Today’s Tech Bytes episode, sponsored by Fortinet, explores an SD-WAN deployment with PAYOMATIC, a lending company in NYC. We talk about how PAYOMATIC cut costs by migrating off MPLS, and how Fortinet Secure SD-WAN positioned the company to take advantage of new infrastructure options. Our guest is Michael Saraceno, CISO and VP of IT at PAYOMATIC.
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Today's Network Break podcast discusses the growth of the infrastructure market based on Open Compute specs, the decline in switch and routing revenues, Cisco postponing its 2020 Cisco Live virtual event, VMware's latest acquisition, and more tech news.
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Today's Heavy Networking podcast explores Dell Technologies' SONiC network OS for enterprises. This distro offers hardware support across multiple ASIC platforms and full enterprise support. We dive into technical details, discuss the business and operational value propositions, explore use cases, and more. Dell Technologies is our sponsor for this episode. Our guest is Alley Hasan, Director, Product Strategy and Business Development.
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On Day Two Cloud we talk about how to start and participate in a cloud user group. We explore logistics, money, sponsors, a venue--in other words, the nuts and bolts of running and engaging with a cloud community. Our guest is Chris Williams, an AWS Community Hero and participant in a variety of user groups.
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Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Alkira, dives into multi-cloud networking. Alkira's Cloud Service Exchange is an on-demand, as-a-service offering that lets customers deploy multi-cloud networks with integrated security services using an intuitive digital design canvas. We talk with two Alkira customers using the service, as well as with Alkira co-founder and CTO Atif Khan.
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Take a Network Break! We start with some FU (follow up) from previous Network Break and Heavy Networking episodes, then dive into Cisco's big ThousandEyes acquisition and financial updates.
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Today's Tech Bytes podcast dives into using enriched flow--that is, flow records enhanced with logs and data from sources such as firewalls and directories--to improve your network performance monitoring and threat management. Our guest is Warren Caron, Sales Engineer at VIAVI Solutions. VIAVI is our sponsor for today's episode.
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Just as we're getting comfortable with Wi-Fi 6, along comes 6E, an extension that enables the use of newly available unlicensed spectrum in the 6GHz frequency band (at least here in the US). Our guest to introduce us to Wi-Fi 6E is Wes Purvis. We discuss the properties of the spectrum, how it might be used, when to expect products, and more.
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Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast examines key topics network engineers should know when working with v6, including the complexities of auto-addressing, network security and dual-stack environments, address plans, and more. Our guest is engineer and consultant Andres Taudte.
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Today's Day Two Cloud podcast gets into the nerdy details of how an infrastructure professional can use GitHub Actions. Actions lets you chain together steps or instructions and trigger them to run as a workflow. Our guest and guide to GitHub Actions is Chris Wahl.
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