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NB459: IBM Aims To Own The Quantum Realm; Amazon Hitches A Ride With SpaceX from 2023-12-11T16:04:38
Today on Network Break we cover IBM's new quantum processor and modular quantum computer and its effort to own the next generation of computing. We also cover Cisco's AI assistant for firewalls,...
ListenHN713: Network Automation: Where Are We, And Where Can We Go? from 2023-12-08T16:53:13
Today’s show is roundtable conversation on the state of automation in the networking industry. We discuss takeaways from the recent AutoCon event on network automation, and get into issues such ...
ListenD2C223: Accelerating VM Performance With Azure Boost from 2023-12-06T19:24:19
Azure Boost is a hardware offload of Azure virtual machines designed to improve VM performance. On today's Day Two Cloud we dig into how it works. We also talk about how to implement security in...
ListenHN712: FortiGuard Security Services: Invisible Operations, Tangible Results (Sponsored) from 2023-12-05T22:20:37
Fortinet turns its on-prem and cloud security devices into a sensor network that collects threat intelligence across the globe. That intelligence then feeds those devices and services with new u...
ListenHS060 Power Micro-Generation for Data Center from 2023-12-05T14:00:26
Powering data centres is big deal in current decade. Massive increases in consumption and scaling of off-prem clouds has exceeded the capacity of civilian power grids while cloud operators are r...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNB458: Broadcom Debuts On-Chip Neural Net, Lays Off VMware Staff; Okta Breach Gets Worse from 2023-12-04T16:10:05
Today's Network Break discusses a new Trident ASIC with an on-chip neural net inference engine, Broadcom staff cuts at VMware, more bad news from an Okta breach, financial results, and more.
... ListenHN711: Get Cloud-Like Operation Of Your Data Center With Juniper Apstra And Terraform (Sponsored) from 2023-12-01T20:46:49
Today on Heavy Networking, sponsored by Juniper, we’ll talk about how Juniper’s Apstra software can help you operate your on-prem data center more like a public cloud; meaning service provisioni...
ListenKU042: Kubernetes Long-Term Support With Kubernetes Co-Founder Brendan Burns from 2023-11-30T21:57:18
As Kubernetes becomes more mainstream and overall “stable,” organizations need a way to get both enterprise support and proper upgrade paths. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes, joins the s...
ListenIPB140: IPv6 CLAT And IPv6-Only Networks from 2023-11-30T19:04:09
Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss the Customer-Side Translator (CLAT) function and its role in enabling client connectivity in IPv6-only networks.
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D2C222: What’s New In Azure Networking (Sponsored) from 2023-11-29T15:41:56
Today's Day Two Cloud discusses how Azure's use of hollow core fiber will impact customers, building networks to support AI workloads, the general availability of Virtual Network Manager, routin...
ListenHS059 Cognitive Load and Platforms from 2023-11-28T17:32:11
Special guest David Stengel shares his unique perspective on the cognitive load of platforms in organizations, and the challenges of getting things done even when using tools that abstract workl...
ListenHW016: How mDNS Can Kill Wi-Fi Performance And What To Do About It from 2023-11-28T15:59:52
If you’re not paying attention to mDNS traffic, it might be hurting your Wi-Fi performance in a big way. Bryan Ward shares his research looking at the mDNS protocol on a higher ed network and it...
ListenNB457: Broadcom, VMware Tie The Knot; Nvidia SuperNICs Target AI Ethernet Acceleration from 2023-11-27T20:14:44
Broadcom clears the last hurdle to close its $69 billion purchase of VMware, but what comes next? Nvidia debuts a SuperNIC to accelerate Ethernet for AI workloads, China and India advance their ...
ListenTech 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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D2C221: KubeConversations Part 2 – Building Cloud Platforms from 2023-11-22T15:04:38
Ned Bellavance continues his KubeCon conversations with Akamai about cloud-native design and its impact on cloud architecture, Acorn Labs about building a cloud platform, F5 about the networking...
ListenNB456: China Flexes Tech Muscles With 1.2Tb Backbone; Will CISOs Mitigate Risk Or Liability? from 2023-11-20T15:59:51
China demonstrates the strength of its home-grown technology industry by announcing a 1.2Tbit Internet backbone that stretches 3,000 kilometers, Fortinet warns of a 9.8 severity bug in its SIEM ...
ListenHN710: The Future Of Networking With Brad Casemore – Part 2 from 2023-11-17T18:34:50
Analyst Brad Casemore offers his takes on the rise of zero trust, the influence of geopolitics on IT, what's driving the need for visibility and observability on prem and in the cloud, and wheth...
ListenKU041: Running Kubernetes On Nomad from 2023-11-17T00:21:57
In this episode, Michael, Kristina, and Adriana Villela discuss the challenges and benefits of running Kubernetes on Nomad. Adriana shares her experience of using Nomad in a data center, highlig...
ListenIPB139: Avoiding Typical IPv6 Pitfalls from 2023-11-16T16:32:46
Network engineers and architects considering IPv6 can benefit from the experiences of those who have gone before them by avoiding the problems that have bedeviled other deployments. On today's s...
ListenD2C220: KubeConversations Part 1 – Platform Engineering from 2023-11-15T16:57:23
Welcome to a special edition of Day Two Cloud. Host Ned Bellavance traveled to KubeCon NA 2023 and spoke to vendors and open source maintainers about what's going on in the cloud-native ecosyste...
ListenHW015: What Every Wi-Fi Pro Needs To Know About Private LTE from 2023-11-14T18:35:17
Private LTE and Wi-Fi use a lot of overlapping skills but there are also some key differences that Wi-Fi pros need to be aware of.
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NB455: Extreme Announces ZTNA Offering; Palo Alto Networks Spends Big On A Browser Startup from 2023-11-13T23:57:03
Extreme Networks is jumping into Zero Trust Network Access, Palo Alto Networks is reportedly spending more than half a billion dollars to acquire a corporate browser startup, and Forrester predi...
ListenTech 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...
ListenKU040: Kubernetes Autoscaling Magic – Cost Control In Gen AI And LLMs With CAST AI (Sponsored) from 2023-11-10T18:52:22
In this sponsored episode of Kubernetes Unpacked, we dive into the importance of cost and resource optimization with CAST AI. The truth is, it’s not just about saving money. The goal is ensuring...
ListenHN709: Protecting Data, Apps With Cloud DLP And CASB (Sponsored) from 2023-11-10T09:00:19
Cloud environments often have poor visibility and monitoring, and controlling access to sensitive corporate data is difficult. We speak with sponsor Palo Alto Networks about how it integrates CA...
ListenD2C219: Building A Multi-Cloud Network With A Cloud-Native Approach (Sponsored) from 2023-11-08T15:32:28
What if you could have a multi-cloud network that was cloud-native, but you didn’t have to know the nitty-gritty details for each of the clouds? That is, you work with a single cloud network int...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNB454: Is Bad InfoSec Now Securities Fraud? from 2023-11-06T16:25:25
On today's Network Break we discuss potential repercussions for security executives after the SEC charges Solar Winds' CISCO with fraud, examine a new SD-LAN offering from Versa Networks that ai...
ListenHN708: The Future Of Networking With Brad Casemore – Part 1 from 2023-11-03T18:36:20
The Future of Networking series continues with Brad Casemore, who survived multiple decades in the technology sector, including sixteen years as an analyst for IDC. He's been a longtime observer...
ListenKU039: Prepping For KubeCon North America 2023 from 2023-11-02T19:54:49
Grab a rundown of what to expect at KubeCon NA this year as Kubernetes Unpacked co-host Michael Levan prepares to hit the conference floor.
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IPB138: Making Sense Of DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation (DHCPv6-PD) from 2023-11-02T14:56:48
DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation (DHCPv6-PD) is an IETF RFC that lets a router delegate a long-lived prefix, using DHCP, to a requesting router. The hosts discuss how this is used today both by service ...
ListenD2C218: What’s Inside The AI Magic Box? from 2023-11-01T14:50:31
AI and machine learning are being more widely used in IT and elsewhere. Today's episode opens the AI magic box to better understand what's inside, including software and hardware. We discuss ess...
ListenHW014: Exploring Wireless Automation From Python To APIs from 2023-10-31T16:31:59
Two Wi-Fi engineers share their experiences automating wireless workflows, including the role of Python & tools like Postman.
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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. ...
ListenNB453: Cisco Invests In Quantum Networking; SmartNIC Sales Surge; Intel Unplugs Another Business from 2023-10-30T15:01:33
Today's episode includes Cisco patching a critical vulnerability affecting IOS-XE gear, startup Prosimo releasing a cost calculator to help network engineers track their public cloud networking ...
ListenHN707: Getting Real With Selector’s AIOps (Sponsored) from 2023-10-27T18:30:20
AI and machine learning are finally being applied to networking in meaningful ways. On today's sponsored show we talk with Selector about its AIOps platform, which ingests networking logs, flows...
ListenHS058: Are We Pausing The Technology Cycle? from 2023-10-26T15:43:22
Today we debate its technoloyg is reaching a stable phase. Greg argues that we are in a period of stability, citing resistance to change and a slowdown in advancements. Johna believes that the r...
ListenD2C217: Building Successful Security Operations – Blue Teaming And Beyond from 2023-10-25T16:19:13
On today's Day Two Cloud we talk about how to build a successful security practice within your organization. Our guest is Swathi Joshi, VP, SaaS Cloud Security at Oracle. She breaks down securit...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNB452: Cisco Makes You Feel Vulnerable; Broadcom 25.6Tbps Routing ASIC Targets Custom Silicon; China Mandates IPv6 from 2023-10-23T15:11:44
This week's IT news podcast covers a serious Cisco exploit against IOS XE, new firewalls from Juniper, Broadcom's hopes to capture the routing market with merchant silicon, more movement on rest...
ListenHeavy Networking 706: The GitNops Approach To Collaborative Network Automation from 2023-10-20T16:06:47
Today’s Heavy Networking is about collaborative automation via GitNops, which applies DevOps principles to networking. That means things like version control, working with sources of truth, oper...
ListenKU038: The Kubernetes Dev Experience In 2023 from 2023-10-19T15:10:52
On today's Kubernetes Unpacked podcast, Michael and Kristina catch up with Arsh Sharma, Developer Experience Engineer at Okteto. Arsh dives into the key aspects to consider for incorporating a p...
ListenIPB137: Running IPv6 At An Internet Exchange from 2023-10-19T14:20
On today's IPv6 Buzz, we talk with Jason Gintert of the Ohio Internet Exchange about what's involved with running an IX and where IPv6 fits in to the picture. We also discuss Jason's work with t...
ListenD2C216: Implementing Private AI Architecture With VMware (Sponsored) from 2023-10-18T18:10:40
The goal of private AI is to bring AI models and compute to where your data is stored to ensure privacy and control. On today's Day Two Cloud, sponsored by VMware, we dig more deeply into privat...
ListenHeavy Wireless 013: A University Perspective On Operating Wi-Fi And Testing Vendors from 2023-10-17T15:57:28
On today's Heavy Wireless episode, Keith Parsons speaks with UMass Amherst CTO Jim Mileski on the history of Wi-Fi at the school. They discuss initial challenges of rolling out wireless, strateg...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 451: Making A Ruckus About Wi-Fi 7; Arista Announces 25G Layer 1 Switches; AWS To Require MFA from 2023-10-16T15:27:56
This week's Network Break covers a new set of Layer 1 switches from Arista for high-frequency trading, Ruckus announcing a (pre-ratified) Wi-Fi 7 AP, and AWS planning to require multi-factor aut...
ListenHeavy Networking 705: Evolving From Python To Platforms For Network Automation (Sponsored) from 2023-10-13T16:41:55
Today on Heavy Networking we talk about how to get from a handful of Python scripts to a network automation platform that enables a self-service environment and incorporates the checks and gover...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 037: Improving The Developer Experience With Continuous Deployment (Sponsored) from 2023-10-12T15:12:02
In this sponsored episode of the Kubernetes Unpacked podcast, Kristina and Michael are joined by Adam Frank, SVP of Product and Marketing at Armory, to discuss the role of continuous deployment ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 215: Highlights From The Edge from 2023-10-11T15:03:37
Today's Day Two Cloud covers highlights from a recent Edge Field Day event. Ned Bellavance was a delegate at the event and will share perceptions and insights based on presentations from the eve...
ListenHS057 Technical Debt from 2023-10-11T12:15:25
In this podcast episode, Johna and I discuss the concept of technical debt. We provide different definitions of technical debt, with me focusing on the inability to switch solutions easily and J...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 450: Cisco, Nutanix Announce HCI Gear; HPE Aruba Releases Wi-Fi 6e Sensor; Amazon Ships Test Satellites Into Orbit from 2023-10-10T15:55:03
This week's Network Break covers new HCI gear from the Cisco/Nutanix partnership, a sensor to detect Wi-Fi 6e performance, Intel financial engineering, Amazon shipping test satellites for a spac...
ListenHeavy Networking 704: Roundtable Redux: Blaming The Network; Containerlab Love; 400G Envy from 2023-10-06T20:00:57
Today's Heavy Networking is another roundtable episode. We've assembled a group of network engineers to talk about what's on their minds. Topics today include why other IT departments adn end us...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 036: What The Heck Is Ingress? from 2023-10-05T18:15:56
There are a lot of moving parts to Kubernetes. In today's Kubernetes Unpacked, we get into Ingress with guest Whitney Lee. Whitney breaks down her thoughts on Ingress, how she learned it, and ho...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 136: IPv6 And Zero Trust Architecture from 2023-10-05T13:01:40
In this episode Tom and Scott explore Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), where it aligns (and doesn't) with IPv6, and what the future might hold for both technologies.
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Day Two Cloud 214: Preparing People, Teams, And Infrastructure For Automation from 2023-10-04T15:15:19
Welcome to Day Two Cloud. If you want your journey to infrastructure automation to be successful, you have to prepare for that journey. On today's show we talk about how to lay the groundwork fo...
ListenHeavy Wireless 012: Why Wireless Pros Should Get To Know LoRaWAN from 2023-10-03T17:19
LoRaWAN is a wireless protocol that's well suited for use cases that require long-range, low-power operations such as sensors, asset and livestock tracking, municipal "smart city" initiatives, a...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 449: Amazon Invests $4 Billion In AI Startup; Will Small Modular Reactors Power Public Clouds? from 2023-10-02T15:19:11
Today's Network Break, with guest host Johna Till Johnson, discusses why Amazon is pouring $4 billion into a generative AI startup, Marvell's response to accusations of an NSA-friendly backdoor ...
ListenHeavy Networking 703: Integrating ZTNA And SASE With Palo Alto Networks (Sponsored) from 2023-09-29T18:02:30
Today’s Heavy Networking, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, discusses Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) across the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). You could think of ZTNA, as VPN evolved and SA...
