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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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Log4j Creates Lost Weekend of Patching | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 15, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Dec 15, 202135 min

Intel in the Driver's Seat with MobilEye | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 8, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com...

Dec 08, 202130 min

AWS re:Invent Keynote Highlights | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 1, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Dec 01, 202129 min

CXL Merging with Gen-Z | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 17, 2021

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! For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Nov 17, 202147 min

Google Goes Hybrid at Google Cloud Next | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 13, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Oct 13, 202144 min

VMworld Looms Large, Capitola Redefines Memory | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 6, 2021

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! For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/about/

Oct 06, 202139 min

Pure Storage Launches Pure Fusion & Portworx Data Services | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 29, 2021

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. For show notes pease visit: https://gestaltit.com/...

Sep 29, 202136 min

Cisco Shakes Up Security Team | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 22, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com

Sep 22, 202138 min

Emergency Apple Update Targets Pegasus Spyware | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 15, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Sep 15, 202133 min

Intel Shuts Down RealSense AI Cameras | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 18, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Aug 18, 202132 min

Chip Shortage Pushing Governments to Act | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 11, 2021

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. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Aug 11, 202125 min

NVIDIA Runs into Arm Acquisition Snag | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 4, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Aug 04, 202126 min

Intel Announces 2025 Roadmap | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 28, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Jul 28, 202130 min

Pegasus Flies To Exploit Journalist Phones | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 21, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Jul 21, 202139 min

US Government Strikes Down JEDI | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 7, 2021

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. For show notes visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Jul 07, 202127 min

Intel Sapphire Rapids Rushes Back to 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 30, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Jun 30, 202143 min

Intel Excited About Big Semiconductor Bill | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 23, 2021

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. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Jun 23, 202136 min
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