Podcasts by Tech Bytes

Tech Bytes: Pliant Combines APIs, Low Code Approach For Network Automation (Sponsored) from 2023-12-04T16:58:51

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Pliant about its automation platform. Pliant helps you orchestrate across devices and domains with a low-code approach that uses APIs to auto...

Tech Bytes: Nokia Deepfield Brings Fresh Analytics, New Gear To The DDoS Fight (Sponsored) from 2023-11-27T18:58:15

Today on Tech Bytes, sponsored by Nokia, we’ll talk about what’s brewing on the DDoS front and how Nokia’s Deepfield is bringing new analytics techniques to the fight.

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Tech Bytes: Why AI Workloads Require Optimized Ethernet Fabrics (Sponsored) from 2023-11-13T19:16:26

Network engineers have a good grasp on how to build data center networks to support all kinds of apps, from traditional three-tier designs to applications built around containers and microservic...

Tech Bytes: How VMware And HPE Greenlake Tackle AI And Multi-Cloud For Customers (Sponsored) from 2023-11-06T16:52:13

VMware and HPE are partnering on HPE Greenlake for VMware Cloud Foundation. On today's episode we discuss how the HPE and VMware partnership benefits customers’ multi-cloud initiatives and how V...

Tech Bytes: Nokia’s ChatGPT App Lets Engineers Query The Network (Sponsored) from 2023-10-30T15:51:27

AI is making its way into network operations, and on today’s episode, sponsored by Nokia, we talk about how Nokia has developed a ChatGPT-based application that runs on its SR Linux network OS. ...

Tech Bytes: Addressing New Service Provider Routing Applications With Nokia’s FPcx Silicon (Sponsored) from 2023-10-23T20:05:49

Today's Tech Bytes podcast explores custom silicon with sponsor Nokia. Nokia has recently launched its new FPcx chip for Nokia routers. We’ll talk about the features and capabilities in the new ...

Tech Bytes: Secure Hybrid Workers Without Compromising User Experience (Sponsored) from 2023-10-16T20:33:36

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about techniques to improve user experience and application performance while also securing end users, applications, and devices. Our sponsor is Palo Alto...

Tech Bytes: Why Retail Branches Need Next-Gen SD-WAN And SASE (Sponsored) from 2023-10-10T21:27:12

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we talk with sponsor Palo Alto Networks about SD-WAN for retail locations. From securing payment card data to supporting customer Wi-Fi to connecting a multitude...

Tech Bytes: The SD-WAN Prescription For Healthcare Networks (Sponsored) from 2023-10-02T21:14:16

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we talk with sponsor Palo Alto Networks about SD-WAN in healthcare markets. The healthcare sector has stringent requirements around the privacy and security of p...

Tech Bytes: Introducing The Network Automation Forum And AutoCon Event (Sponsored) from 2023-09-05T15:55:58

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we discuss the Network Automation Forum (NAF) and its inaugural independent conference--AutoCon 0. The networking industry has been taking about automation foreve...

Tech Bytes: How StackPath Uses Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring To Accelerate MTTI (Sponsored) from 2023-08-28T20:43:20

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about monitoring network and application performance. Our sponsor is Catchpoint, and they’ve sent a customer, StackPath, to talk about using Catchpoint in...

Tech Bytes: Spotting Performance Problems Faster With Digital Experience Monitoring (Sponsored) from 2023-08-07T20:13:57

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we get into Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). DEM goes beyond traditional SLAs by offering more precise measurements of network and application performance as ...

Tech Bytes: Modernizing Your Secure Web Gateway For A Distributed Workforce (Sponsored) from 2023-07-31T19:51:04

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we explore Secure Web Gateways with sponsor Palo Alto Networks. Secure Web Gateways sit between users and Web traffic to enforce policies around Web and applicati...

Tech Bytes: Need Those Packets? Palo Alto Networks Introduces Traffic Replication In SASE (Sponsored) from 2023-07-24T18:48:30

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about traffic replication in SASE environments. Our sponsor is Palo Alto Networks, and they’ve added a new capability in Prisma Access that lets you repli...

Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes Extends End-to-End Network Visibility To Meraki MX And More (Sponsored) from 2023-07-17T20:11:51

In today’s Tech Byte, we’ve got Cisco ThousandEyes sharing new product capabilities, including ThousandEyes on Meraki MX and Webex RoomOS devices and faster insights into the root cause of probl...

Tech Bytes: Deploying Sovereign Clouds With VMware And Tietoevry from 2023-07-10T14:30:36

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we explore the concept of sovereign clouds with sponsor VMware. Sovereign clouds provide the agility and scale of the cloud while ensuring data resides in a spec...

Tech Byte: DWDM at the Edge with Nokia PSE6 Coherent Optics from 2023-06-19T09:48

Today’s Tech Byte is a discussion on Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine (PSE) optics. Release 6 of its PSEs promises huge changes to DWDM Edge by bringing coherent optical DWDM circuits directly to...

Tech Byte: Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN App-defined Fabric (Sponsored) from 2023-06-13T17:40:17

SD-WAN provides new options for connecting branch locations to your headquarters, SaaS, and cloud applications. But SD-WAN is about more than just connectivity, Palo Alto Networks offer an appli...

Tech Bytes: Building The Branch Of The Future With Palo Alto Networks SD-WAN And SASE (Sponsored) from 2023-06-05T15:57:07

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we explore the branch of the future with sponsor Palo Alto Networks. We talk about how SD-WAN and SASE come together with Digital Experience Management (DEM) to m...

Tech Bytes: Assembling A SASE Architecture With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2023-05-30T20:19:54

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we pull back the covers on SASE, or Secure Access Service Edge. Fortinet is our sponsor. One important concept to grasp around SASE is that it’s as much an archit...

Tech Bytes: Pica8 NOS Enables Multi-Vendor Networking To Solve Campus Supply Chain Problems (Sponsored) from 2023-05-22T15:44:41

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we speak with sponsor Pica8 about how whitebox networking gives engineers the flexibility to choose the hardware and software that best meets their campus needs. ...

Tech Bytes: Nokia Delivers 800GE Routing With An Eye On Performance And Efficiency (Sponsored) from 2023-05-08T15:46:08

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with Nokia about 800G Ethernet. Nokia is deploying 800G Ethernet routing to customers (primarily hyperscalers and providers). We examine the drivers of 80...

Tech Bytes: How ITQ And VMware Support Multi-Cloud And Hybrid Work (Sponsored) from 2023-05-01T10:00:41

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we discuss multi-cloud deployments and supporting hybrid workers with VMware’s Workspace ONE. We’re sponsored by VMware, and we talk with VMware partner ITQ. Our ...

Tech Bytes: Configure Devices, Stream Telemetry With Nokia’s Free, Open-Source gNMIc (Sponsored) from 2023-04-10T20:32:56

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we dive into gNMIc with sponsor Nokia. gNMIc is open-source software you can use to configure devices and collect device telemetry. It can output telemetry to Inf...

Tech Bytes: Choosing Single-Vendor SASE For Networking And Security (Sponsored) from 2023-03-27T20:29:53

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we get into Secure Access Services Edge (SASE), which combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security services. You can integrate ...

Briefings In Brief 103: Arista Enters The SD-WAN Arena from 2023-03-24T17:55:52

Arista Networks has announced two hardware WAN routers, the 5510 and the 5310, which are targeted at branch, edge, and remote sites. The routers run EOS with a full routing stack. The new hardwa...

Tech Bytes: Automating Network Administration At Scale With BackBox (Sponsored) from 2023-03-13T18:00:14

Today's Tech Bytes podcast gets into network automation with sponsor BackBox. BackBox’s approach to automation is to focus on network engineers and integrate automation with how they already do ...

Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes Enhances Data Correlation With OpenTelemetry (Sponsored) from 2023-02-27T20:56:59

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about OpenTelemetry with sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes. OpenTelemetry is an open collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs to help share telemetry data among...

Tech Bytes: Extending ZTNA To Remote And Office Workers With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2023-02-21T23:16:38

Today's Tech Bytes podcast dives into the notion of applying Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) to users on campus as well as remote workers. Our sponsor is Fortinet and we discuss bringing ZTNA t...

Tech Bytes: Event-Driven Automation With Nokia’s SR Linux Event Handler Framework (Sponsored) from 2023-02-13T18:25:21

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about Event Handler, a new automation feature in Nokia’s SR Linux network OS that lets you automatically run scripts to fix problems when an event occurs....

