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Mist, VMware VeloCloud Partner On WLAN And WAN Visibility

WLAN vendor Mist has announced a partnership with VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN solution, in which Mist can interoperate with VeloCloud to improve visibility into, and troubleshooting of, wireless and WAN performance. Mist provides a cloud-based wireless controller and administrative interface for its APs. This cloud controller can make API calls to VeloCloud’s controller to ingest WAN […]

Juniper Announces New Acceleration Cards For SRX5000 Security Appliances

Juniper Networks has announced that it will soon begin shipping new SPC3 (Services Process Card) Advanced Security Acceleration cards for its SRX5000 line of security gateways, which includes the 5400, 5600, and 5800 appliances. These security appliances target large enterprises, service providers, and cloud providers. Customers can mix and match security features including firewalling, IPS, […]

IPv6 Buzz 005: IPv6 Goes To College

In the latest IPv6 Buzz podcast, Scott and Tom discuss the state of IPv6 in universities and higher education. Additional topics include: * How universities and higher education can benefit from IPv6 adoption * How security differs (and doesn’t) in higher education environments and how that might impact IPv6 deployment * Some IPv6 address planning […]

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Gigamon Acquires SaaS Security Startup For Network Analytics

Gigamon has acquired Icebrg, a security startup that collects and analyzes network metadata to detect attacks and help security teams investigate incidents. Icebrg uses on-premises sensors to collect packet metadata from switches and routers, and then sends that data to its cloud platform. Customers then access the data from a portal for analysis and investigation. […]

Network Break 195: Google Goes For Hybrid Cloud; Gigamon Buys Security Startup

Take a Network Break! Google targets hybrid cloud with Managed Itsio and GKE On Prem, and then goes after the edge with a new machine learning-friendly ASIC called Edge TPU.

The Chrome browser gets serious about TLS, Qualcomm walks away from its NXP bid, Gigamon acquires Icebrg, and Atlassian agrees to sell HipChat to Slack.

Juniper and Intel announces their second-quarter earnings, and Infinera spends $430 million to buy Coriant.

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Google Cloud goes all-in on hybrid with its new Cloud Services Platform – TechCrunch

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Network Break 194: Amazon Spooks Switch Vendors; Big Switch Brings VPCs On Prem

Take a Network Break! Today we’re joined by guest John Fruehe. Amazon sent shock waves through the networking industry on rumors it might sell whitebox switches to the enterprise. The cloud giant says it has no current plans, but we examine other ways AWS might get into your network.

AWS adds EC2 instances to its Snowball edge storage device, and Big Switch Networks rolls out new software to enable VPC-like networking in your private data center.

A British government agency dings Huawei on national security, Deutsche Telekom joins Linux Foundation Networking, and Cato Networks adds identity routing to its SD-WAN offering.

Last but not least, Cisco releases more than two dozen security advisories, and Microsoft rakes in the money in its fourth quarter and fiscal 2018 financial reports.

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Exclusive: Amazon denies it will challenge Cisco with switch sales – MarketWatch

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