Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss the IT news of the week, including big VMware acquisitions, AI chips from Intel, and OpenPower going open source (sorta).

Kubernetes has become the default container orchestrator in modern IT. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to configure or manage for the average enterprise. We’ve already come a long way in moving away from the byzantine days of Kubernetes past. It is a much more enterprise-friendly platform today, with a number of PaaS solutions making it increasingly viable. But challenges remain.

Being your own boss seems like a laudable goal when you’re working for someone else. On a recent Community Roundtable, Jordan Martin from Network Collective talked with Jody Lemoine and Bruno Wollmann about how they made the move to going independent. It has a distinctly Canadian perspective, but there’s lots of great perspective that anyone can enjoy. 

This week Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino talked about the WeWork IPO, why misconfigured EBS snapshots are the new misconfigured S3 buckets, and why AMD’s new server chips weren’t built in a day.

We all know how traditional backup work, but SaaS is different. Since the software comes as a service, backup is just one of those services, right? The roundtable discusses this idea. Do current SaaS offering really provide backup? If they don’t, should that even be their responsibility? And should you always want to be doing your own backup anyway? This was a really great discussion to get you thinking on the topic.

Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss configuration issues leading to privacy breaches with Jira, why the FCC set rules for new broadband coverage maps, Microsoft’s Azure Security Lab, and if Facebook’s Workplace redesign can spur adoption.

Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week, including what we know about the big Capital One data leak, if Dish can become a viable 4th carrier, if Very Low Power Wi-Fi will be useful, and more!

Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss if browser extensions are an under evaluated threat surface, if you can store a SQL database in DNA, what Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI means, and so much more this week.

Stephen Foskett and Rich Stroffolino discuss why the German state of Hesse says Office365 is illegal for schools, the FTC dropping a $5 billion fine on Facebook, Oracle’s complaint over the JEDI contract being dismissed, and more.

Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino are talking about the IT news of the week, including Zoom’s nasty security vulnerability, Cisco buying Acacia, the UK vs Mozilla, and why 7-11 isn’t known for making apps.