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Acquisitions Galore | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 13, 2022
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a very busy week for companies getting acquired! We thought it would be best to collect them all together so we could give you a quick overv...
AMD Picks Up Pensando | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 6, 2022
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh off an appearance on stage during Aruba Atmosphere, Pensando is now off the market thanks to AMD. The other big chipmaker in the space is pickin...
Aruba’s Atmosphere and Location Aware Wi-Fi | Gestalt IT Rundown: March, 30, 2022
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aruba introduced location-aware Wi-Fi access points for precise indoor location and is partnering with third parties like Tile to create a new OpenLoc...
NVIDIA Wows with the Next-Generation Hopper GPU Platform | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 23, 2022
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jensen Huang is back with another NVIDIA GTC keynote, launching the next-generation Hopper GPU architecture and a raft of new products for cloud, HPC,...
Hacked Companies Have New Reporting Rules | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 16, 2022
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a new directive from the US Congress, companies that are critical to the national interest will face new rules about whether or not they have been ...
Tech World Turns Away from Russia | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 9, 2022
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the world focused on the situation between Ukraine and Russia it's hard to keep up with the pace of news. One thing that has stood out from the t...
Can Cryptocurrency Sidestep Sanctions? | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 2, 2022
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
World news is very busy this week with stories focusing on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One of the biggest news items is that many of the countrie...
Time for a Cyber Social Contract? | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 23, 2022
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An interesting proposal appeared this week in an article penned by Chris Inglis, US National Cyber Director, and Harry Krejsa. In it, a suggestion is ...
Cisco Goes Spelunking for Splunk | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 16, 2022
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday afternoon saw a huge breaking announcement from the Wall Street Journal. Reports indicated that Cisco had made a $20 billion offer to acquire S...
Failed Deal Costs NVIDIA ARM and a Leg | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 9, 2022
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NVIDIA announced that they are finally dropping their plans to acquire chip maker ARM. The final nail in the coffin comes with a steep price tag, as A...
Intel and AMD Release Earnings | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 2, 2022
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last week saw quarterly financial announcements from both Intel (Jan 26) and AMD (Feb 1) that help us see where things are going, at least in the shor...
Intel is Officially Coming to Ohio | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 26, 2022
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's official! Intel's "Mega-Site" in New Albany, Ohio will house a massive chip fab, Intel's first all-new chipmaking facility in 40 years. NVIDIA's ...
PCI Express 6.0 Finalized | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 19, 2022
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The PCI Special Interest Group (SIG) announced last week that they have finalized the specification for PCI Express 6.0. And as mentioned previously o...
Moxie Marlinspike Spins a Web3 | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 12, 2022
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Someone who has done a lot of thinking about what Web3 represents is Moxie Marlinspike. In a recent piece on his blog he talked about the growing use ...
CES has Two Big CPU Announcements | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 5, 2022
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Although CES is traditionally a consumer show, we often see announcements there that are relevant in enterprise IT as well. That was certainly the cas...
2021 Year End Rundown | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 22, 2021
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a year-end rundown of the biggest stories each month of 2021. Stephen and Tom wrap up the year with their thoughts on the news that shaped...
Log4j Creates Lost Weekend of Patching | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 15, 2021
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 firs...
Intel in the Driver's Seat with MobilEye | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 8, 2021
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
AWS re:Invent Keynote Highlights | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 1, 2021
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
CXL Merging with Gen-Z | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 17, 2021
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
NVIDIA GTC Announcements & AMD Strikes Back | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 10, 2021
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a big week for NVIDIA as they held their GTC show and talked about all the newest advances they've been working on. And not to be outdone, AMD...
Dell Spins out VMware | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 3, 2021
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
VMware is now an independent company, having been spun out of the Dell EMC behemoth. We discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown.  ...
Intel Earnings Slide, AMD Earnings Soar | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 27, 2021
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Intel announced their earnings were down in the client arena for Q3. On the other hand, AMD is thrilled because they were up across the board big time...
Canonical Launches Ubuntu 21.10 | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 20, 2021
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Big news this week for Linux fans: the newest version of Ubuntu has just released. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown. For s...
Google Goes Hybrid at Google Cloud Next | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 13, 2021
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
VMworld Looms Large, Capitola Redefines Memory | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 6, 2021
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
VMworld 2021 is happening this week, virtually of course, and there are a ton of new product announcements. The biggest one is perhaps Project Capitol...
Pure Storage Launches Pure Fusion & Portworx Data Services | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 29, 2021
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Cisco Shakes Up Security Team | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 22, 2021
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The news out of Cisco this morning is some shuffling of the security executives. And the US Treasury announced sanctions against cryptocurrency exchan...
