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Gestalt IT, Wednesday, August 16,2023
Do you love licensing drama? Last week HashiCorp made headlines with an announcement by CTO Armon Dadgar that they're changing licensing models. HashiCorp is now adopting the Business Source License, or BSL, which was popularized by MariaDB and Couchbase.
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Gestalt IT, Friday, August 11,2023
In this Tech Talk, Girard Kavelines discusses XDR. He talks about the differences between XDR and EDR as well as how the technology has evolved since the early days of securing devices.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, August 9,2023
We are at the annual Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara this week, with the event showcasing the latest advancements in the storage industry.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, August 8,2023
As tech giants struggle to adapt to changing business conditions, startups are quick to blaze new trails. This episode of On-Premise IT, hosted by Stephen Foskett and featuring Rose Ross, Tim Crawford, and Justin Warren, compares the tech world to an environment where small, innovative startups are advancing while larger, traditional companies fight to keep their market dominance.
more → Gestalt IT News, Friday, August 4,2023
In this Tech Talk, Mohammad Ali discusses Private 5G. He talks about the origins of the technology and how it's different from standard 5G available to consumers as well as Wi-Fi networking.
more → Gestalt IT News, Thursday, August 3,2023
For all the talk about the transformative power of automation, application so far has been oddly scant and sketchy. A study conducted by Deloitte shows that while organizations have widely adopted automation, they have yet to use the technology to its fullest potential.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, July 25,2023
Network-as-a-Service is a new concept. Or is it? The ideas behind having someone else working on your network infrastructure are as old as the industry. With the advent of public cloud becoming the dominant form of IT consumption the industry is taking a second look at NaaS.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, July 24,2023
In this episode of the Utilizing Tech podcast, Stephen Foskett, Allyson Klein, and Gina Rosenthal discuss dark data in edge computing. Dark data is unutilized or unknown data collected by organizations.
more → Gestalt IT, Friday, July 21,2023
In this interview, Tom Hollingsworth welcomes Roy Chua, the founder and Principal at AvidThink, as one of our newest Tech Field Day delegates. Roy shares his background starting as a network software engineer, moving into product management, and eventually transitioning into the analyst space.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 19,2023
Enterprises have stepped into a new dimension where business happens digitally, and the mantra for success is multi-cloud. Already a slew of companies has migrated their workloads to several different cloud providers to leverage the best-of-class cloud amenities, and others are en route to tap into the magical multi-cloud efficiency.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 19,2023
Nvidia accelerates its venture capital investments in cloud and AI software startups, taking an equity stake in Lambda Labs, a competitor to Amazon Web Services.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, July 17,2023
Although we use Intel's NUC as a shorthand for the type of hardware deployed at the far edge, this recently-cancelled platform isn't all there is. This episode of Utilizing Edge looks beyond the NUC, to platforms from Lenovo, Nvidia, and more, with Julian Chesterfield of Sunlight, Andrew Green, and Stephen Foskett.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, July 13,2023
Computational innovations in the past few years have revolutionized data processing, with modern applications ingesting and processing astounding quantities of data.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 12,2023
The Linux world is abuzz with controversy as IBM Red Hat puts the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) behind a paywall, leaving CentOS Stream as the only accessible option.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, July 11,2023
Modern information security teams have a need for visibility to ensure user safety. Traffic flows and patterns are analyzed for anomalies and polices are put in place to ensure everyone is secure. However, protecting the data that you've collected is an even bigger task.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, July 10,2023
Edge infrastructure is susceptible to many of the same security risks as datacenter and cloud, but is often run in less protected environments.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, July 6,2023
Edge computing architectures are increasingly mirroring the paradigms that became popular in the era of cloud computing. This is good news for application builders.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 5,2023
Now that half of 2023 is behind us, let's take a closer look a the state of the global economy, with a special focus on the enterprise IT industry. As we've discussed, many different factors are impacting the current slowdown in sales of enterprise and cloud tech:
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, July 4,2023
In this age of software, cloud, and platforms, custom hardware seems to be a lost art. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Joep Piscaer, Max Mortillaro, Steve McDowell, and Stephen Foskett consider whether hardware really matters anymore.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, July 3,2023
'What Lego has done for toys is what the microservices architecture is doing for applications,' said Tim Szigeti, Principal Engineer at Cisco, at the recent Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023 event in Las Vegas.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, June 28,2023
Training 3.0 benchmark results show performance gains of up to 1.54x compared to six months ago and 33-49x improvement over the first round, driving innovation and energy efficiency in the industry
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, June 27,2023
Edge environments are rapidly gaining importance as companies shift their services to network edge locations. Advanced solid-state drives (SSDs) play a crucial role in these environments, offering high performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and storage density.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, June 27,2023
IT is full of siloes. They help ensure that experts are working on the areas they are best suited for. However, siloes are a problem for security teams. When you need information and visibility the walls insulating your other teams become a barrier.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, June 27,2023
One of the challenges that customers face in private and multi-cloud environments is with replicating platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings in the public cloud - database services like Azure SQL Database and Amazon RDS being prime examples.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, June 26,2023
Datacenter IT is used to having tight control over infrastructure and applications, but this is challenging to maintain at the edge. This episode of Utilizing Edge features Pierluca Chiodelli of Dell Technology discussing the modern edge application platform with Allyson Klein and Stephen Foskett.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Intel is looking to expand their chip making facilities outside of the US. The first story this week involves a huge $25 billion dollar investment in chipmaking in Israel. Intel will pay increased taxes on the factory in return for an even bigger grant on the total investment should the conditions be met upon completion.
