Tech Field Day News Rundown

The PCI Special Interest Group (SIG) announced last week that they have finalized the specification for PCI Express 6.0. And as mentioned previously on the Rundown, the 5G spectrum expansion in the C-Band is starting to heat up. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Someone who has done a lot of thinking about what Web3 represents is Moxie Marlinspike. In a recent piece on his blog he talked about the growing use of blockchain, cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens (NFT), and how they all collide into a mashup called Web3 that doesn't quite live up to expectations. We discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown.  For show notes please visit: ht...

Although CES is traditionally a consumer show, we often see announcements there that are relevant in enterprise IT as well. That was certainly the case with two big CPU announcements from Intel and AMD this week. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Join us for a year-end rundown of the biggest stories each month of 2021. Stephen and Tom wrap up the year with their thoughts on the news that shaped the IT world. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

It wasn't a good weekend for security pros all over the world. Alibaba Cloud disclosed a vulnerability in a Java logging service named Log4j. The first reports were seen as vulnerabilities in Minecraft servers but the attack surface quickly exploded as the number of programs and platforms that incorporated Log4j grew. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes ple...

Intel acquired Mobileye, the autonomous driving solution company, back in 2017 . They announced this week that they want to offer an IPO in mid-2022 to help unlock the soaring value found in autonomous cars and the software that runs them. And things aren't going so hot for NVIDIA. The FTC has filed a lawsuit in federal court to halt the proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip maker ARM. We discu...

AWS re:Invent is happening live and in-person through December 3rd and the event has a lot of attention. And Apple has announced a lawsuit against the maker of the Pegasus intelligence software, NSO Group,  that we've previously covered here on the Rundown. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Last week, Gen-Z, the open systems interconnect solution backed by AMD, Broadcom, Dell, Micron, and more, announced that they will be folding and will also be absorbed into competitor Compute Express Link (CXL). And NVIDIA has hit yet another roadblock in its acquisition of ARM. We discuss these stories and more in this week's Rundown! For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

This is a big week for NVIDIA as they held their GTC show and talked about all the newest advances they've been working on. And not to be outdone, AMD also had some big announcements this week. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

VMware is now an independent company, having been spun out of the Dell EMC behemoth. We discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes, please visit https://gestaltit.com/

Intel announced their earnings were down in the client arena for Q3. On the other hand, AMD is thrilled because they were up across the board big time. We discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown.    For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Big news this week for Linux fans: the newest version of Ubuntu has just released. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Google Cloud Next kicked off this week with the usually flurry of announcements around the technologies that the search and ad giant focuses on. And at VMworld 2021 the virtualization giant announced a whole slate of "projects", which is a term used by the tech giant to refer to software releases which aren't ready to go out the door yet and need more testing. We discuss these stories and more on...

VMworld 2021 is happening this week, virtually of course, and there are a ton of new product announcements. The biggest one is perhaps Project Capitola. And did you hear that Facebook wend down Monday? You likely did because your parents called you and started asking weird questions about DNS and BGP. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown! For show notes please visit: https://ge...

Yesterday was a big day for Pure Storage. As you may have seen from the live blog coverage on GestaltIT.com, Pure launched a couple of new offerings that encompass their vision for the future of storage. Also happening this week, the FCC announced that they will be starting a program worth up to $1.9 billion to help remove networking equipment from Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE. We discuss thes...

The news out of Cisco this morning is some shuffling of the security executives. And the US Treasury announced sanctions against cryptocurrency exchange SUEX OTC for their part in handling payments from crews holding data hostage. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.    For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com

This week, in an emergency update, Apple released a patch preventing Pegasus spyware from infecting any Apple device with a single click. Researchers have uncovered a new exploit in Microsoft's Azure cloud services, this time in regards to their "container-as-a-service" Kubernetes offering. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestal...

Swiss-based firm, ProtonMail, is under bombardment for strict privacy questions. After five years of mystery, more information is coming to light about the attack made on Juniper Networks and their NetScreen firewall in 2015. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Microsoft is seeing stars this week as the disclosure of a galaxy-sized vulnerability was reported. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown.  For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

We're reacting to some of the big announcements that came out of Hot Chips 33 this week. We discuss these announcements and many more stories on this week's Rundown.  For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Intel is "winding down" RealSense AI cameras to focus more on chip production. There is a massive IoT bug that could cause a potential super botnet to emerge for nefarious purposes. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Chip shortages are pushing governments to act, including South Korea agreeing to parole disgraced Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong. Extreme Networks is buying Ipanema SD-WAN  solution from Infovista.   We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.  For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

The NVIDIA acquisition of Arm, which we discussed last week, may take a bit longer than expected. And the amount of available memory chips is now considered a "matter of national security." We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Intel has announced their chipmaking roadmap for the next few years, N-Able announced their first trade on the NYSE after splitting from their parent company, and AMD has announced their earnings for the past quarter. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Pegasus, a software used to infect phones, was being sold by an Israeli firm called NSO group and was being used against journalists, activists and even governmental officials. Also, IBM has bounced back from backup MQ and is REvil really gone? We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/