Packet Pushers - Network Break
Summary: Stay current with IT news on vendor moves, new products, and tech deals. Get analysis and context on how it applies to you. All in the time it takes to have a (longish) coffee break.
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Network Break serves up a bubbling cauldron of tech news, including a new hyperconverged platform from HPE, and big-name defectors from AWS such as Dropbox and Apple. There's also product and licensing news from Cisco, chip stories from Cavium and Broadcom, laurels for Huawei in an SDN competition, and more.
The Network Break speculates whether Cisco's Spark will catch fire and analyzes the latest update in Cisco's patent spat with Arista. We delve into Microsoft's Linux hug and its new open cloud OS, and get real about Google's reasons for joining Open Compute.
Take a Network Break! Cisco gets hyperconverged, acquires companies, renews partner vows and more! HPE teases us about its own hyperconverged and server news, IBM hits Groupon below the patent belt, and other tech news.
On this week's Network Break we analyze Spotify's move to Google Cloud Platform, a rumored Cisco hyperconverged play, and some creepy Big Data efforts around employee health. We get the latest Apple/FBI updates, review vendor financials, and more.
Network Break weighs in on the Apple/FBI controversy to discuss technical, legal, and even moral implications. Plus, hospital ransomware, shy private clouds, SD-WAN deals, and more.
Welcome to the Network Break! Today we look at why it took Netflix 7 years for full cloud adoption, the latest hurdle Google's driverless AI has jumped, LinkedIn's white box strategy, and more!
It's the Network Break! This week we examine the latest round in the Cisco/Arista legal battle, applaud Cisco's IoT acquisition, review the latest cloud infrastructure numbers, parse a warning of armed revolt if governments weaken crypto systems, and more.
On today's Network Break we dig into Arista's antitrust lawsuit against Cisco, debate about chat use and abuse, evaluate security advice from the NSA, diagnose Wall Street's Apple freakout, and more!
Network Break 71 covers new funding rounds for Big Switch Networks, Cumulus, and Plexxi, as well as Cisco's investment in SD-WAN startup VeloCloud. We also check in on product announcements from Dell and Arista Networks, and discuss potential security issues with medical devices.
We discuss Juniper's efforts to clean up its security mess, why employees have no privacy at work, a spat between the EFF and T-Mobile's CEO, a spectrum deal that could net billions for Michael Dell, and more.
Network Break 69 discusses a Dutch position paper that support strong crypto, checks in on a Let's Encrypt milestone, delves into open hardware, and more.
Network Break 68 looks at Juniper's ScreenOS vulnerabilities, analyzes NetApp's acquisition of SolidFire, and cheers Apple for opposing U.K. surveillance. Lastly, we review of some of our favorite stories from 2015, and a list of things we probably won't care about next year. Probably.
Network Break suggests better ways for financial services to spend security money, VMware bails on Virtustream, an open-source blockchain project launches, and more stories you won't want to miss.
Network Break 66 looks at a pair of SD-WAN deals, examines IoT news from Cisco and HPE, reviews switch and router sales, and considers the impact of China's chip ambitions.
The Network Break reports on HPE's coming-out party in London, looks into news that Dell will sell assets to reduce debt, digs into Cisco's recent upgrades to ACI, hears Steve Ballmer shouts from the sidelines about Microsoft's cloud revenue, and watches OpenFlow competitor P4 get attention from chip manufacturers.
