Day Showcase42:14 - The Weeks Ahead44:51 - Thanks for Watching
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NetApp is updaing their ransomware protection solutions. They've made some new additions to their Automated Ransomware Protection (ARP) platform to address new attack vectors and improve logic for attack detection, including new methods like partial file encryption. NetApp is claiming a 99% precision in detection of ransomware attacks. They have also announced the availability of their Ransomware Recovery Guarantee for Keystone, their storage-as-a-service offering. These announcements come as part of a larger package including updates to SnapCenter and BlueXP Disaster Recovery.Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:10 - Huawei Developing Magneto Electric Drives5:25 - Ransomware Still Spreads after Lockbit Server Shutdown8:29 - AWS Announces Unrestricted Free Data Transfers12:06 - Viavi Acquiring Spirent15:33 - Nutanix to Acquire D2iQ18:33 - IBM's AI-Powered Storage Security23:10 - NetApp Improves their Cybersecurity36:20 - The Weeks Ahead38:21 - Thanks for Watching
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In a series of bold moves, Broadcom has restructured VMware shifting to subscription-only licenses across all offerings. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan wants VMware to focus on resiliency, developer efficiency, and infrastructure efficiency. Tan outlines three key strategies: radical simplification, substantial R&D investment for on-premises to private cloud solutions, and enhancing the ecosystem. The discontinuation of products, including Aria SaaS and Carbon Black, and divesture of EUC is part of a plan to streamline VMware's portfolio into bundled suites. Reactions are decidedly mixed, but we are starting to see the strategy come together.
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2:09 - Google Announces Gemini Features at MWC
3:49 Anticipation is Building as Intel Previews Clearwater Forest
7:55 - NVIDIA's AI Data Center Boom
10:55 - Hammerspace AI Training File System is Fast, but How Fast?
15:14 - Juniper Networks Gets Sued over Buyout
18:41 - Mobile World Congress is All About AI and 5G
24:57 - The Continuing Transformation of VMware by Broadcom
38:11 - The Weeks Ahead
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The US Department of Justice is at it again with a new team for Operation Dying Ember. Sounds spooky, right? This time it was to undertake a secret court order to remove malware from Ubiquiti devices infected by Fancy Bear. The devices in question had default administration passwords as well as remote admin access on the public Internet. The DOJ reinfected the routers with the original malware used to compromise them in the first place and then used that compromise to remove remote access and clean up the secondary payload that had been installed to turn them into a potential botnet. The DOJ said it would then notify users to do a factory reset and install the latest firmware as well as changing their admin password. There's a lot to unpack here! This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown hosted by Tom Hollingsworth and guest Max Mortillaro.
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Cohesity is set to acquire the data protection assets of Veritas in a huge deal. Cohesity will be picking up the NetBackup portfolio as well as SaaS offering Alta. The move is seen as a huge bolster to Cohesity both in their cloud offerings as well as traditional on-prem enterrpise back and data protection. The deal will merge the two companies into a $7 billion. The remaining parts of Veritas that aren't purchased will be rebranded as DataCo.
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9:18 - AI Continues to Shape Google Gemini
13:42 - Free VMware vSphere Hypervisor Ended by Broadcom
17:56 - Alcion Announces New MSP Partner Program
20:36 - Cohesity to Acquire Veritas Technologies
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Cisco Live EMEA is happening this week and we're here learning all the great things that Cisco is investing in and bringing to the market. We thought it would be great to give you a quick overview of the biggest announcements as well as providing some context around why they're important. This and more on this week’s Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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8:06 - Ivanti Exploited After Advisories
10:05 - Zscaler COO Exits For Wiz
12:34 - Cisco Live EMEA Embraces New Technologies
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Juniper Networks is putting more Marvis in everything. In a major announcement this week they released several new products. One of those was expanding the Mist AI platform into Juniper Apstra to create more integration between the two acquisitions. WIth Apstra you get intent-based networking and with Mist you get access to a virtual network assistant that can answer questions about issues or provide help with configuration. This and more on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown. Thanks to Max Mortillaro for sitting in.
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2:46 - TSMC vs. Samsung in Chiplet Manufacturing Race
7:38 - Dynatrace Acquires Runecast
9:42 - Juniper Networks Reveals First AI-Native Networking Platform
17:37 - NVM Express adding Computational Storage
24:22 - For fun: Japan Nixes Floppies
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According to a recent report from the IEA, data center electricity demands are set to rise over the next three years. The report discusses the CO2 emissions and the potential mitigation that companies have committed to doing to achieve carbon neutrality. Also of note was the assertion that clean energy sources could meet this growing demand to help offset the need to rely on older power systems that are harder to optimize for efficiency.
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1:09 - Veeam Poking Around with Proxmox
4:40 - Snyk Acquires Helios for Cloud Capabilities
7:36 - TSMC's Second Fab in Arizona Delayed
12:44 - CVE Accusations against Ivanti and Juniper Networks.
16:06 - Chinese Authorities Exploit Apple AirDrop Security Weakness
21:46 - Microsoft's Caught In Midnight Blizzard
25:43 - Should We Be Concerned About Growing Electricity Demand?
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Two of the biggest players in the networking space are about to become one. Rumors started swirling on Monday evening that HPE was looking to acquire Juniper Networks and those rumors were confirmed yesterday. HPE will be paying $40/share or approximately $14 billion for all of the company. Juniper started off as a huge player in the service provider space before making strategic acquisitions of companies like Mist Systems and Apstra to become a force in the wireless and data center networking space. The move has the networking analysts abuzz with potential for integration of AI software as well as complementary product lines. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:03 - Articul8 Spun Off From Intel3:26 - Broadcom Takes VMware's Top Partners Direct7:02 - IBM Acquires Two iPaaS Applications9:58 - Wi-Fi 7 Is Finally A Thing (Sort of)13:26 - Micron is Building FeRAM18:11 - HPE Acquiring Juniper Networks for $14 Billion39:07 - The Weeks Ahead 41:31 - Thanks for Watching
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Two of the biggest players in the networking space are about to become one. Rumors started swirling on Monday evening that HPE was looking to acquire Juniper Networks and those rumors were confirmed yesterday. HPE will be paying $40/share or approximately $14 billion for all of the company. Juniper started off as a huge player in the service provider space before making strategic acquisitions of companies like Mist Systems and Apstra to become a force in the wireless and data center networking space. The move has the networking analysts abuzz with potential for integration of AI software as well as complementary product lines. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:03 - Articul8 Spun Off From Intel3:26 - Broadcom Takes VMware's Top Partners Direct7:02 - IBM Acquires Two iPaaS Applications9:58 - Wi-Fi 7 Is Finally A Thing (Sort of)13:26 - Micron is Building FeRAM18:11 - HPE Acquiring Juniper Networks for $14 Billion39:07 - The Weeks Ahead 41:31 - Thanks for Watching
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It has been a big year in the enterprise IT industry for many reasons. Pat Gelsinger and Intel continue to refocus its business, the SEC gets serious with SolarWinds, Broadcom's deal to acquire VMware, HPE Aruba Ascendant, the incredible rise of generative AI, the battle of open source licenses, and of course, the Futurum Group acquiring Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day. Let's discuss on this year-end edition of the Gestalt IT Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Gestalt IT Rundown0:42 - Intel Continues Business Focus4:52 - SEC Getting Serious, Especially with SolarWinds9:24 - Broadcom VMware Deal12:55 - HPE Aruba Ascendant17:09 - Gen AI is the Rage 22:18 - The Open Source Licensing Battle 27:48 - The Futurum Group Acquires Tech Field Day and Gestalt IT29:32 - Thanks for Watching31:26 - Thanking the Community 33:32 - Coming in 2024
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It has been a big year in the enterprise IT industry for many reasons. Pat Gelsinger and Intel continue to refocus its business, the SEC gets serious with SolarWinds, Broadcom's deal to acquire VMware, HPE Aruba Ascendant, the incredible rise of generative AI, the battle of open source licenses, and of course, the Futurum Group acquiring Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day. The Rundown will return in 2024.
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Gestalt IT Rundown0:42 - Intel Continues Business Focus4:52 - SEC Getting Serious, Especially with SolarWinds9:24 - Broadcom VMware Deal12:55 - HPE Aruba Ascendant17:09 - Gen AI is the Rage 22:18 - The Open Source Licensing Battle 27:48 - The Futurum Group Acquires Tech Field Day and Gestalt IT29:32 - Thanks for Watching31:26 - Thanking the Community 33:32 - Coming in 2024
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Change is in the air and it's licensed. The biggest news this week came from VMware (by Broadcom) as they announced a simplification of their licensing model. The first change is that VMware Cloud Foundation has had the subscription cost cut in half and additional support levels added to help with activation and lifecycle management. VMware vSphere Foundation is also available as a subscription offering with several add-ons avaialble. Notably missing is the option for perpetual licensing, which was removed in this simplification. Also removed were hybrid purchase programs and anything not subscription-based. Customers may still use their perpetual licenses but will not be able to buy support for them until they transition to the new subscription model.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown0:57 - AMD Launches MI300 6:13 - Broadcom Divests EUC and Carbon Black Units from VMware9:33 - Broadcom Acquires Elastics.cloud 12:56 - New Firmware Attacks on Windows and Linux16:40 - VMware Simplifies Offer Lineup through Broadcom 26:53 - The Weeks Ahead29:39 - Thanks for Watching
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IBM and Facebook parent company Meta have decided to advocate for a more open approach to AI. They've announced a joint AI Alliance group. The companies are part of a growing trend that sees advocates arguing that AI shouldn't be proprietary and closed. Also signing on to the alliance are Dell, Sony, AMD, Intel, and several other AI startups. The group seems to stand in opposition to companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft who are focused on creating AI rules that favor outcomes that will put them on top, as well as top dog NVIDIA.
