Drew Conry-Murray

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Heavy Networking 670: The Challenges And Satisfactions Of Building And Running A Mastodon Instance

On today’s Heavy Networking I talk with two people who have built and are running Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance which orients itself towards technical-minded folks. What started as a cool project in the basement suddenly grew to tens of thousands of users. I talk with Hachyderm's founders on how they scaled, problems they encountered, how they solved problems, and how they grappled with technical and human challenges.

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Heavy Networking 670: The Challenges And Satisfactions Of Building And Running A Mastodon Instance

On today’s Heavy Networking I talk with two people who have built and are running Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance which orients itself towards technical-minded folks. What started as a cool project in the basement suddenly grew to tens of thousands of users. I talk with Hachyderm's founders on how they scaled, problems they encountered, how they solved problems, and how they grappled with technical and human challenges.

SmartNIC, DPU Revenue Forecast To Grow 30% In 2023

Data Processing Unit (DPU) and SmartNIC vendors such as NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD are making a lot of noise about the ability of their adapters to offload work from CPUs and to run networking, security, and storage applications directly on a NIC inside a server. But that noise hasn’t necessarily turned into sales—at least not […]

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Tech Bytes: Automating Network Administration At Scale With BackBox (Sponsored)

Today's Tech Bytes podcast gets into network automation with sponsor BackBox. BackBox’s approach to automation is to focus on network engineers and integrate automation with how they already do their jobs. BackBox works with more than 180 network and security vendors.

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Network Break 421: Huawei Is Both In And Out Of German Networks; Hot-Desking Rubs Hybrid Workers Wrong

Take a Network Break! On today's episode we discuss a record quarter for switch sales, examine Germany's mixed signals about allowing Huawei gear in its networks, and debate whether employees' frustration over Google's desk-sharing plan is just entitled whining or a legitimate complaint. Plus more IT news.

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Xcitium’s Endpoint Virtual Jail Aims To Lock Up Mystery Malware

Xcitium is an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) vendor that sells client software that uses multiple methods to protect endpoints. Methods include anti-virus, a host firewall, a Host Intrusion Protection System (HIPS), and a technique it calls ZeroDwell Containment. The first three components are straightforward. The AV software relies on signatures to detect known malware. […]

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Network Break 420: Cisco, HPE Buy Security Startups; Can We Finally Hold Vendors Responsible For Software Defects?

Take a Network Break! We begin with some FU on what constitutes on-prem and off-prem, and then dive into news. Cisco and T-Mobile are partnering on 5G gateways, Cisco Webex is getting installed as a feature(?) in Mercedes E-Class cars, and Cisco is buying multi-cloud security startup Valtix. Valtix offers firewalling, IPS, a cloud Web […]

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Network Break 420: Cisco, HPE Buy Security Startups; Can We Finally Hold Vendors Responsible For Software Defects?

Take a Network Break! We begin with some FU on what constitutes on-prem and off-prem, and then dive into news. Cisco and T-Mobile are partnering on 5G gateways, Cisco Webex is getting installed as a feature(?) in Mercedes E-Class cars, and Cisco is buying multi-cloud security startup Valtix. Valtix offers firewalling, IPS, a cloud Web... Read more »

Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes Enhances Data Correlation With OpenTelemetry (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about OpenTelemetry with sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes. OpenTelemetry is an open collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs to help share telemetry data among different monitoring and analysis platforms to improve data correlation and visibility. ThousandEyes, the first network visibility platform to support OpenTelemetry, joins the podcast to discuss how it works, use cases, and more.

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Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes Enhances Data Correlation With OpenTelemetry (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about OpenTelemetry with sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes. OpenTelemetry is an open collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs to help share telemetry data among different monitoring and analysis platforms to improve data correlation and visibility. ThousandEyes, the first network visibility platform to support OpenTelemetry, joins the podcast to discuss how it works, use cases, and more.

Network Break 419: HPE Buys Athonet For Private 5G; Exit Public Cloud, Save Millions?

Is the private 5G market big enough to justify HPE's acquisition of Athonet? Is saving money worth retreating from public cloud? Why are organizations still getting bit by basic cloud misconfigurations? Will an appetite for AI deliver results for Nvidia? We explore these and other questions in the latest Network Break podcast.

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Who Are The Most Overpaid Tech CEOs?

This post originally appeared in the Packet Pushers’ Human Infrastructure newsletter. You can get the newsletter for free here. Or don’t. That’s fine too. The tech sector has recently gone through a spasm of layoffs. Tens of thousands of jobs have been cut at companies such as Microsoft, Google, Cisco, and Salesforce. The cuts are […]

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Heavy Networking 667: Broadcom’s NetOps Delivers End-User Visibility Into SD-WAN (Sponsored)

In today’s Heavy Networking show with sponsor Broadcom we go deep into network management and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). At its heart, DEM is about understanding the user experience of the network. Network monitoring and management products that incorporate user experience, such as Broadcom's DX NetOps, can provide visibility into network and application performance to help inform troubleshooting efforts and speed resolution.

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Heavy Networking 667: Broadcom’s NetOps Delivers End-User Visibility Into SD-WAN (Sponsored)

In today’s Heavy Networking show with sponsor Broadcom we go deep into network management and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). At its heart, DEM is about understanding the user experience of the network. Network monitoring and management products that incorporate user experience, such as Broadcom's DX NetOps, can provide visibility into network and application performance to help inform troubleshooting efforts and speed resolution.

Day Two Cloud 183: How Did We Get To WebAssembly And What Is It For?

WebAssembly (Wasm) is an up-and-coming technology that's probably going to fall into the lap of operations folks. WebAssembly is basically a specification on how to compile things to a bytecode format and how to execute that bytecode. On today's Day Two Cloud we start to peel the onion on what WebAssembly, what it's used for, and why you might want to get your hands on it.

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Day Two Cloud 183: How Did We Get To WebAssembly And What Is It For?

WebAssembly (Wasm) is an up-and-coming technology that's probably going to fall into the lap of operations folks. WebAssembly is basically a specification on how to compile things to a bytecode format and how to execute that bytecode. On today's Day Two Cloud we start to peel the onion on what WebAssembly, what it's used for, and why you might want to get your hands on it.
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