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Internet of Legal Things | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 3, 2018
Stephen Foskett and Rich Stroffolino review the IT news of the week that was in the Gestalt IT Rundown. This week they discuss California’s new IoT security law, security exploits from Apple and Facebook, WiFi 6, and blockchain collaborations.
It Doesn’t Matter Where Your Data is Stored – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
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The roundtable discusses if data locality is important to storage administrators anymore. They discuss why it might matter for technological, regulatory, and organizational needs, and how those needs have changed over time.
Microsoft Ignition | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 26, 2018
Stephen Foskett, Tom Hollingsworth, and Rich Stroffolino discuss the news out of Microsoft Ignite in this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown!
Cloud Storage – AWS, Azure, and Beyond
Ned Bellavance and Stephen Foskett look at the current cloud storage landscape. Making sense of it can be a daunting task, even when just looking at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. It can be tough to make a true comparison across cloud when considering cost, performance, and reliability. How does this cacophony of choice come into play in a multi-cloud world?
Discussing FlashArray//X and AIRI Mini with Matt Kixmoeller
Stephen Foskett and Matt Kixmoeller discuss announcements from Pure Accelerate, including Pure Storage’s FlashArray architecture, and the AI-workload solution AIRI, which now comes in a “mini” option, as well as with the option for Cisco’s networking stack.
Pure Accelerate Live Blog – Day 2
We’re back for another big keynote at Pure Accelerate. Join Stephen Foskett for the entire event, starting at 9am PDT.
Failed Startups – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
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On this episode, host Stephen Foskett talks with Mark May, Howard Marks, and Keith Townsend about what makes a failed startup. Are some concepts simply too early, or are there ideas whose time simply never arrives? They look at specific examples like Auspex Systems and Coho Data.
A Conversation with Congruity360 COO Mark Shirman
At Commvault GO 2017, Stephen Foskett sat down with Congruity360 COO Mark Shirman. They discuss how the company’s engineering talent allows them differentiate in their emerging services around infrastructure business. This builds on their legacy storage reseller business, but has expanded to providing services across the data center. This is all provided by their brand new 200,000 sq ft data center located in Fall River, MA.
Quick Look at AMD’s Radeon RX VEGA 64 for Crypto Mining
AMD has now officially released their much anticipated Radeon RX VEGA 64 GPU, so of course the first thing to test is its capabilities in crypto mining. There were many rumors about the performance of the VEGA 64 regarding crypto mining, especially with its new HBM2 memory, but in reality, it does not seem like it will be the best option for miners. The out-of-the-box VEGA 64 posts a hashrate for Ethereum mining of only 31-32 MHS despite running with a fairly high power consumption. It also runs very hot, and the higher the temperature goes, the lower the performance drops.