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Gestalt IT RundownAug 12, 2020
Red Hat Summit Brings AI and Announcements from RSA | The Gestalt IT Rundown: May 8, 2024
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 Rundown 0:55 - Intel, Qualcomm Export Licenses Revoked to Sell to Huawei 3:47 - StarTree Grows New Features 8:39 - Healthcare Giant Pays Ransom over Recent Attack 11:48 - IBM to Enhance Deployment with AWS 14:22 - Zerto's Cyber Resilience Vault Integrated with HPE Allerta Storage MP 17:15 - RSA Runneth Over with Product Announcements 21:26 - Red Hat Summit Brings AI 26:49 - The Weeks Ahead 28:40 - Thanks for Watching
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AI Startups Investment vs. Business Reality | The Gestalt IT Rundown: May 1, 2024
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 Rundown
1:06 - NVIDIA Finally Acquires Run:ai
4:58 - Net Neutrality Restored by FCC
9:39 - Amazon to Build Data Centers in Indiana
12:44 - Hackers Spying on Governments says Cisco
16:39 - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat Released by Canonical
21:04 - Broadcom Introduces Omnissa
24:41 - AI Startups Investment vs. Business Reality
36:44 - The Weeks Ahead
39:25 - Thanks for Watching
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FTC Bans Non-Compete Clauses | The Gestalt IT Rundown: April 24, 2024
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.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:00 - Supermicro Shows New X14 Servers at Intel Vision
4:46 - PuTTY SSH Security Vulnerability
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
32:32 - The Weeks Ahead
35:33 - Thanks for Watching
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Google Cloud Next | The Gestalt IT Rundown: April 17, 2024
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 Rundown 0:40 - BREAKING: The Futurum Group Acquires Techstrong Group 2:23 - Commvault Acquires Appranix 4:53 - IBM Invests in $150 Million Fundin Round for Cohesity 7:20 - Meta Introduces New Chips for AI Hyperscalers 10:08 - Zscaler Acquiring Airgap 12:51 - SK hynix Gets Packaging and Samsung Gets Their Share 17:13 - VMware's Perpetual License Support Extended 21:32 - Google Cloud Next 33:25 - The Weeks Ahead 35:38 - Thanks for Watching Hosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: 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,
New Online Privacy Protection Plan Revealed | The Gestalt IT Rundown: April 10, 2024
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.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
2:47 - Amazon kills Just Walk Out Tech
4:56 - StorMagic and Acronis
7:01 - New CX Research from Contentsquare, Zendesk, and LivePerson
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
24:45 - The Weeks Ahead
27:26 - Thanks for Watching
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US and UK Join Forces for AI Safety | The Gestalt IT Rundown: April 3, 2024
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.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:04 - Intel Reveals Foundry Operating Model
5:04 - Backdoor Found in Popular Linux Utility
9:36 - Testcontainers Cloud from Red Hat and Docker
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
37:00 - The Weeks Ahead
39:26 - Thanks for Watching
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Revisiting the Impact of NVIDIA GTC | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 27, 2024
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.
Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:08 - New RISC-V Devices Revealed at KubeCon by Scaleway 4:21 - FCC Increases Broadband Benchmark 5:59 - Edge and Rancher Portfolio Updates by SUSE 11:10 - SIOS Lifekeeper for HA 14:28 - A Cautious Outlook on SoftIron's HyperCloud 18:57 - AMD and Intel Chips Blocked by China 22:25 - Revisiting the Impact of NVIDIA GTC 40:26 - The Weeks Ahead 43:43 - Thanks for Watching
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NVIDIA GTC News and NVIDIA Blackwell Systems | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 20, 2024
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.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:18 - CHIPS Act Package is Worth $19.5 Billion
6:12 - Zscaler Acquires Zero-Trust AI Pioneer Avalor
9:05 - Broadcom and Astera Labs Competing in PCIe and Retimer Space
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
39:52 - The Weeks Ahead
42:22 - Thanks for Watching
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VAST Data Announcements from the Tech Field Day Showcase | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 13, 2024
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 Rundown 1:04 - $1 Billion Invested by SK Hynix into AI Chip Tech 4:27 - Kubernetes Distributed Cloud Firewall Revealed by Aviatrix 8:24 - Azure Native Qumulo Cold Announced 11:26 - Russian Military WebEx Meeting Leak Confirmed by German Officials 16:11 - HP Shows Off the AI PC at Amplify 23:11 - Internet Cables in the Red Sea Seemingly Damaged 28:18 - VAST Data Announcements from the Tech Field Day Showcase 42:14 - The Weeks Ahead 44:51 - Thanks for Watching
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NetApp Improves their Cybersecurity | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 6, 2024
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 Rundown 1:10 - Huawei Developing Magneto Electric Drives 5:25 - Ransomware Still Spreads after Lockbit Server Shutdown 8:29 - AWS Announces Unrestricted Free Data Transfers 12:06 - Viavi Acquiring Spirent 15:33 - Nutanix to Acquire D2iQ 18:33 - IBM's AI-Powered Storage Security 23:10 - NetApp Improves their Cybersecurity 36:20 - The Weeks Ahead 38:21 - Thanks for Watching
