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An Extra Virtual VMworld | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 15, 2020
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
VMware announced that VMworld US and WMworld Europe will be combined into a virtual event held in September, GitHub opens up private repositories to a...
How to Solve Zoombombing | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 8, 2020
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zoombombing is becoming a problem and the industry, and Zoom itself reacts. Plus the MANRS group gets lots of new members to improve internet routing ...
Palo Alto Networks To Acquire CloudGenix | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 1, 2020
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Palo Alto Networks reached an agreement to buy CloudGenix. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss why they made the move and whether SD-WAN is...
O’Reilly Closes Event Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 25, 2020
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
O’Reilly closes its event business, Microsoft has a font of exploits, the power of Folding@Home, and Storj Labs decentralizes cloud storage. Rich St...
GitHub Acquires npm | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 18, 2020
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
GitHub acquires npm to better secure the open source software supply chain, FireEye sees human triggered ransomware increase over 800%, a wormable SMB...
It's x86 Vulnerability Week | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 11, 2020
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
New vulnerabilities are published for AMD and Intel Processors, and we get an early look at the performance of Amazon's Graviton2 processor. Join Rich...
The Enterprise Response to COVID-19 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 4, 2020
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Google, Cisco, Zoom, and Microsoft offer free teleconferencing to help stop COVID-19 spread, 80 Arm cores come to the datacenter, bill passes to rip a...
FreedomFi To Offer Private LTE Networks | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 26, 2020
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
FreedomFi is using open spectrum for private LTE networks, Azure Sphere goes GA, Intel still makes 5G things, and Cisco launched SecureX. Join Rich St...
Dell Technologies Sells RSA Security to Private Equity Fund | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 19, 2020
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dell Technologies sells RSA Security, Arista buys Big Switch, Google restructures its cloud business, and Microsoft updates Dynamics 365. Rich Stroffo...
The End to No Breach Ransomware? | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 12, 2020
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
New ransomware attacked exfiltrate data prior to encryption for blackmail, IBM standardizes on Slack, the impact of India's proposed data privacy law,...
VMware per-CPU Cost Changes | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 5 ,2020
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
VMware changes up its per-CPU pricing to reflect the proliferation of CPU cores, WireGuard VPN is coming to the Linux kernel, Western Digital finds a ...
Cisco Live Europe Reactions | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 29, 2020
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reactions from Cisco Live Europe, VMware layoffs hit hard, Google looking to compete with Microsoft Teams. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are ...
Is Open-Source Licensing Broken? | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 22, 2020
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A new survey shows that open-source projects are abandoning copyleft licensing, VMware acquires the network analytics startup Nyansa, and IBM actually...
Veeam Acquired by Insight Partners | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 15, 2020
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Google announced it acquired AppSheet, a no-code development platform for workplace apps like CRM, field inspections or personalized reporting. Google...
AI Patent Trolls | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 8, 2020
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss if AI should be able to get patents, if Microsoft getting into Teams hardware spells trouble for Cisco,...
2019 in Review | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 18, 2019
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look back at 2019. They discuss the biggest IT news, from new regulations and acquisitions, to new p...
India's New Data Regulation Bill | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 11, 2019
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the details of a new data regulation bill from India. Some are com...
Machine Learning Dominates at AWS re:Invent 2019 | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 4, 2019
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look at the big announcements from AWS re:Invent, with a heavy dose of machine learning. Plus they cover the la...
Mirantis Contains Docker Enterprise | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 20, 2019
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss Mirantis acquiring Docker Enterprise, Intel's openAPI programming model, why ...
Disney Nonplussed | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 13, 2019
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino are talking about the latest annual user report from GitHub, why 5G security flaws are a good thing, the fine a...
Glass Effect | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 6, 2019
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Rich Stroffolino is flying solo and discussing one major story, the first proof of concept of Microsoft's Project Silica. This glass based ...
The Last JEDI | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 30, 2019
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino are talking about the state of public cloud, why Microsoft is the last JEDI, and why the patent shoe is on the ...
Microsoft's First Movere Advantage | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 23, 2019
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth talk about the IT news of the week, including a look at IBM's financials since acquiring Red Hat, the Air Force...
