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Heavy Networking 503: Achieve Multi-Domain Network Automation With Itential (Sponsored)

On today’s Heavy Networking, we talk with sponsor Itential about its network automation approach, where you can take what you’re already using (scripts, Ansible, etc.) and incorporate it into a holistic automation strategy. Itential enables automation across physical, virtual, and cloud domains and takes a low-code approach so that your engineers don’t have to become developers. Our guest is Chris Wade, Itential's co-founder and CTO.

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Heavy Networking 503: Achieve Multi-Domain Network Automation With Itential (Sponsored)

On today’s Heavy Networking, we talk with sponsor Itential about its network automation approach, where you can take what you’re already using (scripts, Ansible, etc.) and incorporate it into a holistic automation strategy. Itential enables automation across physical, virtual, and cloud domains and takes a low-code approach so that your engineers don’t have to become developers. Our guest is Chris Wade, Itential's co-founder and CTO.

IPv6 Buzz 045: Fine-Tuning IPv6 Adoption Strategies For Service Providers And Enterprises

Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast discusses global IPv6 adoption strategy with Pete Sclafani of 6connect, a global network automation platform for service providers and enterprises. Topics covered include how to overcome fear of change, closing knowledge gaps around IPv6, understanding how IPv6 affects business processes as much as technology processes, and more.

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IPv6 Buzz 045: Fine-Tuning IPv6 Adoption Strategies For Service Providers And Enterprises

Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast discusses global IPv6 adoption strategy with Pete Sclafani of 6connect, a global network automation platform for service providers and enterprises. Topics covered include how to overcome fear of change, closing knowledge gaps around IPv6, understanding how IPv6 affects business processes as much as technology processes, and more.

Day Two Cloud 036: The Container Contrarian

Are containers a fad? Or maybe just the wrong answer to a problem you're trying to solve. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, container contrarian Dave Tucker discusses the problems containers solve, the new ones they create, and why you might want to think twice before you immediately adopt containers as your next application platform.

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Day Two Cloud 036: The Container Contrarian

Are containers a fad? Or maybe just the wrong answer to a problem you're trying to solve. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, container contrarian Dave Tucker discusses the problems containers solve, the new ones they create, and why you might want to think twice before you immediately adopt containers as your next application platform.

Network Break 271: Global Espionage Agita Kicks Up A Notch; Forescout Gets Bought For $1.9 Billion

Take a Network Break! Global espionage tensions ratchet up between the United States and China, the CIA is revealed to have owned a company that sold doctored cryptography systems to allies and adversaries, VMware adjusts its licensing, and more tech news. Guest analysts Keith Townsend and Ned Bellavance step in for a vacationing co-host.

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Network Break 271: Global Espionage Agita Kicks Up A Notch; Forescout Gets Bought For $1.9 Billion

Take a Network Break! Global espionage tensions ratchet up between the United States and China, the CIA is revealed to have owned a company that sold doctored cryptography systems to allies and adversaries, VMware adjusts its licensing, and more tech news. Guest analysts Keith Townsend and Ned Bellavance step in for a vacationing co-host.

Tech Bytes: Engineering Firm Builds Better End-User Experience With SD-WAN (Sponsored)

On today's Tech Bytes we talk with J-U-B Engineering about how the company boosted employee productivity with an SD-WAN from Silver Peak. Silver Peak is our sponsor. Our guest is Tory Adams, Director of Information Technology at J-U-B Engineering.

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Heavy Networking 502: Get Off My VLAN! Old Network Engineers On What New Engineers Should Know

As more abstractions and automation layers creep into the network, are network engineers losing their grasp on core fundamentals? Three grumpy old network engineers ponder this question, talk about how we got here, and what can be done about it. Our guests are Chris Young and Ivan Pepelnjak.

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BiB 087: NRE Labs Relaunches With New Automation Training Content

NRE Labs offers free automation training for network and infrastructure engineers. The site recently relaunched with new content, a new interface, and an easier way for the community to contribute lessons. Matt Oswalt, Tech Lead at NRE Labs, joins Briefings in Brief to tell us what's new.

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Day Two Cloud 035: Understanding Kubernetes Operators For Complex Applications

Kubernetes is being used in more and more complex application architectures. It today's episode, we talk about Kubernetes Operators, a way to automate and ensure that complex applications stay up and running. Our guest is Rob Szumski, Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat OpenShift.

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Tech Bytes: Solving SaaS Performance Problems With Riverbed (Sponsored)

How do you manage the performance of SaaS applications such as Office 365 when you don't own the applications or the networks they run across? On today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Riverbed, we discuss the SaaS challenges poised by hybrid networks, latency, and remote and mobile workers, and how Riverbed helps network engineers solve them.

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