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Broadcom Redefines VMware | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 28, 2024
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.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Welcome to the Rundown
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
40:26 - Thanks for Watching
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Feds Let Fancy Bear Embers Die Out | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 21, 2024
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 to Acquire Veritas Technologies | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 14, 2024
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.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
0:50 - NetApp and SpectraLogic Team Up for On-Prem Archival Storage
4:33 - Flipper Zero is Canada's Number One Enemy
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
32:17 - The Weeks Ahead
34:10 - Thanks for Watching
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Cisco Live EMEA Embraces New Technologies | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 7, 2024
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.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:09 - Linux Foundation Launches Post-Quantum Cryptography Group
3:35 - DEFCON Defends Caesar's Cancellation Chaos
5:07 - NetApp and SpectraLogic Teaming Up for Archival Options
8:06 - Ivanti Exploited After Advisories
10:05 - Zscaler COO Exits For Wiz
12:34 - Cisco Live EMEA Embraces New Technologies
24:23 - The Weeks Ahead
25:12 - Thanks for Watching
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Juniper Networks Reveals First AI-Native Networking Platform | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 31, 2024
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.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Gestalt IT Rundown
0:58 - VAST Data Teams Up with Genesis Cloud
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
25:01 - The Weeks Ahead
27:47 - Thanks for Watching
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Should We Be Concerned About Growing Electricity Demand? | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 24, 2024
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.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
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?
41:42 - The Weeks Ahead
45:33 - Thanks for Watching
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Synopsys to Acquire Ansys | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 17, 2024
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 Rundown 1:03 - Articul8 Spun Off From Intel 3:26 - Broadcom Takes VMware's Top Partners Direct 7:02 - IBM Acquires Two iPaaS Applications 9:58 - Wi-Fi 7 Is Finally A Thing (Sort of) 13:26 - Micron is Building FeRAM 18:11 - HPE Acquiring Juniper Networks for $14 Billion 39:07 - The Weeks Ahead 41:31 - Thanks for Watching
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HPE Acquiring Juniper Networks for $14 Billion | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 10, 2024
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 Rundown 1:03 - Articul8 Spun Off From Intel 3:26 - Broadcom Takes VMware's Top Partners Direct 7:02 - IBM Acquires Two iPaaS Applications 9:58 - Wi-Fi 7 Is Finally A Thing (Sort of) 13:26 - Micron is Building FeRAM 18:11 - HPE Acquiring Juniper Networks for $14 Billion 39:07 - The Weeks Ahead 41:31 - Thanks for Watching
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Intel's AI Ecosystem and AI PCs | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 3, 2024
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 Rundown 0:42 - Intel Continues Business Focus 4:52 - SEC Getting Serious, Especially with SolarWinds 9:24 - Broadcom VMware Deal 12:55 - HPE Aruba Ascendant 17:09 - Gen AI is the Rage 22:18 - The Open Source Licensing Battle 27:48 - The Futurum Group Acquires Tech Field Day and Gestalt IT 29:32 - Thanks for Watching 31:26 - Thanking the Community 33:32 - Coming in 2024
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Top Enterprise IT Stories of 2023 | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 20, 2023
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.
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0:00 - Welcome to the Gestalt IT Rundown
0:42 - Intel Continues Business Focus
4:52 - SEC Getting Serious, Especially with SolarWinds
9:24 - Broadcom VMware Deal
12:55 - HPE Aruba Ascendant
17:09 - Gen AI is the Rage
22:18 - The Open Source Licensing Battle
27:48 - The Futurum Group Acquires Tech Field Day and Gestalt IT
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31:26 - Thanking the Community
33:32 - Coming in 2024
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VMware Simplifies Offer Lineup through Broadcom | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 13. 2023
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 Rundown 0:57 - AMD Launches MI300 6:13 - Broadcom Divests EUC and Carbon Black Units from VMware 9:33 - Broadcom Acquires Elastics.cloud 12:56 - New Firmware Attacks on Windows and Linux 16:40 - VMware Simplifies Offer Lineup through Broadcom 26:53 - The Weeks Ahead 29:39 - Thanks for Watching
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IBM and Meta's AI Alliance Launched This Week | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 6, 2023
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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0:55 - VAST Data Upgraded in Two Ways
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
35:52 - The Weeks Ahead
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Announcements from AWS re:Invent | The Gestalt IT Rundown: November 29, 2023
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.