Tech Bytes: Enabling Smart Cloud Migration With VMware And Expedient (Sponsored) from 2023-02-06T14:46:51

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about cloud migration and operating in a multi-cloud environment. We’re sponsored by VMware and we’re speaking with Expedient, a VMware partner. Exp...

Tech Bytes: Fortinet’s FortiRecon Customizes Digital Risk Protection (Sponsored) from 2023-01-30T20:06:55

On today's Tech Bytes podcast we discuss security reconnaissance with sponsor Fortinet. We drill into FortiRecon, a service that can provide critical information, personalized for your organizat...

Tech Bytes: Redefining Secure Remote Access With Fortinet’s SASE Solution (Sponsored) from 2022-12-12T19:22:21

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we explore sponsor Fortinet’s Secure Access Service Edge, or FortiSASE, offering, including the FortiClient agent, what cloud-delivered security services are avai...

Tech Bytes: Diagnosing SaaS Outages When It’s Not The Network (Sponsored) from 2022-12-05T18:43:06

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we explore two outages of big-time cloud applications with sponsor ThousandEyes, a Cisco company. These outages share a common thread, in that the network was up ...

Tech Bytes: Run On-Prem Infrastructure Like Public Cloud With vSphere+ (Sponsored) from 2022-11-28T17:20:16

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by VMware, dives into VMware’s vSphere+. vSphere+ allows you to operate your on-prem workloads and infrastructure as if they were a public cloud. It support...

Tech Bytes: Boosting WAN Speeds While Cutting Costs With VMware SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2022-11-21T17:15:41

On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by VMware, we explore a real-world SD-WAN deployment. A customer in the automotive industry needed a better way to share large CAD files among global sit...

Tech Bytes: Why SASE Is An Architecture, Not A Product (Sponsored) from 2022-11-07T21:21:19

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we’ll be investigating Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE, including the current state of the market and how SASE is evolving. We’ll also look at how sponsor Ju...

Tech Bytes: Aruba Enhances Security Capabilities In EdgeConnect SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2022-10-31T19:54:49

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking SD-WAN. We dive into new features and capabilities in Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN, including new security and segmentation features, licensing options,...

Tech Bytes: Using Opengear Every Day–For Disruptions And More (Sponsored) from 2022-10-24T16:35:04

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about how to use out-of-band management for daily networking tasks, not just when there’s a problem or crisis. Our sponsor is Opengear and we’re joined by...

Tech Bytes: LiveAction Integrates NDR And Network Visibility (Sponsored) from 2022-10-17T19:34:46

The Tech Bytes podcast welcomes sponsor LiveAction, which provides network visibility and NDR products for network engineers. We’ll get an overview of LiveAction’s portfolio and take a closer lo...

Tech Bytes: Get Early Attack Detection And Fast Response With Fortinet FortiDeceptor (Sponsored) from 2022-10-11T21:34:38

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking deception. That is, deceiving attackers that try to exploit your network by creating fake assets and infrastructure. Sponsor Fortinet is here to tal...

Tech Bytes: Juniper Integrates SD-WAN, AI Ops To Solve WAN Challenges (Sponsored) from 2022-10-05T13:28:20

On today's Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Juniper Networks about its AI-driven SD-WAN. While SD-WAN solves a number of problems for network engineers, it also introduces new ones: more ...

Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Enhances AIOps For Prisma SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2022-09-26T12:09:27

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Palo Alto Networks about the latest AI Ops features for SD-WAN. AI Ops analyzes network data and then recommends fixes for probems, a capabil...

Tech Bytes: Aruba Navigates 6Ghz Spectrum Challenges With AFC Demo (Sponsored) from 2022-09-19T20:18:35

Wi-Fi 6E gear can take advantage of the 6GHz band, but there are incumbent entities that also have a stake in the spectrum. To prevent interference, the Automated Frequency Coordination database...

Tech Bytes: Develop Custom Network Apps With Nokia’s SR Linux NDK (Sponsored) from 2022-09-06T17:48:40

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Nokia about its SR Linux network OS. More specifically, because SR Linux is open, customers can write homegrown applications to solve specifi...

Tech Bytes: Augtera Builds AIOps Specifically For Networking (Sponsored) from 2022-08-29T19:19:51

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk AIOps with sponsor Augtera, which takes a domain-specific approach to AI and ML that focuses on networking to develop its operational capabilities. Our gu...

Tech Bytes: NVIDIA BlueField And Project Monterey (Sponsored) from 2022-08-17T21:14:23

On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, we talk Data Processing Units (DPUs) with sponsor NVIDIA. The context is VMware’s Project Monterey. Wes Kennedy, TME for BlueField at NVIDIA, is here to discuss ho...

Tech Bytes: Manage Cloud Risks With Fortinet’s New FortiCNP Offering (Sponsored) from 2022-08-15T21:00:23

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about managing cloud risk with sponsor Fortinet. Fortinet recently announced its new FortiCNP product, which collects and correlates security findings, al...

Tech Bytes: Aruba Networks AIOps Get More Features and Functions from 2022-08-08T19:05:31

Aruba Networks is announcing new capabilities in its Aruba Central platform that leverage machine learning to do things like provide insights into clients on the network, recommend firmware for ...

Tech Bytes: Nokia Fabric Services System Streamlines Network Automation For Application Stacks (Sponsored) from 2022-07-25T18:43:59

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we welcome back sponsor Nokia to talk about a compelling feature in Nokia’s Fabric Services System. This feature, called Connect, lets Fabric Services System inte...

Tech Bytes: Forecasting SD-WAN Performance With WAN Insights (Sponsored) from 2022-07-18T19:15:18

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we look at how to get better visibility into the WAN. Our sponsor is Cisco ThousandEyes and we’re going to discuss its latest capability, called WAN Insights, tha...

Tech Bytes: Maximize Network Data With Nokia’s Streaming Telemetry (Sponsored) from 2022-06-27T19:48:43

On today's Tech Bytes podcast we discuss the value of streaming telemetry in a modern network with sponsor Nokia. Nokia's SR-Linux network OS enables streaming telemetry, so let's dive into the ...

Tech Bytes: Fortinet Firewall Integrates SD-WAN, ZTNA, LAN Controller (Sponsored) from 2022-06-20T21:21

The Tech Bytes podcast welcomes Fortinet to  to discuss the universal nature of Fortinet hardware and software. The same FortiGate NGFW appliance includes networking capabilities including a rou...

Tech Bytes: The Evolution Of Zero Trust Network Access (Sponsored) from 2022-06-13T13:00:36

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we talk about Zero Trust Network Access and how it’s evolving to provide more comprehensive and consistent security.

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Tech Bytes: How Aruba NaaS Changes Network Consumption (Sponsored) from 2022-06-07T00:25:09

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about Network as a Service with sponsor Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, including how Aruba defines NaaS, the market appetite for netwo...

Tech Bytes: Enhancing CI/CD Pipelines With Nokia’s Digital Sandbox (Sponsored) from 2022-05-31T18:31:55

Today we welcome sponsor Nokia back to the Tech Bytes podcast to get more information about its Digital Sandbox, and how this software, part of Nokia’s Fabric Services System, helps enable a con...

Tech Bytes: HashiCorp’s Consul Tackles Network Infrastructure Automation (Sponsored) from 2022-05-25T15:15:18

Welcome to this sponsored Tech Bytes episode with HashiCorp, where we focus on how HashiCorp's Consul product helps automate network infrastructure. We also dig into what’s included in the Enter...

Tech Bytes: MSP Softchoice And VMware Tackle Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Deployments (Sponsored) from 2022-05-23T14:01:10

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with Managed Service Provider (MSP) and VMware partner of the year Softchoice on how Softchoice helps customers navigate multi-cloud and hybrid cloud depl...

Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Introduces Security As Flexible As Today’s Hybrid Workforce (Sponsored) from 2022-05-20T20:32:19

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Palo Alto Networks about two new approaches for supporting remote and hybrid workers. First is Okyo Garde, a new wireless mesh product to sup...

Tech Bytes: Solving Service Networking Problems With HashiCorp’s Consul (Sponsored) from 2022-05-18T20:08:14

Today's sponsored Tech Bytes dives into HashiCorp's Consul product to learn how it’s evolved from its humble beginnings to become a service networking platform with features including a service ...

Tech Bytes: Cloudflare Simplifies Wide Area Networks With Magic WAN (Sponsored) from 2022-05-16T19:52:07

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking WAN architectures and how to simplify and secure them with sponsor Cloudflare. Cloudflare's Magic WAN is a network-as-a-service offering. Customers ...