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3:29 - Intel Gets Reprieve from VLSI Patent Ruling
6:22 - Meta Takes On All the RISC-V
10:26 - Aviz Networks Gets Funding Round
13:45 - NetApp Revs FSx for ONTAP in AWS
16:24 - Broadcom Issues Return to Office Order for VMware
22:10 - IBM and Meta's AI Alliance Launched This Week
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Amazon announced that they will be using Nvidia's NVSwitch to create new rackscale AI platforms. This allows customers to use Nvidia technology like Grace Hopper or build something using AWS Nitro DPUs and Elastic Fabric Adapaters. That last combination doesn't use InfiniBand and moves to Ethernet. Two new chips are coming out from the Amazon labs. The first is Graviton4, the latest generation of Arm processor. Graviton4 has 50% more cores and 75% more memory bandwidth. This version of Graviton is based on the Demeter Neoverse V2 core. On the AI front Amazon also announced the next revision of their AI acceleration chip, Trainium2. This update has a 4x performance increase from the first generation and allows for liquid cooling. Trainium2 is designed to be deployed in clusters of 16 chips. In the data space, AWS made news with the GA of Bedrock, which enables customers to run foundational ML models from companies like Anthropic, Meta, and of course AWS itself. But many companies are worried about hallucination and want to include their own data in these models. That's what AWS is delivering with Guardrails, and what AWS partners are leaning into as well. This and more on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown.
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1:18 - DAOS Foundation Launched for Object Storage
4:57 - Autonomous Purple Team annouced by Skyhawk at AWS re:Invent
8:26 - Couchbase's Capella Columnar Service Revealed
10:59 - Hackers Were Inside NXP For Two Years Before Detection
14:47 - AWS re:Invent Announcements
15:26 - NVSwitch For AI Nodes
20:46 - ARM V2 for Graviton4 and Trainium2
25:22 - AWS Guardrails for Bedrock
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It's been a wild week for OpenAI. On Friday, the board notified CEO Sam Altman that he was being removed. Then President and Chairman Greg Brockman quit. OpenAI then went through three interim CEOs in a weekend. Meanwhile, Altman and Brockman were hired by Microsoft but rumors swirled they would be reinstated at OpenAI, which eventually happened late Tuesday night. The condition for the reinstatement was the removal and reappointment of all but one board member. That's one hell of a weekend! This and more on this week’s Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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1:03 - Broadcom Gets Conditional Approval for VMware from China and Closes Deal
4:27 - Nvidia Announces Spectrum-X Partners
8:00 - IOTech Releases Edge Central
10:40 - Ransomware Gang Rats Out Target to SEC
14:03 - OpenAI Chaos Reigns Supreme
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As Supercomputing 2023 is held in Denver this week, we're on the lookout for all the latest news. We have a new list of Top-500 supercomputers, more Nvidia announcements, and lots of AI. Perhaps the biggest topic of discussion, though, are the many questions about HPC itself: Will we be able to live in an exascale world? And what does that even mean when AI is the main application?
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1:41 - US Plans More Spectrum to Commercial Providers for 5G Demand
3:58 - AMD Milan-based Cloud Instances revealed by Google
7:09 - YouTube to Label AI Generated Content
10:42 - Dell and Hugging Face Strike Deal for Open Source GenAI
13:56 - Microsoft Briefly Blocks ChatGPT Access for Employees
17:25 - Comvmault Shift Re-Launch Commvault Cloud
22:12 - Supercomputing 23 Announcements
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Okta hasn't had a very good run of security headlines lately, and the latest is a breach that resulted in the theft of session tokens of several customers from Okta's customer support system. Though the number of customers was relatively low, the unauthorized access went undetected for over two weeks. The root cause seems to have come from an employee logging into their personal Google account and saving a username and password withing the Chrome browser.Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown0:42 - ZEDEDA Deploys Kubernetes at The Edge3:33 - CloudFlare Outage6:04 - Palo Alto Buys Talon Cyber Security9:49 - Using Google Calendar for Command and Control12:58 - Updated Security Frameworks (CVSS 4.0 and MITRE ATT&CK 14)18:12 - Okta Breach Blamed on User's Personal Google Login28:27 - The Weeks Ahead29:38 - Thanks for Watching
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President Joe Biden has signed a comprehensive executive order addressing the safety and governance of artificial intelligence in the United States. The order, running to nearly 20,000 words, signifies a significant shift towards enhanced AI governance, covering areas such as transparency, safety data sharing, federal standards, and tests, and ethical considerations across various sectors. It requires tech companies developing large AI models to share safety data with the U.S. government before releasing them to the public, addressing transparency concerns advocated by AI experts. This comes just before the US, China, European Union, and major tech companies and organizations attend an international summit on AI risks at Bletchley Park organized by the UK government. Are we finally going to do something about AI?
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0:51 - Qualcomm Introduces Snapdragon X Elite
4:23 - Windows Insider MVP Program is Terminated
8:21 - Jabil Buys Pluggable Optical Module Business From Intel
12:29 - China Delays Broadcom-VMware Merger
15:29 - Western Digital's Flash Business Splits Out
19:09 - Executive Order for Federal AI Standards Signed
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We are at the 21st annual Information Security Summit in Cleveland today, and it's been an interesting event for us. Not only is this close to home in Northeast Ohio, the long-running ISS event attracts a wide range of attendees and presenters across the information security space. Ransomware and AI are high on the agenda of course, but we're also hearing about budgets and employment in the industry. Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:45 - Prosimo Cloud Cost 360
3:43 - StorPool Tightens Data Protection in StorPool v21
7:08 - New Architectural Observability Manager from vFunction
10:25 - New Generative AI Platform from Alluxio
12:56 - Lenovo and Nvidia Announce Hybrid AI
14:47 - NetApp Insight Announcements
18:27 - ISS Cleveland and the Current Market
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Big news this week from the boardroom as Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, has announced her departure from the Cisco Board of Directors. The move comes as a surprise in a recent SEC filing and was announced without fanfare. Su had served on the Cisco board since 2019. She is also stepping down from the board of Analog Devices, a position she has held since 2016. There is speculation that this depature could signal that AMD will begin moving into the networking space more with a focus on DPU technology to compete against Cisco's entrenched posistions with networking hardware.
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1:00 - StorMagic Announces Edge Control
3:39 - Former Palo Alto Employees Make Gusty Move
7:38 - Huawei All-Flash Array is 2nd in the Market
11:15 - Cisco 0-day Backdoors IOS-XE
14:43 - Cloudflare moves BMC from server motherboards
19:34 - Nyriad Announces Game-Changing Storage-as-a-Service Offering
22:37 - AMD CEO Lisa Su leaves Cisco Board of Directors
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In the ongoing geopolitical battle between the United States and China, a new front has emerged, focusing on the open-source chip technology known as RISC-V. American lawmakers, citing national security concerns, are pressuring the Biden administration to place restrictions on U.S. companies' involvement in RISC-V, which is widely utilized in China. This technology competes with proprietary chip architectures from Arm and Intel and has applications ranging from smartphone chips to advanced artificial intelligence processors. The lawmakers fear that China is exploiting the culture of open collaboration among American companies to bolster its own semiconductor industry, potentially undermining the U.S.'s leadership in the chip field and supporting China's military modernization. We've spoken a lot about RISC-V and the US/China situation, so it's no surprise that these are coming together. How should we look at this situation?
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0:50 - Backblaze Listed by CoreWeave
3:02 - VBscript to be removed by Mircosoft to block Malwar
5:42 - $21 Million Raised for Alcion's BaaS Platform
8:38 - Progress WS_FTP Exploited
11:36 - AMD Acquires Nod Labs
14:49 - APNIC Is Almost Out of Addresses
17:52 - US-China Tech War now Focused on RISC-V chip Technology
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Intel is set to spin off its Programmable Solutions Group as an independent business, aiming for an IPO in 2-3 years. PSG, led by Intel's current Data Center and AI Group EVP Sandra Rivera, will operate independently as part of Intel's broader restructuring efforts. Despite PSG's past financial success, Intel believes this shift will enable more agility and growth, targeting markets beyond data centers. The goal is to retain majority ownership while allowing PSG to operate autonomously in the competitive FPGA market, similar to Intel's approach with Mobileye.
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1:01 - Arrcus Reveals Connected Edge-AI
3:41 - Accedian Acquisition Completed by Cisco
5:42 - Unigen Bakes a Cupcake
9:25 - Cloud Data Security Reach from Cohesity Increases
12:20 - The Formation of the Unified Acceleration Foundation
16:17 - Toshiba is Going Private
19:27 - Programmable Solutions Group Spun-off by Intel
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Well, it finally happened folks, and I guess the third time is the charm. If rumors are to be believed, Cisco had approached Splunk on two separate occasion to talk about acquisition, but their offers were rebuffed for unknown reasons. This time it appears that all the planets and comets have aligned and Splunk has entered into a definitive agreement with Cisco to be acquired for $28B.
