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Take a Network Break! This week we cover Security Copilot, the latest AI-infused assistant in Microsoft’s growing arsenal; discuss optical advancements from Arelion and Infinera that sent 400Gb wavelengths over 1,800 kilometers; and examine a news report that claims Tesla workers shared “highly invasive” images recorded by vehicle cameras. Samsung employees apparently leaked sensitive internal data via ChatGPT, Apple wins a court battle against a patent portfolio company, and a startup founder is charged with defrauding JP Morgan Chase. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Watch the new Palo Alto Networks virtual event on demand to hear how the latest innovations in Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma SASE can help your organization. See how ZTNA 2.0, Cloud SWG, and SD-WAN deliver exceptional security and ROI. See AI-powered innovation take center stage. Watch on demand. Tech Bytes: Nokia Stay tuned for a sponsored Tech Bytes podcast with Nokia where we talk about gNMIc, a free, open-source command line tool developed by Nokia you can use to configure devices and collect device telemetry. Show Links: Introducing Microsoft Security Copilot: Empowering defenders at the speed of AI – Microsoft GPT-4 AI-Powered Microsoft Security Copilot Arrives – The New Stack Arelion and Infinera set new benchmark for 400G ZR+ deployments in live network field trial – Arelion Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars – Reuters Samsung workers made a major error by using ChatGPT – TechRadar Samsung reportedly leaked its own secrets through ChatGPT – The Register Decade-old patent battle goes Apple’s way – The Register Apple grudgingly opens up its check book, pays VirnetX $454m in patent royalties after a decade of wrangling – The Register S.E.C. Charges Frank Founder Charlie Javice for Defrauding JPMorgan Chase – The New York Times Millennial app founder arrested, charged with defrauding JPMorgan Chase – CNN Former Start-Up CEO Charged In $175 Million Fraud – US Department of Justice

On today’s Network Break we discuss Amazon opening its Sidewalk network, which is a low-power, long-range network for IoT devices and wearables, to developers. HAProxy adds support for the QUIC protocol in its 2.7 Enterprise version of the open-source load balancer. The White House issues an executive order forbidding US government agencies from using commercial spyware that “poses risks to national security or has been misused by foreign actors to enable human rights abuses around the world,” but still leaves the door open for commercial and non-commercial spyware use. Cisco announces the end of life for its Prime Infrastructure appliance and software, Huawei names Meng Wanzhou as the next rotating chairperson, and Huawei also says its financial results show the company has reached a new period of stability despite significant import bans on components and technology. Networking startup Graphiant gets a B round of $62 million to build its SD-WAN/networking-as-a-service business, and OneWeb launches its final round of satellites that will enable it to commence global satellite broadband services by the end of 2023. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Join Palo Alto Networks for a virtual event where they’ll unveil what’s next in SASE, with the latest innovations in Prisma® SASE, ZTNA 2.0 and SD-WAN. See how these new capabilities help your customers consolidate multiple point products intoa single platform to reduce TCO. Learn how they will also help automate costly and complex IT operations and stop zero-day threats in real time. Sign up at https://start.paloaltonetworks.com/sase-signature-moment-2023.html. Show Links: Amazon Invites Developers to Test Sidewalk and Build the Next Billion Connected Devices – Amazon What is Amazon Sidewalk? – AWS IoT Core Amazon has just opened up its Sidewalk network to give any gadget free low speed data – The Verge Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 2.7 & HAProxy ALOHA 15 – HAProxy Executive Order on Prohibition on Use by the United States Government of Commercial Spyware that Poses Risks to National Security – The White House FACT SHEET: President Biden Signs Executive Order to Prohibit U.S. Government Use of Commercial Spyware that Poses Risks to National Security – The White House Biden kind of mostly bans commercial spyware from US govt – The Register End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Prime Infrastructure HW Gen3 A...