ListenDay Two Cloud 213: Get Application Visibility And Governance For Your K8s Clusters With Lens AppIQ (Sponsored) from 2023-09-28T15:08:21
Welcome to Day Two Cloud! Today we talk with sponsor Mirantis about Lens AppIQ. If you've started using Kuberentes and you've got multiple clusters supporting many applications, Lens AppIQ help ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 212: Cloud Essentials – Object, File, And Block Storage from 2023-09-27T17:12:16
Day Two Cloud continues the Cloud Essentials series with cloud storage. We focus specifically on AWS's offering, which include object, file, and block storage options. We also discuss special fi...
ListenHeavy Strategy 56: FU to the Followup from 2023-09-27T13:36:58
Taking your feedback and followup and discussing the questions you bring us. Zero Trust Defintions, Out of Band in Zero Trust, Johna and/or Greg is/are insufferable and re-evaluating the Tech Jo...
ListenNetwork Break 448: Cisco Splashes Out $28 Billion For Splunk; OpenTofu Is Vegetarian Alternative To Terraform from 2023-09-25T15:07:20
On today’s Network Break, Greg Ferro is joined by guest co-host Brad Casemore. You can follow Brad on his blog Crepuscular Circus. Greg and Brad discuss new capabilities in Juniper’s...
ListenHeavy Networking 702: Supporting Network Automation With The Pandas Python Library from 2023-09-22T17:27:26
Today's Heavy Networking covers Pandas. Not the cuddly bears that eat bamboo, but the Python library that makes it easy for you to work with a set of data. Import Pandas at the top of your Pytho...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 035: Chaos Engineering In Kubernetes And The Litmus Project from 2023-09-21T20:19:12
In today's Kubernetes Unpacked, Michael and Kristina catch up with Prithvi Raj and Sayan Mondal to talk about all things Chaos Engineering in the Kubernetes space! We chat about the open source ...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 135: Making Sense Of IPv6 Address Formatting from 2023-09-21T20:05:10
Today's IPv6 Buzz episode dives into the topic of IPv6 address formatting, the do's and don'ts of representing an IPv6 address, and what guidance RFC 5952 provides for representing these very lo...
ListenDay Two Cloud 211: Cloud Security Acronym Soup With Jo Peterson from 2023-09-20T16:00:34
Today on Day Two Cloud we go deep on new areas of cloud security that you may not be familiar with. There are forces out there that are driving the rise of new security tools and processes, and ...
ListenHeavy Wireless 011: How You Can Participate In The Wi-Fi Awards 2023 from 2023-09-19T15:22:52
The Wi-Fi Awards is an industry effort to recognize excellence and achievements in the wireless community. There are award categories for companies, products, and individuals. Award recipients a...
ListenNetwork Break 447: Cisco Chases AI Ethernet Fabrics With New Silicon One ASICs; Nokia Announces Routers With Custom Silicon from 2023-09-18T14:44:49
Today on Network Break we get a plethora of networking news, including Cisco rolling out new custom Ethernet switch ASICs to compete for AI fabrics. Nokia announces new routers also boasting cus...
ListenHeavy Networking 701: Monitoring SD-WAN At Scale With Broadcom (Sponsored) from 2023-09-15T15:24:56
Our topic today on Heavy Networking is SD-WAN monitoring at massive scale. Scale can grow quickly with SD-WAN when you account for the underlay, overlays, gateways, endpoints, and more. We talk ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 210: Can Network Automation Catch Up To The Cloud? from 2023-09-13T17:05:18
On today's Day Two Cloud we discuss the state of network automation and whether and how it can catch up to automation in the public cloud. We look at network automation challenges, define bound...
ListenHeavy Networking 700: Rethinking Networking and Security For The Campus And Branch With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2023-09-12T17:28:10
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we talk with Fortinet about how it converges network and security across the breadth of its portfolio. Fortinet is best known for its firewalls, but the com...
ListenHS055 Cloud Is Not The Only Future ? from 2023-09-12T10:26:27
A special guest today, Keith Townsend joins Johna Greg to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing compared to on-premises infrastructure. We start by clarifying the definitio...
ListenNetwork Break 446: Microsoft’s Series Of Unfortunate Events; Huawei’s 7nm Chip Gives US The Middle Finger from 2023-09-11T16:06:13
This week on Network Break we dig into Microsoft's post-mortem of an attack that led to the theft of emails from multiple US government agencies, discuss Huawei rolling out a new 7nm chip despit...
ListenHeavy Networking 699: Connecting Multicloud Kubernetes Clusters With Virtual Application Networks from 2023-09-08T15:38:41
Virtual Application Networks, or VANs, are today’s Heavy Networking topic. Our guest is Ted Ross, motive force behind the Skupper.io project. Skupper builds VANs in Kubernetes clusters that are ...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 034: Platform Engineering And Internal Development Platforms On Kubernetes from 2023-09-07T23:04:57
On today's Kubernetes Unpacked, Michael and Kristina catch up with Roberth Strand, Principal Cloud Engineer at Amesto Fortytwo to talk about all things Internal Developer Platform (IDP) on Kuber...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 134: Revisiting Unique Local Addressing At The IETF from 2023-09-07T13:56:12
In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, Ed, Scott, and Tom bring Nick Buraglio back on to the show to discuss IPv6 Unique Local Addressing and the latest activity at the IETF to attempt to address both pr...
ListenDay Two Cloud 209: Cloud Essentials – Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) from 2023-09-06T18:27:48
Today's Day Two Cloud kicks off an occasional series on cloud essentials. For the first episode we discuss the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). A VPC is an fundamental construct of a public cloud. I...
ListenHeavy Wireless 010: Using Drones In Your WLAN Consulting from 2023-09-06T14:59:36
Drones can be a useful tool for outdoor wireless surveys. Drones can help an engineer figure out the best place to mount a radio, get line of sight between points, confirm antenna orientation, a...
ListenHeavy Networking 698: Integrating Edge Networking And Compute With VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (Sponsored) from 2023-09-05T20:06:31
On today’s Heavy Networking we explore the edge. But where is the edge? In today's conversation with sponsor VMware, it's a remote location where data is being generated. It could be end users i...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 445: Juniper Pairs With ChatGPT, Microsoft To Unpair Teams In The EU from 2023-09-05T14:09:27
Today on Network Break we discuss Juniper integrating ChatGPT with its AI digital assistant, Microsoft's plan to unbundle Teams in the EU to fend off regulators, financial results from soon-to-b...
ListenHeavy Networking 697: Getting Operational Visibility Into The Networks That Matter (Sponsored) from 2023-09-01T15:43:50
In today's sponsored Heavy Networking we explore new features in Cisco Thousand Eyes, an operational tool based on visibility and observability of public and private network. Thousand Eyes has c...
ListenDay Two Cloud 208: HashiCorp Licensing Changes And The Day Two Cloud-Chaos Lever Crossover from 2023-08-30T15:27:14
Today on Day Two Cloud we dive into the implications of licensing changes that HashiCorp has made to its popular Terraform software. In short, the company has switched from an open source to a b...
ListenHS054 Matching IT and Corporate Culture from 2023-08-29T16:54:17
Are you interested in learning more about aligning technology choices with organizational goals? Our podcast has got you covered! Listen now to explore the importance of technology alignment wit...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 444: NVIDIA Mines GPU Gold; VMware Wants To Sell You Private AI; SUSE Prepares To Go Private from 2023-08-28T19:15:44
Take a Network Break! On today's episode we discuss two announcements from VMware Explore 2023: a private AI offering, and a revamped NSX for public and private cloud networking. We also discuss...
ListenHeavy Networking 696: EVPN Fundamentals (And Some VXLAN) With Tony Bourke from 2023-08-25T16:35:46
EVPN/VXLAN is our topic on today's Heavy Networking. What is it? What’s it for? Should you deploy it? Since you’ve probably already got a network, how do you add EVPN to it? Do you need special ...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 133: Getting Familiar With IPv6 Multicast from 2023-08-24T16:00:06
In this episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss IPv6 multicast, what it is, how it differs (and doesn't) from its IPv4 counterpart, and how it's used in production.
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Kubernetes Unpacked 033: Platform Engineering And The CNCF White Paper from 2023-08-24T13:38:28
In today's episode, Michael and Kristina catch up with Saim Safdar to chat about a recent white paper on platform engineering from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Saim dives into n...
ListenHeavy Wireless 009: Ham Radio For Wi-Fi Folks from 2023-08-22T17:10:45
In this podcast episode, Keith Parsons, Glenn Kate, and Lee Badman discuss the intersection of ham radio and Wi-Fi. Glenn and Lee share their personal experiences and involvement in both fields....
ListenNetwork Break 443: Nuclear DCs, Mobile Cars, Fibrechannel, Open Source And Cheese from 2023-08-21T11:05:08
We’ve got more durm and strang in open source license debate, cars that don't work wihtout a network, something mumble something Fibrechannel, a security acquisition by Check Point, cheesy micro...
ListenHeavy Networking 695: Automating Network And Firewall Operations With BackBox (Sponsored) from 2023-08-18T16:30:18
On today's Heavy Networking we explore network and firewall automation with sponsor BackBox. BackBox has developed a platform that aims to deliver practical automation out of the box. We get un...
ListenDay Two Cloud 207: Making Sense Of SSE, SASE, And SD-WAN from 2023-08-16T14:39:35
On today's Day Two Cloud we examine the similarities and differences among SSE and SASE, which provide cloud-delivered security; and SD-WAN, which can provide connections to these services. We a...
ListenNetwork Break 442: HashiCorp Swaps Open Source For BSL; Open Enterprise Linux Goes After RHEL from 2023-08-14T15:32:57
Today on Network Break we discuss big moves in open source, including HashiCorp switching from an open source license to "business source" and Red Hat competitors banding together to offer an al...
ListenHeavy Networking 694: A Network Engineering Roundtable from 2023-08-11T16:00:47
This week on Heavy Networking we've assembled a roundtable of network engineers to talk about...stuff. Each guest has brought a topic to discuss with the table, so we've got lots of subjects and...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 032: AI Use Cases For Kubernetes from 2023-08-11T15:05:03
On today's Kubernetes Unpacked we speak with Evis Drenova about whether AI has a role to play in the Kubernetes ecosystem. We discuss everything from using chat-based generative AI tools to inte...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 132: Down The Rabbit Hole Of IPv6 Router Advertisements from 2023-08-10T15:55:44
In this episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom get technical with a discussion of IPv6 Router Advertisements (RAs), what they are, what they're for, what information they contain, new and future RA options...
ListenDay Two Cloud 206: Making The Most Of Red Teaming With Gemma Moore from 2023-08-09T14:57:13
Red teams attack a customer's security systems. The idea of a red team, whether consultants or in-house, is to approach the target like an attacker would. A red team includes technical and human...
ListenHeavy Wireless 008: 3D Printing For Wireless Engineers from 2023-08-08T18:05:11
3D printing is a popular activity among wireless network engineers. Given that they deal with invisible, intangible radio waves all day, maybe it's no surprise they'd enjoy making things they ca...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 441: AWS Makes You Pay For IPv4; Superconductor Claims Meet Resistance; An Ultra Ethernet Q&A from 2023-08-07T15:37:56
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss new charges for IPv4 addresses being levied by AWS, Cisco's acquisition of a BGP monitoring service, and financial results for a host of tech companies...
ListenHeavy Networking 693: Securing Workforce Transformation With Cloud SWG (Sponsored) from 2023-08-04T16:48:14
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we dig into cloud-delivered Secure Web Gateways (SWGs), which help guard end users against Web-based threats and enforce corporate Web access policies. As e...
ListenDay Two Cloud 205: States Of Quantum Computing With Abby Mitchell from 2023-08-02T16:04:40
Today's Day Two Cloud peers inside the box of quantum computing. We explore how it works, what qbits are and why they matter, the current state of quantum computing hardware, what problems could...
ListenHS053 IT Facilities in 2023 from 2023-08-02T14:57:33
The use of physical infrastructure has changed substantially in the last three years. Data centres are scaling down, offices and branches are being re-considered. One view is that offices are ‘p...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 440: Broadcom Releases SONiC-Friendly Trident; Senator Requests Investigations Into Microsoft’s Shoddy Security from 2023-07-31T15:18:33
On this week's Network Break we discuss a new Broadcom ASIC, a request from US Senator Ron Wyden to three US agencies to investigate Microsoft for sloppy security practices, an Intel pledge to a...
ListenHeavy Networking 692: Implementing Practical Network Automation – With Tony Bourke from 2023-07-28T15:41:36
If you’ve been staring down the barrel of network automation and wonder what the proper approach might be, today’s episode is for you. The Packet Pushers chat with Tony Bourke about what network...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 131: Why Bother With IPv6 When Everyone’s Using NAT? from 2023-07-27T19:40:27
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast riffs on a question raised in a Reddit thread that asks why you should use IPv6 when NAT exists. Tom, Ed, and Scott provide answers, and also discuss the complicated ro...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 031: Is Kubernetes Getting Boring? from 2023-07-27T13:48:04
In today's Kubernetes Unpacked, Kristina and Michael talk about whether Kubernetes is getting boring, and how elements such as service mesh, security-centric CNIs, and movements such as GitOps, ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 204: Deploying Cloud-Delivered Security With Cisco Secure Access (Sponsored) from 2023-07-26T17:52:09
On today's Day Two Cloud we get inside Cisco Secure Access, a new set of cloud-delivered security services from Cisco. We discuss the security capabilities on offer, the service's architecture a...
ListenHeavy Wireless 007: Why Networking And Security Convergence Is Important For Wireless Pros (Sponsored) from 2023-07-25T20:51:24
Wireless pros sit at the intersection of networking and security. On today's Heavy Wireless, sponsored by Fortinet, Keith Parsons and guest Ben Wilson discuss this convergence, why visibility in...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 439: Ethernet Gets Ultra Injection For AI; Huawei Climbs The Patent Charts from 2023-07-24T17:59:40
This week on Network Break we discuss the launch of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium and its intention to revamp Ethernet to support AI and HPC workloads. We also cover NOS startup Arrcus pulling i...
ListenHeavy Networking 691: Why OOB Infrastructure Is Critical For IT Ops&Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored) from 2023-07-21T20:08:34
On today’s Heavy Networking podcast, we look at how sponsor ZPE Systems is rethinking Out-Of-Band management for automated, NetOps-driven infrastructure. This includes tasks like device staging,...
ListenDay Two Cloud 203: Becoming An SRE – It’s More Than Just Software Skills from 2023-07-19T15:52:14
If you want to be a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you need strong software skills. You also have to be versed in observability, incident response, capacity planning, change management, perform...
ListenHS052 Professional Liability and Qualified Design from 2023-07-18T12:23:19
As technology becomes more critical and vital to companies business leaders are beginning to question the reliability and liability. Insurers now require audits and demand complienace with set p...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 438: Intel Abandons NUC; EU Blesses Broadcom/VMware Union; Microsoft Joins SSE Race from 2023-07-17T15:45:09
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Intel walking away from the NUC PC, Microsoft rebranding Azure AD and launching an SSE offering, and Microsoft Exchange Online getting hacked. We also ...
