Verizon buys teleconferencing provider BlueJeans Network, Dropbox offers bug bounties for vendors, Alkira comes out of stealth, and Google releases advanced remote access tools. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss all the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, streaming live at 12:30pm ET.
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An Extra Virtual VMworld | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 15, 2020
VMware announced that VMWorld US and WMWorld Europe will be combined into a virtual event held in September, GitHub opens up private repositories to all users, IBM opens up resources to help with the dearth of COBOL programmers, and more. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss these and more during the show today. Be sure to subscribe on YouTube to catch the live stream every Wednesday at 12:30pm ET.
How to Solve Zoombombing | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 8, 2020
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 security, the Linux Foundation is working with a microkernel and the FCC is set to vote on 6GHz. Join Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth as they discuss on the Gestalt IT Rundown!
Palo Alto Networks To Acquire CloudGenix | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 1, 2020
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 just a SASE feature now. Plus they discuss why the bloom is off Zoom, if COVID-19 revealed a critical flaw in modern startups, and why Microsoft is trying to pitch Teams to consumers.
O’Reilly Closes Event Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 25, 2020
O’Reilly closes its event business, Microsoft has a font of exploits, the power of [email protected], and Storj Labs decentralizes cloud storage. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss all this and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown this week, with special guest Stephen Foskett.
GitHub Acquires npm | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 18, 2020
GitHub acquires npm to better secure the open source software supply chain, FireEye sees human triggered ransomware increase over 800%, a wormable SMB flaw is published, and Amazon might use the Linux Foundation’s Dent project to open source cashierless tech. All this and more on this week’s Gestalt IT Rundown. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth break down the IT news of the week.
It’s x86 Vulnerability Week | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 11, 2020
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 Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth as they discuss all the IT news of the week!
The Enterprise Response to COVID-19 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 4, 2020
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 and replace Huawei equipment for rural ISPs, and things are looking bad for the commodity server market. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss all the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown!
FreedomFi To Offer Private LTE Networks | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 26, 2020
FreedomFi is using open spectrum for private LTE networks, Azure Sphere goes GA, Intel still makes 5G things, and Cisco launched SecureX. Join Rich Stroffolino and Josh Fidel to get caught up on all the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown.
Dell Technologies Sells RSA Security to Private Equity Fund | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 19, 2020
Dell Technologies sells RSA Security, Arista buys Big Switch, Google restructures its cloud business, and Microsoft updates Dynamics 365. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss this and more today for the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly IT news briefings.