Tom Hollingsworth

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Tom Hollingsworth is a networking professional, blogger, and speaker on advanced technology topics. He is also an organizer for networking and wireless for Tech Field Day.  His blog can be found at https://networkingnerd.net/

Articles by Tom Hollingsworth

Security Audits Cause More Harm Than Good

April 23, 2024

Security audits are painful and often required for compliance but they aren’t adversarial unless you have a bad auditor or bad policy compliance. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth sits down with Teren Bryson, Skye Fugate, and Ben Story to discuss the nuances of audits.

Google Cloud Next | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 17, 2024

April 17, 2024

Our eyes were on Google Cloud Next last week, as the hyperscaler announced new ARM chips, lots of partnerships, and of course wall-to-wall AI. Google’s Vertex AI Agent Builder allows no-code deployment of agents, Google Vids targets video editing, and the search giant is leaning into Retrieval-Augmented Generation or RAG.

AI is Smarter Than Your Average Network Engineer

April 16, 2024

Recent advances in AI for IT have shown the huge potential for changing the way that we do work. However, AI can’t replace everyone in the workforce. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Rita Younger, Josh Warcop, and Rob Coote as they look at how the hype surrounding AI must inevitably be reconciled with the reality of real people doing work.

Cyber Resiliency is Just Data Protection

April 9, 2024

Cyber Resiliency is a term that encompasses much more than simply protecting data. This episode features Tom Hollingsworth joined by Krista Macomber and Max Mortillaro discussing the additional features in a cyber resiliency solution and the need to understand how data needs to be safeguarded from destruction or exploitation.

Taking Security Seriously at Security Field Day 11

April 4, 2024

Join Tech Field Day on April 10-11, 2024 for Security Field Day 11. This exciting event will feature presentations from Aryaka, Zerto, Palo Alto Networks, and Index Engines. Read on for more details about the presenting companies and schedule as well as the delegates in attendance.

US and UK Join Forces for AI Safety | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 3, 2024

April 3, 2024

The US and the UK have allied to make sure AI is developed safely. A new memorandum of understanding has laid out proposals for testing and information sharing to ensure that AI is being safely written and maintained to prevent harm to anyone using it. The ultimate goal, as stated by representatives from both governments, is harnessing the potential of AI while ensuring the risks are understood and mitigated.

Revisiting the Impact of NVIDIA GTC | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 27, 2024

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. Every company in tech is emphasizing their partnership and joint offerings with NVIDIA. But there’s a reaction from their competitors, too, with Google, Qualcomm, and Intel announcing their intent to undermine NVIDIA’s dominance.

Reintroducing the Tech Field Day Podcast

March 26, 2024

The Tech Field Day Podcast returns! The name may change but the content and format are still the same. Read on to learn more about the history of the podcast and focus going forward with our new episodes.

NVIDIA GTC News and NVIDIA Blackwell Systems | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 20, 2024

March 20, 2024

This week is NVIDIA GTC, or as Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman called it “the Woodstock of AI”. There’s been a lot of discussion about the ascendant NVIDIA and how they plan on capitalizing on a hot market.

NVIDIA unveiled Blackwell, their newest architecture. The chip was named after American mathematician David Blackwell and math is most definitely the strong suit of this product line. It has 208 billion transistors to power a second-generation transformer engine for accelerating inferencing. There is also support for fifth-generation NVLink and NVLink Switch connectivity for GPU clusters with speeds of up to 1.8 terabytes per second of bidirectional throughput, which means Blackwell could process the entire bandwidth of the Internet in just 11 units. Blackwell is being integrated into The GB100 and GB200 superchip systems which focus on Tensor core performance and can be combined into new clusters of water-cooled units of up to 72 Blackwell GPUs.

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