ListenHeavy Networking 690: LACP Is Not Link Aggregation – With Tony Bourke from 2023-07-14T17:40:14
On today’s Heavy Networking we talk LACP and link aggregation. While bonding two or more links together to act as a single virtual link has been done for decades, LACP and link aggregation aren'...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 030: What’s Up With WASM? – With Nigel Poulton from 2023-07-13T15:00:01
In this episode of Kubernetes Unpacked, Michael and Kristina catch up with with Nigel Poulton, an independent consultant, trainer, and content creator to discuss what Web Assembly (WASM) is, why...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 130: Routing With Link-Local Addresses from 2023-07-13T14:03:07
In this IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom get technical (and maybe a little controversial) with a discussion about using IPv6 link-local addresses instead of globally scoped addresses (e.g.,...
ListenDay Two Cloud 202: How Azure Embraces Terraform For Infrastructure As Code from 2023-07-12T15:14:11
On today's Day Two Cloud, we talk with Microsoft about how it's embracing Terraform to make it Azure-friendly, including the Terraform Export Tool, the AzAPI Provider, and a Terraform on Azure c...
ListenHeavy Wireless 006: Building Sustainable, Efficient Backhaul Networks With Ceragon Networks (Sponsored) from 2023-07-11T17:38:24
Today's Heavy Wireless episode explores building sustainable and efficient backhaul networks with sponsor Ceragon Networks. We discuss the challenges of backhaul, the complementarity of wireless...
ListenHS051 Things I Wish I’d Known Back When from 2023-07-11T09:22:38
Oft-asked question that doesn't have a right answer. We discuss non-convential answers that career coaches or self-help twaddle won't give you.
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Network Break 437: Ethernet Turns 50; TSMC Imports Workers For Arizona Fab; BT, HPE Partner On Managed LAN from 2023-07-10T20:05:35
On today's Network Break, Greg Ferro wishes Ethernet an unhappy birthday, HPE and BT want to manage your LAN, TSMC brings in Taiwanese workers to build new fabs in Arizona, Nokia touts new Fixed...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 689: Prepping For Certification Exams With Mary Fasang from 2023-07-07T19:14:47
Certifications are a part of life in IT. On today's Heavy Networking we explore preparation strategies with guest Mary Fasang. Her certs run the gamut from CompTIA to MCSE to the CCNP, as well a...
ListenDay Two Cloud 201: Building A Product That Uses LLMs from 2023-07-05T20:35:25
Today we talk about Large Language Models (LLMs) and writing products and applications that use LLMs. Our guest is Phillip Carter, Principal PM at Honeycomb.io. Honeycomb makes an observability ...
ListenNetwork Break CCCCXXXVII: Summer Holiday Special! from 2023-07-03T10:00:06
This bonus episode of Network Break discusses a new free tier of Prosimo's multi-cloud networking offering, the latest ThousandEyes acquisition, new SEC problems for SolarWinds, and a million-do...
ListenHeavy Networking 688: Packet-Level Fundamentals With Chris Greer from 2023-06-30T17:36:56
Packet-level fundamentals are essential for network engineers to be able to diagnose and solve network and application problems. On today's Heavy Networking, we dive into the transport layer and...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 029: Kubernetes And Certifications For Product Managers from 2023-06-29T21:03:31
In this episode, Michael catches up with Anton Smith, Head Of Product at Spectro Cloud. This episode goes outside of the standard engineering conversation and into a conversation of why it makes...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 129: IPv6 Architecture And Subnetting With Daryll Swer from 2023-06-29T15:39:04
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast gets into IPv6 architecture and subnetting including how geography fits into IPv6 subnetting, minimum allocation sizes from the RIR to end-users, whether current RIR po...
ListenDay Two Cloud 200: Coaching For Accidental (And On-Purpose) Managers from 2023-06-28T18:03:32
Going from a tech role to manager is more than just a new gig---it's a full-blown career change. On today's Day Two Cloud we talk with management coach Steve Dwire about a manager's primary resp...
ListenHS050 The Tech Job Debacle from 2023-06-28T13:47:32
Google, Microsoft, Twitter, META/FB and a few others laid off an estimated 200,000 tech and tech-adjacent folks in recent weeks. Other companies like Fedex and Amazon have made layoffs, many imp...
ListenHeavy Wireless 005: How To Build A Wi-Fi Community With Ferney Munoz from 2023-06-27T22:49:19
Have you ever wanted to build a community of professionals in your field, but didn't know where to start? In this episode of the Heavy Wireless podcast, Keith Parsons interviews Ferney Munoz, fo...
ListenHN687 Juniper CORA Coherent Optics Enabling IPoDWDM from 2023-06-27T13:20:24
Its about reducing the cost and complexity of DWDM coherent optical networks. Connecting the DWDM network directly to your router removes the DWDM edge equipment which simplifies operation, redu...
ListenNB436: Cisco AI Silicon, DEM. HPE Greenlake AI LLM. FCC Talks Bandwidth Caps. from 2023-06-26T10:22:25
Cisco announces AI Networking versions of SIlicon One ASICs and buys another DEM business. HPE Greenlake adds AI LLM. FTC talks bandwidth caps. Google accusing Microsoft of monopolistic behavio...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNB435: Your FUs, VMware takeover, DPU News and Cooling is Toxic from 2023-06-19T09:09:01
FU, vendors co-operating ? Google ditches something, Quantum computing, the state of AMD DPUs. Finally liquid cooling is toxic due to PFAS are 'forever chemicals'.
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Heavy Networking 686: Juniper Cloud-Native Contrail Networking CN2 (Sponsored) from 2023-06-16T14:48:23
Today we’re going deep on software-defined networking for containers and OpenStack with sponsor Juniper Networks. Juniper has revamped its approach to secure networking for telcos and telco clou...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked Episode 028: K8s Consulting-A Journey Of Discovery And Burnout from 2023-06-15T20:37:26
In this episode of the Kubernetes Unpacked podcast, co-hosts Michael Levan and Kristina Devochko interview David Flanagan, a Kubernetes consultant, about his experience running his own consultan...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 128: Cisco Enabling IPv6 In The Enterprise (Sponsored) from 2023-06-15T19:44:09
There's only going to be one episode 128 of IPv6 Buzz, and this is it. In this Cisco Country Digital Acceleration Program sponsored episode, co-hosts Ed Horley and Scott Hogg talk with Pradeep K...
ListenDay Two Cloud 199: Platform Engineering With Suzanne Daniels from 2023-06-14T20:01:49
Welcome to this episode of Day Two Cloud! Today, we'll be diving into the world of platform engineering and internal developer portals. Our special guest, Suzanne Daniels, Developer Relations Le...
ListenHeavy Networking 685: Opengear With Zero Trust Approach in the Out of Band (sponsored) from 2023-06-14T13:26:29
Remote operation of infrastructure has renewed importance in the era of remote working. Opengear offers secure, zero trust and segmented methods to reach serial & LAN ports plus GUI interfa...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Wireless 004: Vendor Agnostic Training with Peter MacKenzie from 2023-06-13T15:48:41
Host Keith Parsons speaks with Peter MacKenzie, a trainer and course developer in the wireless industry, about the importance of vendor-neutral training.
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Network Break 434: Cisco Licensing To Get Simpler, Bluecat Buys Again, Hashicorp Money Problems, and Itential Pops A Release from 2023-06-12T11:10:45
Take a Network Break: Drew is on holiday (again) and Ethan shows up. Who knew he was still around ? We start with FU, Cisco Live was underwhelming announcing a new focus simplicity and that cust...
ListenHeavy Networking 684: What To Do With Your E-Waste? from 2023-06-09T11:00:24
By some estimates, 50 to 70 million tons of e-waste is generated every year, and that number is growing. When sent to landfills to be buried or burned, e-waste can leach toxic chemicals into soi...
ListenHS049 Evanescent vs Enduring IT from 2023-06-07T16:12:09
IT organisations tend towards two strategic approaches - enduring, permanent and susatined. Or short term, consumable and fungible IT.
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Day Two Cloud 198: Modern Cloud Design Themes From CFD 17 from 2023-06-07T15:41:51
Today's Day Two Cloud explores some design themes that emerged from the Cloud Field Day event. These themes include platform engineering, data protection and recovery, and how to deal with the f...
ListenHeavy Networking 683: Palo Alto Networks Integrates AIOps Into ADEM For Faster Remediation (Sponsored) from 2023-06-06T11:18:40
On today’s Heavy Networking we have a conversation about monitoring, visibility, and observability with sponsor Palo Alto Networks. More specifically we’ll dig into Palo Alto Networks’ Autonomou...
ListenNetwork Break 433: NVIDIA Melds Switches, DPUs For AI Networking Fabric; FTC Says Amazon Ring Employee Spied On Female Customers from 2023-06-05T19:30:35
This week's Network Break discusses a new Google offering to interconnect public clouds, NVIDIA's platform for AI networking fabrics using Ethernet switches and DPUs, and Cisco's latest security...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 682: Automating Upgrades And Ensuring Compliance With BackBox (Sponsored) from 2023-06-02T18:08:43
If you’ve shied away from network automation because you’re a network engineer not a coder, fear not. There are network automation approaches that can help you get needful work done and don’t re...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 027: KubeCon EU 2023 Recap from 2023-06-01T15:30:56
In today's Kubernetes Unpacked podcast, Michael and Kristina chat about KubeCon EU, which took place in April 2023 in Amsterdam. They explore the latest and greatest technologies that are coming...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 127: IPv6 Security And Firewalls from 2023-06-01T14:17
In this episode, Ed and Tom interview Scott on the topic of IPv6 security and firewalls. This is one of Scott's many areas of expertise as he is the co-author of IPv6 Security from Cisco Press. ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 197: Understanding Decentralized Identity With Dr. Joanne Friedman from 2023-05-31T14:37:52
On today's Day Two Cloud we dive into Decentralized Identity, or DID. This W3C standard is a unique identifier, authenticated by cryptographic proofs, that individuals and organizations can gene...
ListenHeavy Wireless 003: Designing Eduroam For The Future With Mark Houtz from 2023-05-30T22:17:14
On today's Heavy Wireless, Keith Parsons talks with guest is Mark Houtz about designing Eduroam for the future, including the 6Ghz band. Mark explains the challenges of filtering Internet access...
ListenNetwork Break 432: DriveNets Aims To Make Ethernet AI-Friendly; China Goes Eye-For-An-Eye With US Over Tech Bans from 2023-05-30T21:32
This week we discuss a new offering from DriveNets that aims to make Ethernet more suitable as a network fabric for AI workloads, why the EU slapped Meta with a $1.3 billion fine, and a new offe...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 681: Under The Hood Of Formula 1 Networking from 2023-05-26T19:56:27
Modern F1 racing is bathed in data. Real-time vehicle telemetry. In-car video feeds. More video from camera crews and drones. Live streaming. All of this and more needs a network. On today's Hea...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 026: Data Backup And Recovery In Kubernetes from 2023-05-25T14:19:57
On today's Kubernetes Unpacked podcast, Michael and Kristina catch up with with Geoff Burke, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, to talk about running backups for Kubernetes, how to recover those ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 196: Peering Behind The Curtain Of Podsqueeze’s AI Podcasting Service from 2023-05-24T14:34:30
Today's show gets behind the curtain of a cloud service called Podsqueeze. Podsqueeze is an application that ingests audio and video files and then produces text-based output including a show de...
ListenHS048 Using Personal Product Branding To Be Better Paid Technology Engineer from 2023-05-23T12:47:43
Many business executives are incompetent scumbags and yet they managed to get the job and get paid serious money. What can technology engineers learn from these fools so that they get the same r...
ListenTech 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. ...
ListenNetwork Break 431: Juniper NAC Emerges From The Mist; New Google TLDs Are A Bad Idea from 2023-05-22T15:27:31
This week's Network Break looks at a new Network Access Control (NAC) offering from Juniper, plus a ChatGPT integration with Juniper's Marvis. Google debuts new Top-Level Domains that have secur...
ListenHeavy Networking 680: Speed Up Mean Time To WAN Innocence With Broadcom NetOps (Sponsored) from 2023-05-19T16:02:39
It's common for SD-WAN vendors to offer monitoring as part of the solution, but leaves the question … how do I monitor the rest of the network? Today’s sponsor Broadcom offers digital experience...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 126: What Employers Are Looking For With IPv6 Job Postings from 2023-05-18T13:50:54
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz, Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about what employers are looking for when IPv6 shows up in a job posting or as an interview question.
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Day Two Cloud 195: Planning For Post-Quantum Cryptography from 2023-05-17T17:52:03
Today's Day Two Cloud explores post-quantum cryptography and how to make your cryptographic secrets safe from quantum computers. We're looking at a time horizon of at least five or ten years, so...
ListenHeavy Wireless 002: Making The Transition To WPA3 With Jennifer Minella from 2023-05-16T15:01:18
On today's Heavy Wireless we discuss transitioning from WPA2 to WPA3, including pros and cons, managing the project, supporting WPA2 and WPA3 simultaneously, and more. My guest is Jennifer Minel...
ListenNetwork Break 430: Cisco Viptela Customers Have A Certifiably Bad Day; IT Crimes And Punishments from 2023-05-15T15:29:08
Take a Network Break! This week we cover some follow-up on Lumen. Then we dive into a massive Cisco blunder that let a digital certificate expire on some models of the Viptela SD-WAN appliance, ...
ListenHeavy Networking 679: Mountaintop Networking And Long-Haul Wireless from 2023-05-12T17:27:12
Today's Heavy Networking explores the challenges Wireless ISPs (WISPs) face when bringing services to locations without a lot of fiber in the ground. Those challenges include lining up radio ant...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 025: The Kubernetes Developer Experience from 2023-05-11T13:55:05
Michael Levan and Calvin Hendryx-Parker talk about their experience using Kubernetes, the pros and cons of the orchestration platform, and its impact on infrastructure engineers and developers. ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 194: Unpacking Flexera’s State Of The Cloud Report With Keith Townsend from 2023-05-10T14:24:16
When you're deep in the trenches of operating your cloud, sometimes it's helpful to step back and get a broader view of what's happening in the industry. On today's Day Two Cloud we explore the ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 429: Palo Alto Previews Azure Firewall; White House Chases AI Horse After It Escapes Barn from 2023-05-08T15:04:50
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a new Azure-native cloud firewall from Palo Alto Networks, why pharma giant Merck might be owed a big settlement from its cyber-insurers, and why HPE w...
ListenHeavy Networking 678: How Cisco Accelerates The IP/Optical Automation Journey (Sponsored) from 2023-05-05T18:52:44
On today's Heavy Networking we dive into the frameworks commonly used by service providers to tackle network slicing and traffic engineering challenges. We'll also talk their pros and cons, and ...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 125: Unique Local Addressing (ULA) And Other IPv6 Topics At IETF 116 from 2023-05-04T14:46:51
In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, Ed and Tom speak with Nick Buraglio, a network architect for the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). We discuss the recent IETF 116 meeting and what's new with IPv6, U...