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
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
30:10 - The Weeks Ahead
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OpenAI Chaos Reigns Supreme | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 22, 2023
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
32:28 - The Weeks Ahead
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Existential Questions about HPC and AI | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 15, 2023
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
32:53 - The Weeks Ahead
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Okta Breach Blamed on User's Personal Google Login | The Gestalt IT Rundown: November 8, 2023
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 Rundown 0:42 - ZEDEDA Deploys Kubernetes at The Edge 3:33 - CloudFlare Outage 6:04 - Palo Alto Buys Talon Cyber Security 9:49 - Using Google Calendar for Command and Control 12:58 - Updated Security Frameworks (CVSS 4.0 and MITRE ATT&CK 14) 18:12 - Okta Breach Blamed on User's Personal Google Login 28:27 - The Weeks Ahead 29:38 - Thanks for Watching
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Executive Order for Federal AI Standards Signed | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 1, 2023
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
31:38 - The Weeks Ahead
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ISS Cleveland and the Current Market | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 25, 2023
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
29:19 - The Weeks Ahead
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AMD CEO Lisa Su leaves Cisco Board of Directors | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 18, 2023
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
31:20 - The Weeks Ahead
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US-China Tech War now Focused on RISC-V chip Technology | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 11, 2023
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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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
27:42 - The Weeks Ahead
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Programmable Solutions Group Spun-off by Intel | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 4, 2023
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
29:09 - The Weeks Ahead
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Cisco Set to Acquire Splunk | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 27, 2023
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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0:45 - Welcome to the Rundown
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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
28:22 - The Weeks Ahead
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Microsoft's Security Leaks Get Worse | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 20, 2023
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
3:11 - Lenovo Leaps Into AI at the Edge
7:28 - Announcements from Intel's Innovation
12:00 - HyperFlex Flexes Its Last
16:44 - Microsoft's Security Leaks Get Worse
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Cybercriminals Gain Attention from International Criminal Courts | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 13, 2023
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
29:49 - The Weeks Ahead
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Dell & AMD Partner for Accessible High Performance Computing | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 6, 2023
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.
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
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
27:08 - The Weeks Ahead
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Intel, Arm, AMD, and More Announcements from Hot Chips 2023 | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 30, 2023
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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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
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
41:37 - The Weeks Ahead
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Announcements from VMware Explore | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 23, 2023
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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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
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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Business Source License Adopted by HashiCorp | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 16, 2023
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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0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
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
39:41 - The Weeks Ahead41:07 - Thanks for WatchingFollow our Hosts on
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Announcements from Flash Memory Summit | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 9, 2023
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. Time Stamps:
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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Ultra Ethernet Consortium Founded & Event Season is Heating Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 2, 2023
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. Time Stamps:
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 Threats, Simple Errors, and the Death of an Icon | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 26, 2023
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. Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
1:04 - Stolen Microsoft security key leads to government email breach
3:22 - Samsung GDDR7 Development Completed
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 and Lambda Labs Team Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 19, 2023
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 Follow our Hosts on Social Media Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT
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The Battle Over Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 12, 2023
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 Follow our Hosts on Social Media Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT
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Checking In on the State of the IT Economy Half Way Through 2023 | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 5, 2023
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 Follow our Hosts on Social Media Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett
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MLPerf 3 Upsets the AI Apple Cart | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 28, 2023
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 Follow our Hosts on Social Media Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Tim Bertino: https://www.twitter.com/TimBertino Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT
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Intel Expanding Chip Fabs in Foreign Locations | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 21, 2023
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 Follow our Hosts on Social Media Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT
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Pure Storage Takes Aim at Disk Storage | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 14, 2023
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 Follow our Hosts on Social Media Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Justin Warren: https://www.linkedin.com/in/JPWarren Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT
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Announcements from Cisco Live | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 7, 2023
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 Follow our Hosts on Social Media Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Jeff Ton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtonindy/
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Dell Tech World Looks to Appeal to All | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 31, 2023
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 Follow our Hosts on Social Media Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.twitter.com/NetworkingNerd Stephen Foskett: https://www.twitter.com/SFoskett Chris Grundemann: https://www.twitter.com/ChrisGrundemann Follow Gestalt IT Website: https://www.GestaltIT.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltIT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/GestaltIT
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Ransomware Rampage: Cyber Threats and Costly Consequences | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 24, 2023
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.
Time Stamps:
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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