Gestalt It Rundown

With the world focused on the situation between Ukraine and Russia it's hard to keep up with the pace of news. One thing that has stood out from the tech side is the number of tech companies that have severed business ties with Russia as a form of dissent or punishment for their actions on the world stage. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

World news is very busy this week with stories focusing on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One of the biggest news items is that many of the countries in the western world are using economic sanctions to show their distaste for the military moves being made. Is cryptocurrency a way to stymie the sanctioning used to avoid all-out war? We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

An interesting proposal appeared this week in an article penned by Chris Inglis, US National Cyber Director, and Harry Krejsa. In it, a suggestion is made for a new cyber social contract to help build trust and security with the public. We discuss this story and more in this week's Rundown.  For show. notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Friday afternoon saw a huge breaking announcement from the Wall Street Journal. Reports indicated that Cisco had made a $20 billion offer to acquire Splunk.  We discus this story and more on this week's Rundown. Special guest host Girard Kavelines joins us today. You can follow him on twitter at @GKavelines. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

NVIDIA announced that they are finally dropping their plans to acquire chip maker ARM. The final nail in the coffin comes with a steep price tag, as ARM and SoftBank are entitled to keep up to $2 billion in fees paid at the outset of the deal. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

Last week saw quarterly financial announcements from both Intel (Jan 26) and AMD (Feb 1) that help us see where things are going, at least in the short term. And Chinese regulators have finally approved the AMD deal to purchase Xilinx. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.   For show notes please visit:https://gestaltit.com/

It's official! Intel's "Mega-Site" in New Albany, Ohio will house a massive chip fab, Intel's first all-new chipmaking facility in 40 years. NVIDIA's planned takeover of chip rights company ARM looks to be off. Stephen and special guest host, Chris Grundemann, discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.  For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

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: https://gestaltit.com/

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 please visit: https://gestaltit.com/

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

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 this week's Rundown. For show notes please visit: https://gestaltit.com/