Take a Network Break! This week we cover Arista’s new WAN routers that get the company into the SD-WAN market, debate whether Aryaka targeting SMEs is a sign of problems or opportunity, and cover an update on the size of the SASE market. HPE acquires a startup for monitoring and managing cloud and on-prem infrastructure, Google gives up on Glass Enterprise Edition, and journalists in Ecuador are targeted with USB sticks that literally explode. Avaya declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy and touts millions in new capital, and Taiwan says it will build its own satellite broadband network to serve the country. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Join Palo Alto Networks for a virtual event where they’ll unveil what’s next in SASE, with the latest innovations in Prisma® SASE, ZTNA 2.0 and SD-WAN. See how these new capabilities help your customers consolidate multiple point products intoa single platform to reduce TCO. Learn how they will also help automate costly and complex IT operations and stop zero-day threats in real time. Sign up at https://start.paloaltonetworks.com/sase-signature-moment-2023.html. Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Palo Alto Networks about its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering that integrates SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security, and why you might want to consider a single-vendor SASE option. Show Links: Arista Modernizes Routing in the Wide Area Network – Arista Arista 5000 Series – Arista Briefings In Brief 103: Arista Enters The SD-WAN Arena – Packet Pushers Aryaka’s Expanded SD-WAN and SASE Offerings Bring Simplicity and Affordability to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises – PR Newswire SASE Continues to Roll with Revenue up 34 Percent to Top $6 Billion in 2022, According to Dell’Oro Group – Dell’Oro Group Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire OpsRamp, advancing hybrid cloud leadership and expanding HPE GreenLake into IT Operations Management – HPE Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition – 9 to 5 Google Glass Enterprise Edition Announcement FAQ – Google Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face – Ars Technica

Take a Network Break! Greg Ferro asked ChatGPT to select virtual donut options for listeners. You can see the output below. On this week’s episode we start with some listener follow-up on pronunciations and desk-sharing, and then we examine Palo Alto Networks adding AI Ops to its SASE offering, and Microsoft Copilot bringing AI into its suite of Office tools. The Ethernet Adapter market grew 22% in 2022, but not because more NICs were sold; we find out the real reasons. We discuss the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank failing, and Cisco launching a new learning platform for certification and training seekers. The US government threatens to impose cloud security standards, revenue for Secure Service Edge (SSE) grows, and Amazon unveils terminals for its satellite broadband service (though you won’t have anything to connect those terminals to anytime soon). Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Join Palo Alto Networks for a virtual event where they’ll unveil what’s next in SASE, with the latest innovations in Prisma® SASE, ZTNA 2.0 and SD-WAN. See how these new capabilities help your customers consolidate multiple point products in to a single platform to reduce TCO. Learn how they will also help automate costly and complex IT operations and stop zero-day threats in real time. Sign up at https://start.paloaltonetworks.com/sase-signature-moment-2023.html. Sponsor: Itential We’re sponsored today by Itential. Itential simplifies automation across hybrid cloud network infrastructure. Their platform makes it easy for network teams to bring their own automation assets and scale their network automation efforts, so you can spend more time working on the things you like instead of the repetitive, tedious tasks. Find out more at itential.com/packetpushers. Show Links: FU: How To Pronounce Thales Option 1 – French How To Pronounce Thales Option 2 – English News:   Palo Alto Networks Leads the Industry to AI-Powered SASE – Palo Alto Networks Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A whole new way to work – Microsoft Ethernet Adapter Market Grew 40 Percent in 2022, According to Dell’Oro Group – Dell’Oro Group SmartNIC, DPU Revenue Forecast To Grow 30% In 2023 – Packet Pushers Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC – U.S. Department of the Treasury Silicon Valley Bank failure – JP Morgan (PDF) HSBC to buy Silicon Valley Bank UK for £1 in rescue deal – The Guardian

Take a Network Break! On today’s episode we discuss a record quarter for switch sales, examine a new record for wavelength transmission using coherent pluggable optics, and opine on Germany’s mixed signals about allowing Huawei gear in its networks. Integrated SIMs, or iSIMs, are coming to Snapdragon SoCs, and VMware sees revenues rise but income fall. Google employees aren’t thrilled about a new shared desk policy for hybrid workers, and the acquisition of a satellite business gets a provisional green light from UK regulators. Get links to all these stories below. Tech Bytes: BackBox Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes podcast we talk network automation with sponsor BackBox. From backing up network devices to updating operating systems and configurations and other tasks, BackBox works across more than 180 vendors. We’ll talk about how BackBox works and hear customer use cases. Find out more at backbox.com/packetpushers. Show Links: Data Center Switch Sales Broke a New Record in 4Q 2022 and Full Year 2022, According to Dell’Oro Group – Dell’Oro Group Infinera & Corning Achieve World-record Transmission with Infinera ICE-X QSFP-DD Coherent Pluggable – Infinera Two World Records Mark a New Chapter in the Evolution of Coherent Pluggables – Infinera Arelion and Infinera set new benchmark for 400G ZR+ deployments in live network field trial – Arelion Exclusive: Deutsche Bahn bets on Huawei for railway digitalisation despite security concerns – Reuters German 5G network ban said to loom for Huawei and ZTE – The Register Qualcomm and Thales Unveil World’s First GSMA Compliant iSIM with Latest Snapdragon Mobile Platform – Qualcomm iSIM (integrated SIM): definition, benefits, perspective – Thales VMware Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results – Business Wire Google CEO defends desk-sharing policy, says offices like ‘ghost town’ – CNBC UK antitrust watchdog provisionally clears Viasat’s $7.3B buy of Inmarsat – The Register