Emergency Apple Update Targets Pegasus Spyware | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 15, 2021
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in an emergency update, Apple released a patch preventing Pegasus spyware from infecting any Apple device with a single click. Researchers ...
Juniper Breach Related to Encryption Flaw Reveals More | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 8, 2021
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Swiss-based firm, ProtonMail, is under bombardment for strict privacy questions. After five years of mystery, more information is coming to light abou...
Astronomical Cosmos DB Vulnerability in Microsoft Azure | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 1, 2021
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft is seeing stars this week as the disclosure of a galaxy-sized vulnerability was reported. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rund...
Hot Chips 33 News Roundup | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 25, 2021
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're reacting to some of the big announcements that came out of Hot Chips 33 this week. We discuss these announcements and many more stories on this ...
Intel Shuts Down RealSense AI Cameras | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 18, 2021
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Chip Shortage Pushing Governments to Act | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 11, 2021
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chip shortages are pushing governments to act, including South Korea agreeing to parole disgraced Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong. Extreme Networks is buyin...
NVIDIA Runs into Arm Acquisition Snag | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 4, 2021
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 cons...
Intel Announces 2025 Roadmap | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 28, 2021
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Pegasus Flies To Exploit Journalist Phones | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 21, 2021
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ev...
Amazon Called to Testify About JEDI Involvement | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 14, 2021
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Members of the U.S Congress believe that Amazon may have been more involved in attempting to win the initial JEDI contract and SolarWinds is under fir...
US Government Strikes Down JEDI | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 7, 2021
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The US Government strikes down the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) and we have another ransomware attack as the prolific REvil ransomwa...
Intel Sapphire Rapids Rushes Back to 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 30, 2021
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Intel Excited About Big Semiconductor Bill | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 23, 2021
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Supreme Court Narrows CFAA Scope | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 16, 2021
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The US Supreme Court has overturned the verdict in Van Buren vs. United States and Time Cache looks to time out CPU side channels. We discuss these st...
FBI Goes Mobile to Disrupt Crime with the "FBIphone" | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 9, 2021
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The FBI has gone mobile to disrupt Crime with the FBIphone, the FBI also stole a march on the ransomware crew responsible for the Colonial Pipeline sh...
Keerti Melkote Stepping Down at Aruba | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 2, 2021
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Keerti Melkote is stepping down at Aruba, Cloudera is going private in $5.3 billion acquisition and US beef product has been impacted by Ransomware. W...
NAND Inventor Wants to Replace DRAM | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 26, 2021
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
NAND Inventor wants to replace DRAM, Google had a lot to say at I/O last week, and Freenode Staff flees after new owner seizes. We discuss these stori...
Apple Faces Potential Issues in China | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 19, 2021
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We take a deeper dive into VMware's new CEO and Apple faces potential issues in China. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown....
VMware Names New CEO and President | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 12, 2021
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Breaking News on this week's Rundown: VMware Names New CEO and President. Also in this week's show: Wi-Fi Vulnerable to Fragmentation Attacks, IBM Cre...
IBM Buys Turbonomic | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 5, 2021
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
IBM Buys Turbonomic, HPE GreenLake Gets Cloudy Storage, Dell Announces APEX Storage-as-a-Service and Aryaka buys Secucloud for SASE. We discuss these ...
Scality Announces ARTESCA | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 28, 2021
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scality just announced their newest cloud-native storage object solution, ARTESCA. Secure messaging app, Signal, has discovered Vulnerabilities in Cel...
Dell Spinning off VMware | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 21, 2021
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dell Technologies announced that they will spin off their share of VMware to help pay off some of their corporate debt and the FBI Remotely Patches Ex...
Nvidia's GTC Announcements | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 14, 2021
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we discuss Nvidia's 2021 GTC announcements and many other stories on this week's Rundown! For show notes please visit: h...
Intel Introduces Ice Lake | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 7, 2021
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Intel finally released its next-generation server platform, Ice Lake, yesterday. We discuss this story and much more with special guest host Calvin He...
Cisco Adds Network as a Service | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 31, 2021
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cisco is adding network as a service with Cisco Plus, Cohesity announced that it has risen in value this year, and Amazon is reportedly looking into m...
Intel Finally Launching Ice Lake Xeon | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 24, 2021
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Intel is finally launching Ice Lake, Cloud spending outstrips on-premise investments for the first time and Microsoft may be buying Discord. We discus...
Micron Exits 3d XPoint Business | GestaltIT Rundown: March 17, 2021
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Micron Technology announced that they are getting out of the business of 3D Xpoint, a fire at OVHCloud last week caused several website outages ...
