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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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00:39:23

Gordon Moore Dies at 94 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March...

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2023/03/29

Computing pioneer and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore has died. His name is commonly used in reference to Moore's Law, which stated that processors would be exponentially more complex, but he was much more than this. Moore was a visionary, who guided Intel through the DRAM market in the early years and then lead the transition of the company to lay the foundation for modern microcomputers. He quiet and polite, unlike Robert Noyce and Andy Grove, but everyone trusted Moore's thoughtful and

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00:30:34

Nvidia GTC Looms Large | Gestalt IT Rundown: March...

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2023/03/22

Nvidia GTC is happening this week and there's lots of new hardware coming out. From the H100 card optimized for large language models to screaming fast GPUs for laptops and workstations Nvidia has something for everyone. We've already referenced the announcements around Bluefield 3 but Nvidia has also announced a new supercompute cluster with DGX cloud that you can totally rent for $37,000 a month. 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 0:42 | SSE Revenues Growing per Dell'Oro 4:09 | Nutanix CIO

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00:31:52

Analyzing What SVB's Failure Means for Enterprises |...

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2023/03/15

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 ventur capital, startups, the enterprise IT ecosystem, and most importantly tech workers? Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 0:37 | CelerData Launches StarRocks Version 3

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00:20:57

Brainchip Readies Generation 2 Akida AI | Gestalt IT...

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2023/03/08

Brainchip is back again with the latest generation of their Akida AI engine. This second-generation offering provides performance increases while simultaneously offering more energy efficiency. That includes a new low-power mode that can be run on edge computing devices for specific workloads. Akida v2 is focused on providing enhancements for time series data processing and vision processing. This and more on this week's Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 0:27 | Pure Storage

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00:33:36

SNIA Gets Smart with New Smart Accelerator Interface...

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2023/03/01

SNIA is announcing a new way for memory to be utilized in devices. The Smart Data Accelerator Interface or SDXI, is designed to help optimize memory-to-memory data movers. If this sounds like next-gen Direct Memory Access to you then you'd be right! The goal is to help SNIA members build more integrations with CXL as well as building on the disaggregated computing research that has been going on. This and more on the Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 0:40 | IBM Storage to Drop

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00:34:03

US Supreme Court Takes on Section 230 | Gestalt IT...

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2023/02/22

The US Supreme Court took up a case this week that could have some far-reaching impacts on the future of content on the Internet. The case, Gonzalez vs. Google, covers whether or not Google is liable for content that was uploaded to YouTube that later led to deaths in a terrorist attack. The case has garnered a significant amount of media attention as it applies to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This rule is the one that allows you to post a comment on a video or blog post and not

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00:30:56

Apple's Zero Day Vulnerability May have Been...

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2023/02/15

Looks like it's time to update your iPhones, Macs, and iPads again. Apple has released security fixes for all affected devices and they've acknowledged that it maybe have been actively exploited. Jon, is this a huge concern and should we be updating our devices immediately? Why is this happening more and more? This and more on the Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 0:36 | AWS Modular Data Center for U.S. Department of Defense 3:19 | EDB Adds Encryption for PostgreSQL 7:21 |

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00:37:15

Cisco Leans Into 5G, IoT, & Sustainability at Cisco...

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2023/02/08

Cisco is looking to embrace the growing field of IoT with some new announcements around rugged switches and access points as well as a new dashboard designed to address the needs of operations teams. The new Cisco IoT dashboard allows existing IT teams to manage Cisco IoT offerings, such as the IE3100 Rugged Series Switch and the IW9165 Series Access Point. The goal is to provide more integration between these teams to help create synergy as well as provide enhanced security monitoring through the

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00:29:03

Intel Punts Pathfinder and Nixes Networking Business...

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2023/02/01

Pat Gelsinger isn't done cutting just yet. This week brought news of two big changes for Intel. The first was news that Intel will no longer be developing networking switches. You may recall that Intel picked up startup Barefoot Networks back in 2019 and was integrating the Tofino ASIC in a number of products. Intel's offerings had been facing stiff competition from Nvidia, Broadcom, and others and the move comes as Intel is trying to restructure after a massive loss in Q4 of 2022. Intel has said

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00:24:00

DoJ Says Google Doesn't Ad Up | Gestalt IT Rundown:...

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2023/01/25

The US Department of Justice has joined with 8 US states to take on Google's ad platform. In a filing this week they announced the suit claiming that Google's dominant position in the market affords them the ability to monopolize and eliminate their competition. Per Merick Garland, US Attorney General, Google controls the tech used to display ads, the tools used to buy that ad space, and the ad exchange that matches advertisers to publishers. The government wants Google to divest their ad management

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00:25:43

Sapphire Rapids Servers are Launched | Gestalt IT...

