Your IT News for the Week of March 25, 2019 […]

This week Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discussed if open source has an Amazon problem, the enterprise tech behind Google Stadia game streaming announcement, when we’ll see zettascale computing, and more.

Declaring the Death of Windows is always a great way to drum up some clicks. But today, the roundtable discusses whether Windows is just kind of beside the point for a modern Microsoft. The debate whether this means the end of Windows, the end of the beginning of the end of Windows, or just that Windows’ role in Microsoft will fundamentally change. 

Today on the Rundown, Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth discussed the big acquisition news of the week, with Mellanox Technologies and NGINX both getting bought. Plus the death of the Cookie Wall, a big breach at Citrix, and more!

Find out the latest from Gestalt IT in your inbox every Monday. Gestalt News this week has a look at DirectFlash Fabric, Elastifile Cloud Services, a new On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast, and more!

This week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are looking at the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. Did Alphabet just kill Splunk? How did Dell EMC’s earnings look after going public again? What does Juniper Networks’ acquisition of Mist Systems mean? All this and more!

Changing your passwords frequently is the best way to keep accounts secure, right? Or does frequently changing passwords cause users to lean on easily predictable patterns that ultimately make things less secure? The roundtable discusses what the best approach is, whether two-factor authentication changes your approach, and what changes when considering personal vs organizational passwords.

Your IT News for the Week of March 4, 2019 […]

It’s the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly look at the IT news of the week. This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Ken Nalbone discuss Microsoft’s new enterprise AR hardware, the Spectre of Spectre, US-Huawei tensions at MWC, and the security implications of BMCs on bare metal.

Maish Saidel-Keesing makes the case for the end of Docker, focusing on the loss of the container orchestration market, competitive runtimes, and a less engaged community. It’s an interesting read and shows how quickly the industry narrative around a company can change.