Tech Bytes: How Nokia’s Digital Sandbox Enhances Intent-Based Automation (Sponsored) from 2022-05-09T19:55:03

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we dive into sponsor Nokia's Digital Sandbox, which creates a real-time model of a data center network by extracting state and configuration from leaf and spine s...

Tech Bytes: Flexible Cloud Migration Using VMware vRealize Network Insight Universal (Sponsored) from 2022-05-04T17:28:35

Welcome to the Tech Bytes podcast. VMware is our sponsor, and we’re discussing vRealize Network Insight Universal, the SaaS version of vRealize Network Insight. We look at how it can help with y...

Tech Bytes: Switching On Fortinet’s Wired, Wireless Portfolio (Sponsored) from 2022-05-02T20:45:36

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Fortinet, we’re going to dig into Fortinet’s campus and branch switching and wireless LAN portfolio. You might think of Fortinet primarily as a fire...

Tech Bytes: Why The Network Is Essential For Securing Hybrid IT (Sponsored) from 2022-04-25T19:21:43

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast gets into networking and security. More specifically, despite what you might hear about cloud taking over, the network still matters, and is essential to an organizati...

Tech Bytes: Why Wi-Fi 6E Is Off To A Fast Start (Sponsored) from 2022-04-18T11:00:47

Today on Tech Bytes podcast we talk with Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, about the evolution of Wi-Fi standards, why Aruba is seeing the fast take-up of Wi-Fi 6E, practical enhancem...

Tech Bytes: An Introduction To Nokia’s Edge Network Controller (Sponsored) from 2022-04-11T18:50:28

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Nokia about its Edge Network Controller, a Kubernetes-based application that lets you configure switch hardware in edge cloud locations and s...

Tech Bytes: Building The Right Network Underlay With Singtel (Sponsored) from 2022-04-06T20:21:20

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, we discuss the importance of getting the underlay network architecture correct with sponsor Singtel. And we don’t mean just the circuits. We mean the management of...

Tech Bytes: Why Arelion Pushes For Open Optical Networks (Sponsored) from 2022-04-04T20:27:59

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about disaggregated optical networks and what they mean for both customers and carriers when it comes to issues such as service delivery and cost. O...

Tech Bytes: Achieve SD-WAN Multicloud With Palo Alto Networks And Azure (Sponsored) from 2022-03-28T20:18:58

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, which is expanding its cloud partnership by integrating with Azure to help customers achieve a multicloud strategy.

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Tech Bytes: The Advantages Of Singtel SD-WAN For Cloud Access (Sponsored) from 2022-03-23T18:03:52

On today's Tech Bytes with sponsor Singtel, we look at SD-WAN as a critical network feature for cloud access, including the use of overlays to simplify operations. We also discuss why organizati...

Tech Bytes: Apstra Extends Intent-Based Data Center Networking To The Edge (Sponsored) from 2022-03-21T20:14:10

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about a new release of Juniper’s Apstra intent-based networking platform for data centers. Apstra is introducing new features including a collapsed ...

Tech Bytes: Integrating Digital Experience Management And Cloud-Delivered Security (Sponsored) from 2022-03-14T17:01:14

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we focus on the intersection of security and digital experience management. With more applications moving to the cloud, IT has to provide secure access while also...

Tech Bytes: Solving WAN Problems With Singtel Solutions (Sponsored) from 2022-03-09T16:36:53

In this Tech Bytes episode we welcome back Singtel to discuss real-life examples of WAN problems from customers and how Singtel helped solve them.

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Tech Bytes: Credit Union Taps Aruba ESP For SD-WAN, Branch Networking (Sponsored) from 2022-03-07T21:06:02

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we dive into a real-world SD-WAN deployment. Our sponsor is Aruba and we’re talking with Aruba ESP customer Alabama ONE, a credit union. Our guest is Bobby Umfres...

Tech Bytes: How Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs Turns Billions Of Security Events Into Intelligence (Sponsored) from 2022-02-28T20:37:26

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast explores threat intelligence with sponsor Fortinet and its FortiGuard Labs. FortiGuard Labs analyzes billions of global security events daily and distills them into ac...

Tech Bytes: Misconceptions About Connecting Your Network To The Cloud (Sponsored) from 2022-02-23T18:18:28

This Day Two Cloud Tech Bytes episode, sponsored by Singtel, discusses common customer misconceptions about connecting private networks to the public cloud. For instance, SD-WAN might seem like ...

Tech Bytes: Improve Network TCO, Enable Cloud-Like Innovation And More With DriveNets (Sponsored) from 2022-02-23T14:50:31

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we’re talking about how your organization can adopt a hyperscale model in your network to improve TCO, scale out capabilities and services, and get supply chain ...

Tech Bytes: Getting Traditional Networks Cloud-Ready With Singtel (Sponsored) from 2022-02-09T20:42:49

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we continue our conversation with sponsor Singtel on how to make your existing WAN communicate with cloud services more effectively. The traditional MPLS network...

Tech Bytes: AppNeta Provides SASE Observability For Ops Teams (Sponsored) from 2022-02-07T18:16:57

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about how to get end-to-end observability into cloud-delivered security, including Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) and SASE. Our sponsor is Ap...

Tech Bytes: Embedding Network Security Into Your Cloud Network (Sponsored) from 2022-01-31T18:28:48

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talk network security at scale. That is, in a cloud environment, how can you build security capabilities and features into the network while also being able...

Tech Bytes: Singtel And The Cloud-Ready Network (Sponsored) from 2022-01-26T17:55:22

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Singtel, a global provider of network services. We dive into the services Singtel provides, including Internet, MPLS, IP transit 4G/5G, and w...

Tech Bytes: Managing SaaS Risks With Smarter, Cloud-Delivered Security (Sponsored) from 2022-01-24T20:38:46

On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we’re going to talk about how a SASE architecture and a next-generation CASB, or Cloud Access Security Broker, can help security t...

Tech Bytes: Why Network Design Matters For Security Clouds (Sponsored) from 2022-01-17T21:17:34

On today’s Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking security clouds; that is, cloud services that offer capabilities including firewalls, traffic inspection, Web gateways, and more. We explore why these...

Tech Bytes: Embracing Policy-Driven Networks To Support Hybrid Work (Sponsored) from 2022-01-10T19:09:14

Today on the Tech Byte podcast we discuss redefining networks and policy in today’s hybrid world–that is, a network that needs to be available anywhere, anytime, anyhow, and any way. Aruba is ou...

Tech Bytes: Bringing ChatOps Into SD-WAN To Simplify Operations (Sponsored) from 2021-12-13T20:39:12

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we discuss a new ChatOps feature in Palo Alto’s Prisma SD-WAN. Engineers and administrators can query the SD-WAN controller from...

Tech Bytes: The Security Fabric Advantage With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2021-12-06T19:14:02

Today's Tech Bytes podcast is a security conversation--specifically security fabrics or ‘security mesh’ architectures: an integrated set of products that work together to help you manage risk in...

Tech Bytes: How Pluribus Automates Data Center Fabrics With SDN And BGP EVPN (Sponsored) from 2021-11-29T19:37:06

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about data center fabrics and BGP EVPN with sponsor Pluribus Networks. A BGP EVPN deployment can be a heavy lift, but Pluribus is here to talk about...

Tech Bytes: Why Customers Should Care About SASE Architecture (Sponsored) from 2021-11-22T18:36:51

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re diving into SASE, which provides firewalling, Web filtering, and more as a cloud-delivered service. Sponsor Palo Alto Networks is here to make that case tha...

Tech Bytes: Containerlab Makes Container And VM Networking Labs Easy (Sponsored) from 2021-11-15T18:30:20

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we discuss Containerlab, open-source software that lets you build virtual network labs on a server or even a laptop. It supports a variety of network OSs for netw...

Tech Bytes: Balancing Remote Work And Back-To-Office Priorities With AppNeta (Sponsored) from 2021-11-08T18:24:31

As forecasts vary between a full return to office and distributed work, IT organizations have to figure out how to monitor and manage work-from-anywhere. This Tech Bytes episode, sponsored by Ap...

Tech Bytes: Advania Chooses Apstra For Data Center Operations (Sponsored) from 2021-11-01T17:25:44

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Juniper, we talk with a customer of Juniper’s Apstra intent-based networking data center software. IT solutions provider Advania uses Apstra interna...

Tech Bytes: Cloud Agility, On-Prem Performance With Pluribus And ITRenew (Sponsored) from 2021-10-25T18:08:54

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about how to get cloud agility on premises. Our sponsor is Pluribus Networks, which makes data center SDN software. They’ve brought along partner IT...

