Is your wireless network producing more data than you can manage? Is there a way to sort through it all to provide real information? And how does that all scale in a stadium? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at the new hardware and software releases from Extreme Networks and how they’re working together to build the next generation of wirelessly-connected stadiums.
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Should Open Source Fight Strip Mining?
MariaDB sees success by offering an alternative to SaaS versions of their product rather than fighting them head on.
BigSwitch and Nutanix Partner to Simplify Infrastructure Provisioning and Administration
New partnership will provide an extension of BigSwitch’s cloud fabric into Nutanix AHV environments by way of the Nutanix APIs.
Olympic Hacking in Japan | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 30, 2019
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 reaching 10 million DAU, Rubrik’s data leak, and Japan’s plan to hack into their own IOT devices.
Accelerating Alternatives with Arrcus and 400GbE
Networks are getting faster every day. With the advent of Broadcom Tomahawk 3, what options do you have for running 400GbE in your network. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Arrcus and their newest release of ArcOS and how it can enable tomorrow’s networking features today.
Gestalt IT Live Blog – Cisco Live Europe Opening Keynote
Join Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day live from Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona, Spain! We will be live blogging the keynote address on Tuesday, January 29th at 9:15am CET. Follow along for the exciting announcements from Cisco!
Check Point Acquisition of Dome9 Allows Customers to Adopt a Security First Mindset
Ensuring that customers can adopt a mindset to designing applications and infrastructure with security as a required component from the beginning will ensure that Check Point remain at the forefront of the security landscape.
Profiting from DNS and Cyptomining | Gestalt IT Rundown | January 23, 2019
Join us for the January 23, 2019 episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown! Tom flies solo today and discusses the impending end of Mobile Windows 10 , EU fines for Google’s crimes, the silver lining to illicit cryptomining, a cloud revenue stream for Veeam, and a warning expressed about insecure DNS.
Zerto: The Road to IT Resiliency
Arjan Timmerman got to get a look at the latest from Zerto at Storage Field Day last year. In this post, he breaks down how their virtual workload replication works. He then looks at how this technology served as the foundation for an interesting backup offering for existing Zerto customers.
Cutting Costs Doesn’t Necessarily Increase Value
At some point in our lives most of us come the realization that making the lowest cost choice doesn’t always mean you are going to realize the best value possible. These kind of decisions are common in enterprise IT as well.