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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

Cisco to Pay $2 Billion In Patent Dispute? | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 7, 2020

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! For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com/ To watch the video of this episode, please check out https://youtu.be/sJahrKAOQzQ

Oct 07, 202021 min

Pure Storage Acquires Portworx | Gestalt IT Rundown - September 23, 2020

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! For show notes, make sure to visit http://GestaltIT.com To see the video of this episode, check out https://youtu.be/eRPWrdFRrSk

Sep 23, 202032 min

Russians Attempt to Cripple Tesla | Gestalt IT Rundown September 2, 2020

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 You can also check out the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/6-l9X23pIi8

Sep 02, 202026 min

China to Enforce TLS 1.3 Ban | Gestalt IT Rundown August 26, 2020

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

Aug 26, 202040 min

Tofino2 and Power10 Debut - Gestalt IT Rundown August 19, 2020

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

Aug 19, 202038 min

Nutanix Goes to AWS | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 12, 2020

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

Aug 12, 202028 min

Nvidia, Arm, and SoftBank | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 5, 2020

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

Aug 05, 202029 min

Garmin's Ransomware Outage | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 29, 2020

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

Jul 29, 202030 min

EU Lowers Its Privacy Shield | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 22, 2020

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

Jul 22, 202027 min

What Will HPE Do With Silver Peak? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 15, 2020

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

Jul 15, 202030 min

Why Did VMware Buy Datrium? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 8, 2020

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

Jul 08, 202032 min

AWS Goes to Space | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 1, 2020

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. https://youtu.be/wwTIPJCp5g4

Jul 01, 202029 min

Is Dell Selling VMware? | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 24, 2020

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

Jun 24, 202037 min

Cisco SecureX Reaches General Availability | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 17, 2020

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. https://youtu.be/WVPdJbxkbp4

Jun 17, 202032 min

NetApp Buys Spot.io | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 10, 2020

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. https://youtu.be/wxVnFPYzYPU

Jun 10, 202023 min

Cisco Postpones Cisco Live | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 3, 2020

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

Jun 03, 202013 min

How is COVID-19 Impacting Digital Transformation? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 27, 2020

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.

May 27, 202027 min

Catching Up On Microsoft Build 2020 | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 20, 2020

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

May 20, 202030 min

Why Did Nvidia Buy Cumulus Networks? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 6, 2020

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

May 06, 202031 min

Google's Cloud Business Rising? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 29, 2020

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

Apr 29, 202028 min

What Will Verizon Do With BlueJeans? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 22, 2020

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

Apr 22, 202029 min

An Extra Virtual VMworld | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 15, 2020

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.

Apr 15, 202029 min

How to Solve Zoombombing | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 8, 2020

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!

Apr 08, 202024 min

Palo Alto Networks To Acquire CloudGenix | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 1, 2020

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

Apr 01, 202033 min

O’Reilly Closes Event Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 25, 2020

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.

Mar 25, 202028 min

GitHub Acquires npm | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 18, 2020

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.

Mar 18, 202028 min
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