Tech Bytes: What’s New With Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN 5.6 (Sponsored) from 2021-10-18T19:16:07

Today on Tech Bytes podcast we look at new features in Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE and Prisma SD-WAN, including digital experience management for home and branch users, new Cloudblades, a new...

Tech Bytes: Why Fortinet Zero Trust Works For You from 2021-10-12T14:41:52

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking Zero Trust Network Access, or ZTNA, with sponsor Fortinet. As organizations grapple with controlling end user access to applications and services, p...

Tech Bytes: Global Manufacturer Taps Aruba EdgeConnect For SD-WAN, WAN Optimization from 2021-10-04T15:01:43

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we look at a global SD-WAN deployment for manufacturing company IMMI, which makes vehicle safety products, including products for school buses and military vehicl...

Briefings In Brief 102: ZPE Systems Melds Universal CPE With Out-Of-Band Management from 2021-09-30T14:55:42

ZPE Systems presented at a recent Network Field Day. Founded in 2013, ZPE Systems focuses on two markets: providing out-of-band management for infrastructure, and providing universal CPE for rem...

Tech Bytes: Getting Performance Visibility Into The Last 6 Feet (Sponsored) from 2021-09-27T16:29:27

You’ve heard of the last mile problem. Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking problems with the last six feet. With work-from-anywhere becoming commonplace, one of the hardest challenges ...

Briefings In Brief 101: Juniper Wants To Wire Your Campus Fabric With Mist Cloud from 2021-09-23T15:08:05

Juniper Networks has announced a new wired campus fabric solution that uses EVPN VXLAN to create a fabric and ties in to the Juniper Mist Cloud for automation and management. Ed Horley and Drew ...

Tech Bytes: Operationalizing EVPN For Data Center Networks With Nokia (Sponsored) from 2021-09-20T21:08:27

On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Nokia, we dive into data center networking and EVPN. Nokia’s SR-Linux operating system can help you build a data center fabric with EVPN, and in this ...

Tech Bytes: Fortinet Secures Work-From-Anywhere With SD-WAN And ZTNA (Sponsored) from 2021-08-30T15:52:02

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we explore the evolution of SD-WAN to encompass Zero Trust Network Access, or ZTNA. Our sponsor is Fortinet and we’ll dig into how Fortinet’s SD-WAN and FortiClie...

Tech Bytes: DDOS and State Exhaustion With NETSCOUT – Updated from 2021-08-26T09:09:10

Its not widely that DDOS attacks also cause damage from state exhaustion in devices. A recent study why Netscout surprised me that many engineers are aware of overload bandwidth or routing devic...

Tech Bytes: How Kentik Enables Automated Performance Testing (Sponsored) from 2021-08-23T19:47:07

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we get into the automation of network performance testing and synthetic transactions. Our sponsor is Kentik and our guest is Avi Freedman, Kentik's CEO and co-fou...

Tech Bytes: DDOS and State Exhaustion With NETSCOUT from 2021-08-16T18:04:35

Its not widely that DDOS attacks also cause damage from state exhaustion in devices. A recent study why Netscout surprised me that many engineers are aware of overload bandwidth or routing devices ...

Tech Bytes: Pharma Distributor Ensures Uptime, App Performance With Aruba SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2021-08-09T14:29:21

Today on the Tech Bytes sponsored podcast we're talking SD-WAN with Ascent Health & Wellness, a digital healthcare platform for pharmaceutical distribution. We discuss how the company deplo...

Tech Bytes: Get IoT Context And Control With Aruba ESP (Sponsored) from 2021-08-02T15:58:05

Today's Tech Bytes podcast discusses how to get visibility into, and context for, all the IoT devices connecting wirelessly to your network. Our sponsor is Aruba, and we explore Aruba’s Edge Ser...

Tech Bytes: Protecting Public Schools With Fortinet’s Security Fabric (Sponsored) from 2021-07-26T20:14:31

In this Tech Bytes podcast we talk with Bill Pulte, CIO of the Educational Services Unit (ESU), which provides education services to public schools in Nebraska. Pulte uses multiple Fortinet prod...

Tech Bytes: Instrumenting For Hybrid Work With AppNeta (Sponsored) from 2021-07-19T19:16:51

On today's sponsored Tech Bytes episode, we talk with AppNeta about instrumenting application performance to support on-prem and remote employees in today's hybrid work environment. Our AppNeta ...

Tech Bytes: An IT Punch List For Reopening The Office (Sponsored) from 2021-07-12T18:52:02

If IT thinks it can take the office network out of mothballs and expect everything to be fine when employees show up, think again. On today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Netskope, guest Han...

Tech Bytes: What Telia Carrier’s 400G Expansion Means For Your WAN (Sponsored) from 2021-06-28T18:27:29

We talk global IP backbones and 400G with sponsor Telia Carrier on today's Tech Bytes podcast. The company offers IP services from multiple PoPs in the US and is making significant investments i...

Tech Bytes: Batteries Plus Powers Its Branches With Fortinet SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2021-06-21T19:01:26

Today's Tech Bytes podcast is an interview with Fortinet customer Batteries Plus, a retailer that specializes in batteries, chargers, and lighting, about its SD-WAN and SD-Branch deployments. Fo...

Tech Bytes: Digital Experience Management For Distributed Workforces (Sponsored) from 2021-06-14T15:06:35

Today's Tech Bytes podcast dives into Digital Experience Management, or DEM. With distributed and remote work becoming more accepted, IT orgs are looking for better ways to monitor and manage us...

Tech Bytes: Wi-Fi 6E – New Spectrum, New Opportunities (Sponsored) from 2021-06-07T18:02:41

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast dives into Wi-Fi 6E, the extended version of the Wi-Fi 6 standard that takes advantage of newly available spectrum in the 6 GHz band. We’re sponsored today by Aruba, a...

Tech Bytes: Why Sanitas Selected Aruba EdgeConnect As Its SD-WAN Solution (Sponsored) from 2021-06-01T13:43:46

On today's Tech Bytes podcast we speak with healthcare provider Sanitas on why the organization is replacing its existing SD-WAN vendor with Aruba EdgeConnect to provide network insights for vis...

Tech Bytes: Nokia’s Fabric Services System Simplifies Data Center Operations (Sponsored) from 2021-05-24T15:43:37

Today's Tech Byte explores a digital sandbox for fabric emulation. This unique feature is part of Nokia's Fabric Services System for automating and operating a data center fabric. Our Nokia gues...

Tech Bytes: Automating Network Troubleshooting With PathSolutions (Sponsored) from 2021-05-17T19:54:36

Today we’re talking about automating network troubleshooting. We’re sponsored by PathSolutions, maker of the TotalView network monitoring software. TotalView pulls in network and device data and...

Tech Bytes: Auto Dealer Takes Network Control With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2021-05-10T18:48:09

Frustrated by poor service from an MSP, the IT team at White Family auto dealers needed a more efficient way to connect locations while ensuring high performance and strong security to meet regu...

Tech Bytes: VMware vRealize Network Insight: App-Aware Network Monitoring And Assurance (Sponsored) from 2021-05-04T19:51:08

This Tech Bytes podcast explores the network assurance and verification feature in VMware's vRealize Network Insight network monitoring software. This feature builds a real-time model of your pr...

Tech Bytes: Rethinking Network Automation Using Nokia Fabric Services System (Sponsored) from 2021-04-26T15:49:38

Operating a data center fabric is a substantial challenge. Nokia Fabric Services System embraces automation to manage your data center fabric. In today's episode, sponsored by Nokia, we dive int...

Tech Bytes: Unifying Cloud Automation And Network Infrastructure With Gluware (Sponsored) from 2021-04-21T17:15:54

In this Tech Byte podcast, sponsored by Gluware, we explore the latest features and capabilities in the Gluware network automation and orchestration platform, including an API-based controller t...

Tech Bytes: Optimizing Performance And IT Support For Your Distributed Workforce (Sponsored) from 2021-04-19T19:45:52

On today’s Tech Bytes episode, sponsored by AppNeta, we explore how IT can optimize performance and support for a highly distributed workforce and develop a sustainable strategy for a Work From ...

Tech Bytes: New Prisma SD-WAN Features Improve Operations, Analytics (Sponsored) from 2021-04-12T20:56:04

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast explores new features in Prisma SD-WAN 5.5 from Palo Alto Networks, our sponsor for this episode. New features include event correlation and analysis, improved stats a...