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3:00 - Solidigm Unveils DT-P5810 SCL SSD
6:42 - Open ToFu Joins Linux Foundation
10:14 - CoreWeave Chooses VAST Data for Next Gen Public Cloud
12:40 - Mirantis Announces Lens AppIQ
15:25 - Sierra Forest Coming Soon from Intel
20:08 - Cisco Set to Acquire Splunk
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Microsoft's AI division just found out they made a mistake. Three years ago they accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of data to a public GitHub repo while contributing to AI learnign models. A security research team found the exposure recently, which came from a misconfigured Azure Blob storage URL that was overly permissive and difficult to manage. This Shared Access Signature, or SAS, token is designed to give teams full control over shared files. However, the difficulty in managing it makes it appear almost impossible to use correctly. The leaked data included passwords, keys, and an archive of internal Microsoft Teams messages.
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0:49 - BackBox and Paessler Team Up for Backups
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In an excellent article, Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court has started to make the case that cybercriminals should be subject to international law for their escapades. The current state of the world often sees these criminals go unpunished due to nation state backing or lack of jurisdiction. Khan says that we need to get tougher by ensuring these naer-do-wells can face justice for their crimes, especially when they impact so many people around the world.
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0:33 - CoreWeave Seeking $8 Billion
4:10 - Enfabrica Enhancing GPU Usage in Datacenters
7:14 - It's MLPerf Benchmark Results Time!
11:57 - Cybersecurity is to Blame for Ongoing Outages says MGM Resorts
14:42 - Thunderbolt 5 revealed by Intel
19:29 - Cybercriminals Gain Attention from International Criminal Courts
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Dell Technologies and AMD are at the forefront of high-performance computing (HPC), driving innovation in various fields, such as space exploration, wildfire prevention, and neuroscience research. Their HPC solutions are in high demand, revolutionizing industries by accelerating productivity, enabling faster market entry, and offering energy-efficient infrastructure modernization. Dell's PowerEdge servers, equipped with the latest AMD 4th Gen EPYC™ processors, provide accessible and easy-to-deploy high-performance solutions for partners serving customers of all sizes, emphasizing optimization for maximum performance right out of the box. This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown.
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0:50 - Intel makes Foundry Deal with Tower after Acquisition Falls Through
2:48 - The Edge is Paying Off for HPE
5:06 - Rubrik to Pursue IPO
7:33 - New Extortion Approach Threatens GDPR Fines
11:06 - Huawei Expands Portfolio with 5-in-1 Scale-Out All Flash Array
14:06 - HashiCorp Licenses and Software Change
18:21 - Private and Public Cloud Improved by Quantum
21:19 - Windows beta indicates the end of TLS 1.0 and 1.1
24:21 - Dell and AMD Partner for Accessible High Performance Computing
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At Hot Chips 2023, Intel unveiled Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids Xeon processors targeting data centers. Sierra Forest is Intel's first E-core Xeon with 144 CPU cores, while Granite Rapids focuses on core performance. Arm introduced Neoverse Compute Subsystem, aiding Neoverse N2 core integration. AMD previewed Siena Epyc processors for edge computing with up to 64 cores, notable power efficiency, and a compact form, catering to the edge computing market's demands.
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1:06 - Google Revs Up Storage Offerings
4:09 - Arm Files for a NASDAQ Listing
7:20 - Apica Aquires LOGIC.AI and Raises $10 Million in Funding
9:40 - Cisco and Nutanix Form Global Partnership
12:54 - IBM Bumps Tape to 50TB
16:28 - Europe's DSA Hits Big Internet Platforms
20:30 - Intel Previews Next Xeons
29:02 - Arm Presents Neoverse V2 and CSS at Hot Chips 2023
33:50 - AMD Siena Targets Devices at the Edge
38:51 - More Fun Announcements from Hot Chips 2023
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VMware just can't stop talking about GenAI, which incorporates many different developments. The company is adding AI assistants to many products and is also introducing a new VMware Private AI offering with enabling generative AI processing on NVIDIA or open-source platforms for enterprise deployment. VMware is talking about security and data privacy while at the same time touting the performance and price benefits of on-premises GPUs. What is this all about?VMware NSX is even more exciting now! NSX+ is the new as-a-service offering focusing specifically on application visibility, network detection and response, and HCX+ Workload Mobility. The goal of the service is provide functionality that modern enterprises at a monthly cost for OpEx budgeting purposes. The other big piece of the NSX announcements is NSX VPC, which is modeled of the virtual private cloud (VPC) networking capabilities in public clouds. This and more from an on-premises version of the Rundown from VMware Explore!
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1:09 - CXL and CCIX Agreement Reached by CXL Consortium
4:09 - SUSE Goes Private
6:43 - India Says No to Tech Imports
11:01 - Terraform About to Be Terraforked?
13:59 - VMware Explore is All About GenAI
18:48 - VMware NSX+ Announcement
21:57 - VMware Enhances AWS Offering
27:21 - VMware's Client Solutions
30:19 - VMware Leans Into Tanzu and Kubernetes
34:02 - VMware Private 5G Network
37:31 - VMware Edge Compute Stack
40:39 - The Weeks Ahead
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Do you love licensing drama? Last week HashiCorp made headlines with an announcement by CTO Armon Dadgar that they're changing licensing models. HashiCorp is now adopting the Business Source License, or BSL, which was popularized by MariaDB and Couchbase. Under the BSL, HashiCorp code will remain freely available and usable for non-production use. You may be granted a license for production use if your project doesn't compete with HashiCorp. If it does you'll need to buy a commercial license. The move has generated a lot of discussion and speculation in the community given how prevalent projects like Terraform are. This and more on the Rundown.
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0:43 - NVIDIA Launches Refreshed H100 Without Intel
4:41 - Years of Intel CPUs affected by Downfall Bug
9:06 - Groq and Samsung Foundry Bring Next-Gen LPU
13:43 - OpenELA is formed by Oracle, SUSE, and More
18:03 - Intel Terminates Tower Semiconductor Acquisition
21:27 - Itential and Alkira Team Up
24:27 - Business Source License Adopted by HashiCorp
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We are at the annual Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara this week, with the event showcasing the latest advancements in the storage industry. Let's take a closer look at some of the announcements, including bigger and better SSDs, taller NAND, and a whole lot of talk about CXL. We'll also look at the moves SNIA is doing to help the storage industry branch out into data and management while also providing continuity with the past.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:26 - Cadence Buys Rambus Memory and SerDes PHY Assets
3:14 - New Relic Acquired
5:50 - Microsoft Under Criticism for Security Issues
8:11 - Arm aims for $60 Billion Valueation in September
11:15 - Rubrik Acquires Laminar to Boost Cloud Security
13:25 - Announcements from Flash Memory Summit
37:21 - The Weeks Ahead
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Some of the biggest names in the HPC and hyperconvergence space are banding together to standardize Ethernet. The new Ultra Ethernet Consortium counts AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, HPE, Intel, and others as founding members. Chairman J. Metz says the goal of the consortium is to tune Ethernet for workloads with specific performance requirements. The companies invovled are selling very high speed Ethernet focused on HPC and AI workloads. Notably absent in the list is NVIDIA.
Live events are back, baby! It's event season, and hotels are filling up for in-person tech events. But the pandemic has changed everything, including event participation. What should we expect from returning favorites like re:Invent, in-flux standbys like VMware Explore, and smaller events like Flash Memory Summit? This and more on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
0:49 - Stampede3 and Condor Galaxy-1 Show the Future of HPC and AI
7:05 - SEC Sets Four Day Deadline for Breach Disclosures
10:14 - Lightbend introduces Kalix
14:13 - Ultra Ethernet Consortium Founded\
17:24 - Dell and Nvidia Team Up For On-Prem AI
21:51 - AWS Now Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses
24:46 - VAST Data Platform Announcement
29:30 - Who's Ready for Event Season?
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Cybersecurity remains a critical concern, dominating headlines with its persistent threats and sophisticated attacks. Recent incidents, such as the stolen Microsoft keys and the ongoing MOVEit file transfer hack, exemplify the complexity and severity of security breaches. However, amidst the intricacies of cybersecurity, seemingly minor errors can also lead to significant consequences, as demonstrated by the inadvertent sending of sensitive military emails to the wrong destination due to a simple typo. Moreover, the passing of hacking legend Kevin Mitnick has also captured attention, reflecting the enduring impact of his contributions to the field. Let's take a closer look at these stories.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:04 - Stolen Microsoft security key leads to government email breach
3:22 - Samsung GDDR7 Development Competed
5:56 - Hackers Could Gain Superuser Status in Firmware Vulnerabilities
8:29 - Intel Unifies AVX-512 with AVX10 and AXP Announcements
12:34 - Debian Announces RISC-V as Official Architecture
15:34 - Solidigm Announces World's Highest Capacity PCIe SSD
20:39 - Cybersecurity Threats, Simple Errors, and the Death of an Icon
27:47 - Kevin Mitnick Passes Away
30:01 - The Weeks Ahead
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Nvidia accelerates its venture capital investments in cloud and AI software startups, taking an equity stake in Lambda Labs, a competitor to Amazon Web Services. The deal, worth potentially $300 million, signifies Nvidia's growing interest in supporting startups in the cloud and AI software market while maintaining its leadership in data center chips for AI applications. Does this move suggest that we're entering a new world of hyperscale competition?
