Take a Network Break! Its the virtual stroopwafel edition this week. Drew is on annual leave and travelling to Amsterdam, don t panic he will be back next week with bags of virtual stroopwaffel s. Mike Fratto is c-hosting to keep the show flowing. 

Microsoft buys a bunch of new developer friends, Arista get some P4 & Tofino, Micron is embroiled in US-China politics to balance ZTE, Huawei is No2 Enterprise networking vendor, Fortinet buys Bradford Networks and more.

Sponsor: InterOptic

InterOptic offers high-performance, high-quality optics at a fraction of the cost. If you’re not doing optics correctly, you’re going to pay for it upfront (and then later too). Don’t be fooled by lesser optics. The difference between generic third-party and brand-equivalent optics matters.

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Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 Billion Andreessen Horowitz

So Pigs Do Fly: Microsoft Acquires GitHub– Redmonk

Arista Announces New Multi-function Platform for Cloud Networking – Arista

Link: Micron Says It s Being Investigated by Chinese Regulatory Agents – Yahoo

Link: Trump strikes deal with Chinese telecom company ZTE amid trade talks – Axios – 

Link: Cloud computing sticker shock is now a monthly occurrence at many companies | ZDNet – 

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Juniper Appformix is a telemetry platform thats multi-vendor, cross layer, built-in machine learning and
with fancy visualisation. Its designed simplify operations and closed-loop automation.  In the era of multi-cloud, we need tools that run on-prem or in cloud and support OpenStack, K8s, VMware, Azure, Google, Amazon networks with integration into virtual machines, containers, overlay networks and physical devices.

The ability to draw data from a wide range of sources creates data flood that can overwhelm you. Appformix has machine learning and a range of automation functions to simplify and organise this diverse data flood. The increasing complexity of networks as the the edge of the network expands in multiple dimensions – on and off premises, virtual edge, overlay networks as well the physical devices must all operate in cahoots.

Appformix is automating this operational load so you aren’t getting calls at 2am. Thats a very fine thing.

Sumeet Singh, VP/GM for Juniper AppFormix, kicks off the discussion with a quick intro to Appformix, we cover the key features and the approach of the product before we move into use cases and what customers are using today. Surprisingly, this includes WAN operations in addition to DC/Cloud.

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On today’s Weekly Show the Packet Pushers jump on the live grenade that is the debate over the value of IT certifications.

Spurred by Greg’s blog about giving up his CCIE status, this episode looks at the value of technology certifications such as the CCIE and others.

Greg and guests Mike Fryar, Chris Kluka, and Jeremy Filliben discuss the benefits and limits of professional certifications, the differences between certifications and actual skills, whether certifications represent a standardized body of knowledge or just a set of instructions, and how the industry might better foster learning.

Sponsor: InterOptic

InterOptic offers high-performance, high-quality optics at a fraction of the cost. Find out more at InterOptic.com, and if you re attending Interop 2018 in Vegas, stop by the InterOptic booth to learn how they can help you spec the right optics for your network.

Sponsor: Cumulus Networks

The Cumulus Linux network OS is simple, open, untethered Linux that can run on more than 70 hardware platforms and help you transition from your legacy infrastructure. Cumulus Networks is Web-scale networking for the digital age. Go to cumulusnetworks.com to find out more.

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Quitting My CCIE Status – Greg Ferro

Jeremy Filliben.com