It’s been a while since we’ve talked about Nutanix but they’re back in the news with a big rumor. The market is abuzz with reports that HPE is looking to acquire the leader in hyperconverged infrastructure. The two companies are already partnered together for HPE Greenlake infrastructure-as-a-service which lends credence to the reports. Nutanix ousted founder and former CEO Dheeraj Pandey almost two years ago and has been coasting along ever since. A report from Seeking Alpha says that Nutanix had an operating loss in Q1 due to SG&A expenses being 65% of revenues. The same report values the potential acquisition in the neighborhood of $8 billion. Stephen, are we about to see the end of Nutanix’s dominance in the HCI space they helped create?
0:26 | Index Engines Releases Cybersense 8.0
Index Engines is aiming to help you find data corrupted by ransomware. In their newest 8.0 release the company is focused on ensuring that ransomware attacks won’t have a huge impact on your enterprise. The data integrity platform works with your backup and data protection solution to detect signs of ransomware infection and corrupting in your data in the backup set so that you can roll back to a clean copy of the data before it’s committed to storage forever. Vice President of Index Engines Jim McGann says the ultimate goal for the software is to speed recovery times from the first detection and avoid costly downtime or the need to pay the ransom. Stephen, is this new approach going to help stem the loss of ransomware downtime?
Read More: New CyberSense 8.0 supports intelligent ransomware recovery
2:54 | Lumen Lights Lots of New Fiber
If faster Internet speeds are your thing, Lumen may have an answer for you. The massive provider, formerly known as CenturyLink, announced this week that they are going to double the size of their existing fiber plant that connects cities in the US. The goal is to put an additional six milion miles of glass in the ground by 2026 to connect 50 major cities with speeds up to 400Gbps. Lumen recently completed an expansion in Europe that saw high speed connectivity increased between France, Spain, and Switzerland. Tom, is 400Gbps between US cities going to make the Internet go that much faster?
Read More: Lumen to double size of US network with six million extra miles of fiber
5:58 | Broadcom Promises Not to Boost VMware Prices
The market has lots of questions about the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. In recent weeks regulators have indicated they’re also going to have some more questions as well. In response, Hock Tan of Broadcom wrote a blog post and answered one of the most persistent questions. Rumors have abounded that Broadcom is going to raise prices for VMware software in order to recoup acquisition costs as well as continue the sales growth of the company. In the post, Tan responded forcefully that Broadcom would not be raising prices. He went on to outline how Broadcom wasn’t going to abandon low-end customers and would invest in R&D even though it’s rumored be on the chopping block. There’s no way to know for sure if this post is meant for potential customers or for regulators looking to find a way to block the deal. Stephen, should we believe Hock Tan? Or is this window dressing to get the deal done?
Read More: Broadcom and VMware: Investing for customer value
9:15 | Not the Last Breach for LastPass
It certainly hasn’t been a good year for LastPass. The password manager company was hit with a breach back in August that made headlines. And now they’re back in the news again. Due to fallout from the August attack LastPass determined that another bad actor was able to gain access to their shared cloud storage infrastructure. Investigation of the attack is still underway and it does appear that some customer data was stolen but LastPass assures their customers that the shared secrets and password vaults were not breached in the attack.
Read More: Notice of Recent Security Incident
12:19 | Micron’s New NVMe SSD is Layerific!
Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it too. Especially if it’s a very thick layer cake. Micron announced this week that they are launching a new NVMe SSD with 232 layers. Per the release Micron is touting the fact that the unit draws less than 2.5 mW of power while sleeping and less than 150 mW while actively idling. The new unit also adds more throughput and around 100,000 IOPS to the performance of the drive. Stephen, what’s the potential for this new fast low power drive?
Read More: Micron launches go-faster 232-layer NVMe client SSD
15:08 | HPE Looking at Nutanix?
It’s been a while since we’ve talked about Nutanix but they’re back in the news with a big rumor. The market is abuzz with reports that HPE is looking to acquire the leader in hyperconverged infrastructure. The two companies are already partnered together for HPE Greenlake infrastructure-as-a-service which lends credence to the reports. Nutanix ousted founder and former CEO Dheeraj Pandey almost two years ago and has been coasting along ever since. A report from Seeking Alpha says that Nutanix had an operating loss in Q1 due to SG&A expenses being 65% of revenues. The same report values the potential acquisiton in the neighborhood of $8 billion. Stephen, are we about to see the end of Nutanix’s dominance in the HCI space they helped create?
Read More: Nutanix sales lift as HPE reportedly mulls acquisition
Read More: It Makes Great Sense for Hewlett Packard to Acquire Nutanix
25:19 | Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT Because It’s Always Wrong
Our final thought today: if you’re tired of hearing about ChatGPT you’re not alone. The newest AI sensation has run afoul of the admins over at Stack Overflow. According to their team the algorithm has been producing code that looks like it should work and is almost always wrong when a person with real programming skills looks at it. So while ChatGPT has failed as a way to automate code writing we appear to have created an algorithm that can approximate the average Stack Overflow commentor.
Read More: Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as ‘substantially harmful’ for coding issues
25:55 | The Weeks Ahead
Gartner IOCS – December 6 through December 8, 2022
Networking Field Day 30 – January 18 through January 20, 2023
Cloud Field Day 16 – January 25 through January 27, 2023
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