Tech Bytes: Prioritizing Identity And Zero Trust Across The Network With Aruba (Sponsored) from 2021-04-05T19:45:16

On today's Tech Bytes, sponsored by Aruba Networks, we discuss the role of identity in security and why identity is a critical component of a zero-trust approach to network access. Our guest fro...

BiB100: Zero Trust With Araali Networks from 2021-04-02T20:28:21

Today’s briefing summary is about startup Araali Networks, one of the most interesting startups we’ve chatted with in a while. Abhishek Singh, CEO and co-founder, gave Ethan Banks and Drew Conry...

Tech Bytes: Inside The Latest SASE Features Of Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access 2.0 (Sponsored) from 2021-03-29T18:46:43

oday on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we dive into Prisma Access 2.0 and how it differs from the first-generation version. We talk about cloud-delivered security, Zero...

Tech Bytes: Automating Cloud Networks With Gluware (Sponsored) from 2021-03-22T15:30:24

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Gluware, we discuss automating cloud networks. Our guest is Mike Haugh, VP of Product Marketing. Mike takes us through how Gluware worked with a cus...

Tech Bytes: How Palo Alto Networks Differentiates Prisma SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2021-03-15T15:49:12

Palo Alto Networks sponsors today's Tech Bytes. We drill into key differentiators of the Prisma SD-WAN platform including its use of machine learning, the unique CloudBlades offering, and its ap...

Tech Bytes: Manufacturer Taps Fortinet SD-WAN For IT/OT Convergence (Sponsored) from 2021-03-08T19:40:01

Dutch manufacturer Wavin wanted to securely connect offices and factories. The company turned to Fortinet SD-WAN to support its cloud-first strategy and converge its IT/OT security requirements....

Tech Bytes: Law Firm Relies On Aruba EdgeConnect To Support Work-From-Anywhere (Sponsored) from 2021-03-01T15:12:57

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Aruba, we talk with Scott Shaw, Chief Technology Officer at law firm FordHarrison about his SD-WAN deployment. Shaw was able to retire legacy routers,...

Tech Bytes: Monitoring Remote Access VPN Performance With ThousandEyes (Sponsored) from 2021-02-24T20:21:06

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, we talk with sponsor ThousandEyes about monitoring remote access VPNs to get a clearer picture of connectivity and performance issues and to speed troubleshooting....

Tech Bytes: InterBank Invests In Aruba EdgeConnect To Speed Branch Performance (Sponsored) from 2021-02-22T17:38:24

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Aruba, dives into an SD-WAN deployment with InterBank. Guest Daniel Ruhl, Senior VP and Director of IT at InterBank, turned to Aruba's EdgeConnect SD-WAN...

Tech Bytes: MSSP Partners With Fortinet To Deliver Secure SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2021-02-15T13:00:10

Today's Tech Bytes podcast from the Packet Pushers is a conversation with Node4, a managed security service provider that's deploying and operating Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN for its customers. Fo...

Tech Bytes: Get Your Arms Around Network Changes With Infoblox’s NetMRI (Sponsored) from 2021-02-08T21:57:07

NetMRI from Infoblox is a network management tool with a variety of capabilities including device discovery and network topology mapping, configuration monitoring, change management, and more. W...

Tech Bytes: Aruba Fabric Composer Automates And Orchestrates Leaf-Spine Network Provisioning (Sponsored) from 2021-02-01T18:35:03

Today’s Tech Bytes dives into the Aruba Fabric Composer. This is data center software that can automate the provisioning of your network underlay and overlay, plus capabilities for orchestration...

BiB 075 : Looking at Cumulus NetQ 2 Announcements from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

NetQ Platform

* NetQ platform is the central platform that receives real-time telemetry data, providing visibility, network validation and trouble-shooting. The platform can run in a V...

Tech Bytes: How Arrcus Uses LSVR To Build Scalable Data Center Fabrics (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Today’s Tech Bytes episode explores the Link State Vector Routing (LSVR) protocol, an IETF draft standard that lets you use BGP to build a data center fabric.
Our sponsor is Listen

BiB 074: Replace iSCSI With NVMe/TCP From Lightbits Labs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The following is a transcript of the audio file you can listen to in the player above. Welcome to Briefings In Brief, an audio digest of IT news and information from the Packet Pushers, including v...

BiB 073: HammerSpace Data-as-a-Microservice For Kubernetes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The following is a transcript of the audio file you can listen to in the player above. Welcome to Briefings In Brief, an audio digest of IT news and information from the Packet Pushers, including v...

Tech Bytes: Nubeva Enhances Cloud Packet Broker With New Processing Capabilities (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On today’s Tech Bytes episode we talk with sponsor Nubeva about getting packet visibility in public clouds. Nu...

BiB 072: Automate Cloud Native Monitoring With Instana from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The following is a transcript of the audio you can listen to in the player above. Welcome to Briefings In Brief, an audio digest of IT news and information from the Packet Pushers, including vendor...

Tech Bytes: Leveraging Packets And Flows For NetOps And SecOps With VIAVI Solutions (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome to Tech Bytes, a short, sharp sponsored conversation about new products, emerging technologies, and all things IT.
Today we talk about the intersection of NetOps and SecOps and how ne...

Tech Bytes: Thousand Eyes Shares Lessons Learned From A CenturyLink Outage (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On today’s Tech Bytes, sponsored by ThousandEyes, we delve into the impacts of a 50-hour outage that CenturyLink suffered in December, 2018. We also discuss lessons everyone can take away fro...

BiB 071: SnapRoute CN-NOS For Whitebox Focuses On Operators from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Drew Conry-Murray & Ethan Banks were briefed by SnapRoute co-founders Adam Casella and Glenn Sullivan in February 2019. After a year plus of post-launch quiet, SnapRoute has re-emerged with a n...

BiB 070: Cisco Calls for US Privacy Laws from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It strikes me as unusual for Cisco to make social activist statements around privacy law...

BiB 069: Plixer’s FlowPro Shines A Light On Network Darkness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The following is a transcript of the audio podcast you can listen to in the player above. Welcome to Briefings In Brief, an audio digest of IT news and information from the Packet Pushers, includin...

Tech Bytes: Packet Visibility In Public Clouds With Nubeva Prisms (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On today’s sponsored Tech Bytes episode we explore Nubeva Prisms, a public-cloud packet broker.
With Nubeva Prisms you can get packet-level visibility into AWS and Azure (with GCP soon ...

Tech Bytes: Understanding Cisco’s Smart Net Total Care (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome to Tech Bytes, a short, sharp sponsored conversation on new ideas and ongoing issues in IT. Our sponsor today is Comstor, and we’re going to talk about Cisco’s Smart Net Total Care.
O...

BiB 068: Aporeto’s Identity Based Workload Segmentation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The following is a transcript of the audio file you can listen to in the player above. Welcome to Briefings In Brief, an audio digest of IT news and information from the Packet Pushers, including v...

Tech Bytes: How Silver Peak’s SD-WAN Helped Gentherm Beat Global MPLS Hassles from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Today’s Tech Bytes, sponsored by Listen

Tech Bytes: HPE’s Composable Fabric For Data Center Automation (Sponsored) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On today’s Tech Bytes, sponsored by HPE and Intel, we talk with Garth Reid about HPE’s Composable Fabric.



Composable Fabric, which came from HPE’...

BiB 067: Custom APIs For Business Logic With BlueCat Gateway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The following is a transcript of the audio report you can listen to in the player above.
Welcome to Briefings In Brief, an audio digest of IT news and information from the Packet Pushers, inc...

BiB 066: Why Cloud Visibility Matters from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The following is a transcript of the audio recording you can listen to in the player above. Welcome to Briefings In Brief, an audio digest of IT news and information from the Packet Pushers, includ...

BiB 065: Barefoot Networks Announces A New 12.8Tbps Tofino ASIC from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome to Briefings In Brief, an audio digest of IT news and information from the Packet Pushers, including vendor briefings, industry research, and commentary.
Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Mu...

Tech Bytes: Doing Better Than ‘Good’ Or ‘Bad’ For UX Metrics (Sponsored) from 2021-01-25T18:26:46

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by AppNeta, we talk about getting real-time monitoring in place so that you can clearly define your performance benchmarks, accurately measure them from ...

Tech Bytes: VMware’s vRealize True Visibility Suite Illuminates Dark Corners Of Your IT Stack (Sponsored) from 2021-01-20T19:42:16

On today's sponsored Tech Bytes podcast we discuss VMware's vRealize True Visibility Suite (TVS), an add-on that helps you understand transactions from the physical layer all the way through to ...

