Today’s Network Break covers a brand new network OS from SnapRoute, new features in VMware’s SD-WAN appliances, Carbonite’s acquisition of Webroot, Cisco and Arista financial results, and more tech news.
Network Break 221: Cisco Calls Privacy A Human Right; VMware Revamps Recertification
Today’s Network Break podcast analyzes Cisco’s call for privacy legislation and CEO Chuck Robbins’ assertion that privacy is a human right. We also dive into VMware’s revamped recertification policy, a new Sprint/Meraki partnership, tactical Azure Stack hardware, and more tech news.
Network Break 220: Cisco Announces ACI Anywhere; U.S. Prosecutors Target Huawei
Today’s Network Break analyzes a slew of Cisco Live announcements including ACI Anywhere and HyperFlex for edge deployments, Huawei’s run-ins with U.S. prosecutors, financial results from Juniper Networks and Mellanox, and more tech news.
Network Break 219: Beware DNS Tampering; Arrcus Tackles 400G Switches
Today’s Network Break examines a US Homeland Security advisory on DNS tampering, covers 400G switching news from Arrcus and Huawei, analyzes financial results from Intel and F5, and more. Plus stay tuned for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Nubeva about its cloud packet broker.
Network Break 218: AWS Launches New Backup Service; Rubrik Rakes In VC Bucks
Today’s Network Break analyzes a new AWS backup service, Rubrik’s latest infusion of VC cash, whether the tech sector has reached its natural growth limit and what that means for how tech companies are valued, a Juniper/IBM deal, and more.
Network Break 217: Mixed Signals On IT Spending; Cisco Buys Luxtera
Today’s Network Break podcast forecasts 2019 IT trends, analyzes new industry reports on IT spending, reviews the continuing fallout from Ericsson’s outage, detects a bit of consumer backlash against gadget surveillance and more tech news analysis.
Network Break 216: 2018 Observations And 2019 Speculations
Happy new year! Today’s Network Break episode analyzes key themes and tech trends from 2018, and looks ahead on what might influence and affect IT and tech in 2019. Ethan Banks joins as guest prognosticator.
Network Break 215: Dell Buys Its Way To Wall Street; Arista Inks Container Partnerships
On today’s Network Break we analyze Dell’s move back onto the public market, Arista’s partnerships for container networking, startup funding, new products, and more of what’s happening in IT.
Network Break 214: Huawei Blues; Service Meshes Go Corporate
Today’s Network Break podcast analyzes the latest rounds of trouble for Huawei, new silicon from Barefoot Networks, two service mesh announcements from F5 and VMware, and more. Denise Donohue joins as guest analyst.
Network Break 213: Amazon Plants Outposts On Premises; Juniper Acquires Multi-Cloud Startup
Today’s Network Break analyzes the impact of AWS announcements including Outposts and Transit Gateway, Juniper’s HTBASE acquisition, VMware’s Q3 financial results, and more of what’s happening in IT.
Network Break 212: More Insight On Cisco SD-WAN; Google Cloud’s New Boss
On today’s Network Break we get more insight into recent Cisco news on SD-WAN and WLAN controllers, discuss Google Cloud’s curious choice for a new boss, examine the U.S. government’s latest move against Huawei, and other tech news.
Network Break 211: Oracle Buys Into SD-WAN; Cisco Debuts New Catalyst Switches
On today’s Network Break we examine why Oracle bought an SD-WAN vendor, discuss new Cisco switches and its new SD-WAN strategy, opine on BlackBerry’s billion dollar security purchase, and more tech news.
Network Break 210: VMware Buys Heptio; Cisco, AWS Partner On Hybrid Cloud
VMware and Cisco make moves to stay relevant in the age of Kubernetes and the cloud, Dell EMC releases new ToR switches with an odd lack of fanfare, Cisco releases another security advisory, and more tech news analysis from the Network Break podcast.
Network Break 209: Cisco Debuts 400G Switches; IBM Buys Red Hat
Cisco throws its hat in the 400G ring with switches built on two different ASICs, IBM buys Red Hat and the tech industry says “Good luck with that,” Pica8 and Dell partner on campus and edge briteboxes and more tech news analysis on this week’s Network Break.
Network Break 208: Apple Demands Bloomberg Retraction; Arista Announces 400G Switches
Today’s Network Break news review looks at Apple’s demand for a Bloomberg retraction, Arista’s new 400GbE switches, the sentencing of an Equifax engineer for insider trading, quarterly financials from Check Point and Juniper, and more tech news.
Network Break 207: Cisco Ships Disaggregated Nexus Switch; Arista Launches CloudVision For The Campus
Network Break peels away the marketing layers of the latest tech news, including a newly launched Cisco Nexus switch, Arista’s foray into campus WLANs, a new privacy policy from Apple, a creepy Amazon patent, and more.
Network Break 206: Bloomberg Doubles Down On Hardware Hacks; Juniper Goes Multicloud
Guest pontificator Tom Hollingsworth joins Network Break to discuss the latest Bloomberg hardware hack story, Juniper’s embrace of multicloud, a new NAT service from Google and other tech news.
Network Break 205: Bloomberg’s Microchip Story Raises Major Questions
On today’s Network Break we examine Bloomberg’s controversial claim that China implanted microchips on Supermicro motherboards to spy on US businesses and government agencies. We also drill into news from Edgecore Networks, Cisco, and the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Network Break 204: Azure Announces Virtual Network Tap; SolarWinds To Go Public
Today’s Network Break delves into news from Microsoft Ignite, including a virtual network tap in Azure and SD-WAN integrations. SolarWinds aims to go public, Michael Dell touts public cloud repatriation, and more tech news.
Network Break 203: Linus Learns About Emotions; Juniper Software Goes To The Edge
Stay on top of the latest IT news with Network Break. Today’s episode examines Linus Torvald’s public apology, new edge software from Juniper, AWS hardware for the enterprise, the latest VMware hybrid cloud partnership and more tech news.
Network Break 202: Cisco Upgrades ASR; Arista Acquires Metamako
Network Break reviews the latest IT news. On today’s episode Cisco upgrades its ASR 9000 platform, Arista buys a maker of FPGA-powered switches, mobile carriers partner on an SSO service, Marvell steps away from programmable ASICs, and more.
Network Break 201: Azure Wounded By Power Surge; NIST Tackles BGP Security
Today’s fully caffeinated Network Break episode examines an Azure outage, a NIST specification for BGP security, eBay’s open-source server design, and more tech news. Then stay tuned for a sponsored Coffee Talk with 128 Technology on session-oriented routing.
Network Break 200: VMware Navigates Multicloud Perils And Opportunities
Today’s Network Break analyzes key product announcements and news from VMware’s VMworld 2018 conference, including vSphere Platinum, Amazon RDS on premises, and VMware’s strategy to win in a multicloud world.
Network Break 199: Arista, VMware Team Up; Microsoft To Share Network Emulator
On today’s Network Break, Arista and VMware integrate CloudVision and NSX, Microsoft pledges to open-source a network emulator, TLS 1.3 gets final approval, and more tech news analysis. And stay tuned after the news for a Coffee Talk with Silver Peak customer Blue Shield of California.
Network Break 198: VMware Targets Security; Cisco’s Software Embrace
VMware pivots to security via NSX, Cisco embraces software as the company evolves, NetApp launches a private cloud architecture and more tech news analysis on this week’s Network Break podcast with guest Ed Horley.
