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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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MalwareBytes Bitten by Dark Hero | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 20, 2021 20.01.2021

MalwareBytes is bitten by Dark Hero, Hackers nab Mimecast certificate from Microsoft and Qualcomm is buying Nuvia. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown!   For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

Intel CEO Stepping Down in February | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 13, 2021 13.01.2021

Breaking news in this week's Rundown: Intel's CEO is stepping down in February. We'll discuss more Intel news and many other stories in this week's Rundown!  For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

Google Workers Unionize | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 06, 2021 06.01.2021

Google workers unionize, Russia hacked Microsoft too and Intel is urged to explore new deals. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

2020 Year End Rundown 23.12.2020

What a year 2020 has been! We’ve covered a lot of stories in the last 12 months and Stephen and Tom wanted to go back and take a look at some of the ones that we feel made an impact or will continue to make an impact in the coming year. Join us as we run down 2020 and cover acquisitions, trends, and big things that will be a part of IT for a long time to come. And be sure to tune in starting Janua...

SolarWinds Orion Hacked | Gestalt IT Rundown: December 16, 2020 16.12.2020

SolarWinds' flagship Orion platform has been hacked and the CentOS team moves to Stream. We'll discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown! For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

Juniper Buying Apstra| Gestalt IT Rundown: December 9, 2020 09.12.2020

Juniper is buying Apstra, AWS is scaling EBS to compete with SANs, SCOUTS is looking at CFAA and DeepMind is using AI to solve protein folding. We'll discuss these stories and much more on this week's Rundown!  For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

HPE Is Texas Bound| Gestalt IT Rundown: December 2, 2020 02.12.2020

HPE is Texas bound, IBM creates quantum-safe encryption and AWS has a Kinesis problem. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown!   For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

Microsoft Making Pluton for Security| Gestalt IT Rundown: November 18, 2020 18.11.2020

Microsoft is making Pluton for Security, Celona Partners with Aruba to Expand CBRS and the launch of MacOS Big Sur. We'll discuss these topics and much more on this week's Rundown. For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

Apple M1 Chip To Power New Macs | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 11, 2020 11.11.2020

Apple is making their own chips for their new Mac line and Intel seems to be squarely in the sights of Agent P. We'll these stories and much more on this week's Rundown!    For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

Juniper Installed Backdoor For NSA | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 4, 2020 04.11.2020

Juniper installed backdoor For NSA, NetApp goes 'storageless', hackers hunting for Oracle exploit and Starlink releases open Beta. We'll talk about all this and more on this week's Rundown! For show notes visit https://gestaltit.com

HashiCorp Announces Nomad Container Orchestration | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 28, 2020 28.10.2020

HashiCorp announces Nomad Container orchestration, AMD is buying Xilinx for $35 billion, and we expand on last week's discussion on the US DOJ suing Google. We'll talk about it all in this episode of the Rundown!    For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

SK hynix Acquires Intel's NAND Business | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 21, 2020 21.10.2020

SK hynix finalized a deal to purchase Intel's NAND flash memory and SSD operations, the United States Justice Department just filed an antitrust suit against Google and even more on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown!    To view accompanying video please visit https://youtu.be/8GnZgWI6SK8 For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com

IBM Splitting Into Two Companies | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 14, 2020 14.10.2020

IBM splitting off professional services, big flaw in Apple's T2 security chip, and still more tech acquisitions happening. We'll talk about it all in this episode of the Rundown!   For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com For the video of this episode, please see https://youtu.be/9BQNPZk0r4M

Cisco to Pay $2 Billion In Patent Dispute? | Gestalt IT Rundown: October 7, 2020 07.10.2020

Cisco may have to pay up in a patent infringement case, the US Treasury is warning against paying ransomware crews, and acquisitions galore on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown! For show notes, please visit http://GestaltIT.com/ To watch the video of this episode, please check out https://youtu.be/sJahrKAOQzQ

Converging Conference Communities in the Cloud | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 30, 2020 30.09.2020

VMworld announcements galore, Intel nomenclature, and even more on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown! For show notes, make sure to visit http://GestaltIT.com To see the video of this episode, check out https://youtu.be/Waz4j4wAk2g

Pure Storage Acquires Portworx | Gestalt IT Rundown - September 23, 2020 23.09.2020

Pure Storage is buying Portworx, Snowflake has a big IPO, and Western Digital has a breakup. All these stories and more on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown!   For show notes, make sure to visit http://GestaltIT.com To see the video of this episode, check out https://youtu.be/eRPWrdFRrSk

NVIDIA To Buy ARM for $40 Billion | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 16, 2020 16.09.2020

NVIDIA is buying ARM, TikTok may belong to Oracle now, and Silicon Valley paying less to remote workers? It's all here in the September 16 edition of the Gestalt IT Rundown! Be sure to check out the video recording of this episode here: https://youtu.be/uV-nkUs53J4

AWS Rebuffs JEDI Contract Award | Gestalt IT Rundown September 9, 2020 09.09.2020

AWS Strikes Back Against JEDI, ARM News galore, and one less Chef making Progress in the kitchen in this week's episode of the Rundown! You can also check out the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/Ms8pypjIFJ0

Russians Attempt to Cripple Tesla | Gestalt IT Rundown September 2, 2020 02.09.2020

Russians gunning for Tesla, CenturyLink goes down, Nutanix making changes, and more on this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown!  For show notes and more information about the stories covered in the show, make sure you check out http://GestaltIT.com You can also check out the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/6-l9X23pIi8

China to Enforce TLS 1.3 Ban | Gestalt IT Rundown August 26, 2020 26.08.2020

This week Tom and Max Mortillaro take a look at the winding down of Lumina Networks, Uber's former security chief getting in hot water with the feds, and China banning TLS 1.3 with ESNI and more.  For show notes and more information about the stories covered in the show, make sure you check out http://GestaltIT.com. You can also find the video for this episode here: https://youtu.be/vUS8Ml_c3...

Tofino2 and Power10 Debut - Gestalt IT Rundown August 19, 2020 19.08.2020

Join us for the Gestalt IT Rundown for August 19! We have stories about Intel's newest chips, IBM's take on AI processors, News from Cohesity and Pure Storage, and the latest on the TikTok saga. All this and more of the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. https://youtu.be/UknPZKgrLKA

Nutanix Goes to AWS | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 12, 2020 12.08.2020

Nutanix launches Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Gartner's IaaS report has some surprises, LinkedIn sells SlideShare, and Have I Been Pwned is going open source. All this and more of the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. https://youtu.be/bojJSn-vp2s

Nvidia, Arm, and SoftBank | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 5, 2020 05.08.2020

Why does Nvidia want to buy Arm? Why is public cloud revenue growth slowing down? How can Backblaze help overcome cloud egress fees? Why are we asking so many questions? Get the answers with Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth on the Gestalt IT Rundown. https://youtu.be/W90_lBShO6k

Garmin's Ransomware Outage | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 29, 2020 29.07.2020

Garmin goes dark for days due to a ransomware outage, Intel's 7nm delay forces a major reorganization, New Zealand tries to make algorithms accountable, and Cloudflare launches a serverless offering. Rich Stroffolino and guest co-host Max Mortillaro discuss all these and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown! https://youtu.be/0hOH2SmH_tY

EU Lowers Its Privacy Shield | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 22, 2020 22.07.2020

The EU Court of Justice invalidates the EU-US Privacy Shield framework, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the implications for SMBs. Plus Dell confirms its investigating a spinoff for VMware, and Windows 10X gets a lot more boring. All this and the rest of the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown! https://youtu.be/S5k66XU8SGE

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