Gestalt It Rundown

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://gestaltit.com/about/

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 these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes pease visit: https://gestaltit.com/

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://gestaltit.com/

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/

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/

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 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 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/

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/

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 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, 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/