Tech Field Day News Rundown

US and UK Join Forces for AI Safety | The Gestalt IT Rundown: April 3, 2024

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 informatio...

Revisiting the Impact of NVIDIA GTC | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 27, 2024

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

NVIDIA GTC News and NVIDIA Blackwell Systems | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 20, 2024

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

VAST Data Announcements from the Tech Field Day Showcase | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 13, 2024

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 colla...

NetApp Improves their Cybersecurity | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 6, 2024

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NetApp is updaing their ransomware protection solutions. They've made some new additions to their Automated Ransomware Protection (ARP) platform t...

Broadcom Redefines VMware | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 28, 2024

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a series of bold moves, Broadcom has restructured VMware shifting to subscription-only licenses across all offerings. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan wants V...

Feds Let Fancy Bear Embers Die Out | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 21, 2024

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 co...

Cohesity to Acquire Veritas Technologies | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 14, 2024

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Cisco Live EMEA Embraces New Technologies | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 7, 2024

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 thou...

Juniper Networks Reveals First AI-Native Networking Platform | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 31, 2024

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Juniper Networks is putting more Marvis in everything. In a major announcement this week they released several new products. One of those was expandin...

Should We Be Concerned About Growing Electricity Demand? | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 24, 2024

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 emi...

Synopsys to Acquire Ansys | The Gestalt IT Rundown: January 17, 2024

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

HPE Acquiring Juniper Networks for $14 Billion | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 10, 2024

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Intel's AI Ecosystem and AI PCs | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 3, 2024

03 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Top Enterprise IT Stories of 2023 | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 20, 2023

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

VMware Simplifies Offer Lineup through Broadcom | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 13. 2023

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 lice...

IBM and Meta's AI Alliance Launched This Week | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 6, 2023

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 com...

Announcements from AWS re:Invent | The Gestalt IT Rundown: November 29, 2023

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon announced that they will be using Nvidia's NVSwitch to create new rackscale AI platforms. This allows customers to use Nvidia technology li...

OpenAI Chaos Reigns Supreme | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 22, 2023

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Brockma...

Existential Questions about HPC and AI | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 15, 2023

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, mo...

Okta Breach Blamed on User's Personal Google Login | The Gestalt IT Rundown: November 8, 2023

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 c...

Executive Order for Federal AI Standards Signed | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 1, 2023

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

President Joe Biden has signed a comprehensive executive order addressing the safety and governance of artificial intelligence in the United States. T...

ISS Cleveland and the Current Market | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 25, 2023

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 hom...

AMD CEO Lisa Su leaves Cisco Board of Directors | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 18, 2023

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 surpr...

US-China Tech War now Focused on RISC-V chip Technology | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 11, 2023

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Programmable Solutions Group Spun-off by Intel | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 4, 2023

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Cisco Set to Acquire Splunk | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 27, 2023

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 oc...

Microsoft's Security Leaks Get Worse | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 20, 2023

20 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Cybercriminals Gain Attention from International Criminal Courts | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 13, 2023

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In an excellent article, Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court has started to make the case that cybercriminals should be subject to internat...

Dell & AMD Partner for Accessible High Performance Computing | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 6, 2023

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dell Technologies and AMD are at the forefront of high-performance computing (HPC), driving innovation in various fields, such as space exploration, w...

Intel, Arm, AMD, and More Announcements from Hot Chips 2023 | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 30, 2023

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At Hot Chips 2023, Intel unveiled Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids Xeon processors targeting data centers. Sierra Forest is Intel's first E-core X...

Announcements from VMware Explore | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 23, 2023

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

VMware just can't stop talking about GenAI, which incorporates many different developments. The company is adding AI assistants to many products a...

Business Source License Adopted by HashiCorp | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 16, 2023

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you love licensing drama? Last week HashiCorp made headlines with an announcement by CTO Armon Dadgar that they're changing licensing models. H...

Announcements from Flash Memory Summit | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 9, 2023

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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'...

Ultra Ethernet Consortium Founded & Event Season is Heating Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 2, 2023

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some of the biggest names in the HPC and hyperconvergence space are banding together to standardize Ethernet. The new Ultra Ethernet Consortium counts...

Cybersecurity Threats, Simple Errors, and the Death of an Icon | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 26, 2023

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cybersecurity remains a critical concern, dominating headlines with its persistent threats and sophisticated attacks. Recent incidents, such as the st...

NVIDIA and Lambda Labs Team Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 19, 2023

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nvidia accelerates its venture capital investments in cloud and AI software startups, taking an equity stake in Lambda Labs, a competitor to Amazon We...

The Battle Over Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 12, 2023

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Str...

Checking In on the State of the IT Economy Half Way Through 2023 | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 5, 2023

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

MLPerf 3 Upsets the AI Apple Cart | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 28, 2023

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Intel Expanding Chip Fabs in Foreign Locations | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 21, 2023

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Pure Storage Takes Aim at Disk Storage | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 14, 2023

14 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Announcements from Cisco Live | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 7, 2023

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At Cisco Live 2023, Cisco unveiled a range of solutions for SSE, network management, observability, and a new cloud-native application security soluti...

Dell Tech World Looks to Appeal to All | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 31, 2023

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ransomware Rampage: Cyber Threats and Costly Consequences | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 24, 2023

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ransomware attacks continue to pose a significant threat across various sectors, with recent incidents targeting critical industries and causing subst...

AI Controversies Hit Enterprise IT | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 17, 2023

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 se...