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:31 - Lenovo Unveils New Storage Offerings 3:54 - Oort to be Acquired by Cisco 7:22 - Looking For a NUC Replacement 11:07 - Broadcom Deal to Buy VMware Expected to Clear 15:00 - NVIDIA and Lambda Labs Team Up 18:06 - China Hacks in Microsoft Through Cloud Flaw 22:12 - Hammerspace Finds Funding 25:00 - The Weeks Ahead 26:56 - Thanks for Watching
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The Linux world is abuzz with controversy as IBM Red Hat puts the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) behind a paywall, leaving CentOS Stream as the only accessible option. Meanwhile, Oracle emphasizes its commitment to Linux freedom, offering open access to binaries and source code for their RHEL-compatible distribution, Oracle Linux. On the other hand, SUSE takes a bold step by forking RHEL and investing millions in developing their own RHEL-compatible distribution, free from restrictions. The battle for Linux supremacy is heating up, with each company vying for dominance and championing their respective visions of openness and innovation.
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:39 - Intel Shucks NUC Products 7:18 - Kentik Announces Azure Observability 10:18 - El Capitan Reporting for Duty 15:39 - Microsoft Issues Patch Targeting Malicious Drivers 18:53 - InfluxData Sees Influx of Angry Customers 23:01 - Vector Capital Acquires Riverbed Technology 26:52 - Oracle Wants Linux to Remain Open and Free 31:34 - SUSE Working On Another Red Hat 35:21 - The Battle Over Red Hat Enterprise Linux 39:11 - The Weeks Ahead 40:56 - Thanks for Watching
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Now that half of 2023 is behind us, let's take a closer look a the state of the global economy, with a special focus on the enterprise IT industry. As we've discussed, many different factors are impacting the current slowdown in sales of enterprise and cloud tech: Over-buying and hiring coming out of the pandemic, repercussions from the supply chain shortages, the war in Ukraine, tensions between the US, Europe, and China, a global cybercrime wave, and shifting demand from datacenter to cloud. Let's take a look at some of these changes and consider the state of the industry in mid 2023. This and more on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown.
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Gestalt IT Rundown 0:37 - Apache Iceberg can now be used with BigLake 2:31 - Orion Investigation focuses on SolarWinds CISO and CFO 6:00 - Samsung Lays Out Foundry Roadmap 9:30 - Ex-Splunk CEO Doug Merritt to lead Startup Aviatrix Systems 12:55 - Intel Max Blade Installation Complete on Argonne Aurora Supercomputer 16:10 - Prosmio Launches Freemium MCN Offering 19:33 - Checking In on the State of the IT Economy Half Way Through 2023 36:44 - The Weeks Ahead 37:52 - Thanks for Watching
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Training 3.0 benchmark results show performance gains of up to 1.54x compared to six months ago and 33-49x improvement over the first round, driving innovation and energy efficiency in the industry. Intel's Habana Gaudi2 ML training engine competes with Nvidia's offerings, boasting better performance than A100 and lower pricing than H100. Nvidia, on the other hand, unveils their NeMo model with half a trillion parameters and expands the MLPerf Training suite to include GPT-3 and a new Recommendation engine. Their collaboration with CoreWeave showcases the superior performance of the H100, providing a 3.6x speed increase for GPT-3 compared to Intel Xeon and Gaudi2. Nvidia is also developing foundation models for their DGX cloud, collaborating with major players in the industry, and Intel is widely rumored to be developing its own Gaudi2-as-a-Service offering. Then there's the Tiny 1.1 inferencing benchmark, which saw over 150 results and performance improvements up to 1000x.
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:48 - What Red Hat is doing with CentOS 3:36 - Moving Windows to the cloud for consumers 6:31 - IBM acquires Apptio 8:51 - Cisco set to acquire SamKnows 12:04 - Databricks Acquires MosaicML 15:37 - Cato Networks introduces AI tracker for malware command and control 18:39 - MLPerf 3 Upsets the AI Apple Cart 32:10 - The Weeks Ahead 33:40 - Thanks for Watching
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Intel is looking to expand their chip making facilities outside of the US. The first story this week involves a huge $25 billion dollar investment in chipmaking in Israel. Intel will pay increased taxes on the factory in return for an even bigger grant on the total investment should the conditions be met upon completion. The Israeli factory is expected to open in 2027 and operate through at least 2035. The second big investment comes in Germany, where the government has agreed to provide over $10 billion in additional subsidies for a fabrication facility in Magdeburg. Both of these announcements come on the heels of a testing facility being built in Poland. Stephen, why is Intel trying to expand their non-US operations after the CHIPS Act? This and more on the Rundown.
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:02 - Intel to Rebrand Core Series Processors 5:31 - FCC Asks ISPs to Justify Data Caps 10:19 - HPE Launches an AI Cloud 14:54 - NetBrain and PRTG Working Together 18:32 - Intel Expanding Chip Fabs in Foreign Locations 28:51 - The Weeks Ahead 31:29 - Thanks for Watching
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We're at Pure Storage's Pure Accelerate conference this week, and the buzz is focused on the company's continuing quest to push hard disk drives out of the datacenter. The new FlashArray R4 products are faster, while the new "E family" of FlashBlade and FlashArray target capacity-focused applications like data protection and logging. Another announcement focuses on ransomware recovery, with Pure offering a temporary replacement array on demand. Let's talk about these stories in more detail. This and more on this on-site Rundown at Pure Accelerate.
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:46 - GigaOm Evaluates Data Storage Security Infrastructure 2:29 - AMD Bergamo Packs 128 Zen 4C Cores 6:30 - IOfortify Launched by VergeIO 9:11 - AMD Takes On NVIDIA with New AI Chip 13:11 - WASIX Enhances WebAssembly with POSIX Compatibility 16:13 - TSMC's CoWoS Capacity Mostly Conumed by NVIDIA and AMD 19:51 - Pure Storage Takes Aim at Disk Storage 23:37 - FlashArray//E Targets Bulk SAN 25:49 - Evergreen//One Supports Ransomware Recovery 29:11 - Pure's FlashArray R4 Runs on Sapphire Rapids 33:21 - The Weeks Ahead 34:12 - Thanks for Watching
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At Cisco Live 2023, Cisco unveiled a range of solutions for SSE, network management, observability, and a new cloud-native application security solution called Panoptica. The event, which includes a performance by comedian Jim Gaffigan, highlighted Cisco's focus on simplifying user experiences and addressing the evolving needs of organizations. The security service edge (SSE) solution aims to streamline access and enhance hybrid work experiences, while the integration of generative AI into the Security Cloud improves security operations and efficiency. Cisco Networking Cloud offers a unified platform for network management, addressing challenges of complexity and fragmentation. The Full-Stack Observability (FSO) Platform brings together data from multiple domains, enabling comprehensive insights, while Panoptica provides end-to-end lifecycle protection for cloud native applications. We're getting more details on all of these products as part of Tech Field Day at Cisco Live, which included presentations from Cisco Security, ThousandEyes, and Enterprise Networking yesterday and cloud and compute, secure policy, and IoT today.
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:03 - Riverbed Technology to be Acquired by Vector Capital 2:36 - China Cyber Actor Living Off The Land 6:30 - NetApp and Pure Storage Report Declines 9:43 - Cisco to Acquire Armorblox 12:53 - Nvidia briefly joins $1 trillion valuation club 16:04 - BlueCat Acquires Indeni 19:06 - Cisco Live Announcements 30:10 - The Weeks Ahead 32:11 - Thanks for Listening
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Dell 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 devices at the edge of the enterprise. Also announced along with NativeEdge is Project Fort Zero, Dell's implementation of zero trust network architecture (ZTNA). The last big announcement was a partnership with Nvidia to provide the Project Helix platform to run Nvida generative AI. Helix sees Nvidia H100 GPUs running in PowerEdge servers.