ListenDay Two Cloud 193: Should You Get A Cloud Networking Cert? from 2023-05-04T13:30:56
On today's Day Two Cloud we explore cloud networking certifications. Who do these certs make sense for? Which clouds should you focus on? What do certifications typically cover? Where do third-p...
ListenHS047: Architect/Engineers/Operations, Career Progression and Liability from 2023-05-02T17:55:03
What are these roles and how do they fit into a strategy ? Who solves problems, designs solutions, and tests to make sure that’s workable ? How do we create/train people for these roles ? What a...
ListenHeavy Networking 677: US Networking User Association – Meetups For Network Engineers from 2023-05-02T13:00:28
You ever want a group of fellow networking nerds to hang with once in a while? The US Networking User Association might be exactly what you’re looking for. With local networking user groups popp...
ListenHeavy Wireless 001: Are We Ready For Wi-Fi 7? from 2023-05-02T10:00:55
Welcome to the Heavy Wireless podcast! For this inaugural episode we look at the Wi-Fi 7 standard (802.11be). With consumer products expected to ship in 2023, now's the time to explore what the ...
ListenNetwork Break 428: Arista Announces Cloud-Based NAC; Is Google Cloud Finally Making Money? from 2023-05-01T19:21:49
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a new NAC solution from Arista Networks, a new version of Central from HPE Aruba, and the latest version of NetBrain. We also cover a new XDR offering ...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenHeavy Networking 676: Implementing ZTNA And SASE With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2023-04-28T16:29:46
Fortinet is a security vendor most of you have heard of. But if all you think of when you hear the name “Fortinet” is firewalls, well yeah, but you should think more broadly. On today's sponsore...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 024: Day Zero Kubernetes With Kristina Devochko from 2023-04-27T14:35:05
In this episode, Michael catches up with Kristina Devochko, a Senior Software Architect to talk about Day Zero Kubernetes. Originally, Michael thought that it would be similar to Day One and Day...
ListenDay Two Cloud 192: OpenTelemetry – Getting From Visibility To Observability With Ben Hall from 2023-04-26T15:32:20
OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that brings together tools, SDKs, and APIs for collecting telemetry--that is, logs, metrics, and traces---in a standardized way. The goal of the project i...
ListenNetwork Break 427: Prosimo Launches Cloud-Native Networking Suite; Broadcom Stitches New Jericho ASIC For AI-Friendly Network Fabrics from 2023-04-24T15:33:37
Take a Network Break! This week we cover new cloud networking capabilities from Prosimo, discuss Broadcom's latest version of the Jericho ASIC which is being positioned for network fabrics for A...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 124: DHCPv6, SLAAC, And DNS – Getting IPv6 Addresses To Hosts from 2023-04-21T15:22:03
In this episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss how hosts OSes such as Windows, Apple, and Android automatically obtain both IPv6 addresses and DNS server information.
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Heavy Networking 675: Enabling Self-Service Automation&NetDevOps With Itential (Sponsored) from 2023-04-21T14:46:06
Today’s Heavy Networking podcast explores the concept of NetDevOps with sponsor Itential. The idea behind NetDevOps is to advance your network to the point where it’s self-service; that is, the ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 191: Modernizing Cloud Security And Optimizing Costs With Jo Peterson from 2023-04-19T14:48:50
Today's Day Two Cloud delves into cloud security and cloud cost optimization for SaaS and public clouds. Our guest is Jo Peterson. On the security front, we compare and contrast traditional on-p...
ListenHS046 What Do We Do About China ? from 2023-04-18T13:45:16
The new geopolitical reality means that China is part of IT Strategy. The supply chain is changing, joint ventures are limited and more.
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Network Break 426: NetBox Labs Raises $20 Million; Intel Foundry, Arm Team Up To Make SoCs from 2023-04-17T14:48:31
This week's Network Break discusses NetBox Labs's $20 million funding round and why it spun itself out of NS1's IBM acquisition, Intel Foundry and Arm teaming up on SoC manufacturing, why Amazon...
ListenHeavy Networking 674: IPv6 Essentials For Network Engineers – Think Abundance, Not Scarcity from 2023-04-14T18:35:20
On today’s Heavy Networking we get into IPv6 essentials for network engineers, including how to incorporate IPv6 support in upcoming projects, how IPv6 affects NAT and subnetting, what the heck ...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 023: Is Kubernetes Security The Same As Other Security? from 2023-04-13T19:41:41
Today's Kubernetes Unpacked discusses essential requirements to secure a Kubernetes environment.
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Day Two Cloud 190: Serious Public Clouds Invest In Infrastructure With Charles Fitzgerald from 2023-04-12T14:01:35
On today's Day Two Cloud we dive into how the public clouds spend their money and what IT and engineering folks can learn from those spending patterns. We also look at the notion of cloud repatr...
ListenHS045 Seize Opportunities for Modern IT Operations with VIA (Sponsored) from 2023-04-11T12:17:34
AIOps is been a buzzword but public generative AI and LLMs like ChatGPT mean there is a lot more awareness and demand. In todays sponsored show we are talking to Vitria about VIA AI Ops and how ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Wireless 000: Launching In May 2023 from 2023-04-10T19:05:17
Heavy Wireless is a new addition to the Packet Pushers podcast network. Well-known wireless expert Keith Parsons will be hosting the show. Subscribe now and be able to say "First!" when episode ...
ListenNetwork Break 425: Microsoft Adds Security Copilot To AI Squadron; Samsung Stung By ChatGPT Leaks from 2023-04-10T15:30:51
This week's Network Break examines Security Copilot, the latest AI-infused assistant in Microsoft's growing arsenal; discusses optical advancements from Arelion and Infinera that sent 400Gb wave...
ListenHeavy Networking 673: Multicast DNS Gone Wild On Your WLAN from 2023-04-07T18:26:46
You know all those Apple and other IoT devices connected to your wireless network? Lots of them run apps that discover services on your network via multicast DNS (mDNS). All of that mDNS traffic...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 123: Why You Need An IPv6 Security Plan from 2023-04-06T14:32:14
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast explores why you need a plan for IPv6 security. Even if you haven't actively deployed IPv6, you've got v6-enabled hosts on your LAN and remote workers connecting to you...
ListenDay Two Cloud 189: The Cloud Network Engineer Career Path With Kam Agahian from 2023-04-05T14:48:51
Today on Day Two Cloud we explore what it takes to transition from traditional networking to a career as a cloud network engineer. Guest Kam Agahian shares insights from his own career journey a...
ListenHS044 Is Digital Transformation Bollocks ? from 2023-04-03T16:00:02
So much wasted marketing on Digital Transformation. Was it all bollocks or was there something real underneath the bombast and hype ?
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Network Break 424: Amazon Invites Devs To Its Sidewalk Wireless Network; OneWeb Readies Global Satellite Internet Service from 2023-04-03T15:26:53
On today's Network Break podcast we cover Amazon opening its Sidewalk low-power IoT wireless network to developers, Cisco putting the expiration date on Prime Infrastructure, HAProxy adding QUIC...
ListenHeavy Networking 672: Overcoming Your Imposter Syndrome from 2023-03-31T15:44:27
Lots of folks suffer from impostor syndrome. Tech is complex--how could you know what you’re doing? And yet, many of us are responsible for incredibly complex IT systems. Fake it ‘til you make i...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 022: Kubernetes Networking And Abstraction With Cilium And eBPF from 2023-03-30T14:47:35
In this episode, Michael catches up with Stephane Karagulmez, Senior Solution Architect at Isovalent (founded by the creators of Cilium). Michael spent a lot of time working with Cilium, which i...
ListenDay Two Cloud 188: Out-Of-Band Management And Infrastructure Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored) from 2023-03-29T14:54:17
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk through out-of-band management network design with sponsor ZPE Systems. If your idea of OOB management is a jump box and some terminal servers, there’s a...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 423: Arista Woos Large Enterprises With New SD-WAN Router; Google Breaks Glass Enterprise from 2023-03-27T15:59:32
This week's Network Break covers Arista's new WAN routers that get the company into the SD-WAN market, debates whether Aryaka targeting SMEs is a sign of problems or opportunity, and discusses a...
ListenBriefings 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 671: Is ChatGPT Coming For Your Job? from 2023-03-24T15:31:13
On today's Heavy Networking we sub in a podcast from our Heavy Strategy channel. Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, discuss the impacts of ChatG...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 122: Using IPv6 Networks For IPv4 As A Service from 2023-03-23T18:40:04
On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast we explore the topic of using IPv6 networks to provide IPv4 as a Service (IPv4aaS). Enterprises may become more interested in IPv4aaS as they connect disparate servi...
ListenDay Two Cloud 187: The Back End Of Bear Blog With Herman Martinus from 2023-03-22T15:18:19
Today on Day Two Cloud we talk with developer Herman Martinus about his open-source blogging platform Bear. We talk about how a developer views infrastructure and operations, and how he went abo...
ListenHS043 Is The IT Team In The Service, Project or Product Business from 2023-03-21T14:16:53
Differences between project (disruption, replacement), service (smooth, continuous) and product (updates, changes) mean that process and people have very different approach to technology managem...
ListenNetwork Break 422: Microsoft Tasks Copilot To Do Your Drudge Work; Cisco Debuts A New Learning Platform from 2023-03-20T14:45:19
On this week's Network Break podcast 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 mark...
ListenHeavy Networking 670: The Challenges And Satisfactions Of Building And Running A Mastodon Instance from 2023-03-17T20:12:04
On today’s Heavy Networking I talk with two people who have built and are running Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance which orients itself towards technical-minded folks. What started as a cool proje...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 021: Catching Up With Windows Containers On Kubernetes from 2023-03-16T14:36:50
On today's Kubernetes Unpacked, Michael and guests explore Windows containers. A few years ago there was a lot of hype around Nano, which then morphed into Nano Server. We look at the current st...
ListenDay Two Cloud 186: A Day In The Life Of A Sales Engineer With Pete Robertson from 2023-03-15T14:51:55
Today's Day Two Cloud episode gets into sales engineering. IT pros may look down on sales for not being a strictly technical discipline, but it turns out there's more overlap between an engineer...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 421: Huawei Is Both In And Out Of German Networks; Hot-Desking Rubs Hybrid Workers Wrong from 2023-03-13T15:21:11
Take a Network Break! On today's episode we discuss a record quarter for switch sales, examine Germany's mixed signals about allowing Huawei gear in its networks, and debate whether employees' f...
ListenHeavy Networking 669: Graphiant’s Network Edge Service Rethinks SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2023-03-10T20:23:34
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsor Graphaint is here to discuss how it's rethinking SD-WAN using a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) model to help customers consume WAN connectivity instead of setti...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 121: Uncovering IPv6 Host Default Address Selection from 2023-03-09T15:35:13
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast explore the topic of default address selection with IPv6 hosts as defined in RFC 6724. It's very common for a host to have multiple IPv6 addresses of different types (a...
ListenDay Two Cloud 185: Grappling With Cloud Strategies With Tim Banks from 2023-03-08T16:48:49
Today on Day Two Cloud we engage in strategic thinking about cloud, workload repatriation, costs and spending, DevOps and Kubernetes, and more with guest Tim Banks. Tim is a Lead Developer Advoc...
ListenHS042 Is ChatGPT Coming For Your Job from 2023-03-08T15:31:07
Short answer is yes. Long answer is long. CHatGPT is useful for demonstrating potential and getting more funding for AI. In terms of potential for real work, well, its not good enough.
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ListenNetwork Break 420: Cisco, HPE Buy Security Startups; Can We Finally Hold Vendors Responsible For Software Defects? from 2023-03-06T16:02:44
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 ...
ListenHeavy Networking 668: Inside A Virtualization Consultant’s Home Lab from 2023-03-03T17:15:10
On Heavy Networking today we look at a home lab running VMware products including NSX, as well as infrastructure-as-code products Terraform, Packer, and Ansible. These use cases create a differe...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 020: A Working Definition Of Kubernetes At The Edge from 2023-03-02T15:04:12
The edge is one of those terms that can be shaped to fit almost any use case. On today's Kubernetes Unpacked episode, host Michael Levan talks with Alan Hohn, Director of Software Strategy at Lo...
ListenDay Two Cloud 184: Think Multiplatform, Not Multicloud from 2023-03-01T15:36:10
Today on Day Two Cloud we put on our thinking caps about platforms, cloud, and multicloud. The last ten years or so has been a push for "cloud-first," but any wholesale approach to "X-first" (cl...
ListenHS041 Intelligent Network Automation With BackBox – Sponsored from 2023-03-01T12:40:11
We talk a lot about automation and orchestration and how they can change your network strategy and smooth network workflows. But not everybody wants to sit around writing code and building test ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 419: HPE Buys Athonet For Private 5G; Exit Public Cloud, Save Millions? from 2023-02-27T16:41:18
Is the private 5G market big enough to justify HPE's acquisition of Athonet? Is saving money worth retreating from public cloud? Why are organizations still getting bit by basic cloud misconfigu...
ListenHeavy Networking 667: Broadcom’s NetOps Delivers End-User Visibility Into SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2023-02-24T17:28:12
In today’s Heavy Networking show with sponsor Broadcom we go deep into network management and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). At its heart, DEM is about understanding the user experience of...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 120: Revisiting IPv6 Address Allocation – What’s The Right Size For Your Organization? from 2023-02-23T15:02:01
Today's podcast episode revisits the subject of IPv6 address allocation along with how changes in network planning and Regional Internet Registry (RIR) policy are influencing allocation size req...
ListenDay Two Cloud 183: How Did We Get To WebAssembly And What Is It For? from 2023-02-22T16:19:56
WebAssembly (Wasm) is an up-and-coming technology that's probably going to fall into the lap of operations folks. WebAssembly is basically a specification on how to compile things to a bytecode ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 418: Avaya Goes Chapter 11 Again; Cisco, Arista See Revenues Rise from 2023-02-21T23:07:44
This week's Network Break looks at who takes a haircut in Avaya's Chapter 11 restructuring, GoDaddy's ongoing security issues, new photonics from Nokia, a huge quarter for Arista and more tech n...
ListenHS040 Top Mistakes Technology Strategists Make from 2023-02-21T20:06:18
It might be curmudgeon day. Johna and Greg ask what are mistakes that we have seen in technology strategies.
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Heavy Networking 666: Improving Quality Of Experience With LibreQoS from 2023-02-17T21:54:17
Welcome to Heavy Networking! In this episode we discuss LibreQoS, a free and open source software project to help ISPs improve network latency and responsiveness and improve the Quality of Exper...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 019: Understanding Service Meshes And Linkerd from 2023-02-16T18:40:23
In today's Kubernetes Unpacked podcast, we explore the concept of a service mesh and why you might want to run one in a Kubernetes cluster. While there are many service meshes to choose from we ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 182: Assembling The Multicloud Networking Puzzle To Operate At Cloud Speed (Sponsored) from 2023-02-16T18:18:31
Today's Day Two Cloud assembles a panel to discuss the challenges of multicloud networking. We're sponsored by Prosimo, and the recording took place live at AWS re:Invent 2022. We discuss how an...
