In this episode Tom and his panel of delegates debate the premise that You Don’t Need Wi-Fi 6E Today.

Find out more about Mobility Field Day 8 coming your way October 5-6, 2022!

Intel Innovation 2022 is happening this week and that means lots of coverage of the things that Intel is talking about and showing off. Pat Gelsinger has been on the job for a little less than two years and he’s been working tirelessly to keep Intel relevant. From the admission that Moore’s Law isn’t dead just yet but may involve chiplets to the end of Optane and the anticipation for Sapphire Rapids there is a lot of buzz going on. Stephen, there’s a lot to discuss around the announcements but let’s start with a simple appraisal – How does Intel look two years into the Pat Era? This and more

Wi-Fi 6E is on the cusp of opening vast new areas of spectrum for use by enterprises and home users alike. The days of congested frequencies are almost at an end. However, the 6 GHz spectrum is far from empty. Incumbent licensed users are sending letters to the FCC. They worry that unlicensed Wi-Fi users are going to disrupt mission critical links. It’s time to ask the question: Is Wi-Fi 6E Safe?

Oracle released it’s fiscal 2023 Q1 results and it showed massive year-on-year cloud-revenue growth. Are they overtaking Google Cloud?

MLCommons released the latest wave of machine learning training and inferencing benchmarks, and Nvidia’s next-generaltion H100 really aced the results, delivering up to 4.5 times the performance of the leading Nvidia A100. But there are some other gems in the results, including a surprisingly strong showing for the Biren Technology BR104 and good enough performance from Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Xeon to eliminate the market for low-performing inferencing hardware. What do the MLPerf results tell us? This and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.

Companies are touting the latest advances in ML and AI to help solve the issue but does Observability Need to be Smarter? The panel discusses.

The third Networking Field Day event of 2022 is here! We’ve got a great lineup of presenters and expert delegates ready to help you understand what the landscape of enterprise networking looks like today and where it’s headed tomorrow.

VMware’s annual conference is taking place in San Francisco this week, and Stephen Foskett is on-site to cover the event for Gestalt IT. It’s been a tumultuous event, the first from VMware since the pandemic, and it’s returning with a new name and theme. VMware Explore is different from VMworld in many ways, not least for the focus on multi-cloud management and entierprise IT developers, but we’re also trying to see the future, since the company will soon be purchased by Broadcom. Along with vSphere 8, which integrates Project Monterey, we’re seeing a beefed-up Tanzu and a new reporting suite called Aria.

Chipmaker Qualcomm is aiming to jump back into the server CPU market. The avenue is coming from last year’s acquisition of Nuvia. We covered this deal on the Rundown last January and mentioned that the company was founded by former Apple engineers that wanted to focus on bring ARM to the datacenter. At first the acquistion seemed to refocus Nuvia on mobile device CPUs but Qualcomm appears to be looking to the future and restarting development efforts on servers. Qualcomm has a big market for System-on-a-Chip solutions for mobile devices but with the market for ARM CPUs in the cloud becoming hotter, is it time for a new player to enter and try and upset the balance? This and more on this week’s Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.