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:46 - Red Hat Summit Headlined With Ansible Announcements 6:46 - Mirantis Introduces Centralized, Enterprise-Wide Management of Lens Pro for Simple, Secure Operations 10:53 - A Real Backdoor Did the Trick for Barracuda 14:48 - HPE Results Buoyed By Aruba 18:25 - Dell Tech World Looks to Appeal to All 29:02 - The Weeks Ahead 30:12 - Thanks for Watching
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Ransomware 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 protection, the implications of these attacks are particularly concerning. But the impact of ransomware attacks extends beyond healthcare, as demonstrated by recent incidents faced by companies like Dole, which incurred $10.5 million in direct costs following a ransomware attack, and the ongoing attack on the Dallas Municipal Court Building, disrupting legal proceedings and potentially exposing sensitive personal and case-related information. Since we have an expert in data protection joining us today, let's take a closer look at the face of ransomware. This and more on the Rundown.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:06 - Micron is Kicked Out of China (Again)
5:07 - Cohesity Partners with Google Cloud for Data Insights and Security
8:17 - Cloud, AI, and Business Messenger Unit Spun out from Alibaba
10:36 - Microsoft Builds In the AI
13:10 - BlueCat Acquires Men&Mice DDI Platform
15:37 - Supreme Court Sides with Tech Platforms on Section 230
18:33 - Pliops Plus Redis Equals for In-Memory Performance
21:28 - Ransomware Rampage
36:49 - The Weeks Ahead
38:41 - Thanks for Watching
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Controversy 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 Rundown0:58 - Hammerspace Acquires RozoFS3:15 - Google I/O 2023 happened6:49 - VAST Data's Platform Certified as Datastore for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD10:04 - Microsoft and AMD are Teaming Up12:42 - Solidigm's D5-P5430 High-Density Data Center SSD15:47 - AI Controversies Hit Enterprise IT27:27 - The Weeks Ahead28:44 - Thanks for WatchingFollow our Hosts on Social MediaTom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerdStephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Ned Bellavance: https://www.twitter.com/Ned1313Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-ITTags: #Rundown, #DataOrchestration, #GoogleIO2023, #AI, #Bard, #SFD23, #Data, #QLCSSD, #DataCenterStorage, #GitHubCopilot, @Hammerspace_Inc, @RozoFS, @Google, @GoogleCloud, @Vast_Data, @NVIDIA, @Microsoft, @AMD, @Azure, @Solidigm, @GitHub,
Aruba 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 capabilities. Of course, the Athonet acquisition to extend Private 5G capabilities was also on the tip of everyone's tongue. This and more on the Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown0:34 - Infoblox Uncovers Decoy Dog3:19 - Nutanix Disaggregating Nodes?6:30 - MSI Leaks BootGuard Key10:09 - Pure Says Hard Drives Done after 202814:10 - Cisco vEdge Certificate Expires17:35 - Aruba Atmosphere Announcements Abound29:35 - The Weeks Ahead32:18 - Thanks for Watching
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Thanks 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 the CIA, to the fact that the US DOJ detected signs of the attack just a couple of months after the infiltration and didn't pick up on the possiblity of it being a larger issue. The whole article is a fascinating read but what strikes me is that we're now 2.5 years past this earth shattering situation and we still don't know for certain if we could be impacted by it again. Chris, have we learned any lessons from this?Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown0:31 - Meteor Lake Ramping Up3:30 - WANDisco Sales Rep Costs Company Big Time7:22 - Ubuntu Pro Now Available on AWS11:22 - Apple and Nuvia Drop Lawsuit15:56 - The Legacy of the Biggest Supply Chain Hack26:04 - The Weeks Ahead28:00 - Thanks for Watching
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In 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 change in how Google, and other hyperscalers, will purchase and buy servers. What are the ramifications of this change? Does this mean the cloud business will remain a priority for Google going forward?
Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:09 - CrowdStrike's CloudStream aims to Simplify XDR Adoption2:49 - Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster released by Canonical7:19 - DHS to create a task for to determine how AI can be used to protect the country9:52 - BMC Expands Mainframe Business with Model913:58 - Cisco releases cloud-based XDR offering16:39 - Rubrik Working with ZScaler to Stop Data Exfiltration19:39 - Google Cloud Turns a Profit and Extends the Life of Servers29:50 - The Weeks Ahead30:40 - Thanks for Watching!
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Intel 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 ASIC line which was used primarily by Bitcoin miners. Intel said that they are continuing to focus on IDM 2.0 operations. Stephen, we've talked a lot about Intel but the transformation seems to be accelerating!
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown0:46 - Solo.io Gloos a New Fabric4:16 - Western Digital Hackers Have the Goods7:32 - Emerson Acquires NI10:54 - Prosimo Launches Cloud-Native Networking Suite15:04 - Amazon's Edge Gateway Goes to OCP18:49 - Intel's Transformation Continues32:37 - The Weeks Ahead34:15 - Thanks for Watching
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China 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 rather than investigate any real cybersecurity flaws at the memory provider. What’s going on here?
Time Stamps:0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:00 - Cisco Pulls Out of Russia2:38 - Sony Invests in Raspberry Pi4:10 - Always Greener on the Google AI Side6:28 - Jacob Ziv Dies at 918:03 - MinIO Fires Back at Weka13:48 - China Plays Hardball with Western Companies21:44 - The Weeks Ahead22:25 - Thanks for Watching
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If 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 accomplish with this rollout? This and more on this week's Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown1:05 | Quantum Announces Myriad Storage3:55 | Cisco Picks up Lightspin for Cloud Security6:50 | VAST Data Partners with HPE for GreenLake10:16 | WD Breach Locks Out Users13:35 | SIOS Adds Multitarget Replication with LifeKeeper16:51 | Amazon Opens Sidewalk to Developers25:31 | vFunction Launches Continuous Modernization Manager28:17 | The Weeks Ahead30:16 | Thanks for Watching
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Computing 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 considered decisions. Moore learned from his mistakes, notably a foray into the digital watch market, and was able to lead while allowing others to have their own autonomy. In a way, Moore created Silicon Valley but was entirely unlike what it has become. We could surely use more leaders in the mold of Gordon Moore!
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Nvidia 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 Rundown0:42 | SSE Revenues Growing per Dell'Oro4:09 | Nutanix CIO Out Amid Operational Oddities8:42 | Nvidia Bring Bluefield 3 to Oracle Cloud12:23 | They Don't Make HDDs Like They Used To18:53 | Nvidia GTC Looms Large28:02 | The Weeks Ahead29:36 | Thanks for Watching
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Unless 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?
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Brainchip 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.
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SNIA 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.
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The 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 and not have the hosting compnay be held liable for the content. Section 230 has been the target of groups that say that Internet sites are both somehow siliencing commentors and that they should be held responsible for the content of their non-paid contributors. Max, what do you think the impacts of this case could be on global Internet usage and content creation? This and more on the Rundown. Thanks Max Mortillaro for filling in.
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Looks 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.
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Cisco 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 through the new Cyber Vision IoT security platform.
Cisco has also announced several new initiatives aimed at providing sustainability in enterprise IT. Leveraging platforms such as Webex to reduce the carbon footprint of in-person meetings is just the start. Partner companies like Pure Storage are working to reduce power consumption in devices as well as providing upgrade paths to reduce the amount of e-waste for end-of-life hardware. The goal is helping IT departments adopt sustainable methods and integrate those into their workflows for the future while also streamlining operations and reducing CapEx and OpEx budgets.
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11:14 | NetApp Introduces a QLC Line
14:42 | Where do all of the Silicon Valley workers go after layoffs?
17:26 | HYCU Backs Up All the Things with Protégé R-Cloud
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Pat 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 said that the IPUs are going to be a focus area now. Also announced was the end of the Pathfinder for RISC-V program. The announcement came as a surprise to those in the program, only having been disclosed by a notice on the project's webpage. Intel had been extending an olive branch to the RISC-V community to try and encourage development on the platform that Intel could leverage in their own offerings, such as allowing the code to run on FPGAs. The program was started back in August of 2022 and was supported by most of the large RISC-V companies. Stephen, how do these latest cuts stack up against the moves that Intel has been making? This and more on the Rundown.
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The 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 management business from the rest of the company. This could be an issue for the tech giant as a reported 80% of their revenue comes from digital ads. The enterprise angle here invovles what Google might be forced to do if they have to sell off the cash cow and how that could affect their service offerings, especially those that are free or insanely cheap thanks to being ad-supported.
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Supermicro, 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!
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If 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 now and unlock accelerators in the future for a fee. There's even discussion of support for Optane and CXL! This and more on this week's Rundown.
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Just 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 2022. Tom, what do you think about this latest SNAFU for Okta?
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Join 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!
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4:31 | 5G Finds Interference
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9:09 | DPUs Are Shifting the Way We Do Work
10:57 | ARM is More Than Just Cheap CPUs
14:39 | Not Your Parents' Hackers
16:59 | HPC Performance Accelerates
19:28 | Quantum Computing is Almost Ready for IT
20:56 | The Rise of CXL
25:28 | VMware Negotiates an Uncertain Future Again
27:29 | Intel Dominantes the News Cycle
31:28 | The Economy Is Complicated
39:08 | Looking Ahead to 2023
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Tech 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 country is also the subject of tightening restrictions, including new export controls on advance semiconductor manufacturing and equipment. How will they weather these two crises in 2023?
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13:03 | Microsoft Invests in Stock (Exchange)
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It'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 Nutanix had an operating loss in Q1 due to SG&A expenses being 65% of revenues. The same report values the potential acquisition in the neighborhood of $8 billion. Are we about to see the end of Nutanix's dominance in the HCI space they helped create? This and more on the Rundown.
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12:19 | Micron's New NVMe SSD is Layerific!
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25:19 | Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT Because It's Always Wrong
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Graviton 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.
Amazon has finally realized that there is a world outside of Seattle. AWS announced a new Digital Sovereignty Pledge this week. The goal? To build out controls and features in AWS that provide ways for customers to have full control over their data and how it is handled and secured. The pledge is a statement that AWS is going to provide existing tools and develop new ones to ensure companeis are in compliance with laws regulating how data is transported and utilized. The European Union especially has been very hot to get sovereignty controls in place with the relative ease of portability of applications in the cloud.