ListenTech 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....
ListenNetwork Break 417: Zoom Chief Raises Bar For CEO Pay Cuts; Fortinet Rolls Out New Firewall Chips from 2023-02-13T17:14:52
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, the US and UK governments sanctioning members of ...
ListenHeavy Networking 665: Augtera Network AI Automates NetOps And Works To Prevent Incidents (Sponsored) from 2023-02-10T20:49:20
The Packet Pushers' Heavy Networking podcast dives into sponsor Augtera and how its AI platform, purpose-built for networking, improves network operations and enables automation. We'll examine h...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 119: Operational Issues With IPv6 Neighbor Discovery from 2023-02-09T19:51:44
In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast we discuss IPv6 Neighbor Discovery and some of the operational issues that can happen when configuring and operating IPv6, and what can help listeners understand and...
ListenDay Two Cloud 181: Implementing Patterns And Practices For Infrastructure as Code from 2023-02-08T20:31:53
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and software practices you might want to put in place for the parts of your team who know what they're doing with infr...
ListenNetwork Break 416: Ericsson Flogs 5G Network Slicing For Laptops; Microsoft Loads Work Drudgery Onto ChatGPT from 2023-02-06T22:18:43
On this week's Network Break we examine Ericsson's push for 5G network slicing on laptops, Microsoft injecting ChatGPT into Teams to do the grunt work, financial results from Juniper and Amazon,...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 664: Semantic Networking – Science Project Or Networking’s Future? from 2023-02-03T20:34:56
Today's Heavy Networking is a forward-looking episode about semantic networking. Semantic networking aims to make decisions on how to route packets based on more than just the destination addres...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 018: Grappling With Kubernetes Complexity from 2023-02-02T21:21:39
In today's Kubernetes Unpacked episode, host Michael Levan and guest Michael Chenetz examine the complexity that comes with Kubernetes and its broader ecosystem, what engineers should expect whe...
ListenDay Two Cloud 180: Understanding AWS EC2 At The Edge from 2023-02-01T16:09:40
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, we speak with Jan Hofmeyr, a VP within Amazon Web Services (AWS). This show was recorded at AWS re:Invent 2022 in Las Vegas, and we discuss EC2 at the edge, AWS...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 415: WAN Update Severs Microsoft Cloud Services; Intel To Wind Down Network ASIC Biz from 2023-01-30T17:02:54
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; reports that Inte...
ListenHeavy Networking 663: OpenAI For Networking from 2023-01-27T19:04:12
Would you give an artificial intelligence responsibility to write your router configurations? You wouldn’t. Not yet. But we’re not as far from that as you might think. On today's Heavy Networkin...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 118: IPv6 Training At RIPE NCC from 2023-01-26T15:10:22
In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, Ed, Scott, and Tom speak with Jad El Cham about the RIPE NCC IPv6 training program as well as RIPE NCC's role as the European and Middle Eastern Regional Internet R...
ListenHS039 Operating an Enterprise Architecture Function from 2023-01-25T16:18:11
After setting questions and perspectives on What is Enterprise Architecture, the natural sequence is How to Maintain and Operate an Architecture team.
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Day Two Cloud 179: Will CXL Make Composable Infrastructure Real? from 2023-01-25T15:16:52
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about Compute Express Link (CXL), a technology for composable infrastructure. The idea is to take all the peripherals in a system---network cards, memory...
ListenNetwork Break 414: 230 Juniper Vulnerabilities, Should Cisco Patch An EOL Router, T-Mobile Takes Weeks To Spot Breach from 2023-01-23T19:31:40
On today's Network Break podcast we cover a raft of Juniper vulnerabilities, whether Cisco should patch serious vulnerabilities in end-of-life products, a big T-Mobile breach, Avaya dealing with...
ListenHeavy Networking 662: Home Lab In The Cloud Or Your Basement? from 2023-01-20T17:23:12
On today's Heavy Networking, guest Tom Costello walks us through his personal lab in the cloud. We discuss pros and cons of the cloud vs. a basement, using EVE-NG vs. CML, how automation can hel...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 017: Kubernetes In 2023 – 6 Things To Think About from 2023-01-19T15:13:26
On today's Kubernetes Unpacked podcast, host Michael Levan discusses six big ideas to consider as you build your Kubernetes foundation in 2023. Topics include abstractions, the need to understan...
ListenDay Two Cloud 178: Implementing Zero Standing Privilege (Sponsored) from 2023-01-18T20:40:31
On today's sponsored Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about zero standing privilege with strongDM. Zero standing privilege goes beyond just-in-time credentials to a model where no credentials pre-e...
ListenNetwork Break 413: 800G Switches, Intel’s Big Hopes For 4th-Gen CPUs, And Reading Cyber Insurance Fine Print from 2023-01-16T17:25:44
Take a Network Break! This week's episode covers a bunch of tech news including Arista rolling out a heap of new switches, Intel pinning its comeback hopes on newly released Xeon CPUs, a serious...
ListenHeavy Networking 661: Home Labbing With EVE-NG And Juniper from 2023-01-13T19:53:08
Today on Heavy Networking, home labs. Specifically, we’re going to discuss building and using a lab with virtualized Juniper gear in EVE-NG. Our guest is Christian Scholz, who has written and pr...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 117: Microsoft’s OS Evolution With IPv6 from 2023-01-12T16:20:26
The IPv6 Buzz podcast talks with Richard Hicks about Microsoft's OS changes and use cases for IPv6. Richard is a technology consultant and author. We discuss which Microsoft solutions use IPv6, ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 177: IT Security Is Broken; Here’s Ideas On How To Fix It from 2023-01-11T18:42:24
IT security is broken. Vendors ship insecure products, customers have to bolt on and then operate more and more security products, compliance and regulatory requirements don't necessarily make t...
ListenNetwork Break 412: IT Spending, ChatGPT, Cloud Repatriation And Other 2023 IT Speculations from 2023-01-09T16:03:09
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, including the...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 016: Taking On Kubernetes As A New Engineer from 2023-01-05T19:04:58
On today's Kubernetes Unpacked podcast we talk about taking on Kubernetes as a young engineer. As all IT pros know, learning Kubernetes isn’t the easiest thing, especially when you’re first ente...
ListenHeavy Networking 660: Writing The Manual – An Insider’s View Of Product Documentation from 2022-12-16T10:00:19
On today’s Heavy Networking we get inside the process of technical writing and product documentation from a person deep in the trenches of creating docs. We also talk about why writing as a skil...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 015: Managing Cloud Costs With FinOps from 2022-12-15T19:00:13
In this episode of the Kubernetes Unpacked podcast, Michael explores the concept of Financial Operations, or FinOps, with guest Chris Love. As CTOs get their cloud bills, they want to know why a...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 116: Hey Vendors! What About IPv6-Only? from 2022-12-15T16:00:56
In today's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about the good, bad, and ugly of vendor support for IPv6-only. While some vendors support dual-stack deployments, things get a little more p...
ListenDay Two Cloud 176: Comparing Cloud Provider Network Performance (Sponsored) from 2022-12-14T17:18:58
Today on Day Two Cloud we examine global network performance of some of the biggest public cloud providers. Sponsor ThousandEyes shares key findings and surprising data points from its 2022 Clou...
ListenNetwork Break 411: Cisco Revamps Certification Schedules; FTC Says Game Over For Microsoft’s Activision Bid from 2022-12-12T22:01:44
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 Micro...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 659: Securing Cloud Metro With Zero Trust (Sponsored) from 2022-12-09T20:19:25
On today's Heavy Networking podcast, sponsored by Juniper Networks, we discuss how metro networks are evolving to Cloud Metro, how to apply cloud principles and automation to these locations, an...
ListenDay Two Cloud 175: Deploying Kubernetes And Managing Clusters from 2022-12-07T21:04:49
On today's Day Two Cloud we continue our Kubernetes conversation with guest Michael Levan. Today's show focuses on Kubernetes deployments and managing clusters once they're up and running. We di...
ListenHS038 What is Enterprise Architecture And How To Plan For It from 2022-12-07T18:55:37
Some companies use formal Enterprise Architecture (EA) to maintan a consistent IT strategy. Its not often successful so we discuss possible ways to practically maintain the EA function.
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ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 410: AWS Previews Secure Remote Access; Broadcom Promises Not To Raise VMware Prices from 2022-12-05T15:37:38
On today's Network Break we discuss new AWS previews for secure remote access and for connecting applications and services across VPCs. We also discuss a serious outage at Hive Social, Open RAN ...
ListenHeavy Networking 658: Using Batfish To Model And Test Your Network from 2022-12-02T20:41:55
Today on Heavy Networking, modeling your network with Batfish. Batfish is an open-source project that builds a model of your production network based on a snapshot of your network and device con...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 014: Using GitOps And AKS To Build And Deploy Applications from 2022-12-01T15:30:55
In today's episode of Kubernetes Unpacked, Michael catches up with Steve Buchanan, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, to talk about using GitOps and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to automa...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 115: DNS And IPv6 from 2022-12-01T15:18:22
In this episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about DNS and IPv6. We cover legacy IPv6 brokeness and DNS, how DNS performs over v6, and how DNS works with v6-only networks.
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Day Two Cloud 174: Building Kubernetes Clusters from 2022-11-30T15:00:41
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we walk through how to build a Kubernetes cluster to support a container-based application. We cover issues such as what constitutes a minimum viable cluster, ro...
ListenNetwork Break 409: Regulators Tap Brakes On Broadcom, VMware; Google Settles Location Tracking Charges For $392M from 2022-11-28T21:18:28
This week's Network Break podcast discusses UK and EU regulators wanting a closer look at Broadcom's VMware acquisition, Google settling with 40 US states over location tracking charges, and the...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud Invite: Recording At TopGolf Las Vegas Nov. 30, 2022 from 2022-11-27T19:44:10
If you're headed to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, you can catch Ned & me recording a show live. On Wednesday, November 30, 2022, we’ll be at TopGolf with sponsor Prosimo from 4 to 7 pm. Join ...
ListenHeavy Networking 657: New VMware Client Connects Users To SASE, SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2022-11-25T13:00:44
Today on Heavy Networking, a discussion with sponsor VMware about SD-WAN and SASE. We’re diving into announcements from VMware Explore Barcelona 2022 covering a new SD-WAN client and more. With ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 173: Istio Ambient Mesh Minimizes Sidecar Proxies from 2022-11-23T15:23:04
Today on Day Two Cloud we examine Istio Ambient Mesh, a new option for building service meshes in a microservices environment. Istio Ambient Mesh essentially brings the concept of a load balance...
ListenHeavy Strategy 037 – Metaversing The Office is More Than One Thing from 2022-11-22T18:26:08
Are there angles on future metaverse that make sensee ? Johna and Greg dive into their perspectives on what is a metaverse and converge on the face that its a form of collaboration. Potentially ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 408: Arista Launches Network Automation Pipeline; Palo Alto Targets Software Supply Chain Security from 2022-11-21T17:04:58
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a new continuous integration pipeline from Arista Networks to support network automation, Cisco's intention to open a new silicon design center in Spain,...
ListenHeavy Networking 656: Embedding Zero Trust Into Applications from 2022-11-18T19:33:42
On today's Heavy Networking we look at the idea of embedding zero trust into applications. The way we do cyber security these days has failed in significant ways. What if we could extend the AAA...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 114: Another Listener Questions Episode! from 2022-11-17T16:28:14
Today's IPv6 Buzz episode answers listener questions about Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) and auto-addressing, privacy and IPv6, and where NAT46 fits in.
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Network Break 407: VMware Buys Startup For SD-WAN Client; Zoom Meetings At The Movies? from 2022-11-14T18:10:23
This week's Network Break covers several announces from VMware Explore including a new SD-WAN client. ASIC-maker Marvell goes after industrial networks with new silicon, Cisco announces the curt...
ListenHeavy Networking 655: On-Prem VPC Networking With Netris (Sponsored) from 2022-11-11T11:00:29
Heavy Networking welcomes sponsor Netris to the show with a special episode for you network nerds who are really getting into automation, infrastructure as code, pipelines, and so on. Netris is ...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 013: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) In Production from 2022-11-10T22:40:59
In this episode, Michael Levan catches up Richard Hooper, Microsoft Azure MVP and Azure Architect, to chat about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in production. Richard spends the majority of his ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 654: What’s Up With DPUs? from 2022-11-04T17:27:47
Today on Heavy Networking we have a round-table discussion about Data Processing Units (DPUs). These devices let you bring networking, security, and storage capabilities closer to server workloa...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 113: We Have DAD Issues (Duplicate Address Detection) from 2022-11-03T15:30:28
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz, Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about our DAD issues — well, our IPv6 Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) issues anyway. DAD is a feature of IPv6 that looks for duplicate IP ...
ListenHS036 Cyberstupid – Can We Stop Doing Dumb IT Security from 2022-11-01T14:11:56
You can't make a profit from Cybersecurity, its a cost. How do we work with business to see IT risk management on the same level as accounting and human resources ? Johna and Greg discuss variou...
ListenTech 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,...
ListenHeavy Networking 653: Design, Deploy, And Operate With Nokia Data Center Fabric Solution (Sponsored) from 2022-10-28T11:55:47
Today’s Heavy Networking, sponsored by Nokia, dives into Nokia's fabric-based approach to data center automation and operations. That approach includes its SR Linux network OS, its Fabric Servic...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 012: Getting Hands-On For The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Cert from 2022-10-27T14:43:28
In this episode, Michael catches up with Chad Crowell to talk about the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. They talk about why the certification is important, its hands-on emphasis, ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 652: Why Networkers Should Want Routing Protocols Written In Rustlang from 2022-10-21T15:33:25
On today’s Heavy Networking episode, I talk with Nick Carter about Flock Networks, his routing protocol stack startup, as well as Nick’s love of the Rust programming language. As a network engin...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 112: What’s New With IPv6 At The IETF? from 2022-10-20T15:33
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz, Ed, Scott, and Tom speak with XiPeng Xiao, the new chair of the IETF v6ops working group. We discuss the lastest work in IPv6 at the IETF, whether the IETF should h...
