Network Break 413: 800G Switches, Intel’s Big Hopes For 4th-Gen CPUs, And Reading Cyber Insurance Fine Print
Summary: 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.<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> Sponsor: DPUs And The Future Of Infrastructure – A Packet Pushers Livestream<br> 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 <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YPKm3-uJRN-iTL3Ek-DL5A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Packetpushers.net/livestream</a>.<br> Show Links:<br> <a href="https://www.arista.com/en/company/news/press-release/16530-pr-20221214" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arista Delivers Next Generation Switching for Compute and Storage</a> – Arista Networks<br> <a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/4th-gen-xeon-scalable-processors-max-series-cpus-gpus.html#gs.mcic4o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Intel Launches 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors, Max Series CPUs</a> – Intel<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/PGelsinger/status/1612924745724428289" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pat Gelsinger tweets about the Xeon launch</a><br> <a href="https://www.semianalysis.com/p/intel-roadmap-and-pc-tam-update-tone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Intel Roadmap and PC TAM Update – Tone Deaf, Out Of Touch, Living In a Fantasy World, or Disconnected From Reality?</a> – Semianalysis<br> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/fortinet-says-hackers-exploited-critical-vulnerability-to-infect-vpn-customers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers</a> – Ars Technica<br> <a href="https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FortiOS – heap-based buffer overflow in sslvpnd</a> – Fortinet<br> <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/04/salesforce-to-cut-staff-by-10percent-close-some-offices.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Salesforce to cut staff by 10% in latest tech layoffs</a> – CNBC<br> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/12/22/tech-layoffs-update-unicorn-pluralsight-lays-off-20-percent-of-staff-december-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tech Layoffs Update: Unicorn Pluralsight Lays Off 20 Percent Of Staff, December 2022</a> – Forbes<br> <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-digital-experience-monitoring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introducing Digital Experience Monitoring</a> – Cloudflare<br> <a href="https://packetpushers.net/cloudflare-muscles-in-on-digital-experience-monitoring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cloudflare Muscles In On Digital Experience Monitoring</a> – Packet Pushers<br> <a href="https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/ransomware/ohio-court-non-physical-software-damage-in-ransomware-attack-not-covered-under-insurance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio court: Non-physical software damage in ransomware attack not covered under insurance</a> – SC Media<br> <a href="https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/12/ohio-supreme-court-says-insurance-policy-does-not-cover-ransomware-attack-on-software/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio S...</a>