Tech Bytes: NetBeez Enables Active Monitoring For The Distributed WAN (Sponsored) from 2021-01-18T18:03:38

NetBeez provides network monitoring for the WAN, Wi-Fi, remote workers, and the cloud. On today's sponsored Tech Bytes, we discuss how NetBeez customer AmWINS Group uses NetBeez sensors in conju...

Tech Bytes: SD-WAN Helps Medical Imaging Company Get The Picture Faster (Sponsored) from 2021-01-11T18:28:55

This Tech Bytes podcast explores how SimonMed, a medical imaging company, turned to an SD-WAN deployment from Silver Peak to reduce image delivery time from minutes to seconds, improve performan...

Tech Bytes: Accelerating Cloud Applications With Riverbed’s Cloud SteelHead (Sponsored) from 2020-12-16T21:08:04

Today's Tech Bytes is a customer story with sponsor Riverbed. It’s a tale of latency and its impact on network performance when moving applications to cloud. Our guests from Riverbed are Aly Wal...

Tech Bytes: Securing Remote Work For 2021 And Beyond With Zscaler (Sponsored) from 2020-12-14T23:15:52

On today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Zscaler, we explore securing a distributed workforce for 2021 and further, the role of Zero Trust Access, how Zscaler secures access to applications r...

BiB099: Isovalent Brings You Cilium Enterprise from 2020-12-08T12:00:31

Isovalent is essentially a commercially supported flavor of Cilium, although it’s more than that. Isovalent is offering Cilium Enterprise, which adds more capability to the Cilium Community proj...

Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes Expands Visibility Into Modern App Architectures (Sponsored) from 2020-12-02T17:04:16

Today's Tech Bytes peers into cloud visibility with sponsor ThousandEyes. The company is improving its platform with multi-service views, Internet and hybrid cloud visibility, SD-WAN monitoring,...

Tech Bytes: Automating Troubleshooting With Riverbed (Sponsored) from 2020-11-25T16:19:07

Today's Day Two Cloud Tech Byte, sponsored by Riverbed, looks at how Riverbed is using ML and AI to enable more automated troubleshooting. Our guest is Chris Eckert, Technical Solutions Architec...

Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Pushes For The Next Generation Of SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2020-11-23T21:34:14

On today's Tech Bytes, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we discuss advances in Palo Alto's CloudGenix SD-WAN capabilities, explore two new SD-WAN appliances, and talk about where the technology ...

Tech Bytes: Pluribus Rethinks Open Networking For Better Programmability, TCO (Sponsored) from 2020-11-20T20:31:31

Today's Tech Bytes dives into Pluribus Networks’ Linux-based Netvisor ONE OS for white box switches. We also discuss Pluribus’ Adaptive Cloud Fabric, a distributed, controllerless SDN solution f...

Briefings In Brief 098: Cisco Tetration Enables Microsegmentation And App Dependency Mapping from 2020-11-18T18:13:45

Cisco Tetration enables microsegmentation and application dependency mapping for on-premises and cloud applications. This Briefings In Brief explores essential details on Tetration, including ho...

Tech Bytes: Protecting Remote Workers From VPN Risks With Zscaler (Sponsored) from 2020-11-16T18:52:05

Many companies use VPNs to protect their distributed workforce. But VPNs present their own security challenges, from compromised clients to insecure VPN servers. Sponsor Zscaler explains how its...

Tech Bytes: Getting The Benefits Of Proactive Network Monitoring With Riverbed (Sponsored) from 2020-11-11T16:36:07

Today's Day Two Cloud Tech Bytes is all about proactive network monitoring with sponsor Riverbed. The goal of proactive network monitoring is to see and respond to an emerging issue before it be...

Tech Bytes: Nation-Wide Dentistry Network Chooses Integrated SD-WAN, SD-Branch, Security With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2020-11-09T22:49:46

Today’s Tech Bytes, sponsored by Fortinet, explores an SD-WAN deployment with Smile Brands, a nation-wide network of dental practices. Smile Brands started with one SD-WAN product and then switc...

Tech Bytes: First Bank’s Automation With Gluware. The Real Story. from 2020-11-03T15:43:50

In this Tech Byte, we talk with Gluware customer, First Bank. First Bank is a family-owned, privately held bank operating in the Midwest and California, with roughly 100 locations in 5 different...

Tech Bytes: How VMware Uses Machine Learning To Optimize vSAN (Sponsored) from 2020-10-28T17:38:23

Today's Tech Bytes welcomes sponsor VMware to talk about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are being put to use to optimize vSAN clusters as part of the vRealize AI Cloud service....

Tech Bytes: Construction Firm Improves Job Site Productivity With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2020-10-26T18:02:59

Today's Tech Bytes, sponsored by Silver Peak, is an SD-WAN conversation with Rogers-O’Brien Construction. We’ll talk about how this construction company relies on SD-WAN to enable fast, high-per...

Tech Bytes: Integrating Automation And Whitebox With Apstra And SONiC (Sponsored) from 2020-10-19T22:00:23

Today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Apstra, dives into the integration between Apstra’s AOS data center automation platform and the SONiC Enterprise distribution, a Dell-supported version o...

Tech Bytes: Providing Secure Work-From-Anywhere With Zscaler (Sponsored) from 2020-10-09T20:14:13

For many organizations it’s now incumbent on IT to provide a seamless, secure experience for end users whether they’re working from home, in the office, or anywhere. On today's Tech Bytes podcas...

Tech Bytes: NetMotion Integrates VPNs With The Software Defined Perimeter from 2020-10-05T18:55:19

Today's Tech Bytes, sponsored by NetMotion Software, explores how NetMotion integrates client VPNs with more modern approaches, including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and the Software Define...

BiB097: VMware’s Future In The Cloud-Native Era from 2020-10-02T18:07:42

Kit Colbert is the VP & CTO, Cloud Platform BU at VMware. In this briefing, Drew Conry-Murray and Ethan Banks reflect on a Zoom conversation they had with Kit during VMworld 2020. The conte...

Tech Bytes: Fortinet’s SD-WAN Is Good Medicine For Healthcare Provider’s Video App (Sponsored) from 2020-09-28T20:21:36

Urgent care company PM Pediatrics relies on SD-WAN from Fortinet to provide the performance and security to support real-time voice and video applications as well as other critical apps, and to ...

Tech Bytes: Dell Technologies With Intel Partner To Deliver An Innovative Microsoft Azure Stack HCI (Sponsored) from 2020-09-23T19:36:30

Today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Dell Technologies, examines an Azure Stack HCI offering from Dell EMC. Dell worked with Intel and Microsoft to optimize the performance and scale of the ...

Tech Bytes: AppNeta And Performance Visibility Over The Last Mile (Sponsored) from 2020-09-14T19:30:54

Today’s Tech Bytes episode is sponsored by AppNeta, and we’re going to discuss how companies can get performance visibility for end users now that many people are working from home and connectin...

Tech Bytes: Balancing Remote Access Security And User Experience (Sponsored) from 2020-09-07T13:00:35

Today’s Tech Bytes sponsor is secure remote access company NetMotion Software, and we’re going to talk about how to achieve secure remote access without compromising on user experience. Our gues...

Tech Bytes: UCT’s Global WAN Performance Sparkles With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2020-08-31T16:36:49

Today's Tech Bytes is a conversation with Silver Peak customer UCT about how it adopted SD-WAN to boost performance and minimize the downtime of critical business applications. With 21 sites in ...

Tech Bytes: Protecting Remote Workers With NetMotion’s Software-Defined Perimeter (Sponsored) from 2020-08-17T15:59:04

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast examines the challenge of securing remote workers with sponsor is NetMotion. We explore the difficulties of getting visibility into what remote workers are up to, and ...

Tech Bytes: Fortinet’s SASE Is More Than Just The Cloud (Sponsored) from 2020-08-03T19:40:45

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is an emerging market category. On today's Tech Bytes episode, we examine SASE with sponsor Fortinet, including how Fortinet's flexible consumption model differ...

Tech Bytes: Intent-Based Networking And The Evolution Of Automation (Sponsored) from 2020-07-13T18:23:45

Today's Tech Bytes dives into Intent-Based Networking (IBN) as an evolution of network automation. Apstra is our sponsor for this episode and our guest is Mansour Karam, fouder and President. We...

BIB096 Considering KPIs For Network Operations from 2020-07-01T17:20:19

I was asked what Key Performance Indicators would I consider for an operational data network. I spent an hour coming up with ideas and here they are.  