Take a Network Break! We begin with some FU on what constitutes on-prem and off-prem, and then dive into news. Cisco and T-Mobile are partnering on 5G gateways, Cisco Webex is getting installed as a feature(?) in Mercedes E-Class cars, and Cisco is buying multi-cloud security startup Valtix. Valtix offers firewalling, IPS, a cloud Web app firewall, and more for the big 4 US clouds. The White House releases its National Cybersecurity Strategy which includes a proposal to make vendors liable for significant software defects, SNIA releases a new standard for memory-to-memory data movement, and IBM acquires DNS provider NS1. Meta announces a Large Language Model (LLM) that can run on a single GPU, HPE buys Axis security to add cloud-delivered security services to its portfolio, and HPE announced it lost half a billion dollars in Q1 of its fiscal 2023. APNIC beats back an activist contingent in recent elections, and LastPass discloses that attackers got access to a key employee’s laptop. Get links to all these stories below. Show Links: Investor Relations – Cisco @ Mobile World Congress: Showcasing Simple and Secure Wireless Experiences to Help Businesses Connect More People and Things – Cisco Cisco Launches Meraki 5G Gateways with T-Mobile to Deliver Simple and Scalable Business Internet – Cisco Simplify and Scale Anywhere Connectivity – Cisco Systems Investor Relations – Mercedes-Benz AG Partners with Cisco to Drive Hybrid Work Innovation in Automotive – Cisco Accelerating Our Security Cloud Vision: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Valtix  – Cisco Blogs National Cybersecurity Strategy – White House SNIA’s New Smart Data Accelerator Interface Specification – SNIA IBM Plans to Acquire NS1 to Help Enterprises Drive Network Agility in their Hybrid Cloud Environments – IBM NetBoxLabs Blog – NetBox Labs Meta unveils a new large language model that can run on a single GPU [Updated] – Ars Technica LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models – Meta

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss HPE’s purchase of Athonet and whether there’s enough demand for private 5G to justify it, new features in the OpenNMS network management platform, and a cloud misconfiguration that exposed sensitive military files to the Internet. Aviz and Marvell partner on a SONiC-based network OS running on Marvell silicon, a security research firms says attackers were able to remotely penetrate data centers in Asia, and a SaaS provider says it will save millions over the next five years by abandoning public cloud. Intel cuts its dividend to shareholders in a sign of significant financial hardship, and Nvidia sees income drop in its Q4 and full-year financial results. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Itential We’re sponsored today by Itential. Itential simplifies automation across hybrid cloud network infrastructure. Their platform makes it easy for network teams to bring their own automation assets and scale their network automation efforts, so you can spend more time working on the things you like instead of the repetitive, tedious tasks. Find out more at itential.com/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes After the news we talk about Open Telemetry with sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes. OpenTelemetry is open collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs to help share telemetry data among different monitoring and analysis platforms. We’ll talk with ThousandEyes about how it’s using OpenTelemetry to integrate  network visibility with  broader observability data. Show Links: Packet Pushers Audience Survey Hewlett Packard Enterprise doubles down on private 5G, extends leadership in wireless connectivity with acquisition of Athonet – HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise extends leadership in enterprise connectivity with private 5G offering – HPE OpenNMS releases OpenNMS Meridian 2023 with New Cloud-enabled Capabilities – OpenNMS Sensitive US military emails spill online – Tech Crunch Marvell and Aviz Networks Collaborate to Drive SONiC Deployment in Cloud and Enterprise Data Centers – Marvell Logins for Apple data centers and others found online – Tech Radar Two data centers used by major tech firms hacked – SC Magazine Cyber Attacks on Data Center Organizations – Resecurity

