The Datanauts travel to a galaxy of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The good ship InfoSight is piloted by sponsor HPE Nimble Storage as we explore automating infrastructure on today s episode.

Our guest is Ryan Brown, Enterprise Storage Architect and Chief Technologist for Storage in Canada at HPE.

We talk about InfoSight, HPE’s cloud-based predictive analytics platform that works with HPE’s Nimble Storage arrays, and soon to work with other products from HPE. InfoSight applies machine learning and AI to help customers better manage storage resources and predict problems before they affect the business.

We look at the kind of information that InfoSight gathers, how it collects that information and ships it to the cloud, and how it’s protected.

We also delve into the value that InfoSight can provide for resource allocation and operational benefits such as preventing outages, maintaining uptime, and improving performance.

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HPE InfoSight

HPE InfoSight at Tech Field Day

Take a Network Break! Arista challenges Cisco in the campus with a new a new core switch, Qualcomm is reportedly considering backing away from data center server processors, and a security survey shows woeful patching habits.

Another security survey reveals that three quarters of respondents have been breached at least once in 2017, Apple abandons a planned data center site in Ireland, and ZTE halts major operations because of a US export ban on parts and software from American companies.

Finally, Google acquires cloud onboarding startup VeloStrata, while Google’s Duplex voice assistant raises hackles.

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Sponsor: Cisco Systems

Find out how Cisco and its trusted partners Equilibrium Security and ePlus/IGX can help your organization tackle the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Tune into Packet Pushers Priority Queue episode 147 to get practical insights on how to get your arms around these wide-ranging rules.

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Today on the Weekly show, MPLS in the enterprise, especially for the use case of segmentation.

Should you do it? Why would you do it? Considering the equipment you ve got, could you do it even if you wanted to? And even if you should, you would, and you can, what about all those other people you work with?

Discussing this emotionally fraught topic of MPLS in the enterprise is Tom Ammon, a senior network engineer who s supported it in a few different environments. He blogs at blog.tomammon.net.

We start by discussing the general case for MPLS in the enterprise, walk through the hardware and software requirements necessary to support MPLS, and then drill into segmentation more specifically.

We also look at reasons why you’d want to use MPLS for segmentation, and explores issues around operations, skillsets and training, and troubleshooting.

In January 2018, the WiFi Alliance announced that WPA3 was coming this year, a collection of security enhancements to address issues with WPA2.

Today, we discuss WPA3 with Dan Harkins, a scientist at Aruba Networks, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Dan has been closely involved with WPA3 s development, and I heard Dan present on his work at Aruba Atmosphere 2018 in March of this year.

Dan was kind enough to join us today for a preview of what s coming, with a special focus on one aspect of WPA3 that interests me personally, Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE).

We also discuss the fixes that WPA3 makes to WPA2, and when we can anticipate product support.

Sponsor: Paessler AG

Paessler AG is the maker of PRTG Network Monitor. PRTG monitors your whole IT infrastructure 24/7 and alerts you to problems before users even notice. Find out more about the monitoring software that helps system administrators work smarter, faster, better. Visit paessler.com today.

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Wi-Fi Alliance® introduces security enhancements – Wi-Fi Alliance

Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (RFC 8110) – IETF

Dragonfly Key Exchange (RFC 7664) – IETF

Whether by choice or circumstance, it’s inevitable you’ll find yourself looking for a new job.

On today’s Datanauts episode we break down the job hunt process to help you understand what you want, what you have to offer, and how to make the most of your application.

Our guest is Doug Lane, a tech/ops professional who’s been working in IT for 25 years. He’s also recently gone through the process of finding and getting a new job.  You can follow him on Twitter at @debuggist.

Doug shares his experiences and tips about how he approached the job search. We start by talking about honestly understanding your own strengths and weaknesses, and then thinking about what kind of job it is you really want.

We also discuss how to evaluate job descriptions, and how to nail the application process.

Take a Network Break! VMware announces its Virtual Cloud Network vision and outlines the product portfolio to bring that vision to life. Dell Technology World showcases new servers and storage and cements Dell’s one-stop-shop strategy. Cisco spends $270 million to buy relationship intelligence purveyor Accompany.

Cisco also shed its service provider video business, Anuta Networks makes its orchestration platform available as SaaS, and the Lojack laptop recovery software suffers a serious vulnerability.

Meanwhile, a Webex vulnerability enables remote code execution, Arista shares dip despite a strong quarter, and Juniper shares rise slightly despite a poor one.

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VMware Advances Networking for the Digital Era with the Virtual Cloud Network – VMware

Dell outlines a one-stop-shopping portfolio for technology-hungry businesses – Diginomica

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Accompany – Cisco

Permira Funds to Acquire Cisco’s SPVSS Business – Cisco

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The Future of Networking series continues with guest Kyle Mestery.

Kyle is well known to many corners of the networking community including the open source community. He recently re-joined Cisco as a Distinguished Engineer.

We talk with Kyle to get his take on where the packets are flowing over the next several years, including the tech conference scene, open-source networking, the proliferation of open-source networking OSs, what’s inside Open Network Linux (ONL), and cloud-native network functions virtualization.

Sponsor: ThousandEyes

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Silicon Loons.com – Kyle’s blog

Kyle on Twitter

Network Service Mesh – GitHub

Three Years On: Open Standards, Open Source, Open Loop – Cisco Systems

Verizon Launches Virtual Service Bundles – Light Reading

Today on Priority Queue, the Packet Pushers peer into the darker corners of network monitoring.

Monitoring gets you visibility. But when you can see what’s happening, you might not like what you find. That s the topic of today s sponsored show with Paessler AG, maker of PRTG network monitoring software.

Our guests are Greg Ross, Presales Systems Engineer at Paessler; and Troy Mursch, a security researcher who blogs at Bad Packets Report.

Troy discovered that cryptojacking malware called Coinhive had infected a popular Website. We’ll talk about how he used Paessler sensors to monitor the malware on the site, and to track down other infected systems.

We talk with Troy and Greg about how to use Paessler to monitor key metrics that could indicate malware. We also dig into Paessler’s capabilities for more typical network monitoring use cases.

And here’s a special offer for Packet Pushers listeners: Paessler is offering a free network security eBook. You can get it at go.paessler.com/packetpushers.

You can also get a free trail of PRTG here.

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Free Network Security eBook – Paessler

Paessler PRTG Free Trial

Paessler on Twitter

Troy Mursch/Bad Packets Report on Twitter

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