Sudon't Make Me a Sandwich | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 16, 2019
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look at the news from Commvault GO, the increasing attrition in the Libra Association, how AWS made Oracle sad,...
VMware Takes the Carbon Black | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 9, 2019
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Stephen Foskett and Rich Stroffolino discuss VMware closing on the acquisition of Carbon Black, why Workplace by Facebook is growing so fas...
WeWork's IP-No | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 2, 2019
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone discuss the IT news of the week, including Docker's quest for more funding, PDF encryption problems, WeWork cancellin...
Not Hot For Bots | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 25, 2019
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss Western Digital exiting the enterprise storage market, Microsoft getting into the SIEM, and Cloudflare ...
Leaving the Ecuador Open | Gestalt IT Rundown, September 18, 2019
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone are joined by Justin Warren live from Pure Accelerate. They're talking about the ...
Don't Hate, Regulate | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 11, 2019
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the show, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the raft of investigations into big tech and how likely they are to lead to mean...
Commvault Buys Hedvig | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 4, 2019
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss what Commvault gets by buying Hedvig, why ads in your terminal are...
Of Chips and Acquisitions | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 21, 2019
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss the IT news of the week, including big VMware acquisitions, AI chips from Intel, and OpenPower going op...
AMD Wasn't Built In A Day | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 14, 2019
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talked about the WeWork IPO, why misconfigured EBS snapshots are the new misconfigured S3 buckets, and why AMD's new server chips weren't...
Jira and the Definition of All | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 7, 2019
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss configuration issues leading to privacy breaches with Jira, why the FCC set rules for new broadband coverage ...
What's In Your Bucket | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 31, 2019
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week, including what we know about the big Capital One data leak, if Dish can become...
VPNemy at the Gates | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 24, 2019
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss if browser extensions are an under evaluated threat surface, if you can store a SQL database in DNA, what Mic...
Germany Drops the Hessians on Microsoft | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 17, 2019
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Foskett and Rich Stroffolino discuss why the German state of Hesse says Office365 is illegal for schools, the FTC dropping a $5 billion fine o...
FUD: Fear, UK and DNS | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 10, 2019
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino are talking about the IT news of the week, including Zoom's nasty security vulnerability, Cisco buying Acacia, ...
Cloudfail | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 3, 2019
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss the recent Cloudflare outage, how big the overall SaaS market is, if Huawei and the US are patching things up...
HCI See What You Did There | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 26, 2019
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss what Extreme Networks is getting by buying Aerohive, what the latest marketshare numbers spell for Nuta...
Nvidia Arms Itself | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 19, 2019
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss all the announcements from HPE Discover, Nvidia bringing CUDA to ARM, Huawei slashing revenue, and the League...
Azure and Oracle Connect | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 5, 2019
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss the Oracle-Microsoft cloud bromance, forthcoming antitrust investigations into hyperscalers, and w...
Bad Week To Be A Standards Body | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 29, 2019
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the relevant news out of Computex, how future HTML standards are changing, an...
Dropping the Hammer on Huawei | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 22, 2019
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Nalbone and Tom Hollingsworth discuss Huawei's woes, how 5G might effect the weather, Broadcom coming under scrutiny, KubeCon announcements, and m...
Intel Hits the ZombieLoad | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 15, 2019
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are discuss the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. They talked about a major Cisco security vuln...
The Perpetual Plugin Problem | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 8, 2019
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino talked about the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. They discussed the news from Microso...
Azure and VMware Team Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 1, 2019
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From Dell Technologies World, Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone are here with the Gestalt IT Rundown. They discussed if Azure is catching up to AWS, a b...
Docker Partners With Arm | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 24, 2019
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Nalbone and Richard Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week including Docker and Arm's new partnership, Samsung betting big on non-volatile ch...
Patent Peace in Our Time | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 17, 2019
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino talk about Intel getting out of the 5G business, VPN flaws, security is...
Run, Google Cloud Run | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 10, 2019
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discussed the news from Google Cloud Next, the HPE-Nutanix partnership, AW...