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11:43 | Dell Builds Quantum Computer Interface for IT
15:30 | AWS re:Invent
17:57 | Graviton CPU Variant for HPC
22:38 | Digital Sovereignty Pledge
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AMD 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.
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9:18 - Alluxio 2.9 Connects Data and Applications
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We 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 GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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16:08 | Patch Tuesday Tries to Prevent Six Exploits
19:24 | Intel Admits Sapphire Rapids HPC Is Late
25:19 | AI Performance is On Display with MLPerf
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While 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 SpaceX to start interviewing Twitter developers and understand how the code works for the platform. The catch? Tesla and Twitter develop in two entirely different langagues. These reports come amid rumors that people are being forced to work 80 hour weeks and that there will likely be looming layoffs coming very soon. To top it all off, Elon's grand plan to make Twitter profitable now seems to be around charging more for Twitter Blue, the premium service. The initial report was that Musk wanted to charge $20/month and include verification for the service. Many users balked publicly, including celebrities such as author Steven King. Musk backpedaled quickly and offered a compromise of $8/month, which is still almost double the current cost but users are wary of what that would entail. Nathan, this is a massive pile of craziness and Elon hasn't even owned them for a week!
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The 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 transmissions. The other question is whether or not the FCC has the authority to impose restrictions on the spectrum after it was auctioned off. Chris, you know a bit about this space. What do you think is the end result here? This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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The 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 late as June of this year. Though no companies have been mentioned in the rumors specifically there is a lot of interest in the hyperconverged infrastructure pioneer should they decide to be taken over. Max, you've worked a lot with Nutanix and you know the market. What's going to happen here?
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Intel 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 rapidly. Tom, how bad is this for Intel?
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Since 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 something we've been covering for years here at Gestalt IT, so what more does this interview tell us? This and more on this week's Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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Intel 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 but let's start with a simple appraisal - How does Intel look two years into the Pat Era? This and more on this week's Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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Oracle 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.
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MLCommons 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 tell us? This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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The 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.com for show notes.
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VMware'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 vSphere 8, which integrates Project Monterey, we're seeing a beefed-up Tanzu and a new reporting suite called Aria.
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Chipmaker 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 System-on-a-Chip solutions for mobile devices but with the market for ARM CPUs in the cloud becoming hotter, is it time for a new player to enter and try and upset the balance? This and more on this week's Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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Flash 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 GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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It'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 channel attack. It's a flaw in the CPU architecture. This means that attackers can recover data very quickly. Tests showed a 128-bit AES encryption key could be recovered in less than 2 seconds with 94% accuracy and a 1024-bit RSA key could be nabbed in about a minute and a half with 74% accuracy. Intel is saying the exploit is on their 10th, 11th, and 12th gen processors which includes Ice Lake but no mention of Sapphire Rapids. This and more on this week's episode of the Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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The 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 quarterly revenue loss reported. Stephen, there's a lot to unpack here. Why is Intel doing away with Optane? This and more on this week's Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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We'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 huge investments around the world, what's happening here? This and more on this week's episode of the Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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Attackers 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 not tha these attackers are trying to corrupt them. Instead, they're converting these machines into nodes in large botnets to amplify attacks. And if you think it's hard to clean a malware infection from a PC try doing it on a PLC that can't be shut down. Dragos noted that while they only tested one particular kind of PLC many other samples had traces of malware infections. Stephen, is this going to cause issues for our already strained supply chain?
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Apple 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.
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NIST 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 as the inevitable future of a powerful factoring system like a quantum computer. Are we all going to have to get new key tokens now? Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes and more.
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The 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 Bow IPU and Google TPUv4 trailing somewhat. How do we make sense of all this ML training hardware? Head to GestaltIT.com for shownotes.
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The 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, has seen reported COVID infections as high as 20% of attendees based on informal polling numbers. Cisco Live, which boasted over 16,000 people in Vegas, is seeing similar numbers. While I was able to make it through the conference without testing positive many others that I was interacting with didn't. Which calls into question the practice of having live in-person events during the pandemic. This and more on this week's Rundown. Head over to gestaltit.com for show notes.
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Pure 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.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
0:44 - Intel releasing Next Gen Process Node
3:17 - AMD Outlines Roadmap to the Future
6:28 - Cloudflare Faces the Second Largest DDOS Ever
8:46 - Cisco Aiming for a Simple, Unified Network
11:38 - HYCU Secures $53 Million More
13:32 - Pure Storage Revs Up FlashBlade and Portworx
19:17 - Apple is attempting to kill the Password
25:30 - The Weeks Ahead
27:12 - Thanks for Watching
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IBM 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 did anything to encourage it. The judge didn't see it that way and now IBM is going to appeal this little fine. All this and more on this week's Rundown. Head to gestaltit.com for show notes.
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0:47 - Clumio Introduces Low-Cost Ransomware Recovery
2:56 - Datacenter Switching Market Grows in Q1
5:46 - NetApp Ups Multicloud Subscription Offerings
8:17 - IBM Acquiring Randori for XDR
11:40 - Oracle closes deal to buy Cerner for $28B
15:17 - IBM owes $1.6 billion for BMC Poaching
25:42 - The Weeks Ahead
27:21 - Thanks for Watching
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Intel 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 on this week's Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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0:32 - New Supercomputer Hopped up by NVIDIA
4:25 - Exploiting MS Office Diagnostically
7:13 - Ampere Brings out new ARM Server CPU
12:25 - Let's Encrypt Trying to Release IPv4 Addresses
16:16 - New Frontier for Supercomputing Speed
22:00 - Venture Capitalists Issue Warning About Funding
30:04 - Intel Announces Newest HPC Lineups at ISC 2022
37:04 - The Weeks Ahead
38:32 - Thanks for Watching
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The 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 potential for disaster for VMware customers. This and more on this week's Rundown.
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
0:47 - NetApp Acquires Instaclustr
4:59 - Cisco's Drawn and Quartered Results
9:20 - DigitalBridge Makes a Switch at Switch
12:45 - DigitalBridge Makes a Switch at Switch
16:34 - The Value for Amazon Graviton3
21:27 - Broadcom Looking to Buy VMware?
27:56 - Mysterious Firm Looks to Buy Stake in ARM China?
35:08 - The Week Ahead
36:46 - Thanks for Watching!
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Intel 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 performance is writing software for the unit. Intel has launched the Infastructure Programmer Development Kit, or IPDK, which parallels their development of the similar DPDK for networks. All this and more on this week's Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com/ for show notes.
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0:48 - Panzura Plays Phoenix
2:59 - Oracle Owes HPE $3 Billion over Itanium
6:31 - Pure Picks Snowflake for Co-Io Clouds
9:21 - Intel Shareholders Don't Like Gelsinger's Pay
14:17 - Intel Plans for 800 Gbos IPUs
21:31 - The Weeks Ahead
23:19 - Thanks for Watching
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Dell 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 swirling that Michael Dell is set to depart sometime in the next 12-18 months. This and more on this week's Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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1:01 - Oracle Class-Action Suit Ramps Up
3:33 - Cisco's Memory Issues
6:06 - Cisco Can See the Future with AI
8:03 - FIDO Alliance Gains Big Names
11:38 - A Look at Dell's Future
17:22 - White House Wants Quantum-Proof Encryption
22:40 - The Week Ahead
23:54 - Thanks for Watching!
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Although 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.GestaltIT.com for show notes.
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0:54 - Elliot Pushed Western Digital to Split
2:30 - Synopsys to Acquire WhiteHat Security
4:00 - Nasuni Buys DBM Cloud Replication Tech
5:38 - AMD Wants TSMC 3nm Wafers Too
8:23 - Dell Brings APEX, Storage, and Alpine to Dell Technologies World
20:53 - The Week Ahead
20:55 - Thanks for Watching
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Vice 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 to get the ink back into the bottle. The memo comes from the Facebook Ad and Business Product team privacy group. They say they don't have adequate control and can't say that they can't confidently say that no one can use specific data for specific purposes, which runs counter to explicit regulations like GDPR and CCPA. This sounds like a nightmare scenario for privacy advocates. All this and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes, head to http://www.gestaltit.com/
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
0:47 - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Released
3:07 - Istio Applies to Become CNCF Project
5:39 - Toshiba Looking for a Buyer
9:37 - Intuit Sued over Mailchimp Intrusion
12:10 - Ayar Labs Nabs Series C from Intel and NVIDIA
15:35 - Facebook Doesn't Know Where Your Data Goes
23:09 - The Week Ahead
24:45 - Thanks For Watching
It 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/.
It'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/
Fresh 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 please visit: https://gestaltit.com/
Aruba 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/
Jensen 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.
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In 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.
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With 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.
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World 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.
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An 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.
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Friday 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.
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NVIDIA 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.
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Last week saw quarterly financial announcements from both Intel (Jan 26) and AMD (Feb 1) that help us see where things are going, at least in the short term. And Chinese regulators have finally approved the AMD deal to purchase Xilinx. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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It's official! Intel's "Mega-Site" in New Albany, Ohio will house a massive chip fab, Intel's first all-new chipmaking facility in 40 years. NVIDIA's planned 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.
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The PCI Special Interest Group (SIG) announced last week that they have finalized the specification for PCI Express 6.0. And as mentioned previously on the 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.
