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
NB482: HPE Launches Enterprise Private 5G; Arista Creates Agent for NVIDIA SmartNICs
Take a Network Break! Johna fills in for Drew for a second week. We start with a follow-up on last week’s take on HPE and 5G. With this week’s HPE announcement that it’s launching Aruba Networking En…
00:55:52 |
Mon 10 Jun 2024
NB481: HPE Unloads BSS/OSS Tools; Multi-National Force Busts Botnets
Take a Network Break! Johna fills in for Drew this week. We start with HPE adapting to the 5G market and unloading BSS/OSS tools to HCLTech. Dell financial results suggest AI problems. ISP Windstream…
00:42:10 |
Mon 03 Jun 2024
NB480: New Dell Switch Targets Ethernet AI Fabrics; Nvidia Net Income Leaps 628%
Take a Network Break! Lots of hardware news in today’s episode. We start with a new data center Ethernet switch from Dell designed to accelerate workloads on AI Ethernet fabrics. Public cloud network…
00:38:27 |
Mon 27 May 2024
NB479: Solar Storm Survival; Cisco’s Sinking Revenue Doesn’t Dampen Wall Street
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss what IBM and Palo Alto Networks get out of a deal for Palo Alto Networks to buy the SaaS version of the QRadar SIEM from IBM, why LogRhythm is merging with …
00:41:52 |
Mon 20 May 2024
NB478: More AI Assistants Emerge; Dell Tracks Hybrid Workers’ Office Attendance
Take a Network Break! We begin the episode with some follow-up on edge AI chips, whether Packet Pushers should start a dedicated AI channel, and a clarification on AWS and VMware. On the news front, …
00:41:12 |
Mon 13 May 2024
NB477: Arista Assembles Switch-Based Microperimeters; FCC Wants More Money for Telcos Dumping Huawei Gear
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a new microsegmentation offering from Arista, new GenAI assistants from Fortinet, and a GenAI firewall from Versa Networks to monitor and report on how organi…
Mon 06 May 2024
NB476: IBM Buys HashiCorp; Running Data Centers With Vegetable Oil?
Take a Network Break! We welcome guest commentator Kyler Middleton of Day Two Cloud to discuss the IBM/HashiCorp deal, then pivot to new Wi-Fi 7 APs from HPE Aruba Networking, and discuss why a data …
01:00:07 |
Mon 29 Apr 2024
NB475: Cisco Hypes Hypershield; Broadcom Tries To Clarify VMware Strategy
Take a Network Break! This week we cover Hypershield, a new Cisco security product that uses technology from its Isovalent acquisition. We parse a blog from Broadcom CEO Hock Tan on the company’s VMw…
01:00:52 |
Mon 22 Apr 2024
NB474: Intel Strikes Back In GPU Wars; The Fork Is Strong With Valkey
Take a Network Break! This week we start with some FU on Intel drivers, and how FISA affects people outside (and inside) the US. In the news we cover Intel’s rollout of new XPU silicon and associated…
01:02:12 |
Mon 15 Apr 2024
NB473: Duty To Report (Your Breaches); Intel Foundry Biz Loses $7 Billion
Take a Network Break! This week we start with some FU on Juniper’s Mist AI, the ConnectWise vulnerability, and the 25th anniversary of the Cisco Cat6. The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security A…
00:36:35 |
Mon 08 Apr 2024
NB472: HPE Adds GenAI to Aruba Central; Intel Eager to Slurp Billions in Subsidies
Take a Network Break! This week we try to peel back the layers on HPE’s announcement about new GenAI capabilties in Aruba Networking Central, parse Broadcom’s touting of its AI credentials, and feel …
01:05:02 |
Mon 01 Apr 2024
NB471: Nvidia Unveils 800G Ethernet, InfiniBand Switches For AI Fabrics; ‘Ghost Jobs’ Haunt Job Boards
Take a Network Break! Nvidia announces new 800G switches, one for Ethernet and one for InfiniBand, for building AI fabrics. Nvidia also announces an “AI supercomputer,” a rack-scale pre-built bundle …
01:10:35 |
Mon 25 Mar 2024
NB470: NetBox Labs Adds On-Prem Support; ASML Vs. The Netherlands
This week on Network Break we discuss a new on-prem version of NetBox Labs’ source-of-truth software with enterprise support, why Selector AI is adding an LLM to its operations and observability prod…
00:52:39 |
Mon 18 Mar 2024
NB 469: Arista Debuts Network Observability Service; Startups Aim To Break Nvidia’s AI Chip Grip
This week we discuss a new network observability offering from Arista that integrates network telemetry with application data, why startups such as Groq and Taalas think they can break Nvidia’s grip …
01:03:51 |
Mon 11 Mar 2024
NB 468: Broadcom Checks SASE Box; Spirent Announces AI Traffic Emulator For Ethernet Networks
Take a Network Break! Johna Till Johnson joins as guest host while Greg Ferro enjoys some time off. We start with follow-up regarding damage to subsea cables in the Red Sea, and then dive into news. …
00:19:41 |
Mon 04 Mar 2024
NB467: More AI Assistants Emerge; Nvidia’s AI Goldmine Spurs New Competitors
Take a Network Break! This week we cover financial results from Palo Alto Networks (good, but next quarter’s softer forecast resulted in a drubbing), Cisco (not good), and Nvidia (so good that Wall S…
00:45:13 |
Mon 26 Feb 2024
NB466: Identifying The Most-Hated ISP; Should AI Write Your Security Policies?
Take a Network Break! We start with an FU on return-to-office policies, and then dive into some announcements from Cisco Live in Amsterdam. Cisco is rolling out rack and blade servers with Nvidia Ten…
00:52:58 |
Mon 12 Feb 2024
NB465: Dell Terminates VMware Resale Deal; Return-To-Office Orders Backfire Says Study
This week on Network Break we discuss Dell terminating its resale agreement of VMware as Broadcom looks to streamline OEM agreements, a new Wi-Fi AP and cloud-managed switches from Extreme, and the f…
00:50:15 |
Mon 05 Feb 2024
NB464: Juniper Begins AI Push Into The Data Center; VMware Customers Confront Higher Prices
This week we discuss new products from Juniper including synthetic testing software for its Mist wireless networks and its first step toward integrating its Apstra data center software with AI. VMwar…
01:00:53 |
Mon 29 Jan 2024
NB463: Cisco Buys eBPF Startup For Cloud-Native Networking; Gartner Forecasts $5 Trillion In IT Spending
This week’s Network Break examines why Cisco bought eBPF startup Isovalent (hint: it’s about cloud-native networking), why Broadcom is cranking up pressure on VMware resellers and customers (hint: it…
00:54:59 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
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