Buffer Releases New Work From Home Study | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 10, 2021
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Buffer has released a new work from home study, thousands have been infected thorough Microsoft Exchange and Intel announced chips for Homomorphic Enc...
HPE Acquires CloudPhysics | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 3, 2021
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
HPE is acquiring CloudPhysics, VMware vCenter needs to be patched and Google Research fires AI Bias Experts after they point out biases in AI. We disc...
SolarWinds Topic of Senate Panel Discussion | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 24, 2021
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
SolarWinds is testifying before a Senate panel and Malware is hiding backup control servers on the Blockchain. We discuss these stories and much more ...
AWS is the Biggest Enterprise Storage Vendor | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 17, 2021
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AWS is the biggest enterprise storage vendor and the Super Micro hack was kept secret for years. We'll discuss these stories and much more on this wee...
SpaceX Starlink Opens Up New Orders | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 10, 2021
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
SpaceX Starlink opens up new orders and "hackers" tamper with Florida water. We discuss these stories and much more in this week's Rundown. &nbs...
Andy Jassy Steps Up as Amazon CEO | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 3, 2021
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Jassy is stepping up as Amazon's CEO, AfriNIC has been caught illegally reselling IP addresses and DriveNets catches a big Series B. We discuss t...
Slack Outage Caused by AWS | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 27, 2021
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Slack's early-January outage was caused by AWS, Intel's New CEO is rehiring CUP Architects, there was a Verizon FIOS outage on the East Coast and AWS ...
MalwareBytes Bitten by Dark Hero | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 20, 2021
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
MalwareBytes is bitten by Dark Hero, Hackers nab Mimecast certificate from Microsoft and Qualcomm is buying Nuvia. We'll discuss these topics and much...
Intel CEO Stepping Down in February | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 13, 2021
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Breaking news in this week's Rundown: Intel's CEO is stepping down in February. We'll discuss more Intel news and many other stories in this week's Ru...
Google Workers Unionize | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 06, 2021
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Google workers unionize, Russia hacked Microsoft too and Intel is urged to explore new deals. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's ...
2020 Year End Rundown
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What a year 2020 has been! We’ve covered a lot of stories in the last 12 months and Stephen and Tom wanted to go back and take a look at some of the...
SolarWinds Orion Hacked | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 16, 2020
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SolarWinds' flagship Orion platform has been hacked and the CentOS team moves to Stream. We'll discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown! ...
Juniper Buying Apstra| Gestalt IT Rundown: December 9, 2020
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Juniper is buying Apstra, AWS is scaling EBS to compete with SANs, SCOUTS is looking at CFAA and DeepMind is using AI to solve protein folding. We'll ...
HPE Is Texas Bound| Gestalt IT Rundown: December 2, 2020
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
HPE is Texas bound, IBM creates quantum-safe encryption and AWS has a Kinesis problem. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown...
Microsoft Making Pluton for Security| Gestalt IT Rundown: November 18, 2020
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft is making Pluton for Security, Celona Partners with Aruba to Expand CBRS and the launch of MacOS Big Sur. We'll discuss these topics and muc...
Apple M1 Chip To Power New Macs | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 11, 2020
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Apple is making their own chips for their new Mac line and Intel seems to be squarely in the sights of Agent P. We'll these stories and much more on t...
Juniper Installed Backdoor For NSA | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 4, 2020
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Juniper installed backdoor For NSA, NetApp goes 'storageless', hackers hunting for Oracle exploit and Starlink releases open Beta. We'll talk about al...
HashiCorp Announces Nomad Container Orchestration | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 28, 2020
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
HashiCorp announces Nomad Container orchestration, AMD is buying Xilinx for $35 billion, and we expand on last week's discussion on the US DOJ suing G...
SK hynix Acquires Intel's NAND Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 21, 2020
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SK hynix finalized a deal to purchase Intel's NAND flash memory and SSD operations, the United States Justice Department just filed an antitrust suit ...
IBM Splitting Into Two Companies | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 14, 2020
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
IBM splitting off professional services, big flaw in Apple's T2 security chip, and still more tech acquisitions happening. We'll talk about it all in ...
Cisco to Pay $2 Billion In Patent Dispute? | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 7, 2020
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cisco may have to pay up in a patent infringement case, the US Treasury is warning against paying ransomware crews, and acquisitions galore on this ep...
Converging Conference Communities in the Cloud | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 30, 2020
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
VMworld announcements galore, Intel nomenclature, and even more on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown! For show notes, make sure to visit http://G...
