NB477: Arista Assembles Switch-Based Microperimeters; FCC Wants More Money for Telcos Dumping Huawei Gear
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a new microsegmentation offering from Arista, new GenAI assistants from Fortinet, and a GenAI firewall from Versa Networks to monitor and report on how organiz...
6 Maj 20240s
NB476: IBM Buys HashiCorp; Running Data Centers With Vegetable Oil?
Take a Network Break! We welcome guest commentator Kyler Middleton of Day Two Cloud to discuss the IBM/HashiCorp deal, then pivot to new Wi-Fi 7 APs from HPE Aruba Networking, and discuss why a data c...
29 Apr 20241h
NB475: Cisco Hypes Hypershield; Broadcom Tries To Clarify VMware Strategy
Take a Network Break! This week we cover Hypershield, a new Cisco security product that uses technology from its Isovalent acquisition. We parse a blog from Broadcom CEO Hock Tan on the company’s VMwa...
22 Apr 20241h
NB474: Intel Strikes Back In GPU Wars; The Fork Is Strong With Valkey
Take a Network Break! This week we start with some FU on Intel drivers, and how FISA affects people outside (and inside) the US. In the news we cover Intel’s rollout of new XPU silicon and associated ...
15 Apr 20241h 2min
NB473: Duty To Report (Your Breaches); Intel Foundry Biz Loses $7 Billion
Take a Network Break! This week we start with some FU on Juniper’s Mist AI, the ConnectWise vulnerability, and the 25th anniversary of the Cisco Cat6. The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Ag...
8 Apr 202436min
NB472: HPE Adds GenAI to Aruba Central; Intel Eager to Slurp Billions in Subsidies
Take a Network Break! This week we try to peel back the layers on HPE’s announcement about new GenAI capabilties in Aruba Networking Central, parse Broadcom’s touting of its AI credentials, and feel c...
1 Apr 20241h 5min
NB471: Nvidia Unveils 800G Ethernet, InfiniBand Switches For AI Fabrics; ‘Ghost Jobs’ Haunt Job Boards
Take a Network Break! Nvidia announces new 800G switches, one for Ethernet and one for InfiniBand, for building AI fabrics. Nvidia also announces an “AI supercomputer,” a rack-scale pre-built bundle o...
25 Mars 20241h 10min
NB470: NetBox Labs Adds On-Prem Support; ASML Vs. The Netherlands
This week on Network Break we discuss a new on-prem version of NetBox Labs’ source-of-truth software with enterprise support, why Selector AI is adding an LLM to its operations and observability produ...
18 Mars 202452min
