Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you heard about the failure of Silicon Valley Bank last weekend. But what does this mean for enterprise IT? The FDIC is covering all depositors, even beyond the traditional $250,000 limit, but are they able to access their money? And what ripple effects will this failure have on venture capital, startups, the enterprise IT ecosystem, and most importantly tech workers?
0:37 | CelerData Launches StarRocks Version 3
StarRocks is an open source analytics platform which CelerData recently donated to the Linux Foundation. Version 3 brings so-called data lakehouse analytics, making data more visible and usable than traditional data lakes. How does this compare to alternatives like Databricks or Iceberg?
Read More: CelerData Brings New Level of High-Performance Analytics to the Data Lakehouse
3:19 | Rubrik Attackers Exploited File Transfer System
Rubrik released details this week about their exposure to the ongoing Fortra GoAnywhere zero day. Rubrik’s CISO, Michael Mestrovich, posted about attackers using the vulnterability to get into non-production area of Rubrik’s environment, includin internal sales info such as partner company names and some purchase order data. No personally identifiable information was breached per the third party auditors. More importantly, Rubrik said in a secondary statment that no data held on behalf of customers was violated in the breach. The breach is another in a list of heists pulled off by the Russian-linked Clop gang. Tom, should Rubrik customers be worried?
Read More: Security giant Rubrik says hackers used Fortra zero-day to steal internal data
6:50 | Microsoft Reveals Nvidia Powers Big AI Bets
We know you’re probably tired of hearing about ChatGPT at this point but an interesting story popped up this week ahead of Nvidia GTC. In a blog post, linked in the show notes, Microsoft revealed that the hardware that has been used to train the OpenAI models powering everyone’s favorite distraction are, in fact, A100 GPUs running over Infiniband. The A100, which we’ve covered several times on the show, is the flagship card that Nvidia has been touting as the way to build AI fast. With GTC coming next week and this news breaking now, can we expect to see updates on the AI GPU front Stephen?
Read More: How Microsoft’s bet on Azure unlocked an AI revolution
10:33 | Qualcomm Tries to Dodge Fine for Dodgy Behavior
Longtime subject of the show Qualcomm is once again trying to convince the EU they shouldn’t pay a fine for breaking the rules. The EU forced the chipmaker to pay around $258 million for anti-competitive behavior back in 2019. Qualcomm is fighting against the ruling by claiming the commission that levied the fine is on a crusade against them and that the technology they’re accused of manipulating isn’t even that big of a market segment anyway. Qualcomm is no stranger to having their wrist slapped for things like this, as they have been found to have made payments to Apple in the past to keep their modems exclusively in the iPhone in the past. Tom, why would Qualcomm want to avoid paying this fine aside from the obvious?
Read More: Qualcomm tries to kick holes in logic behind €242M fine
14:19 | Analyzing What SVB’s Failure Means for Enterprises
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you heard about the failure of Silicon Valley Bank last weekend. But what does this mean for enterprise IT? The FDIC is covering all depositors, even beyond the traditional $250,000 limit, but are they able to access their money? And what ripple effects will this failure have on venture capital, startups, the enterprise IT ecosystem, and most importantly tech workers?
Read More: The End of Silicon Valley (Bank)
29:22 | The Weeks Ahead
Storage Field Day 25 – March 22-23, 2023
Networking Field Day 31 – April 12-14, 2023
Networking Field Day Experience at Aruba Atmosphere 2023 – April 25-26
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