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Avaya filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time, repeated breaches at GoDaddy, and vulnerabilities in Fortinet products. Nokia introduces a photonic services engine that can support 800Gbps, the US Supreme Court will hear a challenge to section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that shields social media companies from content liabilities, and Cisco and Arista both report good financial results. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Nokia We’re sponsored today by Nokia and its data center fabric for network automation and orchestration. Nokia’s data center fabric is designed for day zero design, day one deployment, and operations for Day Two and beyond.  Find out more at nokia.ly/dc-fabric, and listen to Heavy Networking episode 653 to get details and hear customer use cases. Tech Bytes: Fortinet Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Fortinet. We talk about universal Zero Trust Network Access, or ZTNA, including shifting your access policies toward applications rather than networks, and how to implement zero trust for IoT devices. Show Links: FU: Get ‘SASE’ with Cisco+ Secure Connect – Tech Field Day via YouTube Cisco Connects and Protects with New Cloud Tools Across Networking, Security and Operations to Provide Greater Visibility and Control Over Networks – Cisco Systems News: Avaya files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – Reuters Avaya Wipes Out Shareholders In Bankruptcy (NYSE:AVYA) – Seeking Alpha Avaya bankruptcy: Why shareholders are likely the big losers – Triangle Business Journal GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach – Bleeping Computer GoDaddy Inc. – Statement on recent website redirect issues – GoDaddy Fortinet fixes critical RCE flaws in FortiNAC and FortiWeb – Bleeping Computer FortiNAC – External Control of File Name or Path in keyUpload scriptlet – FortiGuard Labs FortiWeb – Stack-based buffer overflows in Proxyd...

Take a Network Break! On this week’s episode we discuss new chip hardware from Fortinet, Extreme integrating its SD-WAN into its network fabric, and Itential getting in deeper with ServiceNow for faster internal delivery of infrastructure. Anuta Networks adds active assurance (i.e. synthetic tests) to its ATOM orchestration platform, Cisco hosts Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, and the US and UK governments sanction seven Russians affiliated with the Trickbot malware gang. A new round of tech companies are firing workers and Zoom’s CEO takes a 98% cut to his base salary to feel a tiny hint of the pain of laid-off workers. AWS will use natural-gas fuel cells to power a handful of data centers, Fortinet reports strong Q4 and full year financial results, and AMD grows its data center revenues by 44%. Get links to all these stories below for more details. Tech Bytes: Nokia Event Handler Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Byte. We talk with Nokia about a new automation feature, called Event Handler, in its SR-Linux network OS. Event Handler lets you automatically run scripts to fix problems when an event occurs. Show Links: Fortinet Announces A New System on Chip (SoC) For Its Firewall Appliances – Packet Pushers Fortinet Unveils New ASIC to Accelerate the Convergence of Networking and Security Across Every Network Edge – Fortinet Fortinet Secure Processors – Fortinet Extreme Extends Fabric to the Edge, Simplifies Operations and Improves Security with Enhanced SD-WAN Solution – Extreme Networks Itential Debuts ServiceNow Application to Enable Cloud-Like Service Delivery for Infrastructure Changes – Itential Itential ServiceNow App – Itential Anuta ATOM Active Service Assurance Accelerates Digital Transformation – Anuta Networks Harmonizing Networking and Security to Make SASE Easy – Cisco Cisco expands Cisco Intersight to EMEA for sovereignty and high performance – Cisco New Cisco Catalyst 9200CX Compact With HVDC, Cisco UPOE And mGig – Cisco Blogs U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group – Krebs on Security

Take a Network Break! This week we start with some follow-up on Intel as well as Teams vs. Slack. If you’d like to offer a comment or correction, you can let fly at packetpushers.net/fu. On the news front, Ericsson demonstrates “network slicing” down to the laptop level to give 5G providers another option to try and sell differentiated services. Microsoft adds ChatGPT to Teams and Viva to handle tasks such as taking notes and drafting sales email. And BT hopes to deliver 5G  to underserved areas from drones. Juniper delivers positive financial results for Q4 and fiscal year 2022. Amazon’s AWS continues to deliver big revenue, but at slightly less astronomical rates than previous years. Last but not least, Japanese researchers are testing the use of laser turrets to kill crop-destroying insects. Get links to all these stories below. Tech Bytes: VMware and Expedient Stay tuned for a Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by VMware, for a conversation about cloud migration and operating in a multi-cloud environment. We talk with VMware partner Expedient, a cloud service provider, about how it helps clients migrate their VMware environments to the cloud. Show Links: FU: Intel execs make small cut to their overall compensation after a disastrous quarter – CNBC News: Ericsson, Intel and Microsoft show laptop network slicing – Ericsson The 3G4G Blog: Network Slicing using User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP) – The 3G4G Blog FarEasTone and Ericsson mark a breakthrough in 5G network slicing – Ericsson Microsoft rolls out ChatGPT-powered Teams Premium – Reuters Microsoft Teams Premium: Cut costs and add AI-powered productivity – Microsoft Microsoft boosts Viva Sales with new GPT seller experience – Microsoft Microsoft Will Use OpenAI Tech to Write Emails for Busy Salespeople – Bloomberg BT Group and SPL look to the stratosphere to deliver 4G and 5G coverage to hard-to-reach areas of the UK – BT BT in tests to beam down 5G coverage from the stratosphere – The Register Facebook permanently grounds ...