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BiB095 – On New and Old Normal in IT Infrastructure from 2020-06-29T15:38:43

There was not an 'old normal' and there won't be a 'new normal'. Don't be fuddled about this.

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BiB094 – HPE Discover Greenlake and Ezmeral from 2020-06-24T12:48:08

      HPE Greenlake Common cloud platform – pivot to “edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company” cloud services, software and customer experiences. Greenlake i...

Tech Bytes: Improving IT Operations With Aruba’s AIOps (Sponsored) from 2020-06-15T15:57:34

Today's Tech Bytes Podcast, sponsored by Aruba, discusses the AI capabilities in Aruba’s new Edge Services Platform or ESP; in particular, we explore Aruba's AIOps offering, and how artificial i...

Tech Bytes: Solving Common Network Issues With Apstra’s Intent-Based Networking (Sponsored) from 2020-06-11T14:23:17

Today's Tech Byte episode, sponsored by Apstra, delves into solving common network problems with Intent-Based Networking (IBN), including how a customer used Apstra AOS to troubleshoot an EVPN i...

Tech Bytes: Payomatic Cuts Costs, Revamps WAN With Fortinet Secure SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2020-06-08T15:58:22

Today’s Tech Bytes episode, sponsored by Fortinet, explores an SD-WAN deployment with PAYOMATIC, a lending company in NYC. We talk about how PAYOMATIC cut costs by migrating off MPLS, and how Fo...

Tech Bytes: Improving NPM And Threat Management With Enriched Flow From VIAVI Solutions (Sponsored) from 2020-06-01T18:03:08

Today's Tech Bytes podcast dives into using enriched flow--that is, flow records enhanced with logs and data from sources such as firewalls and directories--to improve your network performance m...

Tech Bytes: SolarWinds Boosts VoIP Performance, Development Productivity With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2020-05-25T11:00:38

On today’s Tech Bytes we talk with SolarWinds about how the company boosted VoIP performance, improved end user experience, sped up the transfer of massive files, and increased development produ...

Tech Bytes: Accelerating Cloud Connectivity With Megaport (Sponsored) from 2020-05-11T22:56:40

Megaport provides global cloud connectivity, data center interconnect, and Internet exchange peering. On today's sponsored Tech Bytes podcast, we talk about the services Megaport offers, and how...

Tech Bytes: IT Accountability In The Age Of Network Transformation (Sponsored) from 2020-04-29T13:09:12

Welcome to the Tech Bytes podcast from the Packet Pushers. AppNeta is our sponsor, and we’re going to talk about IT accountability in the age of network transformation. More and more application...

Tech Bytes: Network Verification – Smarter Network Ops With Forward Networks (Sponsored) from 2020-04-20T19:26:52

Forward Networks builds a real-time software model of your data center network that you can use to verify intent, test changes, and speed troubleshooting. Forward is sponsoring this Tech Bytes e...

Tech Bytes: Improving QoE With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2020-04-13T19:48:31

Our sponsor today is Silver Peak, and we’re talking about how to improve QoE using SD-WAN with their customer C&S Wholesale Grocers, the largest wholesale grocer in the United States. Our g...

BiB093: Declare A K8s Stack With Spectro Cloud from 2020-04-09T21:14:54

The following is a transcript of the audio you can hear in the player.

Welcome to Briefings in Brief from the Packet Pushers. I am Ethan Banks, and I had a briefing on April 6, 2020 with ...

BIB092 – 6Ghz Wireless Spectrum, Unlicensed Access with US FCC from 2020-04-08T18:37:12

The US FCC has announced its intention to release the 6Ghz spectrum for unlicensed use in an upcoming vote. This is surprising since its most often sold to the highest bidder for large sums.
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Tech Bytes: Gain Application Fluency Across Multiple Clouds With Oracle SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2020-04-06T14:52:31

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast tackles SD-WAN with our sponsor Oracle. We examine how SD-WAN enables and supports multi-cloud management, fail-safe network automation, more secure connections, an...

BiB091: Rancher Open Source K8s Management Releases 2.4 from 2020-04-03T19:56:36

The following is a transcript of the audio you can hear in the podcast player above.

Welcome to Briefings In Brief. I had a briefing with Rancher on March 26th, 2020 about their 2.4 relea...

Tech Bytes: Using HashiCorp’s Terraform Cloud For Collaboration And Governance (Sponsored) from 2020-04-01T17:18:38

Terraform Cloud, from HashiCorp, is a SaaS-based service that provides governance, auditing, a...

Tech Bytes: Four Phases Of Scaling Your Remote Workforce With Viavi Solutions (Sponsored) from 2020-03-30T17:42:46

As more employees work from home, organizations are struggling with the rollout and support of large, remote work forces. On today’s Tech Bytes podcast we walk through the four phases of scal...

BiB090 – Deploying a 10000 user VPN in a Month from 2020-03-26T13:33:14

Robin Gilijamse deployed a 10000 user remote working VPN in about 4 weeks. We briefly discuss the design and some lessions learned from the project.

 



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Tech Bytes: Getting Visibility Into The End User Experience With AppNeta (Sponsored) from 2020-03-23T18:05:46

Welcome to Tech Bytes, a quick dose of conversation on compelling ideas and technologies. Today we’re going to discuss getting visibility into the end user experience with sponsor Listen

BiB089 Why Coronavirus Pandemic Could Ignite Cloud Repatriation from 2020-03-17T16:32:30

I had a quick chat with Mike Dvorkin after we had a twitter interaction about whether the Coronavirus could impact the much touted public cloud transition. I&#8217;m not sure we solved the prob...

Tech Bytes: Aviatrix Tackles Multi-Cloud Networking (Sponsored) from 2020-03-16T18:30:41

Welcome to Tech Bytes, a quick dose of conversation about what’s new and compelling in networking. Today’s sponsor is Aviatrix and we’re going to talk about multi-cloud networking, including how to...

Tech Bytes: Measuring End User Experience Of SaaS And Web Apps With ThousandEyes (Sponsored) from 2020-03-09T16:00:38

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast explores end user experience with sponsor ThousandEyes. ThousandEyes off...

Tech Bytes: Is SDN A Revolution Or An Evolution Of Traditional Networks? (Sponsored) from 2020-03-02T17:07:01

Welcome to Tech Bytes. Our sponsor today is CodiLime, which provides network engineering and professional services. We’...

Tech Bytes: Getting A Full-Fidelity View Of Network Security With Riverbed (Sponsored) from 2020-02-24T19:57:24

On today’s Tech Bytes we discuss the essential role that visibility plays in network security. Riverbed is our ...

Tech Bytes: Engineering Firm Builds Better End-User Experience With SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2020-02-17T13:36:27

J-U-B Engineers, Inc. is a civil engineering company with nineteen offices in seven states.

The company relies...

BiB 088: Mastering Python Networking Third Edition by Eric Chou from 2020-02-14T20:32:42

Eric Chou, author of Master Python Networking Third Edition, discusses what’s new in this edition of the book. He touches on a thorough update to Python 3, a new section on Azure, and additio...

BiB 087: NRE Labs Relaunches With New Automation Training Content from 2020-02-12T20:58:44

NRE Labs is a web site that offers free online training in automation for networkers and infrastructure engineers. While ...

Tech Bytes: Solving SaaS Performance Problems With Riverbed (Sponsored) from 2020-02-10T18:39:31

How do you manage the performance of SaaS applications such as Office 365 and Salesforce when you don’t own the applications or the networks they run across?

On today’s Tech B...

Tech Bytes: Forward Networks Lets You Query Your Network Like A Database (Sponsored) from 2020-02-03T19:30:56

Welcome to Tech Bytes. Today we’re discussing the Network Query Engine from sponsor Forward Networks.

Fo...

Tech Bytes: Conquering Hybrid Network Complexity With Riverbed (Sponsored) from 2020-01-27T17:46:59

On today’s Tech Bytes episode we have a conversation about conquering hybrid network complexity with sponsor Riverb...

Tech Bytes: Reviewing 2019’s Most Impactful Internet Outages With ThousandEyes (Sponsored) from 2020-01-20T18:00:26

Today’s show looks back at some of the most impactful Internet outages of 2019 with sponsor ThousandEyes. We’ll discuss what happened in these outages, who was affected, and lessons learned.
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Tech Bytes: Cushman & Wakefield Taps Silver Peak SD-WAN For Cloud-First Goals (Sponsored) from 2020-01-13T17:06

Cushman & Wakefield is a real estate and property management company with offices in 70 countries around the world.

As the company adopts more SaaS and PaaS services, it needed to ret...

