Packet Pushers - Network Break

Network Break took a Thanksgiving break last week. Instead of news coverage, Greg and Ethan give an update on the state of Packet Pushers and talk Cisco, white box operating systems, and more.

Network Break 63 examines Citrix's decision to spin off its GoTo line, analyzes Google's cloud ambitions, digs into Cisco's IOS moves, pokes a little fun at the latest open consortium, and more.

Network Break digs into the partnership between Cisco and Ericsson and what it might mean for competitors and the market. We also look at new products and the latest (distressing) privacy news.

Network Break 61 reviews HPE's birth, product and financial news from Juniper and Extreme, new Open Compute options, UK anti-crypto efforts, Internet balloons, and more.

Network Break analyzes Cisco's latest acquisitions, Verizon's IoT ambitions, Microsoft's failed bid for Mesosphere, a security bill that endangers privacy, and a new startup from an old NSA hand.

Network Break analyzes Dell's acquisition strategy, examines HP's decision to shutter its public cloud offering and sell TippingPoint, discusses SolarWinds going private, celebrates a milestone for the Let's Encyrpt project, and more!

We drill into details of the Dell/EMC acquisition, critique HP's response, examine Intel's quarterly results, opine on Wal-Mart's open source contribution, and check in on the latest from the open networking movement.

Network Break 57 delves into Dell and EMC and looks at upheavals affecting Juniper, Cisco, and ATandT. We also run from a new Verizon zombie tracking cookie, and opine on the rest of the week's tech news.

Take a Network Break! We check on the latest startup funding, examine Mellanox's EZchip buy, drop our jaws over news from AdBlock Plus and Amazon, and more.

Network Break 55 examines new switch releases from Microsoft, Arista and Dell, a white-hot security market, Cisco security bugs, and why we don't need to get worked up about cloud outages any more.

Network Break 54 examines HP's anticipated layoffs, financial news from startups, and listener feedback on what we got wrong about an Apple/Cisco partnership.

Network Break 53 bites into Apple's latest announcements, wonders at Intel abandoning a science competition, ponders FireEye's reaction to vulnerability research, and opines on OpenFlow's rise in the network.

Network Break 52 offers a reality check on VMware's prediction of AI for IT, covers VMworld news, speculates on the Cisco/Apple partnership, and delves into Ashley Madison bots.

Network Break 51 talks VMware and EMC leadership, new VMware products, Arista's quality manifesto, Dell's business unit for high-performance compute, Brocade financial news, and a container update.

Network Break 50 covers new pricing ideas from Big Switch, routing around censorship, Target's settlement with Visa card issuers, insurance and InfoSec, SD-WAN patents, and partner ecosystems.