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss new capabilities in Juniper’s Astra data center automation software; a major Microsoft outage that affected Outlook, Teams, and more; and reports that Intel will discontinue selling the Tofino programmable ASIC. The US Justice Department and international law enforcement agencies partner on shutting down a ransomware site, Intel loses $661 million in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, and Microsoft anticipates customers will spend less on cloud computing going forward. Extreme Networks reports second quarter financial results and says farewell to its CFO, and Nokia sees significant growth in enterprise sales. Get links to all these stories below. Tech Bytes: Fortinet Stay tuned for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation about  security reconnaissance with sponsor Fortinet. We’ll drill into FortiRecon, a service that can provide critical information, personalized for your organization, about potential threats to company assets, employees, and customers Show Links: Juniper Apstra Customers Grew by More Than 170% in 2022. . . and We’re Just Getting Started – Juniper Networks Juniper Apstra Freeform Supports New Topologies, Protocols For Data Center Automation–With Caveats – Packet Pushers Azure status history – Microsoft Microsoft Outage Analysis: January 25, 2023 – ThousandEyes Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down – The Register Intel Sunsets Network Switch Biz, Kills RISC-V Pathfinder Program – Tom’s Hardware Network Communications and I/O Products by Intel – Intel U.S. says it ‘hacked the hackers’ to bring down ransomware gang, helping 300 victims – Reuters Ransomware profits drop 40% in 2022 as victims refuse to pay – Bleeping Computer Intel Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2022 Financial Results – Intel Earnings Release FY23 Q2 – Microsoft Extreme Networks Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2023 Financial Results – Extreme Networks...

Take a Network Break! This week has kind of a security theme (or lack thereof), as we discuss Juniper Networks announcing security advisories on more than 230 vulnerabilities. Serious flaws in a handful of Cisco small-business routers have been identified, but because the router are end of life (EOL) Cisco isn’t patching them. Reports say Avaya is edging toward bankruptcy to restructure its debt. Microsoft, Google, and other big companies slash tens of thousands of jobs, PacketFabric and Unitas merge in the network service provider market, T-Mobile loses 37 million customer records after an attacker spent weeks exploiting vulnerable APIs, and SpaceX promises to work with the National Science Foundation to minimize interference that Starlink satellites can cause with ground-based astronomical observations. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Nokia We’re sponsored in part by Nokia and its Digital Sandbox, part of Nokia’s Fabric Services System for data center network automation. To get more details about how the Digital Sandbox enables intent-based networking, listen to the May 9th Tech Byte we recorded with Nokia and go to nokia.ly/fabric-services-system to learn more. Show Links: Juniper starts the year listing more than 230 vulnerabilities – SC Magazine Juniper Security Advisories – Juniper Networks Cisco warns it won’t fix critical flaw in small business routers despite known exploit – The Register Cisco Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 Routers Vulnerabilities – Cisco Systems More Avaya layoffs as bankruptcy speculation grows – Triangle Business Journal Avaya Form 8K Filing – Securities and Exchange Commission Avaya Veers Toward Bankruptcy Filing – Wall Street Journal (paywall) Avaya CEO: Financial Issues Temporary, Recovery Coming Soon – Channel Futures Avaya Reports Selected Additional Preliminary Third Quarter Fiscal 2022 Financial Results and Provides Business Updates – Avaya Google to Cut 12,000 Jobs in 6% Slash to Global Workforce – Bloomberg