ListenHS035 Quiet Quitting Hustle Culture from 2022-10-18T18:39:36
Whats the deal with Quiet Quitting ? Johna & Greg get into a heated debate about the nature of work. Johna wants people to ‘do your job’, Greg wants ‘pay me more to do more...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 651: How Juniper Networks’ SMO Enables Network Slicing (Sponsored) from 2022-10-14T18:29:49
As carriers and service providers look to embrace disaggregated infrastructure and software, and drive new business through technologies such as network slicing, it’s critical to have management...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 011: Containers Past, Present And Future from 2022-10-13T13:54:31
On today's Kubernetes Unpacked podcast, Michael catches up with Eric Wright to discuss the current and future of containers and Kubernetes, as well as a look into how the world of containers has...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 650: Whether And How To Adopt Whitebox Switches from 2022-10-07T19:11:06
On today’s Heavy Networking podcast, Kevin Myers joins us for a whitebox conversation. Kevin helps Internet Service Providers build their networks, and has noticed increased adoption of whitebox...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 111: IPv6 And The Public Cloud from 2022-10-06T15:51:42
What's the state of IPv6 in the public cloud? What support is available in which of the major providers? What are the cloud challenges of v6? How does v6 affect multi-cloud architectures? The la...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenHS033 Getting real about LEO Space Networking from 2022-10-05T13:07:28
Should LEO space networks be part of your network ? Are there common questions about using and designing for them ? What should be expecting from your telco ?
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Heavy Networking 649: Cisco NSO 6.0 Boosts Performance, Improves Usability (Sponsored) from 2022-09-30T17:48:03
On today’s sponsored Heavy Networking we dive into new features of Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator, or NSO. NSO is a network orchestration platform for large enterprises and service provid...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 010: Troubleshooting And Alerting On Kubernetes from 2022-09-29T19:11:34
In this episode, Michael catches up with Natan Yellin, CEO of Robusta.dev. Michael and Ned chat about how logging and troubleshooting works in Kubernetes today. They discuss three stages of trou...
ListenHS034 Introducing Graphiant Stateless Cloud WAN – Sponsored from 2022-09-27T10:53:40
Graphiant Stateless Cloud WAN addresses the limitations of SDWAN - better scalability, more flexibility and service guarantees. Their stateless network core is multi-tenant, predictable and scal...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 648: Using Zero Knowledge Middleboxes To Enforce Policy On Encrypted Traffic from 2022-09-23T18:05:53
Encrypted traffic poses a problem for enterprise policy enforcement. On today's Heavy Networking, we explore the notion of zero knowledge middleboxes, which use a variety of techniques to allow ...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 110: The Peculiar Power Of DHCPv6 Option 108 from 2022-09-22T14:38:54
On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast we explore DHCPv6 Option 108. Option 108 basically allows a DHCP server to use IPv4 to contact a host and tell that host to disable its IPv4 stack and switch to IPv6...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 647: Fortinet’s ZTNA Differentiation Starts With The OS (Sponsored) from 2022-09-16T20:00:31
A full zero trust architecture goes up and down the stack, bringing in policy and enforcement strategies from the application layer, all the way down into the network. On today's Heavy Networkin...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 009: Kubernetes Automation And Repeatability from 2022-09-15T15:17:22
In this episode, host Michael Levan talks with Ned Bellavance about why orchestration is important in today’s world, how the HashiCorp stack (primarily Terraform and Vault) fit into Kubernetes, ...
ListenHeavy Networking 646: Networking For Spacefaring Rockets from 2022-09-09T17:26:41
Today on Heavy Networking, aerospace networking. We talk with Lexie Cooper, who works for Blue Origin as an Avionics Integration Engineer. That’s right. Lexie does networking for rockets. We tal...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 109: Microsegmentation With IPv6 from 2022-09-08T14:57:38
In this episode of the IPv6 Buzz podcast, Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about microsegmentation with IPv6 and what the IT use cases look like.
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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...
ListenHeavy Networking 645: Secure Wireless Planning And Design from 2022-09-02T16:31:06
On today’s episode of Heavy Networking, we discuss secure wireless planning and design with Jennifer "JJ Minella. JJ is the author of the book "Wireless Security Architecture." We talk about the...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 008: Go – The Language Of Kubernetes from 2022-09-01T14:47:08
In this episode, Michael catches up with Josh Duffney, Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft to talk about Go (golang). Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform are all written in Go. Josh and Michael ...
ListenHS032 Mentors and Leadership from 2022-08-30T17:31:34
Is there a role for career mentors and coaches in modern IT ? We discuss the topic and establish some points. IT Careers are high value and high effort but unlike other professions (such as law ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 644: Building And Running Temporary Event Networks from 2022-08-26T17:43:48
Today's Heavy Networking podcast explores what it's like to set up a temporary network to support thousands of users at a live event. We discuss planning and preparation, defining requirements, ...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 108: IPv6 In The Asia Pacific Region from 2022-08-25T20:01:01
In this IPv6 Buzz episode, we with George Michaelson of APNIC about IPv6 in the Asia Pacific region (and beyond). Topics include how mobile drives IPv6, regional variations in adoption, and what...
ListenHS031 Kolide and Honest Security from 2022-08-23T13:21:01
We discuss how Kolide tools engage the user to improve end-point security. Monitoring devices and then contacting the user to gather more information and provide contextual questions is a novel ...
ListenHeavy Networking 643: Privacy Responsibilities Of Running A Network from 2022-08-19T15:44:12
What does privacy have to do with running a network? Is protecting the privacy of users, customers, and the organization one of the responsibilities of the networking team? If so, what kind of i...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 007: Kubernetes From Beginner To Advanced from 2022-08-18T16:06:47
Learning Kubernetes isn't easy. In fact, there are so many places to start that people literally don’t know where to begin. Do they learn Kubernetes security? Networking? Infrastructure? Develop...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHS030 Can Low Code Fit Your IT Strategy from 2022-08-16T14:37:26
Both sides of the low code/no code debate. We outline two sides of the debate, discuss four topics in favour of low code and then cover four negatives. Avoidance of toil coding, avoid skill shor...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 642: 10Mbps Single Pair Ethernet from 2022-08-12T15:00:56
Single pair Ethernet. That’s right. Ethernet over a single twisted pair, rather than the four you’re used to. Or two if you’ve got a little gray in your beard. Now, single pair Ethernet isn’t fa...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 107: IPv6 Unique Local Addresses (ULA) At IETF 114 from 2022-08-11T12:00:18
In this episode, Ed and Tom talk with Nick Buraglio about ongoing efforts within the IETF to improve ULA. Nick is co-author of the IETF draft "Unintended Operational Issues With ULA" and recentl...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenHeavy Networking 641: Network Design For NVMe Over Fabric from 2022-08-05T17:51:36
Today on Heavy Networking, we discuss NVMe over fabric, where your Ethernet and IP network is the fabric. Many NVMe over fabric discussions focus on what’s happening inside the storage packets t...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 006: The Impact Of Kubernetes On DevOps Teams from 2022-08-04T14:24:53
Kubernetes is hard. Regardless of what tech marketing says, DevOps teams are still trying to implement and figure out this whole Kubernetes thing. With multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-prem Kub...
ListenHS029 Do You Want A Strategic Vendor ? from 2022-08-04T11:50:17
The pro and con's of having preferred supplier for IT technology ? You can save time and effort, simplify purchasing and move quicker but are you getting the best solution and support. We discus...
ListenHeavy Networking 640: Architecture Vs. Engineering Roles from 2022-07-29T20:18:08
What’s been your experience with architecture vs. engineering roles? Are those distinct functions or combined in your organization? How do the roles interact? Does the architecture team hand dow...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 106: How To Retire Before You Have To Deploy IPv6! from 2022-07-28T18:02:05
In this IPv6 Buzz podcast episode Ed, Scott, and Tom--with tongues firmly in cheek---discuss some of the ways to avoid or put off IPv6 adoption until you can retire.
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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...
ListenHeavy Networking 639: Juniper Cloud Metro Boosts Metro Performance, Efficiency And Sustainability (Sponsored) from 2022-07-22T16:26:53
In today’s sponsored Heavy Networking podcast we dive into Juniper Cloud Metro, which includes new appliances, software, and integrations with other Juniper services to address the entire busine...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 005: Serverless Kubernetes In Azure from 2022-07-21T14:13:07
Since the inception of Kubernetes, the goal has been to make our lives as engineers easier. But with great power comes great responsibility---which in this case is the need to manage a bunch of ...
ListenHS028 – Do’s and Don’ts of Selecting Technology Provider from 2022-07-19T19:00:59
We discuss different aspects of selecting technology to buy. Topics include business case, planning, selection, evaluation and review - as you might expect - but we find that there isn't one rig...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 638: Don’t Block DNS Over TCP from 2022-07-15T14:57:18
DNS is our subject on today's Heavy Networking. More specifically, DNS transport over TCP. We talk with John Kristoff, one of the forces behind RFC9210, which covers the operational requirements...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 004: Pros And Cons Of Using Terraform With Kubernetes from 2022-07-15T00:20:17
On today's Kubernetes Unpacked podcast we explore tradeoffs that come with using Terraform to manage Kubernetes. My guest is Luke Orellana, an SRE who uses Kubernetes. He's also a HashiCorp Amba...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 105: IPv6 Transition Technology Design Considerations from 2022-07-14T13:37:03
In this episode, the IPv6 Buzz crew talk about IPv6 transition technologies – especially NAT64/DNS64 – and what design considerations come into play when deploying them.
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Special: Heavy Strategy Ep27 Broadcom And VMware – What’s Gonna Happen? from 2022-07-08T16:00:41
Heavy Strategy is a new podcast from Packet Pushers. We look at the strategy and business of IT Infrastrucrure in two-sided debate format. We believe that the questions are more important than t...
ListenHeavy Networking 637: The Ongoing Evolution Of Arelion’s Global Network (Sponsored) from 2022-07-01T13:00:07
On today's Heavy Networking podcast we talk with sponsor Arelion about how it continues to build and maintain global IP networks, and why you should be considering them for your backhaul needs.<...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 104: IPv6 For Redundancy When IPv4 Fails from 2022-06-30T13:51:45
In this IPv6 Buzz episode we talk about the benefit of IPv6 connectivity when IPv4 fails. We examine the types of IPv4 failures, how IPv6 behaves during IPv4 failure, application dependencies, a...
ListenHS027 Broadcom and VMware – What’s Gonna Happen? from 2022-06-28T12:06:14
Cold takes on the Broadcom/VMware acquisition. We consider Broadcom's stated goal to increase VMW profit margin from 35% to 65% and what this will mean to customer experience.
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ListenTech 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 ...
ListenHeavy Networking 636: Mindfulness And IT Leadership from 2022-06-24T16:13:23
Today on Heavy Networking we’re talking about mindfulness in the workplace. Mindfulness, which is about being aware of your senses and feelings in the moment, could be a useful tool to help you ...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 003: Beginner Lab Environments For Learning Kubernetes from 2022-06-23T15:39:35
Today's Kubernetes Unpacked podcast explores entry-level lab environments for IT professionals interested in learning Kubernetes, including suggestions for simple container-based apps you can ru...
ListenHS 026 So You Want to Develop A Technology Strategy ? from 2022-06-21T16:28:14
What are the right questions for developing and maintaining a technology strategy for your company ?
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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...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 103: Celebrating The 10th Anniversary Of World IPv6 Launch from 2022-06-17T14:46:23
In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom chat about the recent 10th anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, the global event that kickstarted IPv6 adoption back in 2012.
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ListenHeavy Networking 635: Unified Network Fabrics With Juniper Apstra (Sponsored) from 2022-06-14T15:51:49
In today’s sponsored Heavy Networking we talk to Juniper Apstra about how how Apstra delivers on unified data center operations, why fabrics are everywhere, how Apstra differs from other automat...
ListenTech 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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ListenHeavy Networking 634: Why (Not) MikroTik? from 2022-06-10T16:20:11
Today's Heavy Networking gets into networking hardware from MikroTik, a vendor you may not have heard of. Our guest is Kevin Myers, a senior network architect and consultant who uses MikroTik wi...
ListenKubernetes Unpacked 002: Tackling Container Management And Kubernetes Complexity from 2022-06-09T12:25:16
In this episode, Michael Levan chats with Neil Cresswell, CEO and Co-Founder of Portainer.io. They talk about the challenges of Kubernetes and how everyone is trying to navigate its complexities...
ListenHS025 Did You Know Your IT is a Crime Scene ? from 2022-06-07T15:26:48
Does planning for cybersecurity failure include the concept of 'crime scene' ? Can you provide evidence to an external investigation sufficient to get justice or simply prove to insurance invest...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 633: Building DPU Apps With NVIDIA DOCA (Sponsored) from 2022-06-03T18:44:56
In today's Heavy Networking podcast, sponsored by NVIDIA, we explore DOCA on Bluefield DPUs. DOCA is a runtime operating system on the DPU including tools for provisioning, deploying, and orches...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 102: The Problem With IPv4 Thinking from 2022-06-02T14:08:59
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss "IPv4 thinking", what exactly it is, how it can be harmful to your IPv6 migration efforts, and—most importantly—how to avoid it.
Th...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 632: How Juniper’s RAN Intelligent Controller Enables 5G Automation (Sponsored) from 2022-05-27T20:37:46
Today's Heavy Networking dives into the automation and orchestration of 5G networks with sponsor Juniper Networks. We discuss Juniper's RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), Service Management and O...
ListenHS 024 – Is Shadow IT a Good Thing from 2022-05-26T13:32:36
Shadow IT does not always lead to bad outcom
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ListenKubernetes Unpacked 001: Prerequisites For Kubernetes Success from 2022-05-26T12:38:18
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Kubernetes Unpacked, a new podcast in the Packet Pushers Community Channel. The goal of this podcast is to help IT professionals understand Kubernetes: how it...
ListenTech 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...
ListenTech 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...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 631: Saying No from 2022-05-20T15:56:11
On today's Heavy Networking we talk about why it's important to say "No" when someone tries to put more work on you than you can handle. Guest Tom Hollingsworth wrote a controversial blog post e...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 101: Innovating With IPv6 from 2022-05-19T15:32:53
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz, Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about innovation using IPv6. The limitless supply of addresses creates new opportunities for network engineers and application developers, i...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenHS 023 Horrors and Hurdles of Hybrid Work from 2022-05-17T15:24:47
What about changing the work we do ? Perhaps with orchestration / automation and even AI ? So many questions, not many answers.
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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 ...
ListenHeavy Networking 630: Palo Alto Networks Introduces Okyo Garde And SD-WAN Bandwidth On Demand (Sponsored) from 2022-05-13T20:21:22
Today's Heavy Networking podcast explores two new offerings from sponsor Palo Alto Networks. First is Okyo Garde, a home wireless mesh appliance to connect and secure remote workers while reduci...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 629: The State Of Data Center Fabrics In 2022 from 2022-05-06T18:07:25
Today's Heavy Networking dives into data center fabrics with guest Russ White. We discuss just what makes a data center fabric, why the industry relies too much on BGP, fabric alternatives and o...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 100: Celebrating 100 Episodes Of IPv6 Buzz! from 2022-05-05T22:42:55
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz Ed, Scott, and Tom celebrate 100 episodes of this podcast with two special guests: the Packet Pushers' very own Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro.
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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...
ListenHS022 Top Mistakes Customers Make Dealing With Vendors from 2022-05-04T15:03:24
Contracts are caveat emptor but the client often knows little about the what they are buying and why.
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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...
