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AMD Fuels the Cloud-Native Revolution with Chiplet-Based Architectures
As the cloud revolution whisked enterprises off their feet, they found themselves treading robust, and distributed infrastructures. This cloud, unlike their office datacenters, ran out of server farms...
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Balancing Work and Life
Consistent work stress presents greater risks to the health than previously realized, studies say. Long 50-hour weeks, packed calendars, back-to-back meetings spawning FOMO and the pressure to stay...
View ArticleExistential Questions about HPC and AI | Gestalt IT Rundown: November 15, 2023
As Supercomputing 2023 is held in Denver this week, we’re on the lookout for all the latest news. We have a new list of Top-500 supercomputers, more Nvidia announcements, and lots of AI. Perhaps the...
View ArticleIBM and Meta’s AI Alliance Launched This Week | Gestalt IT Rundown: December...
IBM and Facebook parent company Meta have decided to advocate for a more open approach to AI. They’ve announced a joint AI Alliance group. The companies are part of a growing trend that sees advocates...
View ArticleVMware Simplifies Offer Lineup through Broadcom | Gestalt IT Rundown:...
Change is in the air and it’s licensed. The biggest news this week came from VMware (by Broadcom) as they announced a simplification of their licensing model. The first change is that VMware Cloud...
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The Custom Silicon Race, with The Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman
Inside the labs of the biggest tech companies, a profound change is underway. In the recent years, industry behemoths like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, all have launched their respective...
View ArticleTop Enterprise IT Stories of 2023 | The Gestalt IT Rundown: December 20, 2023
It has been a big year in the enterprise IT industry for many reasons. Pat Gelsinger and Intel continue to refocus its business, the SEC gets serious with SolarWinds, Broadcom’s deal to acquire...
View ArticleThe Future of AI Needs Ethernet
The development of AI networking is moving forward and Ethernet is taking a prime role in how workloads will communicate. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Drew Conry-Murray and Jordan...
View ArticleRevisiting the Impact of NVIDIA GTC | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 27, 2024
NVIDIA GTC event was the big story last week, both on the Rundown and in the tech industry generally. NVIDIA is clearly the company to beat in AI and HPC and this has the entire industry on its toes....
View ArticleCrowdstrike Update Strikes Microsoft’s Cloud Services | The Gestalt IT...
You probably felt the pain this past Friday morning from a huge outage. No, not the one on Azure. A misconfigured update to popular security platform Crowdstrike took down over 8 million Windows PCs...
View ArticleAnnouncements and Takeaways from Black Hat | The Gestalt IT Rundown: August...
Black Hat was last week and Hacker Summer Camp never fails to disappoint. There were some big takeaways from the show, such as Moxie Marlinspike telling DevOps they’re the problem with security as...
View ArticleZT Systems to be Acquired by AMD | The Gestalt IT Rundown: August 21, 2024
Our big story this week is from AMD. They’re opening up their wallet to the tune of nearly $5 billion to buy ZT Systems. The two companies have had a preexisting partnership, with ZT having...
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Analyzing AMD’s $4.9 Billion Acquisition of ZT Systems
AMD announced that it is planning to acquire computer hardware design company ZT Systems, for a cash-and-stock deal of $4.9 billion. The acquisition significantly expands AMD’s footprint in AI chips...
View ArticleA Smaller VMware Explore Still Delivers News | The Gestalt IT Rundown:...
This year, at the smallest VMware conference in many years, Broadcom made some important announcements. As we’ve previously discussed, VMware Cloud Foundation 9 was detailed, along with Tanzu Platform...
View ArticleCommvault Shift’s Cyber Resilience for the AI Era | The Gestalt IT Rundown:...
At Commvault SHIFT 2024, The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead sat with CEO Sanjay Mirchandani, who discussed Commvault’s strategic pivot towards a cloud-first approach in cyber...
View ArticleAMD and Intel Reach Historic Partnership | The Gestalt IT Rundown: October...
Hatfields and McCoys. Lakers and Celtics. GIF versus GIF. The rivalries of our time are always storied. One of the biggest seems to be cooling, however. AMD and Intel have announced a new partnership...
View ArticleIs IT Security Too Stressful for the Money? | The Gestalt IT Rundown:...
Pay rates for IT security professionals are rising faster than inflation, but burnout and stress are growing faster. A survey of UK security professionals revealed the fast pace of modern security and...
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