Dell Technologies sells RSA Security, Arista buys Big Switch, Google restructures its cloud business, and Microsoft updates Dynamics 365. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss this and more today for the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly IT news briefings.

More JEDI Drama

EU To Investigate Emerging Tech Markets

The Free Speech of Maine ISPs

Google Closes on Looker

Dell Makes RSA Conference Awkward

Google Cloud Restructuring 

Arista Buys Big Swtich

Microsoft Announced Big Dynamics 365 Update

Cloudian and Veeam Form Ransomware Tag Team

New ransomware attacked exfiltrate data prior to encryption for blackmail, IBM standardizes on Slack, the impact of India's proposed data privacy law, and more this week. Rich Stroffolino is joined by Keith Townsend this week for the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly IT news briefings.

This week on the Rundown:

The End to No Breach Ransomware? 

SaaS-as-a-Security

IBM Gives Itself Some Slack

Impacts of India's Proposed Privacy Law

Is Chrome Too Opinionated?

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science Service

Cortex M Gets ML Boost

Nutanix Updates Karbon

And Then There Were Three

Apple Throws FIDO a Bone

VMware changes up its per-CPU pricing to reflect the proliferation of CPU cores, WireGuard VPN is coming to the Linux kernel, Western Digital finds a buyer for ActiveScale, Intel drops its Nervana chip line, and Google Cloud reveals revenue numbers. All this and more with Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth on this week's Gestalt IT Rundown.

This week on the Rundown:

VMware Per-CPU Licensing Change

WireGuard To Linux

Western Digital Sells ActiveScale

Intel Drops Nervana

HPE Acquires Scytale

GCP Revenue

Bye Bye Blackberry Brand?

Microsoft Teams Down

Google Glass for the Enterprise Masses

IBM Names New CEO

SAP 2040 Support

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Reactions from Cisco Live Europe, VMware layoffs hit hard, Google looking to compete with Microsoft Teams. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about all these and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown, your weekly IT news briefing.

App Maker Shutdown

LoRaWAN Security Issues?

ServiceNow Shifts Focus

Google Testing Comms App for Business

Proposed UK IoT Rules

VMware Layoffs

AI But For WebEx

A new survey shows that open-source projects are abandoning copyleft licensing, VMware acquires the network analytics startup Nyansa, and IBM actually increased revenue. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about these and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown, your source for the IT news of the week.

Low Tide for Digital Ocean?

Cloud Computing Like It's 1988

Google Partners with Airtel

Chromebooks Getting Updates Through Graduation

IBM Grows Revenue

VMware Buys Nyansa 

Is Open-Source Licensing Copyleft Behind? 

Google announced it acquired AppSheet, a no-code development platform for workplace apps like CRM, field inspections or personalized reporting. Google plans to integrate this into Google Cloud and focus it on specific verticals like financ

Veeam will be acquired by Insight Partners for $5 billion, Packet gets bought by Equinix, billions of medical images found stored in unsecured servers, and IBM fights the patent trolls. Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth are talking about these and more on the Gestalt IT Rundown, your source for the IT news of the week.

Packet bought too

Apple gearing up for encryption case with DOJ

Google acquires AppSheet

IBM joins LOT Network

Google phasing out user-agent strings in Chrome

Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss if AI should be able to get patents, if Microsoft getting into Teams hardware spells trouble for Cisco, and the first impacts of CCPA. 

This week, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look back at 2019. They discuss the biggest IT news, from new regulations and acquisitions, to new product releases and partnerships. It was a busy year, but they help put the news in context in this episode. 

This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the details of a new data regulation bill from India. Some are comparing it to GDPR, but with important new wrinkles. Plus they discuss China taking government computing domestic within three years, why Intel might make quantum computing boring, and in AWS being investigated by the FTC is a big deal. 

Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino look at the big announcements from AWS re:Invent, with a heavy dose of machine learning. Plus they cover the latest acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, why looking at IT as a cost center is a problem for political candidates, and the EU sanctioning the EU.