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You may be intimately familiar with brands and their products for some lines but not everything is iconic. Companies rebrand products all the time in order to get rid of per performers or try to increase sales.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, June 19, 2023
Between the so-called last mile and first mile lies the middle mile, the realm of colocation and network service providers. This episode of Utilizing Tech features Roy Chua and Allyson Klein, discussing the middle mile with Stephen Foskett.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, June 15,2023
Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with enterprise storage vendor StorPool at Storage Field Day 25. Their approach is a refreshing departure from that of traditional storage vendors, and what StorPool likes to call 'the storage game.'
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, June 13,2023
Although artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning and large language models, is in the news, it isn't very useful in enterprise IT. In this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast, Karen Lopez, W. Curtis Preston, Michael Levan, and Stephen Foskett discuss the use case for AI in security
more → CXOtoday.com, Monday, June 12,2023
Companies the world over are facing a common threat that we all know as the dreaded ransomware attack.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, June 7,2023
At Cisco Live 2023, Cisco unveiled a range of solutions for SSE, network management, observability, and a new cloud-native application security solution called Panoptica.
more → Gestalt IT, Monday, June 5,2023
Although everyone wants high availability from IT systems, the cost to achieve it must be weighed against the benefits. This episode of Utilizing Edge focuses on HA solutions at the edge with Bruce Kornfeld of StorMagic, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, May 31,2023
We live in a world where AI drives imagination and utility. AIOps has proven to be extremely useful for businesses, and we are starting to see the beginning of its real-world applications.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, May 31,2023
Dell Tech World was the talk of the industry last week. In part it's because Dell is rolling out initiatives to try and address their key areas as those technologies move closer to the cloud. Dell APEX storage for public cloud was a key piece.
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Gestalt IT, Wednesday, May 31,2023
The constantly shifting digital age has laid the world at our feet. One can connect to a friend sitting halfway across the world from a coffee shop, stream podcasts all the way on a cross-country road trip in an RV, and remotely activate a home alarm system from outside the country - all with just a tap of a finger.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, May 31,2023
The enterprise world is embracing a growing arsenal of open-source tools, and it is giving companies a major competitive advantage in the market.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, May 30,2023
Raymond Hendrix is the owner of Wi-Fi Wise International and one of our newest Field Day delegates.
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Gestalt IT, Friday, May 26,2023
Amid record adoption of automation in factory floors, enterprises in industrial sectors are increasingly considering private 5G LAN. Ostensibly, a 5G LAN provides what no other network has before - coverage without blind spots or service drops.
more → Gestalt IT, Thursday, May 25,2023
This week we invited 'Mr. Backup', W. Curtis Preston, to join us on the most recent episode of our weekly Rundown of the week's news, focusing on the escalating ransomware landscape. These attacks continue to wreak havoc across various sectors, targeting critical industries and inflicting substantial financial and operational losses.
more → Gestalt IT, Wednesday, May 24,2023
Ransomware attacks continue to pose a significant threat across various sectors, with recent incidents targeting critical industries and causing substantial financial and operational damages. Federal authorities have issued warnings about a surge in cyberattacks exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Veeam software that enables unauthorized access and raises the risk of data heft and ransomware deployment.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, May 16,2023
As data piles high in distributed environments, hackers are increasingly targeting backup systems to make off with classified information. The worry that critical data will be exposed to bad actors deepens every day, keeping enterprise security teams sleepless at night.
more → Gestalt IT, Tuesday, May 16,2023
As enterprise and cloud data growth continues, opportunities are appearing to leverage next-generation SSDs in new server form factors to improve capability and sustainability. This Gestalt IT Tech Talks Roundtable features Tahmid Rahman of Solidigm, Patrick Chiu of Supermicro, discussing next-generation SSD with Max Mortillaro, Andy Banta, and Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT.
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