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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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Jul 8, 2026

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Amazon Called to Testify About JEDI Involvement | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 14, 2021 14.07.2021

Members of the U.S Congress believe that Amazon may have been more involved in attempting to win the initial JEDI contract and SolarWinds is under fire again. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

US Government Strikes Down JEDI | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 7, 2021 07.07.2021

The US Government strikes down the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) and we have another ransomware attack as the prolific REvil ransomware crew exploited Kaseya VSA. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Intel Sapphire Rapids Rushes Back to 2022 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 30, 2021 30.06.2021

Intel pushes back its next-generation Xeon processor series, known as Sapphire Rapids, to Q2 of 2022; LinkedIn leaks data on 92% of users and My Books has been wiped clean in an exploit. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.    For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Intel Excited About Big Semiconductor Bill | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 23, 2021 23.06.2021

Intel is excited about the big semiconductor bill that was just passed by the U.S. Senate, over 8.4 billion passwords have been leaked in an enormous 100GB text file leak and HPE goes big with Green Lake. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.  For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Supreme Court Narrows CFAA Scope | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 16, 2021 16.06.2021

The US Supreme Court has overturned the verdict in Van Buren vs. United States and Time Cache looks to time out CPU side channels. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

FBI Goes Mobile to Disrupt Crime with the "FBIphone" | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 9, 2021 09.06.2021

The FBI has gone mobile to disrupt Crime with the FBIphone, the FBI also stole a march on the ransomware crew responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, and is Amazon Sidewalk opting everyone in? We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Keerti Melkote Stepping Down at Aruba | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 2, 2021 02.06.2021

Keerti Melkote is stepping down at Aruba, Cloudera is going private in $5.3 billion acquisition and US beef product has been impacted by Ransomware. We discuss these stories and more on this week’s Rundown. For show notes, please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

NAND Inventor Wants to Replace DRAM | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 26, 2021 26.05.2021

NAND Inventor wants to replace DRAM, Google had a lot to say at I/O last week, and Freenode Staff flees after new owner seizes. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Apple Faces Potential Issues in China | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 19, 2021 19.05.2021

We take a deeper dive into VMware's new CEO and Apple faces potential  issues in China. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes visit: https://gestaltit.com/

VMware Names New CEO and President | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 12, 2021 12.05.2021

Breaking News on this week's Rundown: VMware Names New CEO and President. Also in this week's show: Wi-Fi Vulnerable to Fragmentation Attacks, IBM Creates 2nm Chip and Cyber Attack Plugs Pipeline. We talk these stories and much more in this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

IBM Buys Turbonomic | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 5, 2021 05.05.2021

IBM Buys Turbonomic, HPE GreenLake Gets Cloudy Storage, Dell Announces APEX Storage-as-a-Service and Aryaka buys Secucloud for SASE. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Scality Announces ARTESCA | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 28, 2021 28.04.2021

Scality just announced their newest cloud-native storage object solution, ARTESCA. Secure messaging app, Signal, has discovered Vulnerabilities in Celebrite. An internet outage in a Canadian Village has been blamed on a beaver. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: gestaltit.com

Dell Spinning off VMware | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 21, 2021 21.04.2021

Dell Technologies announced that they will spin off their share of VMware to help pay off some of their corporate debt and the FBI Remotely Patches Exchange Servers. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.  For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Nvidia's GTC Announcements | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 14, 2021 14.04.2021

Join us as we discuss Nvidia's 2021 GTC announcements and many other stories on this week's Rundown!     For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Intel Introduces Ice Lake | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 7, 2021 07.04.2021

Intel finally released its next-generation server platform, Ice Lake, yesterday. We discuss this story and much more with special guest host Calvin Hendryx-Parker on this week's Rundown.   For show notes visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Cisco Adds Network as a Service | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 31, 2021 31.03.2021

Cisco is adding network as a service with Cisco Plus, Cohesity announced that it has risen in value this year, and Amazon is reportedly looking into making their own chips. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown!   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Intel Finally Launching Ice Lake Xeon | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 24, 2021 24.03.2021

Intel is finally launching Ice Lake, Cloud spending outstrips on-premise investments for the first time and Microsoft may be buying Discord. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown with special guest host Chris Grundemann.  For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Micron Exits 3d XPoint Business | GestaltIT Rundown: March 17, 2021 17.03.2021

Micron Technology announced that they are getting out of the business of 3D Xpoint,  a fire at OVHCloud last week caused several website outages and AMD launched Milan. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.  For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Buffer Releases New Work From Home Study | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 10, 2021 10.03.2021

Buffer has released a new work from home study, thousands have been infected thorough Microsoft Exchange and Intel announced chips for Homomorphic Encryption. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

HPE Acquires CloudPhysics | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 3, 2021 03.03.2021

HPE is acquiring CloudPhysics, VMware vCenter needs to be patched and Google Research fires AI Bias Experts after they point out biases in AI. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

SolarWinds Topic of Senate Panel Discussion | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 24, 2021 24.02.2021

SolarWinds is testifying before a Senate panel and Malware is hiding backup control servers on the Blockchain. We discuss these stories and much more in this week's Rundown.  For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

AWS is the Biggest Enterprise Storage Vendor | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 17, 2021 17.02.2021

AWS is the biggest enterprise storage vendor and the Super Micro hack was kept secret for years. We'll discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown. For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

SpaceX Starlink Opens Up New Orders | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 10, 2021 10.02.2021

SpaceX Starlink opens up new orders and "hackers" tamper with Florida water. We discuss these stories and much more in this week's Rundown.    For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

Andy Jassy Steps Up as Amazon CEO | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 3, 2021 03.02.2021

Andy Jassy is stepping up as Amazon's CEO, AfriNIC has been caught illegally reselling IP addresses and DriveNets catches a big Series B. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

Slack Outage Caused by AWS | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 27, 2021 27.01.2021

Slack's early-January outage was caused by AWS, Intel's New CEO is rehiring CUP Architects, there was a Verizon FIOS outage on the East Coast and AWS Forks ElasticSearch after license change. We discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown.    For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

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