Today on the Network Break, we discuss Marvell's choice of the Dent network OS for its Prestera silicon, Microsoft shares details about how its Azure cloud service thwarted a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack, a researcher shares details on snooping data from a copper patch lead, and other tech tidbits. The post Network Break 355: Azure Brags About DDoS Protection; Marvell Hitches Ride With Dent Network OS appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Network Break 355: Azure Brags About DDoS Protection; Marvell Hitches Ride With Dent Network OS

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking Zero Trust Network Access, or ZTNA, with sponsor Fortinet. As organizations grapple with controlling end user access to applications and services, particularly when those end users and applications could be anywhere, Fortinet is here to make the case that it’s the right platform for ZTNA. The post Network Break 354 VMworld’s Constipation Facebook Footgun Marvell 5nm DPUs appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 354 VMworld’s Constipation Facebook Footgun Marvell 5nm DPUs

This week's Network Break talks about a new data center chassis from Juniper, why Akamai spent $600 million to buy security company Guardicore, what happened to Zoom's big acquisition of a contact center company, and more tech news. The post Network Break 353: New Juniper Chassis Tops 400G; Akamai Spends Big Money On Microsegmentation appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 353: New Juniper Chassis Tops 400G; Akamai Spends Big Money On Microsegmentation

This week's Network Break podcast discusses Nokia's new beefed-up routing silicon, how Pica8 is pursuing campus switching with a controller/switch pricing bundle, and the latest critical security patches from Cisco. We also look at the latest ransomware attacks against US agricultural companies, a MacOS bug, and more tech news. The post Network Break 352: Nokia Announces 800G Routing Silicon; Pica8 Enticingly Prices Its Campus Controller, Switches appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 352: Nokia Announces 800G Routing Silicon; Pica8 Enticingly Prices Its Campus Controller, Switches

Today's Network Break podcast discusses Juniper's new wired campus effort and how it leverages Mist Cloud for to help automate its campus fabric, a new set of Azure vulnerabilities, robust SD-WAN growth with the biggest players reaping most of the rewards, free space optics for hard-to-wire regions, and more tech news. The post Network Break 351: Juniper’s Wired Campus Fabric Challenges Cisco; More Azure Holes Revealed appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 351: Juniper’s Wired Campus Fabric Challenges Cisco; More Azure Holes Revealed

This week's Network Break podcast wonders what Intel wants in return for a multi-year, multi-billion pledge to build European chip factories, marvels at Facebook's newly revealed data center designs, analyzes Comcast's Masergy acquisition, and more. The post Network Break 350: Intel Pledges Billions For European Chip Factories; Facebook Reveals New Data Center Design appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 350: Intel Pledges Billions For European Chip Factories; Facebook Reveals New Data Center Design

Today's Network Break podcast opines on why Ciena acquired the Vyatta router from AT&T (and why AT&T wanted to sell), how T-Mobile failed current and former customers via a breach that exposed sensitive details on millions of people, financial results from HPE and Dell Technologies, and more. The post Network Break 349: T-Mobile Fails To Protect Millions Of Customer Records; Ciena Buys Vyatta Router appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 349: T-Mobile Fails To Protect Millions Of Customer Records; Ciena Buys Vyatta Router

This week's Network Break examines how ransomware has insurers rethinking premiums and coverage limits, discusses the pros and cons of ISPs sharing flow records with security companies, digs into Arista's efforts to tackle the router market, pontificates on TSMC chip price hikes, and more tech news analysis. The post Network Break 348: Ransomware Bedevils Cyber Insurance; TSMC To Raise Chip Prices appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 348: Ransomware Bedevils Cyber Insurance; TSMC To Raise Chip Prices

It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) for network and storage offload, and more tech news. Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, joins Greg Ferro. The post Network Break 347: Cisco Acquires Container App Monitor; Intel Unwraps Mount Evans IPU appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 347: Cisco Acquires Container App Monitor; Intel Unwraps Mount Evans IPU

The world of virtual donuts is supply constrained. Extreme Networks finally gets SDWAN buying Ipanema from Infovista at a bargain price. Research firms that does the numbers Dell'oro pitches that Education and Government markets will be spending big on WiFi6E - we aren't so sure that campus spending will be big just some spending but Dell'oro told us that government economic stimulus is the driver. Most will focus on distributed work. Huawei posted 29% revenue reduction as the trade sanctions impact their overall business. A reminder that political solutions are slow if you have to make plans. And in space networking, SpaceX acquires pico-satellite company Swarm for IOT networking. The post Network Break 346: Extreme Gets SDWAN, Huawei Struggles and SpaceX Swarms appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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

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 applications, Arista financial results and component concerns, and more IT news. The post Network Break 345: Marvell Acquires High-End Ethernet ASICs; Arista CEO Says Component Shortage ‘Worst I’ve Seen’ appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 345: Marvell Acquires High-End Ethernet ASICs; Arista CEO Says Component Shortage ‘Worst I’ve Seen’

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 Compute for scheduled workloads, and IT vendors report strong quarterly financial results. We analyze these stories and more IT news on today's Network Break podcast. The post Network Break 344: Zoom Expands Into Contact Center Biz; Will Devs Choose Cloudflare’s Green Compute? appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 344: Zoom Expands Into Contact Center Biz; Will Devs Choose Cloudflare’s Green Compute?

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 permissions management, research into microprocessors on flexible materials, Intel's underwhelming financial results, and more IT news. The post Network Break 343: Ericsson, Verizon Ink $8.3 Billion 5G Deal; Intel Reports Flat Revenues appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 343: Ericsson, Verizon Ink $8.3 Billion 5G Deal; Intel Reports Flat Revenues

Today's Network Break podcast delves into security issues at SolarWinds and SonicWall, discusses a new network offload capability between NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks, comments on Japanese bureaucrats who refuse to give up their fax machines, and more tech news. The post Network Break 342: SolarWinds Back In Security Hot Seat; In Defense Of The Fax Machine appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 342: SolarWinds Back In Security Hot Seat; In Defense Of The Fax Machine

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 platform, and Fortinet's purchase of a secure software development tool. We also discuss FTC accusations against Broadcom and what a court ruling could mean for Netflix and other content providers in South Korea. The post Network Break 341: Ransomware Clobbers Kaseya Customers; HPE Buys Zerto For Cloud Data Protection appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 341: Ransomware Clobbers Kaseya Customers; HPE Buys Zerto For Cloud Data Protection

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