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Network Break 295: Arista CloudEOS Edge Joins Multi-Cloud Portfolio; Juniper Announces AI-Powered WAN Assurance
Today's Network Break podcast explores a new multi-cloud offering from Arista, Juniper's WAN Assurance service that leverages Mist AI, and Marvell's Ethernet ASIC line. We also discuss financial results from Juniper, A10 Networks, and F5, plus a space networking update and more.
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Network Break 294: Fortinet, Arrcus Target Multi-Cloud Networking; Innovium Rakes In More ASIC Funding
Today's Network Break analyzes multi-cloud networking announcements from Fortinet and Arrcus, discusses additional venture funding for ASIC-maker Innovium, looks at more consolidation in the SD-WAN market, and debates whether "Internet" should be capitalized.
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Network Break 293: HPE Acquires Silver Peak; Dell Teases VMware Sale
Today's Network Break scrutinizes HPE's big payout for Silver Peak and Dell's plans for a possible sale of VMware. We also discuss new capabilities in VMware Cloud on AWS, a new synthetic monitoring service from Kentik, how NIST thinks "giga" is pronounced, and more.
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Network Break 292: Nokia Debuts SR Linux Network OS; AT&T, Cisco Team Up On SD-WAN
On today's Network Break we discuss Nokia's new network OS, examine a Cisco/AT&T partnership on SD-WAN, and analyze Google's pullback from a cloud venture in China. We also cover a new video codec and an image format that will save bandwidth, the rise of online learning, and what Uber's Postmates acquisition can tell us about IT startups.
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Tech Bytes: Intent-Based Networking And The Evolution Of Automation (Sponsored)
Today's Tech Bytes dives into Intent-Based Networking (IBN) as an evolution of network automation. Apstra is our sponsor for this episode and our guest is Mansour Karam, fouder and President. We discuss how IBN advances traditional automation, Apstra's support for open networking, customer use cases, and more.
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Heavy Networking 528: If Automation Is So Great, Why Aren’t More Networks Automated? (Sponsored)
On today's Heavy Networking episode, sponsored by Cisco, we discuss reasons why automation isn't more pervasive, particularly in networking, and look at complications such as source of truth, getting state information, the need for orchestration, and user trust. Our guests are Omar Sultan, Leader, Product Management at Cisco; and Kevin Corbin, Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp.
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Network Break 291: F5 Patches Severe Vulnerability; Senate Bill Aims To Weaken Encryption
Today's Network Break podcast discusses critical security patches from F5 and Palo Alto Networks, examines the implications of a Senate bill that targets encryption, and dives into VMware's latest acquisition. We also explore a new space-oriented business unit at AWS and more tech news analysis.
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Heavy Networking 526: Rethinking Your Global Enterprise WAN With Telia Carrier (Sponsored)
In today’s sponsored Heavy Networking podcast we talk to Telia Carrier. Telia runs its own global IP backbone, and as the public Internet becomes the de facto enterprise WAN, your choice of carrier becomes critical. Our guest is Mattias Fridström, Vice President & Chief Evangelist at Telia Carrier. We discuss why enterprises should consider Telia services including DCI, cloud connections, and SD-WAN.
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Tech Bytes: Improving IT Operations With Aruba’s AIOps (Sponsored)
Today's Tech Bytes Podcast, sponsored by Aruba, discusses the AI capabilities in Aruba’s new Edge Services Platform or ESP; in particular, we explore Aruba's AIOps offering, and how artificial intelligence can improve day-to-day IT operations. Our guest is Jose Tellado, Chief Technologist of AIOps and an HPE Fellow.
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Network Break 288: Aruba ESP Senses Opportunity At The Edge; Intel Wrestles With New Chip Attacks
Take a Network Break! Aruba targets the enterprise edge with Aruba ESP and AI, Intel grapples with new attacks against secure enclaves in its chips, and MIT walks away from negotiations with an academic publisher over open access to journals. Three tech companies rethink the sale of facial recognition technology to U.S. police forces, the Wi-Fi Alliance praises the FCC Chair, and more tech news and commentary.
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Heavy Networking 523: OneOncology Boosts WAN Security, Availability With Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN (Sponsored)
Today's Heavy Networking podcast focuses on a real-world SD-WAN deployment with OneOncology. The organization deployed an SD-WAN solution from Silver Peak, our sponsor for today's podcast, to securely segment and prioritize electronic medical records over other WAN traffic, get better service quality for critical voice and video applications, and ensure the WAN was highly available. Our guests are Robert Holloway, Infrastructure Manager at OneOncology; and Damon Ennis, SVP of Products at Silver Peak.
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Tech Bytes: Solving Common Network Issues With Apstra’s Intent-Based Networking (Sponsored)
Today's Tech Byte episode, sponsored by Apstra, delves into solving common network problems with Intent-Based Networking (IBN), including how a customer used Apstra AOS to troubleshoot an EVPN issue. Our Apstra guests are Sean Hafeez, VP of Product Management; and Jeff Tantsura, Head of Networking Strategy.
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Tech Bytes: Payomatic Cuts Costs, Revamps WAN With Fortinet Secure SD-WAN (Sponsored)
Today’s Tech Bytes episode, sponsored by Fortinet, explores an SD-WAN deployment with PAYOMATIC, a lending company in NYC. We talk about how PAYOMATIC cut costs by migrating off MPLS, and how Fortinet Secure SD-WAN positioned the company to take advantage of new infrastructure options. Our guest is Michael Saraceno, CISO and VP of IT at PAYOMATIC.
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Network Break 287: Open Compute Infrastructure Makes Its Mark; Cisco Live Postponed
Today's Network Break podcast discusses the growth of the infrastructure market based on Open Compute specs, the decline in switch and routing revenues, Cisco postponing its 2020 Cisco Live virtual event, VMware's latest acquisition, and more tech news.
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Network Break 286: Cisco To Acquire ThousandEyes; The Return Of Follow Up
Take a Network Break! We start with some FU (follow up) from previous Network Break and Heavy Networking episodes, then dive into Cisco's big ThousandEyes acquisition and financial updates.
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Tech Bytes: Improving NPM And Threat Management With Enriched Flow From VIAVI Solutions (Sponsored)
Today's Tech Bytes podcast dives into using enriched flow--that is, flow records enhanced with logs and data from sources such as firewalls and directories--to improve your network performance monitoring and threat management. Our guest is Warren Caron, Sales Engineer at VIAVI Solutions. VIAVI is our sponsor for today's episode.
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Network Break 285: 37,000 Kilometers Of Undersea Cable Coming To Africa; Cisco Announces ACI 5.0
Lots to cover in this week's Network Break podcast, including a consortium of telcos and Facebook laying new undersea cable in Africa, new features for service providers and enterprises in Cisco's ACI 5.0, why Intel bought Rivet Networks, software and Wi-Fi for contact tracing, AT&T getting called on misleading 5G advertising, and more.
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Tech Bytes: SolarWinds Boosts VoIP Performance, Development Productivity With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored)
On today’s Tech Bytes we talk with SolarWinds about how the company boosted VoIP performance, improved end user experience, sped up the transfer of massive files, and increased development productivity by deploying SD-WAN EdgeConnect appliances from Silver Peak. Silver Peak is our sponsor.
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Network Break 284: Dell Technologies Announces SONiC Distro; Microsoft Acquires Metaswitch Networks
Today's Network Break asks if enterprises want a supported SONiC network OS, Microsoft acquires Metaswitch Networks, VMware buys Kubernetes security platform Octarine, Cisco announces quarterly results, and more tech news.
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Tech Bytes: Accelerating Cloud Connectivity With Megaport (Sponsored)
Megaport provides global cloud connectivity, data center interconnect, and Internet exchange peering. On today's sponsored Tech Bytes podcast, we talk about the services Megaport offers, and how the company can support your remote-work needs. Our guest is Misha Cetrone, Sr. Global Director, Cloud Solutions.
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