BiB086 – Space Networks, 5G and Autonomous Cars from 2020-01-06T20:29:39

Based on what we know about Space Networks like Starlink, I propose that next generation cars won’t use 5G. Its doesn’t make sense to deal with telcos when cars are mostly outdoors, hav...

BiB085 – Data Driven Infrastructure – Is that a thing ? from 2020-01-02T19:56:24

Software Defined Infrastrcture has changed the way we operate networks but little impact on the process of design or decision making. Doing the same old thing better isn’t enough, enter Data ...

Tech Bytes: Fortinet Taps ASICs To Accelerate SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2019-12-16T17:52:56

SD-WAN is the topic for today’s Tech Bytes conversation with sponsor Fortinet.

If you...

Tech Bytes: Vitec Group Transforms Its WAN With Silver Peak’s SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2019-12-09T17:57:25

Silver Peak is our sponsor for this Tech Bytes episode, and we’re talking SD-WAN with their customer, the Vitec Gr...

BiB084 – Public Clouds Are Proprietary and Dont Care About You from 2019-12-06T15:34:32

I was hosting a panel for ONUG London this week and this was the topic of discussion.



Enterprise are signalling that they believe in multi-cloud. It is a problem that multi-clo...

Tech Bytes: Arista Targets Cloud-Native Networking With CloudEOS from 2019-12-02T20:21:38

Cloud networking can be opaque and complex. If your organization has workloads running in multiple clouds, your network operations team has to deal with the individual quirks and idiosyncrasies of ...

Tech Bytes: SolarWinds’ APM Tools Work Together To Help IT Solve Application Problems (Sponsored) from 2019-11-25T18:09:46

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast looks at Application Performance Management (APM) with sponsor SolarW...

BIB 084 Keysight Ixia Visibility and Testing from 2019-11-25T17:23:18

Keysight took a different approach to this Tech Field Day briefing and spent a lot of time talking about the current state of networking threats and the events that you are protecting against. If y...

BiB083 – Forescout – Visibility For Segmentation from 2019-11-22T18:05:49

Forescout is a Network Access Control company that has been successful in the large US companies. Its not a company that has come to my attention in the last 10 years so I’m fresh to the whol...

Tech Bytes: The Whys And How Of Decrypting Internal Traffic With ExtraHop (Sponsored) from 2019-11-18T18:27:40

Today’s topic is traffic decryption, particularly how and why to do it for security and operations purposes. In particular, we look at decrypting traffic running within the enterprise data center.<...

Tech Bytes: Enabling Agility And Security With Tufin Policy Automation (Sponsored) from 2019-11-12T19:01:47

On today’s Tech Bytes, our sponsor is Tufin, and we’re going to dig into the concept of agility in the enterpris...

Tech Bytes: Monitoring 100Gbps Circuits With AppNeta (Sponsored) from 2019-11-04T22:30:36

As the throughput on WAN circuits ramps up, organizations may struggle to monitor performance and the end user experience.

On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, we talk with sponsor Listen

Tech Bytes: How ExtraHop Leverages Cloud-Native Traffic Mirroring For Security (Sponsored) from 2019-10-21T15:59:55

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by ExtraHop, explores networking and the public cloud. Yes, you...

Tech Bytes: Implementing Sensible Network Segmentation With Tufin (Sponsored) from 2019-10-15T22:39:59

Today’s Tech Bytes episode, sponsored by Tufin, explores network segmentation, why organizations need it, and how to implement sensible segmentation even as networks get more complex.
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Tech Bytes: MidSouth Bank Invests In Network Performance, Visibility With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2019-10-07T17:16:26

MidSouth Bank serves Louisiana and Texas with 49 branches and nearly two billion dollars in assets.

When Daniel Hereford joined the bank as SVP and CIO, the organization was transitioning...

BiB082 – LPWANs, Amazon Sidewalk and Apple U1 Wideband from 2019-10-01T11:20:10

Amazon Sidewalk is a SDWAN-based LPWAN over internet using their extensive device portfolio as nodes in a new service. Apple U1 Wideband uses radio technology to improve device tracking, location s...

Tech Bytes: The Value Of Software Quality With Arista Networks (Sponsored) from 2019-09-30T16:58:05

You’re listening to Tech Bytes, a short, sharp sponsored conversation where we grab a technology or concept and see how much juice we can squeeze out of it in about 15 minutes.

Our sponso...

Tech Bytes: Oracle And The Failsafe SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2019-09-16T14:07:26

You’re listening to Tech Bytes from the Packet Pushers, a 15-minute podcast that gives you a quick but comprehensive look at products and technologies in the real world.

Today’s sponsor i...

Tech Bytes: Applying Cloud Principles To Networking With Big Switch Networks (Sponsored) from 2019-09-03T15:39:41

The cloud is a set of design principles, not a location. Those design principles can be applied to the data center and data center networks.

That’s the gist of today’s Tech By...

Tech Bytes: Big Switch Brings Visibility, Control To Cloud Networking (Sponsored) from 2019-08-26T15:54:46

On today’s sponsored Tech Bytes episode, we talk with Big Switch Networks about new products for hybrid and multi-cloud networking.

The company recently announced:


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BiB 081: 128 Technology Rethinks The WAN Router from 2019-08-01T20:04:24

Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray were delegates at a recent Networking Field Day Extra to hear f...

Tech Bytes: Healthcare Provider Cures Performance, Security Ills With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2019-07-29T17:57:53

Tennessee Oncology, a partner of OneOncology, is a healthcare provider that offers cancer care at more than 30 locations in Tennessee.

With multiple sites and critical business apps that ...

Tech Bytes: AppNeta Blends Network Data, Synthetic Transactions For Performance Visibility (Sponsored) from 2019-07-22T15:37:04

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by AppNeta, delves into the challenges of monitoring remot...

BiB 80: CloudGenix Cloudblades from 2019-07-01T02:00:18

Cloud Genix SDWAN launches a series of third party integrations aka “CloudBlades”



* SDN federation – cloudgenix will integrate with a range of third party SDN...

BiB 079: Edgeworx Gives Kubernetes Edge Computing Awareness from 2019-06-28T23:01:59

Drew Conry-Murray and Ethan Banks had a briefing with a startup called Edgeworx on June 24th, 2019. You can read their highlights of the Kubernetes-related news Edgeworx shared below, or listen to ...

Tech Bytes: Intent Engineering And Intelligent Networking With Gluware (Sponsored) from 2019-06-24T19:20:30

Gluware’s network automation platform lets you start automating your current environment with quick ...

Tech Bytes: Network Automation In Multi-Vendor Environments With Anuta ATOM (Sponsored) from 2019-06-19T22:56:29

Today’s Tech Bytes episode is sponsored by Anuta Networks. Anuta makes network automation ...

Tech Bytes: Security Policy Orchestration And Automation With Tufin (Sponsored) from 2019-06-17T23:01:58

Welcome to Tech Bytes, a sponsored conversation on new and emerging ideas and products in IT.

Our sponsor today is Listen

Tech Bytes: Network And Performance Monitoring With NetBeez (Sponsored) from 2019-06-03T15:29:48

Today on Tech Bytes we welcome sponsor NetBeez, w...

Tech Bytes: UK Retailer Revitalizes In-Store Experience With Silver Peak SD-WAN Platform (Sponsored) from 2019-05-20T09:57:47

On today’s Tech Bytes, sponsored by Silver Peak, we talk with homeware retailer Dune...

BIB 078 Solo.io and Super Gloo from 2019-05-16T22:21:53

Solo is building a group of abstractions on service mesh to make them useful. 

You see, the problem with cloud is that you lose the control of the networking. The abstraction of the netwo...

Tech Bytes: SnapRoute’s NOS Targets The Intersection Of NetOps And DevOps (Sponsored) from 2019-05-13T19:21:45

Today we welcome sponsor SnapRoute for a Tech Bytes conversation. SnapRoute makes the CN-NOS, or the Cloud Native Ne...

BiB 077: Attend Gluware Intent ’19 With The Packet Pushers In NYC On May 14, 2019 from 2019-05-02T10:00:46

Gluware Intent is a live event we’re holding in NYC on May 14, 2019. Come hang out with the Packet Pushers, the Gluware team, and customers to learn about practical network automation.
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BiB 076: Versa Titan: SD-WAN As A Service, Or Do It Yourself from 2019-05-01T19:04:32

You’re listening to Briefings in Brief from the Packet Pushers, an audio digest of IT news and information, including vendor briefings, industry research, and commentary.

I’m Drew Conry-M...