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Someone who has done a lot of thinking about what Web3 represents is Moxie Marlinspike. In a recent piece on his blog he talked about the growing use of 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.
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Although CES is traditionally a consumer show, we often see announcements there that are relevant in enterprise IT as well. That was certainly the case with two big CPU announcements from Intel and AMD this week. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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Join us for a year-end rundown of the biggest stories each month of 2021. Stephen and Tom wrap up the year with their thoughts on the news that shaped the IT world.
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It wasn't a good weekend for security pros all over the world. Alibaba Cloud disclosed a vulnerability in a Java logging service named Log4j. The first reports 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.
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Intel acquired Mobileye, the autonomous driving solution company, back in 2017 . They announced this week that they want to offer an IPO in mid-2022 to help 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.
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AWS re:Invent is happening live and in-person through December 3rd and the event has a lot of attention. And Apple has announced a lawsuit against the maker of 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.
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Last week, Gen-Z, the open systems interconnect solution backed by AMD, Broadcom, Dell, Micron, and more, announced that they will be folding and will also be 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!
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This is a big week for NVIDIA as they held their GTC show and talked about all the newest advances they've been working on. And not to be outdone, AMD also had some big announcements this week. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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VMware is now an independent company, having been spun out of the Dell EMC behemoth. We discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown.
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Intel announced their earnings were down in the client arena for Q3. On the other hand, AMD is thrilled because they were up across the board big time. We discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown.
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Big news this week for Linux fans: the newest version of Ubuntu has just released. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown.
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Google Cloud Next kicked off this week with the usually flurry of announcements around the technologies that the search and ad giant focuses on. And at VMworld 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.
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VMworld 2021 is happening this week, virtually of course, and there are a ton of new product announcements. The biggest one is perhaps Project Capitola. And 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!
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Yesterday was a big day for Pure Storage. As you may have seen from the live blog coverage on GestaltIT.com, Pure launched a couple of new offerings that 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.
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The 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.
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This 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.
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Swiss-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.
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Microsoft is seeing stars this week as the disclosure of a galaxy-sized vulnerability was reported. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown.
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We're reacting to some of the big announcements that came out of Hot Chips 33 this week. We discuss these announcements and many more stories on this week's Rundown.
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Intel is "winding down" RealSense AI cameras to focus more on chip production. There is a massive IoT bug that could cause a potential super botnet to emerge for nefarious purposes. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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Chip 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.
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The NVIDIA acquisition of Arm, which we discussed last week, may take a bit longer than expected. And the amount of available memory chips is now considered a "matter of national security." We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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Intel has announced their chipmaking roadmap for the next few years, N-Able announced their first trade on the NYSE after splitting from their parent company, and AMD has announced their earnings for the past quarter. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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Pegasus, a software used to infect phones, was being sold by an Israeli firm called NSO group and was being used against journalists, activists and even 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.
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Members of the U.S Congress believe that Amazon may have been more involved in attempting to win the initial JEDI contract and SolarWinds is under fire again. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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The 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.
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Intel pushes back its next-generation Xeon processor series, known as Sapphire Rapids, to Q2 of 2022; LinkedIn leaks data on 92% of users and My Books has been wiped clean in an exploit. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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Intel is excited about the big semiconductor bill that was just passed by the U.S. Senate, over 8.4 billion passwords have been leaked in an enormous 100GB text file leak and HPE goes big with Green Lake. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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The US Supreme Court has overturned the verdict in Van Buren vs. United States and Time Cache looks to time out CPU side channels. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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The FBI has gone mobile to disrupt Crime with the FBIphone, the FBI also stole a march on the ransomware crew responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, and is Amazon Sidewalk opting everyone in? We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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Keerti Melkote is stepping down at Aruba, Cloudera is going private in $5.3 billion acquisition and US beef product has been impacted by Ransomware. We discuss these stories and more on this week’s Rundown.
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NAND Inventor wants to replace DRAM, Google had a lot to say at I/O last week, and Freenode Staff flees after new owner seizes. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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We take a deeper dive into VMware's new CEO and Apple faces potential issues in China. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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Breaking News on this week's Rundown: VMware Names New CEO and President. Also in this week's show: Wi-Fi Vulnerable to Fragmentation Attacks, IBM Creates 2nm Chip and Cyber Attack Plugs Pipeline. We talk these stories and much more in this week's Rundown.
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IBM Buys Turbonomic, HPE GreenLake Gets Cloudy Storage, Dell Announces APEX Storage-as-a-Service and Aryaka buys Secucloud for SASE. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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Scality just announced their newest cloud-native storage object solution, ARTESCA. Secure messaging app, Signal, has discovered Vulnerabilities in Celebrite. An internet outage in a Canadian Village has been blamed on a beaver. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown.
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Dell Technologies announced that they will spin off their share of VMware to help pay off some of their corporate debt and the FBI Remotely Patches Exchange Servers. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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Join us as we discuss Nvidia's 2021 GTC announcements and many other stories on this week's Rundown!
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Intel finally released its next-generation server platform, Ice Lake, yesterday. We discuss this story and much more with special guest host Calvin Hendryx-Parker on this week's Rundown.
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Cisco is adding network as a service with Cisco Plus, Cohesity announced that it has risen in value this year, and Amazon is reportedly looking into making their own chips. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown!
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Intel is finally launching Ice Lake, Cloud spending outstrips on-premise investments for the first time and Microsoft may be buying Discord. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown with special guest host Chris Grundemann.
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Micron Technology announced that they are getting out of the business of 3D Xpoint, a fire at OVHCloud last week caused several website outages and AMD launched Milan. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.
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Buffer has released a new work from home study, thousands have been infected thorough Microsoft Exchange and Intel announced chips for Homomorphic Encryption.We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown.
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HPE is acquiring CloudPhysics, VMware vCenter needs to be patched and Google Research fires AI Bias Experts after they point out biases in AI. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown.
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SolarWinds is testifying before a Senate panel and Malware is hiding backup control servers on the Blockchain. We discuss these stories and much more in this week's Rundown.
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AWS is the biggest enterprise storage vendor and the Super Micro hack was kept secret for years. We'll discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown.
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SpaceX Starlink opens up new orders and "hackers" tamper with Florida water. We discuss these stories and much more in this week's Rundown.
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Andy Jassy is stepping up as Amazon's CEO, AfriNIC has been caught illegally reselling IP addresses and DriveNets catches a big Series B. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown.
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Slack's early-January outage was caused by AWS, Intel's New CEO is rehiring CUP Architects, there was a Verizon FIOS outage on the East Coast and AWS Forks ElasticSearch after license change. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown.
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MalwareBytes is bitten by Dark Hero, Hackers nab Mimecast certificate from Microsoft and Qualcomm is buying Nuvia. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown!
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Breaking news in this week's Rundown: Intel's CEO is stepping down in February. We'll discuss more Intel news and many other stories in this week's Rundown!
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Google workers unionize, Russia hacked Microsoft too and Intel is urged to explore new deals. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown.
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What a year 2020 has been! We’ve covered a lot of stories in the last 12 months and Stephen and Tom wanted to go back and take a look at some of the ones that we feel made an impact or will continue to make an impact in the coming year. Join us as we run down 2020 and cover acquisitions, trends, and big things that will be a part of IT for a long time to come. And be sure to tune in starting January 6, 2021 for the new season of the Rundown.
SolarWinds' flagship Orion platform has been hacked and the CentOS team moves to Stream. We'll discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown! For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com
Juniper is buying Apstra, AWS is scaling EBS to compete with SANs, SCOUTS is looking at CFAA and DeepMind is using AI to solve protein folding. We'll discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown!
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HPE is Texas bound, IBM creates quantum-safe encryption and AWS has a Kinesis problem. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown! For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com
Microsoft is making Pluton for Security, Celona Partners with Aruba to Expand CBRS and the launch of MacOS Big Sur. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown.
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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 week's Rundown!
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Juniper installed backdoor For NSA, NetApp goes 'storageless', hackers hunting for Oracle exploit and Starlink releases open Beta. We'll talk about all this and more on this week's Rundown!
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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. We'll talk about it all in this episode of the Rundown!
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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 Google and even more on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown!
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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 episode of the Rundown!
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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 the Gestalt IT Rundown!
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VMworld announcements galore, Intel nomenclature, and even more on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown!
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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 Rundown!
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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 Gestalt IT Rundown!
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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!
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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 information about the stories covered in the show, make sure you check out http://GestaltIT.com
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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 banning TLS 1.3 with ESNI and more. For show notes and more information about the stories covered in the show, make sure you check out http://GestaltIT.com. You can also find the video for this episode here: https://youtu.be/vUS8Ml_c3p8
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, and the latest on the TikTok saga. All this and more of the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown.
https://youtu.be/UknPZKgrLKA
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 this and more of the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown.
https://youtu.be/bojJSn-vp2s
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 questions? Get the answers with Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth on the Gestalt IT Rundown.
https://youtu.be/W90_lBShO6k
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 Cloudflare launches a serverless offering. Rich Stroffolino and guest co-host Max Mortillaro discuss all these and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown!
https://youtu.be/0hOH2SmH_tY
The EU Court of Justice invalidates the EU-US Privacy Shield framework, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the implications for SMBs. Plus Dell confirms its investigating a spinoff for VMware, and Windows 10X gets a lot more boring. All this and the rest of the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown!
https://youtu.be/S5k66XU8SGE
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 announcements from Cloud Next 20. Plus Nvidia's big week versus Intel, Huawei striking out in the UK, Zoom launching hardware, and a major acquisition in the component market.
https://youtu.be/X6KzPTPgg3o
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 decentralized serverless service to developers.
https://youtu.be/ZSFKkCaHibM
Amazon launches the Aeronautics and Satellite Solutions to go to space, Salesforce tries to remove gender bias from AI, and Microsoft launches initiatives to upskill the economy. All this and more IT news of the week with Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth on the Gestalt IT Rundown.
