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Gestalt IT, Thursday, September 26th, 2024
Stephen Foskett and Jay Cuthrell discuss the increasing connectivity of everyday devices and the implications for data privacy and ethics. Jay emphasizes the importance of integrating empathy and ethical considerations into technology development, suggesting that the next generation of engineers can lead to more human-centered outcomes.
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Gestalt IT, Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
We're happy to have Dr. Bob Sutor joining us this week on the Rundown, since he covers quantum and advanced computing for The Futurum Group. IBM made two important announcements in the quantum space this week.
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As companies are exposed to more and more attackers, they're realizing that cyber resilience is increasingly important. On this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, presented by Commvault, Senior Director of Product and Ecosystem Strategy Michael Stempf joins Justin Warren, Karen Lopez, and Stephen Foskett to discuss the growing challenges companies face in today's cybersecurity landscape.
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Stephen Foskett and Jack Poller discuss the evolving challenges in cybersecurity. Jack explains how the shift to modern computing environments, such as the cloud, AI, and DevOps, changes the landscape while highlighting the importance of fundamental security principles.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, September 19th, 2024
The landscape of the data center is being transformed. Applications like AI are forcing design and operations teams to understand the new usage patterns for users. Shrinking budgets mean management has to do more with less. How can companies get ready for complex new ideas while also keeping their existing data center infrastructure running in prime condition?
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, September 18th, 2024
We have talked at length this year about Intel's efforts to turn the ship and add more profitability to the ledger. One of the crown jewels in that portfolio is the foundry business.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, September 17th, 2024
Hardware innovation at the edge is driven by diverse and challenging environments found outside traditional data centers. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Jack Poller, Stephen Foskett, and Alastair Cooke considering the special requirements of hardware in edge computing
more → Gestalt IT, Friday, September 13th, 2024
No matter what area of technology you're interested in, it's moving to the edge.
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AI networking is making huge strides toward standardization but Ethernet isn't ready to displace the leading incumbent InfiniBand yet.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, August 28th, 2024
This week kicked off the annual Hot Chips conference and AI has once again dominated the conversation.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, August 27th, 2024
The current hype about building massive generative AI models with massive hardware investment is just one aspect of AI. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Frederic Van Haren, Karen Lopez, Marian Newsome, and host Stephen Foskett taking a different perspective on the larger world of AI.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, August 21st, 2024
Our big story this week is from AMD. They're opening up their wallet to the tune of nearly $5 billion to buy ZT Systems. The two companies have had a preexisting partnership, with ZT having collaborated on the EPYC processor lines. ZT's biggest customers are AWS and Azure, as ZT specializes in hyperscale AI systems that are bought by the rack.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, August 21st, 2024
One of the Techstrong websites, Digital CXO, recently published an article that talks about how digital transformation can be measured and expressed as value of investment in a competitive landscape. The article covers a set of key metrics and a framework that can help tell if a company's digital initiatives are paying off the way they should.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, August 20th, 2024
Although AI is certain to transform society, not to mention computing, what we know of it is likely to change and last much longer. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast brings together Glenn Dekhayser, Alastair Cooke, Allyson Klein, and Stephen Foskett to discuss the real and changing world of AI.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, August 14th, 2024
Black Hat was last week and Hacker Summer Camp never fails to disappoint. There were some big takeaways from the show, such as Moxie Marlinspike telling DevOps they're the problem with security as well as a whole host of exploits, like the ones we've covered above.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
If you follow IT discussions, and stay abreast with news and industry trends, you'd know that a spot of concern has emerged around the viability of network engineering as a career.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, August 8th, 2024
A question that has bent the mind for ages is 'What really came first, the chicken or the egg?' An equally confounding question that has lately got many tech insiders scratching their heads is - What's driving innovation? Is it hardware or software?