ListenNetwork Break 380: BT, Toshiba Trial Quantum Key Distribution; Juniper Expands Free Cert Training from 2022-05-02T14:32:17
This week's Network Break discusses quantum key distribution, a startup getting millions to develop an enterprise SONiC distribution, Juniper expanding free cert training, quarterly financial re...
ListenHeavy Networking 628: Pluribus Extends Its SDN Fabric To SmartNICs/DPUs from 2022-04-29T16:51:30
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking podcast we talk to Pluribus Networks. Pluribus can extend networking and security services directly to smartNICs/DPUs via its Unified Cloud Fabric to improv...
ListenDay Two Cloud 144: The State Of IPv6 In Public Cloud from 2022-04-27T15:20:46
Today's Day Two Cloud explores the vastness of IPv6 and public cloud. IPv6 provides so much address space that you can use an address once for one connection and never use it again, and it isn't...
ListenNetwork Break 379: Nokia Goes SONiC For Microsoft Data Centers: Comcast Tests Hollowcore Fiber from 2022-04-26T01:53:30
This week's Network Break podcast discusses Nokia deal to sell switch hardware to Microsoft running the SONiC network OS. We also cover Dell's 4.0 release of its Enterprise SONiC distribution, a...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 627: Network Automation As A Business Culture from 2022-04-22T23:24:52
The business benefits of network automation are sometimes lost in discussion about technology and tools. Guest Tim Fiola joins this episode of Heavy Networking to discuss how to engage the busin...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 099: Why You Need An IPv6 Proof Of Concept Lab from 2022-04-21T13:56:33
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz we talk about what a Proof of Concept (PoC) lab is and why you probably need one as part of your IPv6 initiative. We discuss technical challenges and considerations,...
ListenDay Two Cloud 143: Application Security Isn’t Just For Developers from 2022-04-20T15:47:45
Today's Day Two Cloud gets into application security and working with developers to make sure code is sanitized and tested. Writing secure code at the outset can dramatically reduce risk and hel...
ListenNetwork Break 378: Barracuda Gets A New Owner; Intel Buys Ananki For Private 5G from 2022-04-18T11:21:27
Take a Network Break! This week we cover several acquisitions including Barracuda Networks being bought by KKR, SailPoint being picked up by Thoma Bravo, Perforce buying Puppet, and Intel snappi...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 626: Choosing The Right Silicon For The Job (Sponsored) from 2022-04-15T16:19:36
Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Juniper, dives into the custom vs. merchant silicon debate. Juniper makes the case for its Trio 6 ASIC in MX routers. We get into the specifics of Trio 6 c...
ListenHS020 Are Operational and Technical Debt Complementary from 2022-04-14T16:38:12
We start debating the nature of technical debt. What is it, how is it created before moving into solutions. Then we take an unexpected turn into operational debt, why its more important and how ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 142: OpenZiti Serves Up Zero Trust For Applications (Sponsored) from 2022-04-13T14:49:45
Today's Day Two Cloud episode bites into OpenZiti, an open-source project that brings zero trust principles to networks and applications. OpenZiti builds an overlay network to enforce zero trust...
ListenHS021 The Great Realisation Not Great Resignation from 2022-04-13T10:29:40
Headlines about ‘great resignation’ tend to ignore that people are moving jobs not quitting work. We believe many people are making choices about what work they want in their lives....
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 377: AMD Buys Pensando; IBM Mainframe Marches On With z16 from 2022-04-11T15:07:49
This week's Network Break discusses AMD's $1.9 billion bid for Pensando, why Juniper is partnering with Synopsys on silicon photonics, a new application access control feature from Cato Networks...
ListenHeavy Networking 625: Home IoT Networking At Scale from 2022-04-09T01:50:19
Today's Heavy Networking dives into home IoT at scale. We’re going to get into the weeds with two network engineers who’ve gone way beyond lighting and a few smart plugs in their home automation...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 098: Troubleshooting IPv6 from 2022-04-07T11:12:16
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about some of the challenges and best-practices when troubleshooting IPv6, including tools that work for IPv4 and v6, online test sites, and ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 141: Developing Multicloud Fluency from 2022-04-06T19:58:25
Today's Day Two Cloud is a discussion about how to build your multicloud fluency. That is, having knowledge of, and competence in, more than one cloud. The short answer? Learn to code. That's th...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 376: Aruba Automates Overlays; Arista CUEs Up Branch Networking Gear from 2022-04-04T15:04:22
Today's Network Break examines new network fabric automation capabilities from Aruba, new network and security gear from Arista that opens up brand new markets for the company, a cloud-native fi...
ListenHeavy Networking 624: Solving Network Problems With Opmantek’s NMIS (Sponsored) from 2022-04-01T22:36:29
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we speak with Opmantek, a FirstWave company. Opmantek's NMIS is a suite of network monitoring applications for managing fault, performance, configuration, c...
ListenDay Two Cloud 140: Troubleshooting Cloud Outages With End-To-End Visibility (Sponsored) from 2022-03-30T20:59:59
On today’s sponsored Day Two Cloud episode with Cisco ThousandEyes, we discuss how to monitor what’s broken in public cloud services. With the right information, you can offer a nuanced, knowled...
ListenHS019 Questions on Corporate Technology Strategy from 2022-03-30T19:33:23
What makes a technology strategy ? Where do you start ? Are you business or solution centric ? Being a leader means risk and funding, being a follower is simpler and faster. What questions shoul...
ListenHS018 API Management is a Configuration Problem from 2022-03-30T11:50:26
Johna believes that API management is part of IT operations. Greg doesn't understand the question and so we set off in search of answers.
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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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ListenNetwork Break 375: Aruba Networks Dives Into GreenLake; Okta Pins Incident On Outsourcer from 2022-03-28T14:43:58
Today's Network Break discusses Aruba Networks moving closer to HPE GreenLake with a new reseller-focused way to sell network gear, how data center design hampered fire fighting at an OVHcloud f...
ListenHeavy Networking 623: Growing From Junior To Senior Engineer from 2022-03-25T15:45:45
Today's Heavy Networking is a roundtable conversation about career growth. Maybe your title is junior engineer, but you want to be a senior engineer. Be careful what you wish for! Maybe your tit...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 097: Selling An IPv6 Project To Your Organization from 2022-03-24T14:28:31
Today's IPv6 Buzz discusses how to sell IPv6 as a project. That is, doing the advocacy work in your organization to drive IPv6 adoption. We examine the business and technical arguments you can m...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 139: Azure Bicep Is (Not) ARM from 2022-03-23T14:56:44
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast gets into Azure Bicep, a language that IT teams can use to deploy Azure resources in a consistent manner. While Bicep is Azure-specific, it can be useful as part of...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 374: Pluribus Extends DC Fabric To NVIDIA DPUs; Intel Buries Three FPGAs from 2022-03-21T14:10:59
In this week's Network Break we discuss Pluribus porting its network OS to NVIDIA DPUs, why Intel is pulling the plug on three FPGA cards in its portfolio, the debut of a network operations star...
ListenHeavy Networking 622: Intel’s Smart Edge Brings The Cloud To The Edge (Sponsored) from 2022-03-18T22:18:51
In today’s sponsored Heavy Networking show with Intel, we dive into recent Intel silicon announcements that are impacting how networking services will be delivered in the years to come. The edge...
ListenDay Two Cloud 138: Rethinking Logs And Analysis With vRealize Log Insight Cloud (Sponsored) from 2022-03-16T14:40:28
VMware is our sponsor today for a Day Two Cloud episode about logging. Specifically, we're talking about vRealize Log Insight Cloud. It’s not just about collecting logs and events, and it's not ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 373: Google Buys Mandiant To Bolster Security Ops; Network OS DENT 2.0 Released from 2022-03-14T15:15:44
Today's Network Break examines why Google spent billions of dollars to acquire Mandiant for security ops, the latest release of the DENT network OS, NVIDIA's software revenue strategy, and more ...
ListenHeavy Networking 621: Get Scalable Network Automation With Itential (Sponsored) from 2022-03-11T15:55:49
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsor Itential joins us to discuss how you can deliver a scalable and sustainable network automation system for your enterprise. Our guest is Peter Sprygada, VP of...
ListenHS017 The Role of Standards in a Conflicted World from 2022-03-10T15:51:18
The internet has become part of society now and this means that governments will want to put controls on it. Are our standards bodies fit for purpose ?
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IPv6 Buzz 096: Greenfield Vs. Brownfield IPv6-Only Deployments from 2022-03-10T15:39:53
Today's IPv6 Buzz discusses different strategies for going IPv6-only in both greenfield and brownfield environments.
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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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Day Two Cloud 137: Automating Windows Container Builds from 2022-03-09T16:22:09
Today's Day Two Cloud gets into the weeds of a real-world project build around Windows containers. Windows containers? Yes, the goal was to run a particular job and deploy it on Kubernetes using...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 372: VMware Enhances Container Security; Google Summons Workers Back To The Office from 2022-03-07T18:36:50
This week on Network Break we discuss VMware enhancing its Carbon Black software with container runtime security, Google telling employees to return to the office starting April 4, and Broadcom ...
ListenHeavy Networking 620: High Frequency Trading And Big Data Network Design from 2022-03-04T19:45:08
Network design for high frequency trading and big data networks is the topic of today’s Heavy Networking. If you’re interested in what it’s like to carefully manage data center latency and maint...
ListenDay Two Cloud 136: The Role And Responsibilities Of A Kubernetes Operator (Sponsored) from 2022-03-02T17:18:17
Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast we examine the role and responsibilities of Kubernetes operators; that is, the humans in charge of running Kubernetes. Kubernetes operators have to support app...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 371: Arista Turns Campus Switch Into NDR Sensor; Mikrotik Puts A Router On A PCIe Card from 2022-02-28T15:49:16
Take a Network Break! This week we examine how Arista is turning a campus switch into a sensor for network detection and response, a new PCIe card from Mikrotik running router software, a Dell/M...
ListenHeavy Networking 619: Pluribus Empowers NetOps With Kubernetes Network Visibility (Sponsored) from 2022-02-25T20:21:06
Today's sponsored Heavy Networking dives into the latest features from Pluribus Networks, including Pluribus KubeTracker, which correlates containers with applications, maps hosts to the network...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 095: Enterprise IPv6 Is Here – Time To Pivot Your Career? from 2022-02-24T15:57:43
In the latest episode of IPv6 Buzz we talk to network architect Ben Bittfield about his experience moving to a large enterprise after a decade of IPv6 design and deployment work at Sprint/T-Mobi...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 135: Infrastructure As Code Should Foster Infrastructure As Collaboration from 2022-02-23T16:40:59
On today's Day Two Cloud we examine why Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is about more than the just the tools that enable it. Guest Rob Hirschfeld puts forth the notion that while the tools are the...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 370: Juniper Acquires NAC Startup; Intel Buys Semiconductor Foundry from 2022-02-22T15:55:14
This week's Network Break dives into a trio of acquisitions by Juniper, Intel, and Akamai; new security features from Gigamon and Aviatrix; big financial gains for Arista; and more tech news. Listen
Heavy Networking 618: Building Virtual Networks With Console Connect (Sponsored) from 2022-02-18T20:29:02
On today’s Heavy Networking episode we talk with sponsor Console Connect, which provides software-defined interconnections for enterprises and service providers. Guests Paul Gampe and Jay Turner...
ListenDay Two Cloud 134: Simplifying Infrastructure Access With StrongDM (Sponsored) from 2022-02-16T15:53:49
Today's Day Two Cloud is a sponsored episode with StrongDM, which helps engineers and IT professionals get access to databases, servers, Kubernetes clusters, switches, Web apps, and more from a ...
ListenNetwork Break 369: Cisco SD-WAN Ramps Up Webex, Microsoft 365 Access; Pluribus Adds Virtual Packet Broker from 2022-02-14T15:46:38
Take a Network Break! This week we cover Cisco’s SD-WAN getting users to cloud services such as Webex and Microsoft 365 faster; as well as new capabilities in Pluribus’s Netvisor net...
ListenHeavy Networking 617: Go Vs. Python For Network Engineers from 2022-02-11T17:07:15
Today's Heavy Networking makes the case for why network engineers should consider using the Go language instead for their automation needs. Guest Darren Parkinson makes a strong argument for add...
ListenHS016 Team Structure for Technology Teams from 2022-02-10T18:54:40
Discussing what might drives team structure in Enterprise IT.
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ListenIPv6 Buzz 094: Measuring IPv6 Growth from 2022-02-10T16:45:22
IPv6 adoption is growing worldwide. On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we discuss which countries are leading the way, what IPv6 adoption looks like among enterprises and service providers, and what ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 133: Tips For Tech Interview Success from 2022-02-09T16:18:46
Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast we offer tips and advice for those on the job market, from finding new opportunities, building a professional network, prepping for interviews, handling curve-...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 368: Juniper, Cato Advance Cloud-Based Security Offerings; Citrix Gets Acquired from 2022-02-07T15:34:03
Take a Network Break! This week’s tech news includes new cloud-delivered security services from Juniper Networks and Cato Networks, new firewall hardware from Fortinet, prognostications on the c...
ListenHeavy Networking 616: Do We Need An SMTP Alternative? TMTP And MNM Are Here To Find Out from 2022-02-04T18:12:05
The SMTP protocol isn't broken, but email kinda is. Spam, phishing, and other unwanted messages are easy to deliver and harder to stop. On today's Heavy Networking we discuss TMTP and mnm, a pro...
ListenDay Two Cloud 132: What Web3 Means For Infrastructure Engineers from 2022-02-02T15:58:30
Web3 is the term for an emerging technology movement that aims to create a more decentralized Internet and put more ownership in the hands of individual users and consumers. At present Web3 is a...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 367: New Custom ASICs For Juniper Routers; Regulators, NVIDIA Arm Wrestle from 2022-01-31T15:59:45
This week's Network Break looks at new router silicon from Juniper, why NVIDIA's acquisition bid for Arm is running into headwinds, a new LiveAction service that inspects encrypted traffic for t...
ListenHeavy Networking 615: Optimize User Experience With Palo Alto Networks’ ADEM (Sponsored) from 2022-01-29T01:19:30
How do you know your remote workers are having good performance--a good experience--using the applications they need to get their work done? Today we drill into Autonomous Digital Experience Man...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 093: Dissecting DHCPv6 from 2022-01-27T15:24:09
In this latest episode of IPv6 Buzz, Ed, Scott, and Tom do their first episode-long dive into DHCPv6, how it works, how it differs from IPv4 DHCP, and some aspects of dealing with its deployment...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 131: Monitoring The Cloud From The Cloud from 2022-01-26T17:43:02
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast delves into issues about monitoring all the things, including the notion of monitoring the cloud...from the cloud. Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks discuss the pros a...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 366: Microsoft Spends $68.7 Billion On Games; Wi-Fi 7 On The Horizon from 2022-01-24T17:28:19
Take a Network Break! This week we examine the drivers behind Microsoft's proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard, Juniper integrates its SD-WAN portfolio with M...