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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 DIMMs, and AWS mitigates the largest DDoS. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth break it all down on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown.
https://youtu.be/yy6RHtlNuZY
Cisco 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.
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NetApp 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.
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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 acquires, OpenAI details a new learning model, and Zoom will provide end-to-end encryption to only paid users.
https://youtu.be/ydnIjOWT4u8
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 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.
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, AI, and open source. There's a lot to unpack from this major Microsoft event.
https://youtu.be/k3fBp7ybcao
Dell 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
Nvidia 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 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
Verizon 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
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, 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.
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, 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 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 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 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.
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 Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth as they discuss all the IT news of the week!
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 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
Ampere Brings 80-Cores to Arm
Secure and Trusted Telecommunications Networks Act Passes
Commodity Server Troubles
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 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
Let FreedomFi Ring
Dell 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 Restructuring
Arista Buys Big Swtich
Microsoft Announced Big Dynamics 365 Update
Cloudian and Veeam Form Ransomware Tag Team
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 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 Data Science Service
Cortex M Gets ML Boost
Nutanix Updates Karbon
And Then There Were Three
Apple Throws FIDO a Bone
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 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 Scytale
GCP Revenue
Bye Bye Blackberry Brand?
Microsoft Teams Down
Google Glass for the Enterprise Masses
IBM Names New CEO
SAP 2040 Support
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Reactions 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
A 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 Graduation
IBM Grows Revenue
VMware Buys Nyansa
Is Open-Source Licensing Copyleft Behind?
Google 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 more on the Gestalt IT Rundown, your source for the IT news of the week.
This week on the Rundown: Billions of medical images stored unsecured online Veeam acquired Packet bought too
Apple gearing up for encryption case with DOJ
Google acquires AppSheet
IBM joins LOT Network
Google phasing out user-agent strings in Chrome
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 first impacts of CCPA.
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 releases and partnerships. It was a busy year, but they help put the news in context in this episode.
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 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.
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 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.
This 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.
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 getting ahead of regulation, and what caused service disruptions for Disney+.
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 offers a potential archival alternative to tape that could have huge applications as a cold storage medium. Learn about the details in this episode!
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 foot for Intel.
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 floppies, Microsoft's recent acquisitions, and another week of terrible data leaks. Fun times!
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 you might want to say "sudon't make me a sandwich."
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 Puppet is going after cloud-native development with Project Nebula, and why semi-custom silicon is the new hotness.
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 IPO, and why Congress is interested in DNS-over-HTTPS.
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss Western Digital exiting the enterprise storage market, Microsoft getting into the SIEM, and Cloudflare hitting the bots hard.
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 from the show, a data leak the size of Ecuador, Oracle suddenly offering free stuff, and so much more!
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 regulation. Then they discuss Amazon expanding its blockchain offerings, a Exim server exploit, and Google open sourcing differential privacy.
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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 happening anytime soon, and who's at fault with Supermicro's BMC security exploit.
Rich 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).
This 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.
Ken 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.
Tom 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!
Ken 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.
Stephen 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.
Tom 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.
Ken 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.
Tom 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!
Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss all the announcements from HPE Discover, Nvidia bringing CUDA to ARM, Huawei slashing revenue, and the League of Entropy.
This 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.
This week on the Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the relevant news out of Computex, how future HTML standards are changing, and Huawei getting the boot from a few standards bodies.
Ken Nalbone and Tom Hollingsworth discuss Huawei's woes, how 5G might effect the weather, Broadcom coming under scrutiny, KubeCon announcements, and more!
Richard Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are discuss the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. They talked about a major Cisco security vulnerability, an interesting acquisition by VMware, and why 2019 is the year of Linux on Linux on the Desktop.
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This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino talked about the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. They discussed the news from Microsoft Build, security issues with GitHub and Jenkins, and the Firefox Add-On kerfuffle.
From Dell Technologies World, Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone are here with the Gestalt IT Rundown. They discussed if Azure is catching up to AWS, a big data breach of 80 million US households, and the implications of Azure integrating with VMware.
Ken Nalbone and Richard Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week including Docker and Arm's new partnership, Samsung betting big on non-volatile chips, DNA storage, and more!
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This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino talk about Intel getting out of the 5G business, VPN flaws, security issues with WPA3, and patent peace in our time.
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This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discussed the news from Google Cloud Next, the HPE-Nutanix partnership, AWS playing dirty, and more.
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Rich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone and talking about the big IT news of the week. Today they are looking at the implications of Cloudflare's new VPN, Intel's bevy of datacenter announcements, who's making money in HCI, and more!
This week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are discussing Asus distributed signed malware, Pwn2Own finding another VM escape bug, which programming languages are gaining traction, and Oracle Cloud drama. It's your Gestalt IT Rundown!
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This week Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discussed if open source has an Amazon problem, the enterprise tech behind Google Stadia game streaming announcement, when we'll see zettascale computing, and more.
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Today on the Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth discussed the big acquisition news of the week, with Mellanox Technologies and NGINX, Inc. both getting bought. Plus the death of the Cookie Wall, a big breach at Citrix, and more!
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This week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are looking at the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. Did Alphabet just kill Splunk? How did Dell EMC's earnings look after going public again? What does Juniper Networks' acquisition of Mist Systems mean? All this and more!
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The Gestalt IT Rundown gets you up to speed on the latest IT news. This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino talked about an interesting acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, the UK's plans for 5G infrastructure, AI on the edge, and more!
Get caught up on the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone discuss calls from Cisco for GDPR-like privacy regulation in the US, what new Intel CEO Bob Swan means for the company's future, Slack's first steps toward going public, and more.
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Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are running down the IT news of the week. This time they are talking about the latest US-Huawei tensions, Slack reaching 10 million DAU, Rubrik's data leak, and Japan's plan to hack into their own IOT devices.
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Rich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone discuss the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Databases, open source drama, TLS certificates, chip news, and more!
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On this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about MAMR vs HAMR drives, what the glut of IoT devices announced at CES means for security, and IBM's new quantum computer.
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Rich Stroffolino is back for a solo Rundown, talking about Salesforce's new Co-CEO, Arista settling up with Cisco, TSMC gets a cold, and the advent of dedicated AI chips.
Tom Hollingsworth flies solo in this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown. In this episode, he reviews how AMD can cross-license x86 in China, Alibaba Cloud partnering in the UK, and the fate of Tintri.
It's your weekly look at the IT news, the Gestalt IT Rundown. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss terrible Apple keyboards, the Snapdragon 1000, Google Cloud FileStore, WP3, and a post-Krzanich Intel.
The Gestalt IT Rundown returns, bringing you another week's worth of IT news. Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino discuss the Cisco acquisition of July Systems, DockerHub hosting crytojacking images, a reported national privacy plan, AT&T - Time Warner merger approval, and more.
This week on the Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino discuss the GitHub acquisition, SAP CRM, lifting the ZTE ban, and the IT implications of WWDC.
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the VPNFilter malware, Vermont's regulation of data brokers, how cloud CAPEX is going for Oracle and IBM, and Nvidia's updated cloud server infrastructure.
It's the Gestalt IT Rundown, running down the IT news of the week with Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino. Is a new Spectre upon us? Will QLC flash eat spinning disks? Is Sharepoint the tip of the AR spear? How can Dell EMC clean up their storage portfolio?
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, we're reviewing some of the big announcements coming out of Microsoft Build, Google IO and other industry events.
This week on the Rundown, Rich Stroffolino takes a look at some of the overarching trends from RSA Conference, examines why the Flickr acquisition is a sign of potential SaaS problems, and asks if Windows 10 Lean is interesting.
Rich Stroffolino is riding solo on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown. He runs down the IT news of the week, including a Qualcomm - NXP acquisition reset, another good quarter for IBM, Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0, and Azure Sphere.
This week Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss skinny mainframes, container standardization, SaaS doom, and the end of passwords.
This week Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss exploits against Drupal and Panera, Microsoft reorganizing Windows, and Cloudflare's DNS.
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Rich Stroffolino is flying solo this week on the Rundown! Talking HPE's acquisition of Cape Networks, Foxconn buying Belkin, the state of the African tech startup scene, and announcements from NVIDIA GTC.
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week. This week, they discuss the dramatic growth of container and serverless adoption on AWS, taking Qualcomm private, Windows Server 2019, and Facebook's Fabric Aggregation Layer donation.
The Gestalt IT Rundown looks at the IT news of the week with hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino. Today they talked about the death of Broadcom-Qualcomm, cryptomining on your calendar, AMD CPU security flaws, and Pi Day!
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