Intel is set to spin off its Programmable Solutions Group as an independent business, aiming for an IPO in 2-3 years. PSG, led by Intel’s current Data Center and AI Group EVP Sandra Rivera, will operate independently as part of Intel’s broader restructuring efforts. Despite PSG’s past financial success, Intel believes this shift will enable more agility and growth, targeting markets beyond data centers. The goal is to retain majority ownership while allowing PSG to operate autonomously in the competitive FPGA market, similar to Intel’s approach with Mobileye.

Post-quantum cryptography is closer than you think. With the public release of the NIST finalists for commentary are you ready to transition to the future of security? Tom Hollingsworth sits down with Tim Hollenbeek of DigiCert to discuss the challenges of migrating to a new world of trust and how DigiCert can help manage the transition.

Meet Matt Tyrer, the Founder and Chief Analyst at the Competitive Corner. Born and raised in Iowa, Matt is 20 years an IT veteran with focus on data protection. Formerly a Unix system administrator, Matt has spent the last 15 years in Commvault where he engineered a Competitive Intelligence Program. After his success leading the program, he went on to form his own consultancy, The Competitive Corner, doing market research and competitive analysis for businesses. As a long-time professional, one of the biggest challenges Matt faces is the hype cycle roller coaster. For Matt, keeping up with new trends is about drilling into the macro and micro factors. To achieve a well-rounded understanding of any technology, one has to be on a constant learning curve, he says. And when it comes to learning, Matt says his go-to resource is Tech Field Day presentations, where he learns about technology specifications and use cases from an user standpoint. Remembering his early years in IT, Matt said that he entered the industry with a clean slate. He did not have the coding background of some of his peers, but Matt had something far more important – a mastery of logic which served him well with technical problem-solving. Matt got his first taste of computer with a home video game console, the Atari 2600, which he played on a black and white TV until color televisions came. When asked about what an alternative career might have been for him, Matt’s answer was to own a pub and tend the bar. Welcome to the club, Matt, and thank you for joining us for Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore US 2023!

Microsoft’s AI division just found out they made a mistake. Three years ago they accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of data to a public GitHub repo while contributing to AI learnign models. A security research team found the exposure recently, which came from a misconfigured Azure Blob storage URL that was overly permissive and difficult to manage. This Shared Access Signature, or SAS, token is designed to give teams full control over shared files. However, the difficulty in managing it makes it appear almost impossible to use correctly. The leaked data included passwords, keys, and an archive of internal Microsoft Teams messages.

In an excellent article, Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court has started to make the case that cybercriminals should be subject to international law for their escapades. The current state of the world often sees these criminals go unpunished due to nation state backing or lack of jurisdiction. Khan says that we need to get tougher by ensuring these naer-do-wells can face justice for their crimes, especially when they impact so many people around the world. This and more on this week’s Rundown.

In this episode Tom discusses the dominance of InfiniBand as well as the way Ethernet is changing to support large latency-sensitive flows in the modern AI networking world. We look at the companies leading the way in the Ethernet world and how the formation of the UEC is the first step to unseating InfiniBand.

Snapshots are still not backups but the nature of data storage means care must be taken to determine data retention requirements. In this episode of the On-Premise IT Podcast, Brian Knudtson, Matt Tyrer, and Richard Kenyan discuss the nature of data protection and recovery point objectives. The rapid pace of cloud storage growth as well as the shift toward using microservices and serverless computing have added additional challenges to the definition of data that needs to be backed up. In addition, the terminology changes with major companies in the space have created confusion in features.

At Hot Chips 2023, Intel unveiled Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids Xeon processors targeting data centers. Sierra Forest is Intel’s first E-core Xeon with 144 CPU cores, while Granite Rapids focuses on core performance. Arm introduced Neoverse Compute Subsystem, aiding Neoverse N2 core integration. AMD previewed Siena Epyc processors for edge computing with up to 64 cores, notable power efficiency, and a compact form, catering to the edge computing market’s demands.

Security is an ever-changing technology that requires constant vigilance. Traditional models face challenges in a modern world where bad actors have better tools and methods for avoiding detection. If security teams want to stay on top of threats today they need to be sure they’re using the latest solutions to address these challenges. In this episode, sponsored by Fortinet, Chris Grundemann, Michael Levan, and special guest Nirav Shah discuss the need for updated solutions and how Fortinet is changing the game with their Hybrid Mesh Firewall platform.

VMware just can’t stop talking about GenAI, which incorporates many different developments. The company is adding AI assistants to many products and is also introducing a new VMware Private AI offering with enabling generative AI processing on NVIDIA or open-source platforms for enterprise deployment. VMware is talking about security and data privacy while at the same time touting the performance and price benefits of on-premises GPUs. VMware NSX is even more exciting now! NSX+ is the new as-a-service offering focusing specifically on application visibility, network detection and response, and HCX+ Workload Mobility. The goal of the service is provide functionality that modern enterprises at a monthly cost for OpEx budgeting purposes. The other big piece of the NSX announcements is NSX VPC, which is modeled of the virtual private cloud (VPC) networking capabilities in public clouds. This and more from an on-premises version of the Rundown live from VMware Explore!