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Network Break 322: Juniper Mist-ifes 128 Technology; US Telcos Spend Big For 5G Spectrum

On today's Network Break we discuss a slate of Juniper announcements around new integrations with its Mist platform, plus new switches. HPE acquires a SaaS company for controlling cloud and infrastructure costs, US telcos spend $81 billion on spectrum for 5G, and we dive into the latest round of financial results from SolarWinds, VMware, and Nutanix.

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Tech Bytes: Law Firm Relies On Aruba EdgeConnect To Support Work-From-Anywhere (Sponsored)

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Aruba, we talk with Scott Shaw, Chief Technology Officer at law firm FordHarrison about his SD-WAN deployment. Shaw was able to retire legacy routers, boost performance of critical applications, and enable the law firm's work-from-anywhere strategy.

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Juniper Rebuilds Its Enterprise SD-WAN Strategy With The Session-Smart Router

Juniper Networks is rebuilding its enterprise SD-WAN strategy around the Session-Smart Router (SSR) from 128 Technology, which Juniper acquired in October 2020. The Session-Smart Router integrates with Juniper's Mist AI platform and will replace Contrail Service Orchestration as its enterprise SD-WAN play.

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Tech Bytes: Monitoring Remote Access VPN Performance With ThousandEyes (Sponsored)

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, we talk with sponsor ThousandEyes about monitoring remote access VPNs to get a clearer picture of connectivity and performance issues and to speed troubleshooting. Our guest is Alex Cruz Farmer, Principal Product Manager at ThousandEyes.

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Day Two Cloud 086: AWS Succession – Does It Matter Who’s The Next CEO?

AWS needs a new CEO now that Andy Jassy has been tapped to run the Amazon mothership. Does the cloud giant need a high-powered, Type-A successor to drive AWS's growth, or is it now so dominant that a ham sandwich could run the company? That's the topic for discussion on today's Day Two Cloud podcast.

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Network Break 321: Palo Alto Buys Bridgecrew For IaC Security; Azure Steps Up Its Firewall Game

Today's Network Break discusses an acquisition by Palo Alto Networks that targets the security of Infrastructure as Code, a souped-up firewall for Microsoft Azure, a new private cloud option from Dell, commentary on the wisdom--or lack thereof--about gathering in person in Barcelona for a wireless convention, and more tech news.

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Tech Bytes: InterBank Invests In Aruba EdgeConnect To Speed Branch Performance (Sponsored)

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Aruba, dives into an SD-WAN deployment with InterBank. Guest Daniel Ruhl, Senior VP and Director of IT at InterBank, turned to Aruba's EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform to bond MPLS connections with broadband at each branch to improve the quality of experience while also retiring legacy infrastructure.

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4 Reasons The Next CEO Of AWS Doesn’t Really Matter

Andy Jassy, the top executive at AWS, will step into the role of  CEO of Amazon some time in 2021. Who will take over at AWS? It doesn’t really matter. Here’s why: 1. The operating model and corporate culture are in place Amazon spent years developing an effective way to share infrastructure within the organization. […]

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Should App Code & IaC Be In Separate Repositories? – Video

In this Day Two Cloud podcast clip, we discuss whether the code we use to manage our infrastructure and the code we use for our applications should be stored in different repositories. To hear the entire episode, go to Day Two Cloud 085: Hosting Your Infrastructure Code In The Cloud. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan […]

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