Intel Announces All The Things | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 3, 2019
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone and talking about the big IT news of the week. Today they are looking at the implications of Cloudflare's new VPN, In...
Pwn2Asus | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 27, 2019
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are discussing Asus distributed signed malware, Pwn2Own finding another VM escape bug, which programming l...
Open Source's Amazon Problem | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 20, 2019
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discussed if open source has an Amazon problem, the enterprise tech behind Google Stadia game streaming ann...
NGINX Receives the F5 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 13, 2019
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth discussed the big acquisition news of the week, with Mellanox Technologies and NGINX, Inc....
The Backstory Chronicle | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 6, 2019
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are looking at the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. Did Alphabet just kill Splunk? How did...
IBM BMC OMG! | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 27, 2019
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly look at the IT news of the week. This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Ken Nalbone discuss Microsoft's new enterpr...
UK OK With Huawei | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 20, 2019
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Gestalt IT Rundown gets you up to speed on the latest IT news. This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino talked about an interesting ac...
Intel's Swan Song | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 6, 2019
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Get caught up on the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone discuss calls from Cisco for GDPR-like privacy r...
Olympic Hacking in Japan | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 30, 2019
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are running down the IT news of the week. This time they are talking about the latest US-Huawei tensions, Slack reach...
Leave Open Source Alone Amazon | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 16, 2019
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone discuss the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Databases, open source drama, TLS certificates, chip news,...
Dropping the HAMR on Qualcomm | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 9, 2019
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about MAMR vs HAMR drives, what the glut of IoT devices a...
Co-CEO FTW | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 8, 2018
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Stroffolino is back for a solo Rundown, talking about Salesforce's new Co-CEO, Arista settling up with Cisco, TSMC gets a cold, and the advent of...
AMD Plays the Long Hygon | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 11, 2018
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth flies solo in this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown. In this episode, he reviews how AMD can cross-license x86 in China, Alibaba Cl...
WPA3 Is Certifiable | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 27, 2018
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's your weekly look at the IT news, the Gestalt IT Rundown. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss terrible Apple keyboards, the Snapdragon ...
Christmas for Cisco in July Systems | GITR, June 20, 2018
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Gestalt IT Rundown returns, bringing you another week's worth of IT news. Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino discuss the Cisco acquisition ...
The Ice Man Buyeth | Gestalt IT Rundown, June 6, 2018
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino discuss the GitHub acquisition, SAP CRM, lifting the ZTE ban, and the IT implicati...
The Vermont Effect | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 30, 2018
30 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the VPNFilter malware, Vermont's regulation of data brokers, how cloud CAPEX is going for Oracle and IB...
Q(uestion)LC Flash | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 23, 2018
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Gestalt IT Rundown, running down the IT news of the week with Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino. Is a new Spectre upon us? Will QLC flas...
The Eventful Edge | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 9, 2018
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, we're reviewing some of the big announcements coming out of Microsoft Build, Google IO and other industry events....
Windows 10 Lean - April 25, 2018
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Rundown, Rich Stroffolino takes a look at some of the overarching trends from RSA Conference, examines why the Flickr acquisition is ...
Qualcomm's Terrible No Good Very Bad Acquisition
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Stroffolino is riding solo on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown. He runs down the IT news of the week, including a Qualcomm - NXP acquisitio...
Last Password | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 11, 2018
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss skinny mainframes, container standardization, SaaS doom, and the end of passwords.
Panera is Toast | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 4, 2018
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss exploits against Drupal and Panera, Microsoft reorganizing Windows, and Cloudflare's DNS. Fo...
HPE's Run-on Sentences | Gestalt IT Rundown: March, 28, 2018
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Stroffolino is flying solo this week on the Rundown! Talking HPE's acquisition of Cape Networks, Foxconn buying Belkin, the state of the African ...
Windows Server Millennium Edition | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 21, 2018
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week. This week, they discuss the dramatic growth of container and serverless adopti...
Bad Moon Ryzen | Gestalt IT Rundown - March 14, 2018
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Gestalt IT Rundown looks at the IT news of the week with hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino. Today they talked about the death of Broadc...