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Nice little piece by Justin Parisi looking at why it’s still important to realize when storage companies are using binary or decimal bases for storage capacity.

It’s your weekly look at the IT news, the Gestalt IT Rundown. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss terrible Apple keyboards, the Snapdragon 1000, Google Cloud FileStore, WP3, and a post-Krzanich Intel.

The On-Premise IT Roundtable looks at the idea that IT burnout is inevitable. They discuss some of the underlying factors behind burnout, and why people attracted to IT might be susceptible. They also offer some insight into how they’ve coped with the issue, both from a self-employed consultant perspective, as well as working for a larger organization. Definitely an important discussion for any IT practitioner to consider.

This week on IT Origins, we had a conversation with Oksana Sokolovsky from Io-Tahoe. The interview delved into how she began her two decade career in IT, how a background in the Financial industry informed her work with Io-Tahoe, and how to approach work-life balance. Plus reminiscing about old school DOS games. 

The Gestalt IT Rundown returns, bringing you another week’s worth of IT news. Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino discuss the Cisco acquisition of July Systems, DockerHub hosting crytojacking images, a reported national privacy plan, AT&T – Time Warner merger approval, and more.

Congrats, you survived into a post-GDPR world. Now what? This piece looks at what happens when you request, and get, all your personal information from Apple.

With Cisco Live US happening this week in Orlando, we decided to share a throwback episode featuring Rob Rodgers and Mils Swart of Skyport Systems. Skyport was recently acquired by Cisco in February. It’ll be interesting to see how Cisco uses this talent to address the security concerns raised in this episode. 

As networks grow and applications spread to across clouds and sites, enforcing and setting policy often bumps against the harsh realities of scale. Juniper Networks’ Contrail platform gives you the tools to automate policy creation and easily visualize any gaps.

Tom Hollingsworth is on the ground at Cisco Live US 2018, live blogging the keynote. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins will be speaking at 10:30am ET. Catch the live stream here and share your thoughts as well.