Aruba Atmosphere Announcements Abound | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 10, 2023

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

The Legacy of the Biggest Supply Chain Hack | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 3, 2023

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks to Gina Rosenthal for sharing a wonderful article from Wired about the details behind the SolarWinds Orion supply chain hack that we covered ba...

Google Cloud Turns a Profit and Extends the Life of Servers | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 26, 2023

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the three years since reporting financial metrics Google's cloud business has announced they have turned a profit. Their offerings under this u...

Intel's Transformation Continues | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 19, 2023

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

China Plays Hardball with Western Companies | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 12, 2023

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

China is reportedly blocking multiple mergers and is now investigating Micron for an unspecified cybersecurity concern. Delays include Intel’s acqui...

Amazon Opens Sidewalk to Developers | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 5, 2023

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Gordon Moore Dies at 94 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 29, 2023

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Nvidia GTC Looms Large | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 22, 2023

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Analyzing What SVB's Failure Means for Enterprises | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 15, 2023

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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? Th...

Brainchip Readies Generation 2 Akida AI | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 8, 2023

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Brainchip is back again with the latest generation of their Akida AI engine. This second-generation offering provides performance increases while simu...

SNIA Gets Smart with New Smart Accelerator Interface | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 1, 2023

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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-t...

US Supreme Court Takes on Section 230 | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 22, 2023

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 v...

Apple's Zero Day Vulnerability May have Been Exploited | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 15, 2023

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 acknowledge...

Cisco Leans Into 5G, IoT, & Sustainability at Cisco Live EMEA | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 8, 2023

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 d...

Intel Punts Pathfinder and Nixes Networking Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 1, 2023

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 develo...

DoJ Says Google Doesn't Ad Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 25, 2023

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Sapphire Rapids Servers are Launched | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 18, 2023

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Supermicro, Dell, HPE, Cisco, and others have introduced the first server lines based on Intel's recently-announced 4th generation Xeon processors. An...

Intel 4th Gen Xeon Rides the Rapids | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 11, 2023

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you were curious as to when Intel would launch their fourth generation Xeon processors you can satisfy that curiosity. Intel's long-rumored Sapphir...

Okta Source Code Nabbed from GitHub | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 4, 2023

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 hav...

Year in Review 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 21, 22022

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 thin...

Will Covid and Politics Strangle Manufacturing in China | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 14, 2022

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tech production in China is getting more concerning by the day. Between the pandemic and international technology transfer restrictions, this could be...

HPE Looking at Nutanix? | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 7, 2022

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Graviton CPU Variant for HPC | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 30, 2022

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 excitin...

AMD Releases Genoa Epyc CPUs | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 16, 2022

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 lin...

AI Performance is On Display with MLPerf | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 9, 2022

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 m...

Elon Musk purchases Twitter and Does what Musk Does | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 2, 2022

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 informatio...

FAA Wants 5G Limits | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 26, 2022

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Nutanix Looking For A Buyer? | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 19, 2022

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 n...

Alder Lake Leaks BIOS Source | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 12, 2022

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 Interne...

AMD Takes On the World in the Datacenter and Cloud | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 5, 2022

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Gelsinger's New Intel - How's It Looking? | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 28, 2022

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Oracle on Verge of Becoming World’s Hottest Cloud Vendor | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 21, 2022

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 – Oracl...

Nvidia Aces MLPerf with H100 | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 14, 2022

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

MLCommons released the latest wave of machine learning training and inferencing benchmarks, and Nvidia's next-generaltion H100 really aced the results...

China Blocked in the GPU and AI Market | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 7, 2022

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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. Thi...

VMware Explores the Future of Enterprise IT | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 31, 2022

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

Qualcomm Taking a Nuvia Look at Server CPUs | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 24, 2022

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Flash Memory Summit in a Flash | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 17, 2022

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

Intel has an AEpic Security Problem | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 10, 2022

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Optane Train Out of Steam? | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 3, 2022

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...

Chipmakers in China Report Reduced Demand and Lower Pricing | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 27, 2022

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Industrial Systems Coming Under Siege | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 20, 2022

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Attackers are starting to target the critical infrastructure that runs industrial and manufacturing facilities. That may not sound like a new thing bu...

Apple is Working on the Lockdown | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 13, 2022

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

NIST Approves Quantum-Resistant Crypto | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 6, 2022

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

NIST has announced their selections for quantum-safe encryption algorithms. The competition has been running since 2016 when the standards body realiz...

ML Commons Unveils MLPerf Training v2.0 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 29, 2022

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The artificial intelligence community is buzzing about the just-released ML Commons MLPerf Training v2.0 results, which were announced today. NVIDIA, ...

RSA and Cisco Live: Viral Events | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 22, 2022

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, Juni...

Pure Storage Revs Up FlashBlade and Portworx | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 15, 2022

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pure Storage held their annual Accelerate event in Los Angeles last week. The key new introduction was the next generation of their FlashBlade scale-o...

IBM owes $1.6 billion for BMC Poaching | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 8, 2022

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Intel Announces Newest HPC Lineups at ISC 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 1, 2022

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 generati...

Broadcom Looking to Buy VMware? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 25, 2022

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 purchas...

Intel Plans for 800 Gbos IPUs | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 18, 2022

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 focusin...

A Look Into Dell's Future | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 11, 2022

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Dell Brings APEX, Storage, and Alpine to Dell Technologies World | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 4, 2022

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Although Dell skipped inviting influencers to Dell Tech World this year, the company announced that they are expanding their APEX on-premises and publ...

Facebook Doesn't Know Where Your Data Goes | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 27, 2022

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 worri...

Are We Really Muted? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 20, 2022

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 disab...