Veeam Acquired by Insight Partners | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 15, 2020

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. This week on the Rundown: Billions of medical images stored unsecured online Veeam acquired 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