When creating the On-Premise IT Roundtable podcast, we had a lot of inspiration. Here are some of our favorite IT podcasts that keep motivating us to make our own content even better!

Cradlepoint is moving to a subscription-based model for their Branch, IoT, and Mobile networking solutions. The company is betting that simplified licensing, easier deployment, and robust cloud management make it a compelling change.

In this edition of Gestalt News:
– Tom Hollingsworth breaks down what GDPR means for your data
– Enrico Signoretti sits down for the IT Origins Interview
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable discusses why licensing models matter

What do smartphone car integrations like Apple CarPlay have in common with democracy?

For this week’s IT Origins Interview, we got to talk to Enrico Signoretti. He’s the Head of Product Strategy at OpenIO. Throughout the interview we find out how he got his start in IT, where he falls on current IT trends, and finish up with some great advice.

After the recent patches to AWS for Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, SolarWinds documents some of the substantial impacts on the public cloud provider. While CPUs were hit hard, perhaps the most important impact was on overall latency.

This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss if Google’s new certification program will displace A+, what are the public cloud impacts of the Spectre bug, and the Bob Ross of Machine Learning. 

Apple introduced the Touch Bar at the end of 2016 as a way to bring an ergonomically sound touch screen to macOS. Over a year later, and the interface has limited functionality and incomplete developer support. To fill this gap, BetterTouchTool lets you fully customize the interface.

The On-Premise IT Roundtable has a bold premise for this episode: enterprise licensing models are interesting! The panel discusses why understanding licensing is vital for a modern data center as we move from CapEx to OpEx models.

This week in Gestalt IT News:
– Tom Hollingsworth looks at the future of 400Gbps Ethernet
– IT Origins talks to Gina Minks
– The Gestalt IT Rundown looks at the news of the week!