048: IPOs and Magic Quadrants

This week, Trevor Pott from The Register joins Gabriel, Marc, and Nigel to discuss the best enterprise tech news from the week.

Tech News

• What's the point of bloatware? Lenovo caught loading laptops with unremovable crapware [Link]
• North Korea disappeared off the internet for 4 hours.... anybody notice? [It's sooooo important I can't find the link]
• Gartner woos the world with a Magic Quadrant for "Integrated Systems"... we think that's pretty much anything remotely converged [Link]

Biz News

• Google splits amid spat with the EU. Alphabet will be the new holding company [Link]  Marc also mentioned this interesting article during the show [Link] 
• Congrats to Pure Storage (PSTG) who announced their intent to IPO [Link]  
• Symantec dumps Veritas on the Carlyle Group and robs them of $8BN in the process [Link]