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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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00:41:10

Commvault Shift's Cyber Resilience for the AI Era |...

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2024/10/16

At Commvault SHIFT 2024, The Futurum Group's Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead sat with CEO Sanjay Mirchandani, who discussed Commvault's strategic pivot towards a cloud-first approach in cyber resilience. This shift involves key acquisitions, such as Appranix and Clumio, and new partnerships with AWS and Google, aimed at enhancing cloud data protection and recovery. Mirchandani also introduced the concept of "Continuous Business," highlighting its distinction from traditional business continuity

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00:34:24

Nation State Actors Tap the Taps | The Gestalt IT...

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2024/10/09

A big cyberattack attributed to groups backed by the Chinese government has telecom providers worried. In this new report, investigators have determined that the group, known as Salt Typhoon, has had months-long access into the network infrastructures of companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies. That access includes visibility over the infrastructure used for lawful intercept, which is the Internet version of tapping a phone. Per the report, the Salt Typhoon hackers appeared to be

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00:43:55

OpenAI's Executive Exodus & California Vetoes Safety...

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2024/10/02

Microsoft has revamped its AI-powered Recall feature, shifting from automatic to opt-in use with enhanced security measures like full encryption and Windows Hello authentication, addressing privacy concerns. California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB-1047, which aimed to regulate AI models, citing concerns that smaller models outside the regulation's scope might pose greater risks. Meanwhile, OpenAI is facing a leadership shakeup as CTO Mira Murati and other key executives depart, coinciding with a

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00:36:41

Qiskit and IBM's New Quantum Innovations | The...

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2024/09/25

We're happy to have Dr. Bob Sutor joining us this week on the Rundown, since he covers quantum and advanced computing for The Futurum Group. IBM made two important announcements in the quantum space this week. The first announcement was Qiskit, a quantum SDK that runs on Python for quantum computers. This promises to bring quantum compute to a more mainstream audience and converting the underlying code to Rust. This solution is much faster than competing solutions from Google, Amazon, and

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00:31:49

Intel Foundry Business To Become a Subsidiary | The...

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2024/09/18

We have talked at length this year about Intel's efforts to turn the ship and add more profitability to the ledger. One of the crown jewels in that portfolio is the foundry business. It has been the recipient of a large amount of government funding through the CHIPS Act. But it is also playing catch up with TSMC and others. New broke yesterday that Intel has announced that the foundry business will be spun off into separate susidiary entity. The new unit will have it's own board and be free

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00:37:16

Broadcom Sued by AT&T | The Gestalt IT Rundown:...

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2024/09/11

AT&T has decided enough is enough. They have filed a lawsuit over the tactics they claim are putting first responders and critical government services at risk. AT&T is claiming breach of contract because of the new support policy enacted by Broadcom after the VMware acquisition. The key point comes in an amendment in their support agreement that says that AT&T can renew their current support contracts for up to two more years provided they do so before the expiration of their current

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00:29:54

A Smaller VMware Explore Still Delivers News | The...

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2024/09/04

This year, at the smallest VMware conference in many years, Broadcom made some important announcements. As we've previously discussed, VMware Cloud Foundation 9 was detailed, along with Tanzu Platform 10, an enhanced Edge Orchestrator platform, VeloCloud Software-Defined Edge, and more. Although we miss the community coming together at VMworld every year, this smaller VMware Explore conference is very much in line with the direction taken by Broadcom since their acquisition of the company.Time

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00:44:49

AI Heats Up Hot Chips 2024 | The Gestalt IT Rundown:...

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2024/08/28

This week kicked off the annual Hot Chips conference and AI has once again dominated the conversation. There were a lot of stories to talk about, from wafer scale chips to silicon photonics, Cerebras' giant leap into AI Inferencing, Microsoft Azure's MAIA 100 AI Accelerator, IBM's On-Chip DPU, Broadcom's AI Compute ASIC, Intel's Guadi 3, and more. Let's dive in on this episode of The Rundown. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to The Rundown 0:54 - Kioxa Files for IPO 4:18 - Cisco

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00:43:19

ZT Systems to be Acquired by AMD | The Gestalt IT...

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2024/08/21

Our big story this week is from AMD. They're opening up their wallet to the tune of nearly $5 billion to buy ZT Systems. The two companies have had a preexisting partnership, with ZT having collaborated on the EPYC processor lines. ZT's biggest customers are AWS and Azure, as ZT specializes in hyperscale AI systems that are bought by the rack. This move follows a very recent acquisition of Silo AI, which we covered on the Rundown, as well as their last big acquisition of Xilinx. There's

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00:41:08

Announcements and Takeaways from Black Hat | The...

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2024/08/14

Black Hat was last week and Hacker Summer Camp never fails to disappoint. There were some big takeaways from the show, such as Moxie Marlinspike telling DevOps they're the problem with security as well as a whole host of exploits, like the ones we've covered above. However, AI is king in 2024 and we knew everyone was going to be talking about it. Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to The Rundown 1:13 - IBM Storage Scale using Blue Vela AI supercomputer 4:46 - AMD Chips Hit with Sinkclose 8:24 -

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00:29:57

Intel's Mass Layoffs | The Gestalt IT Rundown: August...