Pure Storage Acquires Portworx | Gestalt IT Rundown - September 23, 2020
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pure Storage is buying Portworx, Snowflake has a big IPO, and Western Digital has a breakup. All these stories and more on this episode of the Gestalt...
NVIDIA To Buy ARM for $40 Billion | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 16, 2020
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
NVIDIA is buying ARM, TikTok may belong to Oracle now, and Silicon Valley paying less to remote workers? It's all here in the September 16 edition of ...
AWS Rebuffs JEDI Contract Award | Gestalt IT Rundown September 9, 2020
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
AWS Strikes Back Against JEDI, ARM News galore, and one less Chef making Progress in the kitchen in this week's episode of the Rundown! You can also ...
Russians Attempt to Cripple Tesla | Gestalt IT Rundown September 2, 2020
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Russians gunning for Tesla, CenturyLink goes down, Nutanix making changes, and more on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown! For show notes an...
China to Enforce TLS 1.3 Ban | Gestalt IT Rundown August 26, 2020
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Tom and Max Mortillaro take a look at the winding down of Lumina Networks, Uber's former security chief getting in hot water with the feds, ...
Tofino2 and Power10 Debut - Gestalt IT Rundown August 19, 2020
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for the Gestalt IT Rundown for August 19! We have stories about Intel's newest chips, IBM's take on AI processors, News from Cohesity and Pure...
Nutanix Goes to AWS | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 12, 2020
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nutanix launches Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Gartner's IaaS report has some surprises, LinkedIn sells SlideShare, and Have I Been Pwned is going open sou...
Nvidia, Arm, and SoftBank | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 5, 2020
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why does Nvidia want to buy Arm? Why is public cloud revenue growth slowing down? How can Backblaze help overcome cloud egress fees? Why are we asking...
Garmin's Ransomware Outage | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 29, 2020
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Garmin goes dark for days due to a ransomware outage, Intel's 7nm delay forces a major reorganization, New Zealand tries to make algorithms accountabl...
EU Lowers Its Privacy Shield | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 22, 2020
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The EU Court of Justice invalidates the EU-US Privacy Shield framework, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the implications for SMBs. Plus...
What Will HPE Do With Silver Peak? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 15, 2020
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
HPE bought Silver Peak, Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth break down what the company will do with the SD-WAN stalwart. Then they discuss the lat...
Why Did VMware Buy Datrium? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 8, 2020
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
VMware gets some interesting DR assets with Datrium, Alphabet's Loom starts internet balloon service in Kenya, most passwords are bad, and Dfinity ope...
AWS Goes to Space | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 1, 2020
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon launches the Aeronautics and Satellite Solutions to go to space, Salesforce tries to remove gender bias from AI, and Microsoft launches initiat...
Is Dell Selling VMware? | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 24, 2020
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dell is reportedly investigating a VMware spinoff, a bill in the US Senate would require tech companies to help break encryption, Intel launched Gen 2...
Cisco SecureX Reaches General Availability | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 17, 2020
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cisco announces that its SecureX platforms becomes generally available on June 30th, GitHub will change repository names from "master" to "main", and ...
NetApp Buys Spot.io | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 10, 2020
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
NetApp buys Spot.io, VMware gets LastLine, IBM exits the facial recognition business, and Slack cozies up to AWS. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffoli...
Cisco Postpones Cisco Live | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 3, 2020
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're doing a headlines only version of the Gestalt IT Rundown. Cisco announced it is postponing Cisco Live, ThousandEyes and Edgewise Netwo...
How is COVID-19 Impacting Digital Transformation? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 27, 2020
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Rundown, Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth dig into a new survey of IT pros asking how COVID-19 is impacting digital transformat...
Catching Up On Microsoft Build 2020 | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 20, 2020
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're focused on the big announcements from Microsoft Build. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino break down the latest updates with Offic...
Dell EMC Unifies Midrange Storage with PowerStore | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 13, 2020
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dell EMC releases PowerStore to unify its midrange storage options, Windows and Linux PCs have a big Thunderbolt vulnerability, and Google unifies the...
Why Did Nvidia Buy Cumulus Networks? | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 6, 2020
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia buys Cumulus Networks, Nutanix furloughs 25% of its staff, ransomware disclosures to the FTC spike, and Salt vulnerabilities are rapidly exploi...
Google's Cloud Business Rising? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 29, 2020
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Google's Cloud business reports revenue while it plans to grow Google Meet, Arm wants to give startups the first license taste for free, and can OpenC...
What Will Verizon Do With BlueJeans? | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 22, 2020
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Verizon buys teleconferencing provider BlueJeans Network, Dropbox offers bug bounties for vendors, Alkira comes out of stealth, and Google releases ad...