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Network Break 347: Cisco Acquires Container App Monitor; Intel Unwraps Mount Evans IPU
It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) for network and storage offload, and more tech news. Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, joins Greg Ferro.
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Network Break 347: Cisco Acquires Container App Monitor; Intel Unwraps Mount Evans IPU
It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) for network and storage offload, and more tech news. Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, joins Greg Ferro.Musing: Does 802.1x Matter Anymore ?
802.1X has little relevance over time. As distributed work becomes widespread, laptops and smartphones will not connect to campus or branch networks operated by IT departments. Home broadband, cafes, kids schools, 4G/5g etc. Each user device will have some software mechanism/agent/method to access resources in SaaS, on/off prem DC/cloud and on son There is a market […]
Tech Bytes: DDOS and State Exhaustion With Netscout Arbor
Its not widely that DDOS attacks also cause damage from state exhaustion in devices. A recent study why Netscout surprised me that many engineers are aware of overload bandwidth or routing devices but give less considerations to state exhaustion in application aware devices.
Firewalls, IPS and reverse proxies are subject to overload failure when the internal state is exceeded. This includes server side caches (Varnish, memcache etc) and all this elements should be part of your DDOS strategy.
Roland Dobbins talks about the nature of these attacks and how to implement stateful protection while using stateless DDOS technology.
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Network Break 346: Extreme Gets SDWAN, Huawei Struggles and SpaceX Swarms
The world of virtual donuts is supply constrained. Extreme Networks finally gets SDWAN buying Ipanema from Infovista at a bargain price. Research firms that does the numbers Dell'oro pitches that Education and Government markets will be spending big on WiFi6E - we aren't so sure that campus spending will be big just some spending but Dell'oro told us that government economic stimulus is the driver. Most will focus on distributed work.
Huawei posted 29% revenue reduction as the trade sanctions impact their overall business. A reminder that political solutions are slow if you have to make plans. And in space networking, SpaceX acquires pico-satellite company Swarm for IOT networking.
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Network Break 346: Extreme Gets SDWAN, Huawei Struggles and SpaceX Swarms
The world of virtual donuts is supply constrained. Extreme Networks finally gets SDWAN buying Ipanema from Infovista at a bargain price. Research firms that does the numbers Dell'oro pitches that Education and Government markets will be spending big on WiFi6E - we aren't so sure that campus spending will be big just some spending but Dell'oro told us that government economic stimulus is the driver. Most will focus on distributed work. Huawei posted 29% revenue reduction as the trade sanctions impact their overall business. A reminder that political solutions are slow if you have to make plans. And in space networking, SpaceX acquires pico-satellite company Swarm for IOT networking.HS 009 The Metrics of IT Security
How do you measure IT Security ? Specifically, how do you decide to allocate budget and justify the underlying reasoning. Most companies allocate a percentage of IT Budget, but Johna argues differently.
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Network Break Quick Take – New Video Series
New video series Network Break Quick Take
Heavy Strategy 008: Five Core Issues for IT Architects in 2021
I’ve just published the latest episode of Heavy Strategy with Johna Til-Johnson. In this episode we discuss five issues that we think IT Architects should be considered for 2021. The discussion on why and why not should be helpful for your own thinking and prepare you for discussions in your own organisations. You can find […]
Microsoft Misplaced Security Priorites
Pays bug bounty pittance, spends big on speculative product
Heavy Strategy 008: Five Core Issues for IT Architects in 2021
What five issues would be top of mind for IT architects ? Security, Backup.Recovery, Cloud, Skills Development and Distributed/Hybrid Work. Listen in on why and how these issues are our choices. If you have feedback or want us to followup then head over to our Follow Up page and send us your anonymous (or not) feedback.
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Password Managers Aren’t Good But I Use One
Not the app but the integration
Convergence & Complexity Go Hand In Hand
Many ways to converge .... Many types of converge
Private 5G is Anti-Cloud ?
Because why own it ?
Heavy Networking 586: Virtualizing And Accelerating 5G RAN With 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon (Sponsored)
Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Intel, dives into 5G, virtualization, and AI. Intel's 3rd Gen Xeon processors can support a variety of use cases, including running virtualized network functions in the data center, at the edge, and in the cloud. They also have built-in acceleration for AI and cryptography, giving organizations a flexible platform for a variety of workloads, including service providers building out 5G networks. Our guest is Cristina Rodriguez, Vice President Data Center Group General Manager Wireless Access Network Division at Intel.
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Heavy Networking 586: Virtualizing And Accelerating 5G RAN With 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon (Sponsored)
Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Intel, dives into 5G, virtualization, and AI. Intel's 3rd Gen Xeon processors can support a variety of use cases, including running virtualized network functions in the data center, at the edge, and in the cloud. They also have built-in acceleration for AI and cryptography, giving organizations a flexible platform for a variety of workloads, including service providers building out 5G networks. Our guest is Cristina Rodriguez, Vice President Data Center Group General Manager Wireless Access Network Division at Intel.Tech Bytes: Batteries Plus Powers Its Branches With Fortinet SD-WAN (Sponsored)
Today's Tech Bytes podcast is an interview with Fortinet customer Batteries Plus, a retailer that specializes in batteries, chargers, and lighting, about its SD-WAN and SD-Branch deployments. Fortinet is our sponsor for this episode.
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Tech Bytes: Batteries Plus Powers Its Branches With Fortinet SD-WAN (Sponsored)
Today's Tech Bytes podcast is an interview with Fortinet customer Batteries Plus, a retailer that specializes in batteries, chargers, and lighting, about its SD-WAN and SD-Branch deployments. Fortinet is our sponsor for this episode.Heavy Networking 583: How Salesforce Evolved Its Branch Network With Prisma SD-WAN (Sponsored)
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we hear from Salesforce about the evolution of its branch network to SD-WAN. Salesforce was able to trade MPLS for Internet broadband, get more bandwidth for less money, employ application-based steering and policy enforcement, and more. Our guests are Georgi Stoev, Sr. Network Architect at Salesforce; and Kumar Ramachandran, Senior Vice President at Palo Alto Networks.
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