Although Dell skipped inviting influencers to Dell Tech World this year, the company announced that they are expanding their APEX on-premises and public cloud cyber resilience services with a partnership with Snowflake. They also upgraded their PowerMax, PowerStore, and PowerScale storage offerings and PowerFlex HCI solution. Dell is also ramping up Project Alpine, which would follow competitors like NetApp and Pure Storage into the major public cloud providers. Head over to http://www.GestaltIT.com for show notes.
0:54 | Elliot Pushed Western Digital to Split
Activist investor Elliot Management is pushing Western Digital to split in two, separating their flash and disk business to realize the value of these assets for shareholders like … Elliot Management, which just bought a billion dollars of WDC stock! We’ve seen Elliott make these moves before, but what does this mean for WD?
Read More: Elliott Investment Letter to Western Digital
2:30 | Synopsys to Acquire WhiteHat Security
This week, Synopsys announced that they are acquiring DAST solutions company WhiteHat Security. The merger will allow Synopsys to expand their portolio to offer SaaS-based security testing and expand their Polaris Application Security platform more rapidly. Max, what do you think about this merger?
Read More: Synopsys to expand portfolio, SaaS offerings with WhiteHat Security acquisition
4:00 | Nasuni Buys DBM Cloud Replication Tech
Nasuni has purchased DBM Cloud Systems, a maker of advanced intelligent replication software. Founded by ex Violin Memory staff, DBM had previously worked with Pure Storage to move data to the public cloud. What should we make of this move?
Read More: Nasuni buys DBM Cloud Systems
5:38 | AMD Wants TSMC 3nm Wafers Too
AMD is looking to replace 5nm chips in favor of TSMC’s 3nm chips in their upcoming Zen 5 CPUs. Though this would be a welcome change, they’re going to have to wait in line as Apple and Intel continue to be in a bidding war for them. Was it a good idea for AMD to enter the ring at this point?
Read More: AMD Might Have to Wait Behind Intel and Apple for TSMC’s 3nm Wafers
8:23 | Dell Brings APEX, Storage, and Alpine to Dell Technologies World
Although Dell skipped inviting influencers to Dell Tech World this year, the company announced that they are expanding their APEX on-premises and public cloud cyber resilience services with a partnership with Snowflake. They also upgraded their PowerMax, PowerStore, and PowerScale storage offerings and PowerFlex HCI solution. Dell is also ramping up Project Alpine, which would follow competitors like NetApp and Pure Storage into the major public cloud providers.
Read More: Project Alpine: native Dell storage services in the public cloud and CloudOps
Read More: Dell supercharges storage hardware underlying its software-defined storage
Read More: Cyber-resilient Dell brings the cloud to its customers and their data to the clouds
20:53 | The Week Ahead
Networking Field Day is taking place May 4 through May 6, 2022
AI Field Day is taking place May 18 through May 20, 2022
Cisco Live US is taking place June 12 through June 16, 2022
Cloud Field Day 14 is taking place June 22 through June 24, 2022
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