Veeam will be acquired by Insight Partners for $5 billion, Packet gets bought by Equinix, billions of medical images found stored in unsecured servers, and IBM fights the patent trolls. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about these and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown, your source for the IT news of the week.
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Stupid Network Tricks
BYOD is a blessing and a curse. There are a multitude of ways that you can work with your own device, just as long as you follow the draconian rules set forth by security. Eric Ableson has some tips to keep your sanity when you’re trying to figure out how to get Dropbox working in a BYOD situation.
Wi-Fi Monetization is Bad – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
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In this roundtable, Tom Hollingsworth leads a discussion about the premise that Wi-Fi monetization is bad. Some would argue that it’s evil. If venues and businesses want to offer Wi-Fi, it should be treated the same way other utilities are. These all require a degree of expense to the business, but aren’t added on as charges to customers. Keith Parsons uses the free, frictionless, and fast standard. Does that mean that everyone should offer free Wi-Fi all the time? And how does that fit into an organizations larger IT policy framework. The roundtable makes the case and digs into the details in this episode.
How to Blog, Win Friends and Influence People…
Thinking of starting a blog? It’s not too late. Award-winning blogger, Nigel Bowden, tackles the subject with great detail for anyone who is thinking about getting started in content creation.
AI Patent Trolls | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 8, 2019
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss if AI should be able to get patents, if Microsoft getting into Teams hardware spells trouble for Cisco, and the first impacts of CCPA.
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There Is No Layer-2 in Public Cloud
Layer 2 is the great equalizer. It’s where all data goes before it heads out on the wire. Well, except in the public cloud. Ivan Pepelnjak has a great reminder that what we know of as Layer 2 doesn’t exist in the public cloud. And that’s for the best.