Network Break
The Network Break podcast keeps you informed with fast, focused analysis of IT news, products, tech trends & business outcomes. Published weekly.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 260
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Network Break 303: Ericsson Acquires Cradlepoint For WAN Connectivity; HPE/Silver Peak Deal Closes
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…
00:52:59 |
Mon 28 Sep 2020
Network Break 302: Nvidia Bids Billions For Arm; VMware Melds Kubernetes With vSphere
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…
01:00:06 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
Network Break 301: Samsung Dials Up A 5G Contract; Broadcom Announces Fast, Power-Efficient New Jericho Chip
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.
00:46:49 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
Network Break 300: Cisco Mixes Microservices And SD-WAN; Broadcom Rolls Out Gen7 Fibre Channel Switches
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.
00:48:11 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
Network Break 299: Cisco Acquires Audio Filter BabbleLabs; Apple Update Hits Facebook In The Ads
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…
00:52:39 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Network Break 298: Arista Launches CloudVision As A Service; Cisco, Megaport Partner On SD-WAN
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…
00:44:31 |
Mon 24 Aug 2020
Network Break 297: Juniper Rolls Out New WiFi 6 APs; Security Spending Is Pointless (Mostly)
The latest Network Break podcast debates whether security spending is worth it, discusses new APs from Juniper, reviews two new startups, analyzes Cisco's latest financial reports, and more tech news…
00:56:56 |
Mon 17 Aug 2020
Network Break 296: Cisco Acquires Video Analytics Company; F5 Gear Targeted By Botnet
The latest Network Break podcast examines Cisco's acquisition of Modcam for video analytics, discusses how the Mirai botnet takes advantage of vulnerable F5 load balancers, reviews financial results …
00:38:38 |
Mon 10 Aug 2020
Network Break 295: Arista CloudEOS Edge Joins Multi-Cloud Portfolio; Juniper Announces AI-Powered WAN Assurance
Today's Network Break podcast explores a new multi-cloud offering from Arista, Juniper's WAN Assurance service that leverages Mist AI, and Marvell's Ethernet ASIC line. We also discuss financial resu…
00:59:10 |
Mon 03 Aug 2020
Network Break 294: Fortinet, Arrcus Target Multi-Cloud Networking; Innovium Rakes In More ASIC Funding
Today's Network Break analyzes multi-cloud networking announcements from Fortinet and Arrcus, discusses additional venture funding for ASIC-maker Innovium, looks at more consolidation in the SD-WAN m…
00:37:49 |
Mon 27 Jul 2020
Network Break 293: HPE Acquires Silver Peak; Dell Teases VMware Sale
Today's Network Break scrutinizes HPE's big payout for Silver Peak and Dell's plans for a possible sale of VMware. We also discuss new capabilities in VMware Cloud on AWS, a new synthetic monitoring …
00:35:24 |
Mon 20 Jul 2020
Network Break 292: Nokia Debuts SR Linux Network OS; AT&T, Cisco Team Up On SD-WAN
On today's Network Break we discuss Nokia's new network OS, examine a Cisco/AT&T partnership on SD-WAN, and analyze Google's pullback from a cloud venture in China. We also cover a new video codec an…
00:56:46 |
Mon 13 Jul 2020
Network Break 291: F5 Patches Severe Vulnerability; Senate Bill Aims To Weaken Encryption
Today's Network Break podcast discusses critical security patches from F5 and Palo Alto Networks, examines the implications of a Senate bill that targets encryption, and dives into VMware's latest ac…
00:31:58 |
Mon 06 Jul 2020
Network Break 290: HPE Unveils Edge-To-Cloud Strategy; Anuta, Juniper Partner On Automation
Take a Network Break! We cover HPE's virtual Discover event, including news on Greenlake and Ezmeral. LiveAction extends its portfolio with cloud monitoring, Anuta and Juniper partner around network …
00:49:21 |
Mon 29 Jun 2020
Network Break 289: Cisco Live 2020, Palo’s ML, HPE Edge Telco and more
Cisco Live Virtual topics so SecureX, Webex Collaboration and the "Connected Experience" (even if we don't really know what that is). Palo Alto gets machine learning features into the latest PAN-OS r…
00:36:24 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
Network Break 288: Aruba ESP Senses Opportunity At The Edge; Intel Wrestles With New Chip Attacks
Take a Network Break! Aruba targets the enterprise edge with Aruba ESP and AI, Intel grapples with new attacks against secure enclaves in its chips, and MIT walks away from negotiations with an acade…
00:55:01 |
Mon 15 Jun 2020
Network Break 287: Open Compute Infrastructure Makes Its Mark; Cisco Live Postponed
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 e…
00:39:07 |
Mon 08 Jun 2020
Network Break 286: Cisco To Acquire ThousandEyes; The Return Of Follow Up
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.
00:48:42 |
Tue 02 Jun 2020
Network Break 285: 37,000 Kilometers Of Undersea Cable Coming To Africa; Cisco Announces ACI 5.0
Lots to cover in this week's Network Break podcast, including a consortium of telcos and Facebook laying new undersea cable in Africa, new features for service providers and enterprises in Cisco's AC…
00:57:37 |
Mon 25 May 2020
Network Break 284: Dell Technologies Announces SONiC Distro; Microsoft Acquires Metaswitch Networks
Today's Network Break asks if enterprises want a supported SONiC network OS, Microsoft acquires Metaswitch Networks, VMware buys Kubernetes security platform Octarine, Cisco announces quarterly resul…
00:34:46 |
Mon 18 May 2020
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