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
NB502: AWS Revenue Growth Lags Cloud Competitors; Microsoft Entra ID Forces MFA
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Google adding traffic shaping to its cross-cloud interconnect, Aviatrix bringing hybrid cloud transit to its cloud networking service, and Microsoft forcing…
00:25:37 |
Mon 04 Nov 2024
NB501: Fortinet, Cisco Defects Being Exploited; FCC Wants Input on ISP Data Caps
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a new ZTNA offering from NaaS startup Alkira, a serious vulnerability in Fortinet’s management software under active exploit, and a less-serious vulnerabili…
00:23:37 |
Mon 28 Oct 2024
NB500: SolarWinds and MacOS Vulernabilities Get Attention; Amazon Invests in Nuclear to Meet Power, Carbon Goals
This week’s Network Break discusses a CISA warning that a serious SolarWinds vulnerability is being exploited, Microsoft turns the tables by discovering a MacOS vulnerability, and Amazon invests in s…
00:32:24 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
NB499: Juniper Extending AI Umbrella to Security; Should We Regulate AI or AI Outcomes?
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a new Juniper announcement and discuss how the company is bringing its security portfolio under its AI umbrella, Aryaka adding CASB to its SASE menu, and whet…
00:28:55 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
NB498: BlueCat Flows Into Network Performance With LiveAction Buy; T-Mobile Ordered to Appoint a CISO
Take a Network Break! DDI specialist BlueCat is getting into network performance monitoring with its LiveAction acquisition, T-Mobile is ordered to spend almost $16 million to improve its infosec pra…
00:25:42 |
Mon 07 Oct 2024
NB497: Blocking AI Scraper Bots; HPE, Arista Reach for Bigger Slices of the Enterprise
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss significant vulnerabilities in HPE APs and Cisco Catalyst 9K switches, the benefits of bug bounties, how HPE is adding third-party device monitoring to Arub…
00:39:34 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
NB496: Nokia’s Enterprise Data Center Intentions; Are AI ChatBots Worth the Nuclear Waste?
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Microsoft’s proposed deal to buy power from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, new APs and switches from Juniper Networks, and T-Mobile landing a customer…
00:51:08 |
Mon 23 Sep 2024
NB495: Fortinet Customer Data Stolen; Boeing to Test Quantum Entanglement Networking
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss the theft of 440Gbytes of customer data from a Fortinet cloud repository, how to think about resiliency after an AT&T network update kills access to Azure a…
00:25:52 |
Mon 16 Sep 2024
NB494: AT&T Sues Broadcom over VMware Support; Verizon Spends $20 Billion for Frontier
Take a Network Break! This week we cover an AT&T lawsuit against Broadcom over changes to a support contract for VMware software, why Verizon is spending $20 billion to buy Frontier, and new critical…
00:31:49 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
NB493: Cisco Acquires AI Startup to Police AI; Nvidia, Dell Ride GPU Profit Wave
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a couple of listener FUs, and then dive into the news. Attackers exploit a zero-day in Versa to harvest credentials, AT&T agrees to a fine of nearly $1 millio…
00:50:13 |
Tue 03 Sep 2024
NB492: AMD Spends Big For Engineering Talent; FCC Cracks Down on AI-Faked Robocalls
Take a Network Break! A US appeals court will let a privacy lawsuit against Google go forward, striking telecom workers are a reminder to test your resiliency planning, and AMD spends nearly $5 billi…
00:42:53 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
NB491: Cisco Revenues Drop 10% in Q4; Texas Instruments Get $1.6 Billion for Chip Factories
Take a Network Break! Hackers may have stolen millions of US Social Security numbers, HPE acquires a multi-cloud management company, and Cisco announces plans to lay off 7% of its employees. Pure Sto…
00:20:04 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
NB490: Google’s Post-Monopoly Options; Microsoft Flips Delta’s Legal Threats the Bird
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a judge’s ruling that Google is monopolist and potential outcomes, the HPE/Juniper acquisition clearing regulatory hurdles, and Microsoft flipping the bird at…
00:26:39 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
NB489: Shareholders Sue CrowdStrike; Intel to Fire 15,000 Employees
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a proposed class action lawsuit against CrowdStrike, while Delta investigates options to seek damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft. Microsoft Azure goes d…
00:31:10 |
Mon 05 Aug 2024
NB488: CrowdStrike Bug Tester Was Buggy; Can Starlink Match US ISP Performance?
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on CrowdStrike and Microsoft, and then examine a CrowdStrike incident review in which the security company says a bug in its content validator m…
00:44:32 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
NB487: The BSODs Strike Back; SolarWinds Sorta Dodges SEC Bullets
Take a Network Break! This week we cover the CrowdStrike/Microsoft patch debacle, why SolarWinds isn’t entirely out of trouble following a judge’s dismissal of most–but not all–of an SEC lawsuit, and…
00:48:23 |
Mon 22 Jul 2024
NB486: Chrome Ditches Entrust Certs; Do AI Stocks Mirror the DotCom Bubble?
Take a Network Break! This week we cover why the Google Chrome browser won’t trust a set of Entrust digital certificates come November and what you should do about it, an emergency security patch fro…
00:43:37 |
Mon 08 Jul 2024
NB485: A Final FU for Greg
Greg Ferro bids farewell to Network Break, and Drew Conry-Murray and Johna Till Johnson bid farewell to Greg. Of course, the podcast must go on, so we also cover some tech news. First, Nokia acquires…
00:59:52 |
Mon 01 Jul 2024
NB484: HPE, Nvidia Cozy Up on AI Infrastructure; Norway Uncovers Rare Earth Elements Motherlode
Take a Network Break! We start with a longish round of FUs, and then dive into news. HPE announces HPE Private Cloud, which includes software, switches, and GPUs from Nvidia for building out infrastr…
01:08:55 |
Mon 24 Jun 2024
NB483: Cisco Hopes To Be Ikea For AI Infrastructure; Is Anyone Besides Nvidia Making Money From AI?
Take a Network Break! We start with an announcement from Greg about his impending retirement. After we dust ourselves off from that, we pivot to this week’s tech news. Fortinet acquires a company to …
01:04:16 |
Mon 17 Jun 2024
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