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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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Episodes

Cloudfail | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 3, 2019 03.07.2019

Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss the recent Cloudflare outage, how big the overall SaaS market is, if Huawei and the US are patching things up, and why Broadcom wants to buy Symantec. 

HCI See What You Did There | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 26, 2019 26.06.2019

Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss what Extreme Networks is getting by buying Aerohive, what the latest marketshare numbers spell for Nutanix in the HCI market, why Micron beat on its earnings expectations, and more! 

Nvidia Arms Itself | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 19, 2019 19.06.2019

Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss all the announcements from HPE Discover, Nvidia bringing CUDA to ARM, Huawei slashing revenue, and the League of Entropy. 

Azure and Oracle Connect | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 5, 2019 05.06.2019

This week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss the Oracle-Microsoft cloud bromance, forthcoming antitrust investigations into hyperscalers, and why the tape industry is trying to kill itself.

Bad Week To Be A Standards Body | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 29, 2019 29.05.2019

This week on the Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the relevant news out of Computex, how future HTML standards are changing, and Huawei getting the boot from a few standards bodies.

Dropping the Hammer on Huawei | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 22, 2019 22.05.2019

Ken Nalbone and Tom Hollingsworth discuss Huawei's woes, how 5G might effect the weather, Broadcom coming under scrutiny, KubeCon announcements, and more!

Intel Hits the ZombieLoad | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 15, 2019 15.05.2019

Richard Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are discuss the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. They talked about a major Cisco security vulnerability, an interesting acquisition by VMware, and why 2019 is the year of Linux on Linux on the Desktop. New Friendly Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

The Perpetual Plugin Problem | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 8, 2019 08.05.2019

This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino talked about the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. They discussed the news from Microsoft Build, security issues with GitHub and Jenkins, and the Firefox Add-On kerfuffle.

Azure and VMware Team Up | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 1, 2019 01.05.2019

From Dell Technologies World, Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone are here with the Gestalt IT Rundown. They discussed if Azure is catching up to AWS, a big data breach of 80 million US households, and the implications of Azure integrating with VMware.

Docker Partners With Arm | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 24, 2019 24.04.2019

Ken Nalbone and Richard Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week including Docker and Arm's new partnership, Samsung betting big on non-volatile chips, DNA storage, and more! New Friendly Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Patent Peace in Our Time | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 17, 2019 17.04.2019

This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino talk about Intel getting out of the 5G business, VPN flaws, security issues with WPA3, and patent peace in our time. New Friendly Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Run, Google Cloud Run | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 10, 2019 10.04.2019

This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discussed the news from Google Cloud Next, the HPE-Nutanix partnership, AWS playing dirty, and more. New Friendly Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Intel Announces All The Things | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 3, 2019 03.04.2019

Rich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone and talking about the big IT news of the week. Today they are looking at the implications of Cloudflare's new VPN, Intel's bevy of datacenter announcements, who's making money in HCI, and more!

Pwn2Asus | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 27, 2019 27.03.2019

This week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are discussing Asus distributed signed malware, Pwn2Own finding another VM escape bug, which programming languages are gaining traction, and Oracle Cloud drama. It's your Gestalt IT Rundown! New Friendly Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Open Source's Amazon Problem | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 20, 2019 20.03.2019

This week Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discussed if open source has an Amazon problem, the enterprise tech behind Google Stadia game streaming announcement, when we'll see zettascale computing, and more. New Friendly Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

NGINX Receives the F5 | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 13, 2019 13.03.2019

Today on the Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth discussed the big acquisition news of the week, with Mellanox Technologies and NGINX, Inc. both getting bought. Plus the death of the Cookie Wall, a big breach at Citrix, and more! Music Credit: "New Friendly" Kevin MacLeod ( incompetech.com )  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License  http://creativecommons.o...

The Backstory Chronicle | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 6, 2019 06.03.2019

This week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are looking at the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. Did Alphabet just kill Splunk? How did Dell EMC's earnings look after going public again? What does Juniper Networks' acquisition of Mist Systems mean? All this and more! "News Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creat...

IBM BMC OMG! | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 27, 2019 27.02.2019

It's the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly look at the IT news of the week. This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Ken Nalbone discuss Microsoft's new enterprise AR hardware, the Spectre of Spectre, US-Huawei tensions at MWC, and the security implications of BMCs on bare metal. "News Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.o...

UK OK With Huawei | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 20, 2019 20.02.2019

The Gestalt IT Rundown gets you up to speed on the latest IT news. This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino talked about an interesting acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, the UK's plans for 5G infrastructure, AI on the edge, and more!

Intel's Swan Song | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 6, 2019 06.02.2019

Get caught up on the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. Stephen Foskett and Ken Nalbone discuss calls from Cisco for GDPR-like privacy regulation in the US, what new Intel CEO Bob Swan means for the company's future, Slack's first steps toward going public, and more. "News Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creati...

Olympic Hacking in Japan | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 30, 2019 30.01.2019

Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are running down the IT news of the week. This time they are talking about the latest US-Huawei tensions, Slack reaching 10 million DAU, Rubrik's data leak, and Japan's plan to hack into their own IOT devices. "News Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Leave Open Source Alone Amazon | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 16, 2019 16.01.2019

Rich Stroffolino and Ken Nalbone discuss the IT news of the week on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Databases, open source drama, TLS certificates, chip news, and more! "News Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Dropping the HAMR on Qualcomm | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 9, 2019 09.01.2019

On this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about MAMR vs HAMR drives, what the glut of IoT devices announced at CES means for security, and IBM's new quantum computer. "News Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Co-CEO FTW | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 8, 2018 08.08.2018

Rich Stroffolino is back for a solo Rundown, talking about Salesforce's new Co-CEO, Arista settling up with Cisco, TSMC gets a cold, and the advent of dedicated AI chips.

AMD Plays the Long Hygon | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 11, 2018 12.07.2018

Tom Hollingsworth flies solo in this episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown. In this episode, he reviews how AMD can cross-license x86 in China, Alibaba Cloud partnering in the UK, and the fate of Tintri.

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