Podcast Episodes

Network Break 346: Extreme Gets SDWAN, Huawei Struggles and SpaceX Swarms

The world of virtual donuts is supply constrained. Extreme Networks finally gets SDWAN buying Ipanema from Infovista at a bargain price. Research fir…

4 years, 7 months ago

Marvell Acquires High-End Ethernet ASICs; Arista CEO Says Component Shortage 'Worst I've Seen'

Episode 345

This week's Network Break podcat discusses Marvell's Innovium buy and its impact on the high-end Ethernet market, new Juniper security software for a…

4 years, 7 months ago

Zoom Expands Into Contact Center Biz; Will Devs Choose Cloudflare's Green Compute?

Episode 344

Zoom buys its way into the contact center biz with the $14.7 billion purchase of Five9, Extreme announces Wi-Fi 6E APs, Cloudflare debuts Green Compu…

4 years, 7 months ago

Ericsson, Verizon Ink $8.3 Billion 5G Deal; Intel Reports Flat Revenues

Episode 343

This week on the Network Break we examine an $8.3 billion 5G deal between Ericsson and Verizon, Microsoft's CloudKnox purchase to bolster cloud permi…

4 years, 7 months ago

SolarWinds Back In Security Hot Seat; In Defense Of The Fax Machine

Episode 342

Today's Network Break podcast delves into security issues at SolarWinds and SonicWall, discusses a new network offload capability between NVIDIA and …

4 years, 8 months ago

Ransomware Clobbers Kaseya Customers; HPE Buys Zerto For Cloud Data Protection

Episode 341

This week Network Break examines the fallout of the Kaseya breach, HPE's acquisitions of Zerto and Ampool to extend the value of its Greenlake platfo…

4 years, 8 months ago

Marvell Challenges NVIDIA With 5nm DPU; Startup WiteSand Tackles Multi-Vendor Campus Network Management

Episode 340

This week's podcast asks how many Data Processing Units (DPUs) the market can support, discusses a startup that wants to manage your multi-vendor cam…

4 years, 8 months ago

HPE Raises The Stakes On Its GreenLake Strategy; Windows 11 Injects Itself With Teams

Episode 339

Take a Network Break! We discuss how HPE raises the stakes on its GreenLake hybrid cloud strategy with new features, look at new products from Aruba …

4 years, 8 months ago

Breach In Progress? Gigamon Operators Are Standing By; IEEE Finalizes New Ethernet Standard

Episode 338

Gigamon adds a human touch to a new SaaS NDR offering, the IEEE finalizes 802.3cu for faster speeds over single-mode optical fiber, US service provid…

4 years, 9 months ago

Hey, You Dropped Some Bitcoin; Fastly Recovers From Outage...Fastly

Episode 337

On this week's Network Break deployment of virtual donuts and tech commentary, Fastly takes out much of the Web but recovers quickly, AWS suffers an …

4 years, 9 months ago