Network Break 317: Citrix Bets The House On SaaS Collaboration; AWS Forks Elasticsearch
Summary: Take a Network Break! Citrix spends $2.25 billion, including a $1.45 billion loan, for digital work management provider Wrike. Citrix also announced its Q4 and full year fiscal results, with an 8% revenue bump year over year. Red Hat says RHEL will be free to run on up to 16 production servers.<br> Cisco warns customers of two serious bugs in its SD-WAN software. Elastic takes Elasticsearch closed-source and AWS forks the project. Alphabet (Google’s parent company) shoots down its project to deliver wireless broadband via balloons. A California employment law expert says VMware’s lawsuit against a former executive is weak.<br> Get links to all these stories after our sponsor messages.<br> Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks<br> Enable secure access for your remote workers from anywhere with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access, a cloud-delivered, tier-one network. Prisma® Access offers comprehensive network security in a single services edge platform designed for all traffic, all applications, and all users. Learn more at<a href="https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/secure-remote-workforces"> paloaltonetworks.com/secure-remote-workforces</a><br> Tech Bytes: AppNeta<br> Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with AppNeta where we discuss how to deploy real-time monitoring so you can define and actually measure performance and ensure a good end user experience.<br> Show Links:<br> <a href="https://investors.citrix.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2021/01-19-2021-110123039" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Citrix to Acquire Wrike, Delivering Modern Digital Workspace and Advancing Future of Work</a> – Citrix<br> <a href="https://www.futuriom.com/articles/news/a-look-at-citrixs-2-25-billion-acquisition-of-wrike/2021/01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Citrix’s $2.25-Billion Acquisition of Wrike</a> – Futuriom<br> <a href="https://investors.citrix.com/financial-information/quarterly-results" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Citrix Quarterly Results</a> – Citrix (PDF)<br> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers</a> – Ars Technica<br> <a href="https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdwan-bufovulns-B5NrSHbj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cisco SD-WAN Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities</a> – Cisco<br> <a href="https://threatpost.com/critical-cisco-sd-wan-bugs-rce-attacks/163204/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Cisco SD-WAN Bugs Allow RCE Attacks</a> – Threatpost<br> <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doubling down on open, Part II</a> – Elastic Blog<br> <a href="https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAQ on 2021 License Change</a> – Elastic<br> <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon: NOT OK – why we had to change Elastic licensing</a> – Elastic<br> <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch</a> – AWS Open Source Blog<br> <a href="https://opensource.org/node/1099" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The SSPL is Not an Open Source License</a> – Open Source Initiative<br> <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/elastic-changes-open-source-license-to-monetize-cloud-service-use/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elastic changes open-source license to monetize cloud-service use</a> – ZDNet<br> <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch</a> – AWS