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is a very popular topic in the modern enterprise. It promises a way to consume networking technologies in the same way that one would purchase cloud computing by only charging users for what they need.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Amid ravings of AI hallucination and bias, theories of bots replacing humans, and rumors that the models have quietly stopped learning, the tech industry is aggressively putting AI behind its legion of products and services.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Microsoft has released an accountability notice after the big Crowdstrike outage. According to the release, Microsoft is going to change and innovate in the area of end-to-end resilience.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Despite the hype about modern applications, the mainframe remains central to enterprise IT and is rapidly adopting new technologies. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Steven Dickens, Geoffrey Decker, and Jon Hildebrand talking to Stephen Foskett about the modern mainframe prior to the SHARE conference.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
You probably felt the pain this past Friday morning from a huge outage. No, not the one on Azure. A misconfigured update to popular security platform Crowdstrike took down over 8 million Windows PCs and servers.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, July 22nd, 2024
As practical applications of AI are rolled out, they are increasingly being deployed on-premises at scale. We are wrapping up this season of Utilizing Tech with Solidigm focused on AI Data Infrastructure by discussing practical deployment considerations with Ariel Pisetzky, VP of Information Technology and Cyber at Taboola in a discussion with Jeniece Wnorowski and Stephen Foskett.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, July 18th, 2024
Vendors have long promised a self-driving network that can do all the under-the-hood tuning and adjustment without human assistance. But what enterprises seem to truly want is a network that is low-tech, and low-touch, like the cloud.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Google is looking to make their biggest acquisition ever. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Alphabet will be making a bid to purchase Wiz for $23 billion.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
People at the top assume that networking professionals working in the tiers below are fully informed about the network, and are weighing their options methodically while making decisions. This assumption is slightly off because in reality, those professionals are only working with the information available to them.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
There are many times we don't truly realize the power technology wields in our lives. From the cars we drive, to the restaurants we frequent, technology is everywhere. Take AI for example. AI has been game-changing the last few years, transforming operations and ramping up innovation worldwide.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, July 15th, 2024
Modern AI infrastructure has exposed the importance of reliability and predictability of storage in addition to performance. This episode of Utilizing Tech, presented by Solidigm, features Kelley Osburn of Graid Technology discussing the challenges of maximizing performance and resiliency of storage for AI with Jeniece Wnorowski and Stephen Foskett.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, July 15th, 2024
Cisco is pivoting from traditional networking towards software-defined networking, and its target market is the industrial IoT sector.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
The cloud operating model is everywhere these days, and just about everything is now called cloud. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorded live at Cloud Field Day 20, includes Stephen Foskett, Jeffrey Powers, Alastair Cooke, and Steve Puluka discussing the true meaning of the term cloud computing.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, June 17th, 2024
Organizations seeking to build an infrastructure stack for AI training need to know how the data platform is going to perform.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, June 6th, 2024
The modern cloud is evolving rapidly, encompassing AI, hybrid-cloud, and advanced IT infrastructure. Cloud Field Day 20 will feature presentations on private AI data centers, workload orchestration, unified platforms, AI integration, networking, and more.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, June 4th, 2024
AI is at the top of the hype cycle and it feels unstoppable. Once upon a time blockchain was in the same place. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Evan Mintzer and Jody Lemoine.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, June 3rd, 2024
Analysts and press spend a lot of time talking about specs and performance numbers, so it's always a treat when we get to talk to people who are testing and using these products.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, May 29th, 2024
The world's leading internet firms are actively collaborating with regulators in the European Union to ensure compliance with the bloc's stringent data protection rules.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
As application development and modernization moves forward, security has never been more important. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast introduces AppDev Field Day with a discussion of the importance of DevSecOps
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
The 2024 ISC Top500 supercomputer edition was just announced.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Once you move beyond IT operations platform engineering and DevOps, you reach the realm of application development. That's the newest Tech Field Day topic and we're excited to be kicking off our coverage of this space with AppDev Field Day on May 29th and 30th.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
The rise of platform engineering demonstrates how difficult it has been to balance DevOps between developers and operations. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features a discussion of platform engineering with Mitch Ashley and Mike Vizard of Techstrong Group and Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth of Gestalt IT.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
One of the things that have caused a shakeup throughout the IT world is the mass relocation to public cloud. The promise and perils of cloud computing have impacted the biggest corporations to the smallest startups, starting a maddening shuffle among IT teams.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
The June 2024 Top500 supercomputer list was released at ISC 2024, and there is a lot to unpack.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
The annual security party known as RSA kicked off this week and one of the things you can count on is big announcements from companies at the event and we've collected a few of them.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
You don't need an algorithm to know that AI is the hottest investments right now outside of frozen concentrated orange juice.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, April 29th, 2024
Both AI and quantum computing seemed entirely theoretical just a few years ago, yet generative AI is everywhere today. This episode of Utilizing Tech considers the promise of quantum computing generally and the applicability of this technology in AI with Dr. Bob Sutor of The Futurum Group, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
In a rapidly evolving tech landscape, the intersection of AI and storage is becoming increasingly pivotal. The storage infrastructure plays an outsize role in optimizing AI workflows.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
Security audits are painful and often required for compliance but they aren't adversarial unless you have a bad auditor or bad policy compliance. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth sits down with Teren Bryson, Skye Fugate, and Ben Story to discuss the nuances of audits.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, April 22nd, 2024
As we consider the impact of AI on modern applications, we should consider the ways that this technology will improve these products. This episode of Utilizing Tech brings Matthew Wallace, CTO of Kamiwaza AI, to discuss the adoption of AI in application development with Allyson Klein and Stephen Foskett
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
Our eyes were on Google Cloud Next last week, as the hyperscaler announced new ARM chips, lots of partnerships, and of course wall-to-wall AI.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, April 4th, 2024
The first security event of 2024 is no laughing matter. Security Field Day 11 will be bring some big names to the table, both as presenters and as delegates.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, April 4th, 2024
With Generative AI showing a year-over-year growth of 500%, and companies like Supermicro shipping out 5,000 integrated racks every month, the need for high-performance storage that can work with both CPUs and GPUs is on the rise.
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