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Tech Field Day News Rundown

The Tech Field Day News Rundown is a weekly look at the IT news of the week. Hosted by Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.

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00:39:55

NetApp Improves their Cybersecurity | The Gestalt IT...

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2024/03/06

NetApp is updaing their ransomware protection solutions. They've made some new additions to their Automated Ransomware Protection (ARP) platform to address new attack vectors and improve logic for attack detection, including new methods like partial file encryption. NetApp is claiming a 99% precision in detection of ransomware attacks. They have also announced the availability of their Ransomware Recovery Guarantee for Keystone, their storage-as-a-service offering. These announcements come as

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00:40:48

Broadcom Redefines VMware | The Gestalt IT Rundown:...

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2024/02/28

In a series of bold moves, Broadcom has restructured VMware shifting to subscription-only licenses across all offerings. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan wants VMware to focus on resiliency, developer efficiency, and infrastructure efficiency. Tan outlines three key strategies: radical simplification, substantial R&D investment for on-premises to private cloud solutions, and enhancing the ecosystem. The discontinuation of products, including Aria SaaS and Carbon Black, and divesture of EUC is part of a

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00:27:14

Feds Let Fancy Bear Embers Die Out | Gestalt IT...

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2024/02/21

The US Department of Justice is at it again with a new team for Operation Dying Ember. Sounds spooky, right? This time it was to undertake a secret court order to remove malware from Ubiquiti devices infected by Fancy Bear. The devices in question had default administration passwords as well as remote admin access on the public Internet. The DOJ reinfected the routers with the original malware used to compromise them in the first place and then used that compromise to remove remote access and clean

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00:35:30

Cohesity to Acquire Veritas Technologies | The...

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2024/02/14

Cohesity is set to acquire the data protection assets of Veritas in a huge deal. Cohesity will be picking up the NetBackup portfolio as well as SaaS offering Alta. The move is seen as a huge bolster to Cohesity both in their cloud offerings as well as traditional on-prem enterrpise back and data protection. The deal will merge the two companies into a $7 billion. The remaining parts of Veritas that aren't purchased will be rebranded as DataCo.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:50 -

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00:26:54

Cisco Live EMEA Embraces New Technologies | Gestalt...

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2024/02/07

Cisco Live EMEA is happening this week and we're here learning all the great things that Cisco is investing in and bringing to the market. We thought it would be great to give you a quick overview of the biggest announcements as well as providing some context around why they're important. This and more on this week’s Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:09 - Linux Foundation Launches Post-Quantum Cryptography Group 3:35 - DEFCON Defends

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00:28:26

Juniper Networks Reveals First AI-Native Networking...

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2024/01/31

Juniper Networks is putting more Marvis in everything. In a major announcement this week they released several new products. One of those was expanding the Mist AI platform into Juniper Apstra to create more integration between the two acquisitions. WIth Apstra you get intent-based networking and with Mist you get access to a virtual network assistant that can answer questions about issues or provide help with configuration. This and more on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown. Thanks to Max

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00:46:36

Should We Be Concerned About Growing Electricity...

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2024/01/24

According to a recent report from the IEA, data center electricity demands are set to rise over the next three years. The report discusses the CO2 emissions and the potential mitigation that companies have committed to doing to achieve carbon neutrality. Also of note was the assertion that clean energy sources could meet this growing demand to help offset the need to rely on older power systems that are harder to optimize for efficiency. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:09 - Veeam

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00:43:01

Synopsys to Acquire Ansys | The Gestalt IT Rundown:...

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2024/01/17

Two of the biggest players in the networking space are about to become one. Rumors started swirling on Monday evening that HPE was looking to acquire Juniper Networks and those rumors were confirmed yesterday. HPE will be paying $40/share or approximately $14 billion for all of the company. Juniper started off as a huge player in the service provider space before making strategic acquisitions of companies like Mist Systems and Apstra to become a force in the wireless and data center networking

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00:42:51

HPE Acquiring Juniper Networks for $14 Billion |...

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2024/01/10

Two of the biggest players in the networking space are about to become one. Rumors started swirling on Monday evening that HPE was looking to acquire Juniper Networks and those rumors were confirmed yesterday. HPE will be paying $40/share or approximately $14 billion for all of the company. Juniper started off as a huge player in the service provider space before making strategic acquisitions of companies like Mist Systems and Apstra to become a force in the wireless and data center networking

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00:45:30

Intel's AI Ecosystem and AI PCs | Gestalt IT Rundown:...

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2024/01/03

It has been a big year in the enterprise IT industry for many reasons. Pat Gelsinger and Intel continue to refocus its business, the SEC gets serious with SolarWinds, Broadcom's deal to acquire VMware, HPE Aruba Ascendant, the incredible rise of generative AI, the battle of open source licenses, and of course, the Futurum Group acquiring Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day. Let's discuss on this year-end edition of the Gestalt IT Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Gestalt IT

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00:34:24

Top Enterprise IT Stories of 2023 | The Gestalt IT...