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2023/01/18

Supermicro, Dell, HPE, Cisco, and others have introduced the first server lines based on Intel's recently-announced 4th generation Xeon processors. And of course Nvidia is also supporting these new processors with their H100 DGX platform. Let's take a look under the hood and see how Sapphire Rapids brings new capabilities to these devices! Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to the Rundown 1:42 | Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Touts AWS Innovation 3:47 | Global IT Spending 1% Below Expectations in 2022 5:35 | Norton

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00:35:07

Intel 4th Gen Xeon Rides the Rapids | Gestalt IT...

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2023/01/11

If you were curious as to when Intel would launch their fourth generation Xeon processors you can satisfy that curiosity. Intel's long-rumored Sapphire Rapids architecture is now official as of this week. The biggest takeaways from the official coverage are the inclusion of accelerators on the CPU die to help increase performance for specific workloads such as SSL, 5G, and networking built around DPDK. This features comes alongside Intel On Demand, a service that allows you to purchase a CPU now and

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00:16:47

Okta Source Code Nabbed from GitHub | Gestalt IT...

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2023/01/04

Just in time for the holidays, Okta got a lump of coal in the form of a breach of their GitHub repository for souce code. The intrusion appears to have been targeted at the Workforce Identity Cloud solution and an automated tool was able to access and dump the code. GitHub declined to offer details on how the code was accessed but assured users that customer data was not impacted and Auth0 products were not affected. This attack comes on the heels of Okta being breached by Lapsus earlier in 2022

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00:43:36

Year in Review 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: December...

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2022/12/21

Join us for the Rundown of all our 2022 Rundowns! We’re looking at the big picture and linking the various stories throughout the year. See how things like DPU and ARM drove companies like AMD and Intel to make big moves in the industry. How did technologies like 5G and Quantum Computing impact the world? Are companies looking to move away from China’s chipmaking dominance? Will hackers steal your info? Tune in for a super-sized Rundown of all these stories and more! Time Stamps: 0:00 | Welcome to

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00:28:55

Will Covid and Politics Strangle Manufacturing in...

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2022/12/14

Tech production in China is getting more concerning by the day. Between the pandemic and international technology transfer restrictions, this could become the big story of 2023. China had tried to keep the Covid genie in the bottle since the pandemic started but is now shifting gears, relaxing testing and quarantine, and seemingly hoping for the best. This follows repeated interruptions to life and business in China, including technology manufacturing, over the last two years. But the country is

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00:27:48

HPE Looking at Nutanix? | Gestalt IT Rundown:...

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2022/12/07

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

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00:32:09

Graviton CPU Variant for HPC | Gestalt IT Rundown:...

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2022/11/30

Graviton 3E is finally here. What does that mean? It's a CPU that is designed to accelerate floating point and vector math. That may not sound exciting to you but for high performance computing environments that's exactly what the doctor ordered. This custom unit is going to be aimed at giants that are looking to eake out the last drop of performance from those life sciences models. At the same time, Amazon introduced the Nitro version 5, the latest in their groundbreaking DPU family. Amazon has

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00:26:29

AMD Releases Genoa Epyc CPUs | Gestalt IT Rundown:...

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2022/11/16

AMD got the jump on Intel in the battle for fourth-generation server CPUs, announcing the so-called Genoa line at SuperComputing 22. AMD's new CPU line is a massive upgrade, with more cores, accelerator instructions, and CXL. And it comes ahead of Intel's delayed Sapphire Rapids Xeon announcement, which is widely expected early next year. Let's take a closer look at the AMD Genoa CPU line. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 0:36 - VMware Purchases Ananda Networks 2:38 - NetApp's BlueXP

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00:38:49

AI Performance is On Display with MLPerf | Gestalt IT...

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2022/11/09

We have some breaking news to cover today as ML Commons releases the results of their training, HPC, and tiny benchmark suites. Every company in the machine learning space found something to talk about here, with Intel showing Sapphire Rapids and Habana Gaudi 2, Nvidia showing H100, and ARM's tiny inferencing results really shining. But not everyone was happy, with some players complaining that the tests are being gamed by the big players. This and more on this week’s Rundown. Head

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00:36:13

Elon Musk purchases Twitter and Does what Musk Does |...

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2022/11/02

While not completely enterprise tech, we felt like it was necessary to cover the Twitter saga since so many of us use social media to share information and build our communities. The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk closed on Thursday after the market closed. From there the new owner of the platform fired the CEO, CFO, and chief legal counsel. He dismissed the board of directors this week to become the sole head of the company. He also brought in a number of engineers from Tesla and SpaceX to

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