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Back to SearchCloudflare Launches Secure NaaS Offering; SonicWall Vulnerability Affects Nearly 800,000 Devices
Episode 306
Today's Network Break examines a new security service from Cloudflare, a SonicWall vulnerability that affects a massive number of its appliances, a fresh funding round for networking startup Alkira, …
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
NVIDIA Unfolds DPU Roadmap; IBM Spins Off Managed Infrastructure Biz
Episode 305
Today's Network Break analyzes NVIDIA's new roadmap for DPUs (also known as SmartNICs), IBM's spin-out of its managed infrastructure business, new security features from Juniper, a whopping judgement…
Published on 5 years ago
The VMworld 2020 Roundup; Arista Acquires Awake Security
Episode 304
Keith Townsend stops by Network Break to lend analysis and commentary on our review of the biggest announcements to come out of VMworld, including Project Monterey and the SaltStack acquisition. We a…
Published on 5 years ago
Ericsson Acquires Cradlepoint For WAN Connectivity; HPE/Silver Peak Deal Closes
Episode 303
Today's Network Break starts with follow-up to correct a few items, and then dives into Ericsson's Cradlepoint acquisition. On the acquisition front, HPE finalizes its Silver Peak purchase, Kentik ad…
Published on 5 years ago
Nvidia Bids Billions For Arm; VMware Melds Kubernetes With vSphere
Episode 302
It's a baker's dozen of tech news in today's Network Break episode. We analyze Nvidia's $40 billion bid for Arm, Broadcom's banishment of Cumulus, vSphere's Kubernetes injection via Tanzu, a new hard…
Published on 5 years ago
Samsung Dials Up A 5G Contract; Broadcom Announces Fast, Power-Efficient New Jericho Chip
Episode 301
Network Break analyzes Samsung's multi-billion 5G contract from Verizon, a new Jericho ASIC from Broadcom, the insiders driving Zoombombing, the persistence of DDoS attacks, and more tech news.
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Cisco Mixes Microservices And SD-WAN; Broadcom Rolls Out Gen7 Fibre Channel Switches
Episode 300
Network Break dives into a new Cisco project that ties microservices to SD-WAN, a CenturyLink outage, new vulnerabilities in IOS-XR, Broadcom's new Gen7 Fibre Channel switches, and more IT news.
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Cisco Acquires Audio Filter BabbleLabs; Apple Update Hits Facebook In The Ads
Episode 299
Today's Network Break shares listener follow-up, then dives into a new Cisco acquisition of an audio company; discusses how Facebook is responding to an Apple update that will hurt a part of Facebook…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Arista Launches CloudVision As A Service; Cisco, Megaport Partner On SD-WAN
Episode 298
Take a Network Break! Pass around the virtual pickles as we delve into Arista's new SaaS version of CloudVision, Cisco and Megaport's SD-WAN partnership, new Intent-Based Networking features from Aps…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago