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Tech Field Day News Rundown

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The Tech Field Day News Rundown, formerly the Gestalt IT Rundown, is a weekly look at the IT news of the week. Hosted by Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.
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Episodes

The Enterprise Response to COVID-19 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 4, 2020

Google, Cisco, Zoom, and Microsoft offer free teleconferencing to help stop COVID-19 spread, 80 Arm cores come to the datacenter, bill passes to rip and 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 Brin...

Mar 04, 202031 min

FreedomFi To Offer Private LTE Networks | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 26, 2020

FreedomFi is using open spectrum for private LTE networks, Azure Sphere goes GA, Intel still makes 5G things, and Cisco launched SecureX. Join Rich Stroffolino 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 ...

Feb 26, 202030 min

Dell Technologies Sells RSA Security to Private Equity Fund | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 19, 2020

Dell Technologies sells RSA Security, Arista buys Big Switch, Google restructures its cloud business, and Microsoft updates Dynamics 365. Rich Stroffolino and 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 Bu...

Feb 19, 202029 min

The End to No Breach Ransomware? | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 12, 2020

New ransomware attacked exfiltrate data prior to encryption for blackmail, IBM standardizes on Slack, the impact of India's proposed data privacy law, and more 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 S...

Feb 12, 202029 min

VMware per-CPU Cost Changes | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 5 ,2020

VMware changes up its per-CPU pricing to reflect the proliferation of CPU cores, WireGuard VPN is coming to the Linux kernel, Western Digital finds a buyer for 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 G...

Feb 05, 202029 min

Cisco Live Europe Reactions | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 29, 2020

Reactions from Cisco Live Europe, VMware layoffs hit hard, Google looking to compete with Microsoft Teams. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are talking 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...

Jan 29, 202027 min

Is Open-Source Licensing Broken? | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 22, 2020

A new survey shows that open-source projects are abandoning copyleft licensing, VMware acquires the network analytics startup Nyansa, and IBM actually 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 Graduatio...

Jan 22, 202031 min

Veeam Acquired by Insight Partners | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 15, 2020

Google announced it acquired AppSheet, a no-code development platform for workplace apps like CRM, field inspections or personalized reporting. Google plans to 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...

Jan 15, 202030 min

2019 in Review | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 18, 2019

This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look back at 2019. They discuss the biggest IT news, from new regulations and acquisitions, to new product releases and partnerships. It was a busy year, but they help put the news in context in this episode.

Dec 18, 201933 min

India's New Data Regulation Bill | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 11, 2019

This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the details of a new data regulation bill from India. Some are comparing it 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.

Dec 11, 201931 min

Disney Nonplussed | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 13, 2019

Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino are talking about the latest annual user report from GitHub, why 5G security flaws are a good thing, the fine art of getting ahead of regulation, and what caused service disruptions for Disney+.

Nov 14, 201933 min

Glass Effect | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 6, 2019

This week, Rich Stroffolino is flying solo and discussing one major story, the first proof of concept of Microsoft's Project Silica. This glass based storage offers a potential archival alternative to tape that could have huge applications as a cold storage medium. Learn about the details in this episode!

Nov 06, 201910 min

VMware Takes the Carbon Black | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 9, 2019

This week, Stephen Foskett and Rich Stroffolino discuss VMware closing on the acquisition of Carbon Black, why Workplace by Facebook is growing so fast, how Puppet is going after cloud-native development with Project Nebula, and why semi-custom silicon is the new hotness.

Oct 09, 201926 min

WeWork's IP-No | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 2, 2019

Rich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone discuss the IT news of the week, including Docker's quest for more funding, PDF encryption problems, WeWork cancelling their IPO, and why Congress is interested in DNS-over-HTTPS.

Oct 02, 201929 min

Leaving the Ecuador Open | Gestalt IT Rundown, September 18, 2019

This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone are joined by Justin Warren live from Pure Accelerate. They're talking about the big news from the show, a data leak the size of Ecuador, Oracle suddenly offering free stuff, and so much more!

Sep 18, 201921 min

Don't Hate, Regulate | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 11, 2019

This week on the show, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the raft of investigations into big tech and how likely they are to lead to meaningful regulation. Then they discuss Amazon expanding its blockchain offerings, a Exim server exploit, and Google open sourcing differential privacy. Editors note: Apologies for Rich's audio quality, the wrong mic input was used.

Sep 11, 201924 min

Commvault Buys Hedvig | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 4, 2019

This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss what Commvault gets by buying Hedvig, why ads in your terminal aren't happening anytime soon, and who's at fault with Supermicro's BMC security exploit.

Sep 04, 201923 min

What's In Your Bucket | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 31, 2019

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!

Jul 31, 201926 min

VPNemy at the Gates | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 24, 2019

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.

Jul 24, 201929 min
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