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2024/08/07

It's not a great day for Intel and some 15,000 workers. In the earning call last week the CPU giant revealed that while they hit their revenue target numbers this past quarter there are storm clouds on the horizon. Challenges from AI companies as well as issues with some of their most recent chip designs has Pat Gelsinger looking to cut costs. The way that was expressed to the industry was through massive layoffs. Intel is shedding 15% of their overall workforce and suspending the payment of

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00:47:29

Microsoft's Resiliency Notice And Path Forward | The...

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2024/07/31

Microsoft has released an accountability notice after the big Crowdstrike outage. According to the release, Microsoft is going to change and innovate in the area of end-to-end resilience. This includes things like VBS enclaves, which require no kernel mode drivers, as well as Azure Attestation, which determines secure boot posture. The messaging indicates that Microsoft sees kernel access is their biggest issue and they are going to try and develop new tools that eliminate the need for it.Time

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00:47:30

Crowdstrike Update Strikes Microsoft's Cloud Services...

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2024/07/24

Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:03 - NVIDIA's B20 AI Chip 5:35 - Wiz Denies Google's $23 Billion 9:15 - AMD Acquires Silo AI 14:07 - BMC Announces Mainframe AI Integration 18:04 - Einstein Service Agent Released by Salesforce 22:18 - Swiss Government Mandates Open Source 26:58 - Crowdstrike Update Strikes Microsoft's Cloud Services 43:46 - The Weeks Ahead 46:11 - Thanks for Watching Hosts: Tom Hollingsworth:

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00:29:19

Google Looking to Make Magic with Wiz | The Gestalt...

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2024/07/17

Google is looking to make their biggest acquisition ever. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Alphabet will be making a bid to purchase Wiz for $23 billion. Wiz has spent the past four years developing a cloud security platform that has detected some big problems in a number of providers, including one in Microsoft Bing. Google is finding itself increasingly under fire from a varity of attackers. The move comes as Google is facing antitrust charges from the Department of

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00:39:49

CISA Focuses on Election Security | The Gestalt IT...

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2024/07/10

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a comprehensive guide to bolster operational security (OPSEC) for election officials. This guide aims to enhance the security of election infrastructure by offering detailed strategies for identifying and mitigating potential risks within the election context. This and more on The Rundown.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:34 - Japan Bids Farewell to Floppy Disks 4:15 - NetApp to Focus on AI Integration and Data

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00:47:54

CHIPS Act to Train Workers to Avoid Labor Shortages |...

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2024/07/03

The US government is worried there might not be enough trained workers to fill the needs of the CHIPS act. President Biden has announced a Workforce Partner Alliance (WFPA) to ensure the gap for skilled workers will be closed as soon as possible. WFPA is designed to reward providers with grants of between $500,000 and $2 million to provide the training for these new chip facilities. Is this something that we can count on? Or will it turn into another boondoggle like ITT Tech? This and more on this

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00:38:21

Discovering the Latest News from HPE, Including Aruba...

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2024/06/26

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has launched a private cloud solution leveraging the KVM hypervisor, aiming at customers upset by the Broadcom-VMware merger. This is added to the existing bare-metal and container solutions in HPE's Private Cloud offering. HPE is also the latest major IT vendor to partner with NVIDIA on a suite of private cloud solutions designed to accelerate the deployment of generative AI in enterprise environments. This includes a complete turn-key AI hardware solution,

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00:40:41

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

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2024/06/19

Amazon Web Services recently held their re:Inforce conference, as the company attempts to partner with customers to deliver a securre environment. Following the shared responsibility model concept that was the focus last year, it seems that the company is emphasizing that security is a job for everyone in the modern cloud. We also saw product announcements from AWS, including enhancements to Nitro that control access to the underlying infrastructure.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Cold Open 0:54 - Welcome to

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00:33:42

NVIDIA, Microsoft, and OpenAI Face Potential...

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2024/06/12

The US Justice Department and FCC have announced an agreement that gives them each a role to play in potential antitrust investigations against the biggest players in the AI market. Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI were named in the agreement specifically according to insider reports. This follows reports that antitrust investigators have big concerns about AI and how companies developing it get their data to train the models. This agreement is modeled on a similar one from 2019 that eventually saw

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00:32:31

Announcements from Qlik Connect | The Gestalt IT...

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2024/06/05

At Qlik Connect in Orlando, significant announcements affecting the industry were examined. Key highlights included the integration of Talend Cloud to enhance data pipeline capabilities and the introduction of Qlik Answers, an AI-powered knowledge assistant tailored to enterprise data. The partnership with the United Nations to support climate change initiatives by leveraging data analytics was also discussed. Additionally, Qlik announced the formation of an AI Council composed of experts to guide

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