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 SACCSing floppies, Microsoft’s recent acquisitions, and another week of terrible data leaks. Fun times!
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Sudon’t Make Me a Sandwich | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 16, 2019
On this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look at the news from Commvault GO, the increasing attrition in the Libra Association, how AWS made Oracle sad, and why you might want to say “sudon’t make me a sandwich.” Be sure to catch each episode live on Facebook at 12:30pm ET.
VMware Takes the Carbon Black | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 9, 2019
This week, Stephen Foskett and Rich Stroffolino discuss VMware closing on the acquisition of Carbon Black, why Workplace by Facebook is growing so fast, how Puppet is going after cloud-native development with Project Nebula, and why semi-custom silicon is the new hotness.
WeWork’s IP-No | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 2, 2019
Rich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone discuss the IT news of the week, including Docker’s quest for more funding, PDF encryption problems, WeWork cancelling their IPO, and why Congress is interested in DNS-over-HTTPS.
Not Hot For Bots | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 25, 2019
Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss Western Digital exiting the enterprise storage market, Microsoft getting into the SIEM, and Cloudflare hitting the bots hard.
Leaving the Ecuador Open | Gestalt IT Rundown, September 18, 2019
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 big news from the show, a data leak the size of Ecuador, Oracle suddenly offering free stuff, and so much more!
Don’t Hate, Regulate | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 11, 2019
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 meaningful regulation. Then they discuss Amazon expanding its blockchain offerings, a Exim server exploit, and Google open sourcing differential privacy.
Commvault Buys Hedvig | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 4, 2019
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss what Commvault gets by buying Hedvig, why ads in your terminal aren’t happening anytime soon, and who’s at fault with Supermicro’s BMC security exploit.
Live from VMworld | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 28, 2019
Tom Hollingsworth, Ken Nalbone, and Stephen Foskett discuss the news and announcements live from VMworld US 2019! Topics include VMware’s acquisition of Carbon Black and Pivotal, VMware’s partnership with NVIDIA for virtual GPUs, HPE GreenLake on VMware, updates to Workspace One, and Project Pacific!
Of Chips and Acquisitions | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 21, 2019
Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss the IT news of the week, including big VMware acquisitions, AI chips from Intel, and OpenPower going open source (sorta).