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2023/12/20

It has been a big year in the enterprise IT industry for many reasons. Pat Gelsinger and Intel continue to refocus its business, the SEC gets serious with SolarWinds, Broadcom's deal to acquire VMware, HPE Aruba Ascendant, the incredible rise of generative AI, the battle of open source licenses, and of course, the Futurum Group acquiring Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day. The Rundown will return in 2024. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Gestalt IT Rundown 0:42 - Intel Continues Business

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00:30:51

VMware Simplifies Offer Lineup through Broadcom | The...

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2023/12/13

Change is in the air and it's licensed. The biggest news this week came from VMware (by Broadcom) as they announced a simplification of their licensing model. The first change is that VMware Cloud Foundation has had the subscription cost cut in half and additional support levels added to help with activation and lifecycle management. VMware vSphere Foundation is also available as a subscription offering with several add-ons avaialble. Notably missing is the option for perpetual licensing, which

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00:38:50

IBM and Meta's AI Alliance Launched This Week | The...

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2023/12/06

IBM and Facebook parent company Meta have decided to advocate for a more open approach to AI. They've announced a joint AI Alliance group. The companies are part of a growing trend that sees advocates arguing that AI shouldn't be proprietary and closed. Also signing on to the alliance are Dell, Sony, AMD, Intel, and several other AI startups. The group seems to stand in opposition to companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft who are focused on creating AI rules that favor outcomes that

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00:35:07

Announcements from AWS re:Invent | The Gestalt IT...

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2023/11/29

Amazon announced that they will be using Nvidia's NVSwitch to create new rackscale AI platforms. This allows customers to use Nvidia technology like Grace Hopper or build something using AWS Nitro DPUs and Elastic Fabric Adapaters. That last combination doesn't use InfiniBand and moves to Ethernet. Two new chips are coming out from the Amazon labs. The first is Graviton4, the latest generation of Arm processor. Graviton4 has 50% more cores and 75% more memory bandwidth. This version of

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00:33:47

OpenAI Chaos Reigns Supreme | Gestalt IT Rundown:...

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2023/11/22

It's been a wild week for OpenAI. On Friday, the board notified CEO Sam Altman that he was being removed. Then President and Chairman Greg Brockman quit. OpenAI then went through three interim CEOs in a weekend. Meanwhile, Altman and Brockman were hired by Microsoft but rumors swirled they would be reinstated at OpenAI, which eventually happened late Tuesday night. The condition for the reinstatement was the removal and reappointment of all but one board member. That's one hell of a weekend

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00:34:24

Existential Questions about HPC and AI | Gestalt IT...

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2023/11/15

As Supercomputing 2023 is held in Denver this week, we're on the lookout for all the latest news. We have a new list of Top-500 supercomputers, more Nvidia announcements, and lots of AI. Perhaps the biggest topic of discussion, though, are the many questions about HPC itself: Will we be able to live in an exascale world? And what does that even mean when AI is the main application? Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:41 - US Plans More Spectrum to Commercial Providers for 5G Demand 3:58

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00:30:35

Okta Breach Blamed on User's Personal Google Login |...

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2023/11/08

Okta hasn't had a very good run of security headlines lately, and the latest is a breach that resulted in the theft of session tokens of several customers from Okta's customer support system. Though the number of customers was relatively low, the unauthorized access went undetected for over two weeks. The root cause seems to have come from an employee logging into their personal Google account and saving a username and password withing the Chrome browser. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the

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00:34:02

Executive Order for Federal AI Standards Signed |...

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2023/11/01

President Joe Biden has signed a comprehensive executive order addressing the safety and governance of artificial intelligence in the United States. The order, running to nearly 20,000 words, signifies a significant shift towards enhanced AI governance, covering areas such as transparency, safety data sharing, federal standards, and tests, and ethical considerations across various sectors. It requires tech companies developing large AI models to share safety data with the U.S. government before

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00:30:45

ISS Cleveland and the Current Market | Gestalt IT...

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2023/10/25

We are at the 21st annual Information Security Summit in Cleveland today, and it's been an interesting event for us. Not only is this close to home in Northeast Ohio, the long-running ISS event attracts a wide range of attendees and presenters across the information security space. Ransomware and AI are high on the agenda of course, but we're also hearing about budgets and employment in the industry. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:45 - Prosimo Cloud Cost 360 3:43 - StorPool

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00:34:11

AMD CEO Lisa Su leaves Cisco Board of Directors |...

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2023/10/18

Big news this week from the boardroom as Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, has announced her departure from the Cisco Board of Directors. The move comes as a surprise in a recent SEC filing and was announced without fanfare. Su had served on the Cisco board since 2019. She is also stepping down from the board of Analog Devices, a position she has held since 2016. There is speculation that this depature could signal that AMD will begin moving into the networking space more with a focus on DPU technology to

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