The TL;DR on VPNFilter malware: reboot is good, reset is better.

This week on IT Origins, we had a conversation with Ted Dunning, Apache Software Foundation board member, and the Chief Application Architect at MapR. We discussed Ted’s introduction to IT, his early involvement with the open source software community, and how AI advances quickly go from aspirational to blasé.

Get your IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look at the biggest stories of thew week and how they’ll impact IT going forward. They’re talking about the VPNFilter malware, Vermont’s new data broker law, and a report on cloud CAPEX.

Let’s face it, AI gets thrown around a lot in the enterprise these days. It often gets conflated with Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and neural networks. But does the term actually mean anything? Are there solutions out there that actually qualify as AI? The roundtable debates.

Stephen Foskett and Matt Kixmoeller discuss announcements from Pure Accelerate, including Pure Storage’s FlashArray architecture, and the AI-workload solution AIRI, which now comes in a “mini” option, as well as with the option for Cisco’s networking stack.

Stephen Foskett and Jason Nadeau, Senior Director, Product Marketing at Pure Storage, discuss the announcements coming out of the Pure Accelerate keynote. This includes the new FlashArray//X family, a new version of AIRI for AI applications, and the Evergreen Storage Service.

Storage is inherently workload agnostic, right? Burlywood’s TrueFlash begs to differ. This is a turnkey solution for hyperscalers that uses a programmable controller to tune storage for company specific workloads. It’s an interesting idea for a specialized audience.

MacOS (formerly OS X) has now been in production longer than the iconic Classic Mac OS. Whenever it’s time comes, will Apple throw another funeral?

For IT Origins this week, we had the priveledge to talk to Jon Hildebrand. We discussed the importance of empathy in organizations, the reduced role of infrastructure, and using a personal network in your career. It was a great conversation and we think you’ll enjoy.

It’s the Gestalt IT Rundown, running down the IT news of the week with Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino. Is a new Spectre upon us? Will QLC flash eat spinning disks? Is Sharepoint the tip of the AR spear? How can Dell EMC clean up their storage portfolio? Watch to find out.