Take a Network Break! We cover a bunch of tech news this week. Arista rolls out a heap of new switches including 800G models for hyperscalers. Intel pins its comeback hopes on newly released Xeon CPUs with onboard acceleration capabilities. And a dangerous exploit of a Fortinet SSL VPN vulnerability is in the wild. Big tech companies are making significant layoffs, Cloudflare releases a Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) offering, and an Ohio company regrets not reading the fine print on its cyber insurance policy. HPE plans to sell its stake in HP3, Dell says it will stop using Chinese-made chips and other components, and Microsoft acquires DPU maker called Fungible and hollow-core fiber-optics maker Lumenisity. Sponsor: DPUs And The Future Of Infrastructure – A Packet Pushers Livestream Join the Packet Pushers on January 23rd, 2023 for a Livestream event on the future of DPUs and infrastructure, sponsored by Dell Technologies. We’ll talk about how DPUs accelerate workloads, what network engineers need to know about DPUs, operational and business benefits, and more. Sign up now for this free online livestream at Packetpushers.net/livestream. Show Links: Arista Delivers Next Generation Switching for Compute and Storage – Arista Networks Intel Launches 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors, Max Series CPUs – Intel Pat Gelsinger tweets about the Xeon launch Intel Roadmap and PC TAM Update – Tone Deaf, Out Of Touch, Living In a Fantasy World, or Disconnected From Reality? – Semianalysis Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers – Ars Technica FortiOS – heap-based buffer overflow in sslvpnd – Fortinet Salesforce to cut staff by 10% in latest tech layoffs – CNBC Tech Layoffs Update: Unicorn Pluralsight Lays Off 20 Percent Of Staff, December 2022 – Forbes Introducing Digital Experience Monitoring – Cloudflare Cloudflare Muscles In On Digital Experience Monitoring – Packet Pushers Ohio court: Non-physical software damage in ransomware attack not covered under insurance – SC Media Ohio S...

Take a Network Break! For our first show of 2023 we skip the news to spend some time speculating on technologies and trends that may influence IT and networking in the coming year. We’re joined by guest prognosticator Ethan Banks. We discuss: *  A potentially positive outlook on IT spending this year * The influence of AI, machine learning, and ChatGPT in tech * Data center network automation and whatever happened to Intent-Based Networking * Cloud repatriation * Security’s continued growth Sponsor: DPUs And The Future Of Infrastructure – A Packet Pushers Livestream Join the Packet Pushers on January 23rd, 2023 for a Livestream event on the future of DPUs and infrastructure, sponsored by Dell Technologies. We’ll talk about how DPUs accelerate workloads, what network engineers need to know about DPUs, operational and business benefits, and more. Sign up now for this free online livestream at Packetpushers.net/livestream. Show Links: Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as ‘substantially harmful’ for coding issues – The Register Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned – Stack Overflow Why posting GPT and ChatGPT generated answers is not currently acceptable – Stack Overflow

Take a Network Break! On today’s episode we cover a new certification roadmap from Cisco, speculate on the future of corporate office space, and delve into an FTC lawsuit that aims to stop Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of game developer Activision. Broadcom releases strong Q4 and full-year financial results and sees good things ahead, Apple’s satellite-powered emergency SMS text capability proves itself with a rescue, and SpaceX hopes to win more government business with its Starshield venture for secure satellite communications for government entities. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Dell Technologies – DPUs & The Future Of Distributed Infrastructure Livestream The Packet Pushers are hosting a Livestream event with and sponsor Dell Technologies on DPUs and the future of distributed infrastructure. We’ll have six short, informative sessions on topics including what network engineers need to know about DPUs, accelerating distributed workloads on DPUs, how VMware’s Project Monterey will affect infrastructure, and more. We originally planned to have the event in December but we’re moving it to January 23rd, 2023 so there’s plenty of time to sign up at packetpushers.net/livestream. If you already signed up for the original December date, you should get an updated invitation automatically. Tech Bytes: Fortinet Stick around after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation about Fortinet’s SASE offering. We discuss key elements including the FortiClient agent, what cloud-delivered security services are available, SASE use cases, and more. Show Links: Cisco Certification Roadmaps – Cisco CCNA Updates August – October Timeframe… Each Year? – Wendell’s CCNA Skills Blog Meta scales back plan to occupy new European HQ in Dublin 4 – Irish Times New York Office Occupancy Hits Pandemic Era Milestone at More Than 40% Full – The City BlackRock says get ready for a recession unlike any other and ‘what worked in the past won’t work now’ – MSN News Release: Incremental increase in UK’s office occupancy rates – Remit Consulting How’s New York City Doing? – The City The FTC is suing Microsoft to block its Activision Blizzard purchase – The Verge FTC Seeks to Block Microsoft Corp.’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Inc – Federal Trade Commission