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Network Break 57: Vendor Upheaval, Zombie Cookies Bite
Network Break 57 delves into Dell and EMC and looks at upheavals affecting Juniper, Cisco, and AT&T. We also run from a new Verizon zombie tracking cookie, and opine on the rest of the week's tech news.
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Datanauts 011: Understanding Leaf-Spine Networks
The Datanauts explore the leaf-spine network architecture and examine how it works, how it differs from the traditional 3-tier design, and why it's a good fit for modern data centers.
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Network Break 56: Startups Get Rich, Amazon Picks A Fight
Take a Network Break! We check on the latest startup funding, examine Mellanox's EZchip buy, drop our jaws over news from AdBlock Plus and Amazon, and more.
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Show 257: VeloCloud SD-WAN: Sponsored
Join us for a discussion of VeloCloud's SD-WAN solution. Find out how it assures application performance over any Internet link, provides access to cloud resources, and simplifies branch deployments.
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Datanauts 010 – Automation For Fun And Profit
The Datanauts look at how automation improves efficiency and breaks down silos. They discuss tools including Puppet, Chef, and PowerShell, and suggest how to get started with automation in your organization.
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Network Break 55: Microsoft’s Switch, Security Gets Hotter
Network Break 55 examines new switch releases from Microsoft, Arista & Dell, a white-hot security market, Cisco security bugs, and why we don't need to get worked up about cloud outages any more.
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Show 256 – Design & Build 6 – VXLAN Use Cases
VXLAN is an encapsulation protocol you can use for network virtualization. We'll discuss VXLAN use cases, pros and cons, and design considerations.
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PQ Show 56 – VMware NSX In Production – Sponsored
This sponsored Priority Queue looks at the realities of using NSX in production, discusses practical customer use cases for network virtualization, and examines issues raised by listeners about NSX.
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Network Break 54: HP Blues, Listener Corrections
Network Break 54 examines HP's anticipated layoffs, financial news from startups, and listener feedback on what we got wrong about an Apple/Cisco partnership.
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Datanauts 009 – The Silo Series: Designing A vSwitch
Today, networks extend into hypervisors via vSwitches. Network engineers ignore vSwitches at their peril. At the same time, virtualization engineers ignore the physical network at theirs. Let’s work together to configure a vSwitch as good as it can be.
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Network Break 53: Apple At Work, OpenFlow Rising
Network Break 53 bites into Apple's latest announcements, wonders at Intel abandoning a science competition, ponders FireEye's reaction to vulnerability research, and opines on OpenFlow's rise in the network.
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Show 254 – Riverbed: Beyond WAN Optimization – Sponsored
Riverbed’s Hansang Bae, Brad Wood, and Scot Wilson discuss how network engineers can conquer the complexities of today’s hybrid WANs. Hear about the latest advancements from Riverbed and why the company is primed to support the emerging SD-WAN market.
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Network Break 52: From AI To Ashley Madison Bots
Network Break 52 offers a reality check on VMware's prediction of AI for IT, covers VMworld news, speculates on the Cisco/Apple partnership, and delves into Ashley Madison bots.
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Show 253 – Sonus Networks SDN & NaaS IQ – Sponsored
Today’s show, sponsored by Sonus Networks, examines ways to deliver predictable traffic behavior in an environment of congestion via an intelligent network control coupled with application-aware policies driven by business rules.
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Network Break 51: The VMware Machine, Arista On Quality
Network Break 51 talks VMware and EMC leadership, new VMware products, Arista's quality manifesto, Dell's business unit for high-performance compute, Brocade financial news, and a container update.
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Show 252 – Design & Build 5 – BGP In The Data Center
BGP is typically found in the data center at the edge, but it keeps popping up in SDN conversations. For data centers of a certain size, maybe BGP makes sense. To find out, we gathered four engineers to discuss data center BGP.
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Datanauts 008 – The Silo Series: Performance Troubleshooting
In this Datanauts episode, Chris and Ethan walk through performance troubleshooting from virtualization and network perspectives, and share tips for troubleshooting across silos.
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Network Break 50: InfoSec Arguments & Anti-Censorship Routing
Network Break 50 covers new pricing ideas from Big Switch, routing around censorship, Target's settlement with Visa card issuers, insurance and InfoSec, SD-WAN patents, and partner ecosystems.
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Show 251 – Arista Networks CloudVision – Sponsored
Arista CloudVision is a turnkey approach to workload orchestration and workflow automation. Building on Arista’s success in building programmable and open software for the cloud with Arista EOS, CloudVision extends the EOS architecture to a network-wide perspective.
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Network Break 48: Apple Smugness, ONIE Pwned
This episode of Network Break looks at ONIE security risks, a sensible car hack lawsuit, missing millions at Ubiquiti, EMC and VMware going all the way, a potential Apple win at IBM, and other tech news.
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