ListenHeavy Networking 614: eBPF, Cloud-Native Networking, And Other Modern Networking Trends from 2022-01-21T16:49
Today's Heavy Networking gets deep in the guts of what’s going on with all the modern trends in networking: cloud-native, containers, eBPF, Kubernetes, DPUs, and so on. Guests Brent Salisbury an...
ListenHS015: Targeting in IT Marketing – Who and When from 2022-01-20T15:58:06
With so much money allocated to marketing teams, why do customers find it disagreeable and unpleasant to be a victim of their activities ?
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Day Two Cloud 130: Getting Started With OpenShift For Kubernetes Orchestration from 2022-01-19T19:02:19
On today's Day Two Cloud we have a career conversation with Angela Andrews, a Solution Architect at Red Hat. Angela provides an introduction to OpenShift, a cloud-based offering for running and ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 365: Salesforce Forces Multi-Factor Authentication; FAA Implements 5G Buffer Zones from 2022-01-17T15:28:04
This week on Network Break we discuss why Salesforce is requiring multi-factor authentication from customers starting in February 2022, examine an SFP module that comes with a tiny computer runn...
ListenHeavy Networking 613: Deploying An Active-Active Data Center Network For Private Cloud (Sponsored) from 2022-01-14T16:43:47
This Heavy Networking episode focuses on building a data center fabric. Pluribus Networks is our sponsor. Pluribus brought along a customer to talk about their active/active DC deployment. We’ll...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 092: Listener Questions – NAT66, Stable IPv6 Prefix Delegation And More! from 2022-01-13T15:56:44
In the latest episode of IPv6 Buzz, we tackle the first listener questions of the year (well, really left over from the end of 2021 but still good ones!). Those questions cover topics including ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 129: Practical Advice On Optimizing Cloud Costs from 2022-01-12T15:28:37
Optimizing cloud costs means more than looking at your bill and hunting down unused instances. It's about understanding the full lifecycle of cloud workloads, dealing with management that wants ...
ListenHeavy Networking 612: Cloud-Native Kubernetes Networking For CSPs (Sponsored) from 2022-01-11T20:41:30
Heavy Networking explores big ideas around service provider and cloud provider network services in 2022, both how they collide and are complementary. Our sponsor is Juniper Networks. We also get...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 364: Oracle Acquires Federos For Network Assurance; Google Snags Security Startup Siemplify from 2022-01-10T15:20:26
Take a Network Break! This week we examine Oracle's purchase of network assurance vendor Federos, discuss why Cisco has added a service mesh manager to its Intersight Kubernetes service, explore...
ListenHeavy Networking 611: Data Center Networking And Observability In 2022 (Sponsored) from 2021-12-17T13:00:23
As we approach the end of 2021, it's informative to look back at how much change has gone on in the industry. One of the biggest transitions we've seen in enterprise networking has taken place i...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 91: Thanks For Listening To IPv6 Buzz In 2021! from 2021-12-16T14:40:50
In this episode we discuss presentations at the recent UK IPv6 Council meeting. More importantly, we say thanks to you, our listeners, for keeping IPv6 Buzz in your IT podcast playlist this tumu...
ListenDay Two Cloud 128: DevOps’ing All The Things from 2021-12-15T16:08:06
Today is a deeply technical episode on DevOps, Azure, Docker, Terraform, and more. Our guest is Kyler Middleton, Principal DevOps Network Architect. Kyler is also a Pluralsight author and blogge...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHS014 Software Defined Infrastructure – New Build or Not ? from 2021-12-13T17:30:21
Do you need new hardware to cloud enable your infrastructure ? Should you strategise products on new hardware/greenfield basis or enable your existing brownfield infrastructure ? In this episode...
ListenNetwork Break 363: Broadcom Buys AppNeta For Experience Monitoring; Cloudflare Offers New Firewall Service from 2021-12-13T15:17:50
This week's Network Break asks whether Broadcom's acquisition of AppNeta, which offers SaaS-based digital experience monitoring, is a good fit. We look at new features in the SONiC network OS, d...
ListenHeavy Networking 610: Network Automation With Nautobot from 2021-12-11T18:16:40
On today's Heavy Networking we discuss a Nautobot, an open-source software tool that can serve as a source of truth for network automation. We explore how Nautobot works, what it's used for, how...
ListenDay Two Cloud 127: Avoiding Infrastructure As Code (IaC) Pitfalls from 2021-12-08T15:19:29
There are a lot of good things you can do with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation, repeatability, and ease of operations and development. But there are also code and infrastructure pitf...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 362: AWS Announces Private 5G Service; FTC Says No To Nvidia’s Arm Grab from 2021-12-06T16:57:52
Today's Network Break covers two AWS announcements including a private 5G offering and new networking service, discusses why the FTC is against Nvidia acquiring Arm Holdings, examines a new secu...
ListenHeavy Networking 609: Innovation Or Stagnation – A Year-End Networking Review from 2021-12-03T20:42:52
Today's Heavy Networking considers the current state of networking technologies and the networking market. We debate whether we've seen any significant innovations over the past year, if the ind...
ListenIPv6 Buzz 90: IPv6 Unique Local Addresses (ULAs) And You from 2021-12-02T15:49:11
In this episode Ed, Scott, and Tom chat about Unique Local Addresses (ULAs), what they are, how they are used, when (or if) you should use them in your networks.
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Day Two Cloud 126: Azure Arc And Building A Hybrid Cloud from 2021-12-01T16:29:27
On today's Day Two Cloud, we dig into Azure Arc and the construction of hybrid clouds with guest Ben Weissman, a consultant, author, and Pluralsight creator.
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Network Break 361: US Government Targets Spyware Maker; Ericsson Spends $6.2 Billion For Vonage from 2021-11-29T21:54:25
In this week's Network Break we discuss how an Israeli spyware maker ran afoul of the US government, why Ericsson is dropping $6.2 billion in cash for Vonage, new IPv6 subnets available in AWS, ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 608: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About NAC (And Then Some) from 2021-11-26T14:00:46
Today's Heavy Networking goes deep on Network Access Control (NAC) for wired and wireless networks. Our guest is Arne Bier, a Senior Consulting Engineer and CCIE. We hit a bunch of topics includ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 125: Scanning Infrastructure-as-Code For Security Issues from 2021-11-24T10:00:50
It's always better to catch misconfigurations and security issues earlier in your pipeline rather than later. That's especially true for cloud services where a simple configuration error can exp...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 360: Facebook Chooses Cisco ASIC For OCP; Apple To Allow Limited Self-Service Repair from 2021-11-22T17:24:23
This week's Network Break podcast examines why Facebook has chosen Cisco and Broadcom ASICS for new Open Compute Project switch designs, Apple will allow self-service repair of two iPhone models...
ListenHeavy Networking 607: ZTNA Everywhere With VMware SASE (Sponsored) from 2021-11-19T16:24:18
In today's sponsored Heavy Networking show with VMware, we take a fresh look at VMware's SASE and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution. VMware has a breadth of products that allow for a dif...
ListenHS013 SaaS Solutions – What Does the Customer Lose ? from 2021-11-18T14:14:17
SaaS is popular as a 'not my problem' solution and easy-on-pocket entrè. So lets examine adversarial question "What does the customer lose?". Johna and Greg discuss many issues on both in the se...
ListenDay Two Cloud 124: New Cloud Security Thinking from 2021-11-18T03:08:17
Today on Day Two Cloud, we talk about new ways of thinking about security for cloud. As organizations adopt cloud services, they're applying on-prem security designs. Our guest Adeel Ahmad is h...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 359: Arista Increases Its 400G Switch Portfolio; Nvidia Accelerates InfiniBand from 2021-11-15T15:45:40
This week's Network Break examines new 400G switches from Arista, discusses the Wi-Fi Alliance's certification program for the HaLow long-range low-power standard, targets key Nvidia announcemen...
ListenHeavy Networking 606: Dealing With DNS And Domain Name Abuse from 2021-11-12T18:39:22
The DNS Abuse Institute is a community effort to develop solutions to DNS-related problems including malware, botnets, phishing, pharming, and spam. On today's show we speak with its Director, G...
ListenDay Two Cloud 123: Managing Multi-Cloud Applications And Infrastructure With vRealize Operations Cloud (Sponsored) from 2021-11-10T20:34:25
Welcome to Day Two Cloud, where the topic is visibility. Hybrid cloud visibility with a side of Kubernetes, to be specific. VMware has come alongside as today’s sponsor for a discussion about vR...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 358: Unpacking Juniper’s Strategic Objectives; Intel Details New Infrastructure Chip from 2021-11-08T15:54:11
This weeks' Network Break discusses Juniper's Analyst & Influencer day plus a new Wi-Fi 6E announcement. Intel is teaming up with Google to develop a chip for offloading network, security, ...
ListenHeavy Networking 605: How cnvrg.io Metacloud Can Help Solve MLOps Challenges (Sponsored) from 2021-11-05T14:56:25
Today on Heavy Networking, we consider a newly announced platform for artificial intelligence workloads, the cnvrg.io Meta Cloud. Our sponsor is Intel, and our guest is Yochay Ettun, Co-founder ...
ListenHeavy Strategy 012: Professional Development in Infrastructure Technology from 2021-11-04T11:06:36
A rarely covered topic in technology is professional development. Other careers have extensive programs to ensure practitioners develop and maintain a wide range of skills but this principle is ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 122: Two Customer Journeys To VMware Cloud (Sponsored) from 2021-11-03T16:40:27
Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance hosted a panel discussion at VMworld 2021 with two VMware customers using VMware Cloud---the University of Miami and Sterling National Bank. This discussion looks ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 357: Switchless Networking? Startup Rockport Says Yes; ISPs Monetize Customer Surveillance from 2021-11-01T14:40:46
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss how startup Rockport Networks brings switchless networking to the data center. The FTC says ISPs are amassing and monetizing sensitive customer data. C...
ListenHeavy Networking 604: Taking A Systems Approach To Networking With Bruce Davie from 2021-10-29T16:03:29
Today's Heavy Networking discusses the notion of looking at, and learning about, networking via a systems approach. Our guest is Dr. Bruce Davie who's had a long career in networking, has writte...
ListenDay Two Cloud 121: Building Cool Things With GraphQL And AWS AppSync from 2021-10-27T20:50:03
Today's Day Two Cloud is a nerdy show on GraphQL and AWS AppSync and what you can do with these tools. Our guest is Amrut Patil, a senior software engineer using these tools.
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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...
ListenNetwork Break 356: Aruba Beefs Up ToR Switch With DPUs; VMware Stands Free from 2021-10-25T14:57:46
This week on the Network Break podcast we discuss a new ToR switch from Aruba that includes built-in silicon to offload security and network services. Dell Technologies says the VMware spin-off ...
ListenHeavy Networking 603: Network Apps For Smarter Network Ops With Nokia (Sponsored) from 2021-10-23T03:02:18
What would you build if you could treat your network infrastructure programmatically? That’s what we’re going to consider in today’s sponsored Heavy Networking episode with Nokia. Nokia’s SR-Lin...
ListenDay Two Cloud 120: Web Assembly, K8s Rivals, And Other Cloud Computing Trends from 2021-10-20T14:54:48
On today's Day Two Cloud we talk trends and predictions in cloud computing, including emerging technologies such as Web assembly, rivals to Kubernetes, and the role of GitOps in infrastructure a...
ListenHS011 Can We Survive IT Supply Chain Disruption from 2021-10-20T12:41:36
We discuss what we know so far about supply chain disruption, what impacts to your projects. We also consider resellers/distributors survival and what plans can companies make.
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ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 355: Azure Brags About DDoS Protection; Marvell Hitches Ride With Dent Network OS from 2021-10-18T15:12:48
Today on the Network Break, we discuss Marvell's choice of the Dent network OS for its Prestera silicon, Microsoft shares details about how its Azure cloud service thwarted a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack...
ListenHeavy Networking 602: All About SPF, DKIM, DMARC Email Security from 2021-10-15T18:06:12
Today on Heavy Networking, all about improving email security with SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance), and DKIM (Domain Keys...
ListenDay Two Cloud 119: Unifying Multi-Cloud Security With Valtix (Sponsored) from 2021-10-13T16:00:15
Ethan Banks & Ned Bellavance have a tech discussion with CEO Doug Murray and CTO Vishal Jain about multi-cloud security startup Valtix. Along the way, we find out that Valtix is a cloud-del...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 354: VMworld’s Constipation, Facebook Footgun, Marvell 5nm DPUs from 2021-10-12T11:15:17
This week on Network Break, VMware disgorges a slew of announcements at VMworld 2021, Facebook shoots itself in the foot with BGP and DNS bullets, Marvell announces new silicon for Data Processi...
ListenHeavy Networking 601: Monitoring The Dispersed Network With Cisco ThousandEyes (Sponsored) from 2021-10-08T19:13:38
Cisco ThousandEyes is a long-time Packet Pushers sponsor, and we're going to probe deeply to discuss the latest feature additions that will bring you the data you need. And, since it’s been just...
ListenDay Two Cloud 118: Growing Your Open-Source Community from 2021-10-06T15:14:55
How does a company building a product from an open-source project get off the ground? How does it communicate its value, attract contributors, and develop a user base? And how does it spread the...
ListenNetwork Break 353: New Juniper Chassis Tops 400G; Akamai Spends Big Money On Microsegmentation from 2021-10-04T17:21:36
This week's Network Break talks about a new data center chassis from Juniper, why Akamai spent $600 million to buy security company Guardicore, what happened to Zoom's big acquisition of a conta...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 600: Inside A Non-Profit Internet Exchange from 2021-10-02T02:49:12
Internet exchange points are networks you can use to connect to some other exchange participant. Sounds like maybe that’s a service provider thing, and it can be. But IXPs are useful for busines...
ListenBriefings 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 117: How Akamai Helped Transform IBM Cloud Console’s Architecture (Sponsored) from 2021-09-29T19:32:57
Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast we have a sponsored show with Akamai and a customer, IBM Cloud. When IBM rebuilt its Cloud Console from a monolithic application to microservices, the company ...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 352: Nokia Announces 800G Routing Silicon; Pica8 Enticingly Prices Its Campus Controller, Switches from 2021-09-27T15:10:39
This week's Network Break podcast discusses Nokia's new beefed-up routing silicon, how Pica8 is pursuing campus switching with a controller/switch pricing bundle, and the latest critical securit...
ListenHeavy Networking 599: DriveNets Taps Disaggregation To Build Networks Like Cloud (Sponsored) from 2021-09-24T14:58:57
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we talk with DriveNets about why it’s time to take the disaggregated model--where you buy whitebox hardware and put a network operating system of your choi...
ListenBriefings 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 ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 116: Emotional Intelligence, Hard Conversations, And Other Essential Management Skills from 2021-09-22T15:14:36
Guest Shelley Benhoff stops by the Day Two Cloud podcast to discuss essential skills for moving into tech management, and how to decide if management is the right career path for you. Shelley ha...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 351: Juniper’s Wired Campus Fabric Challenges Cisco; More Azure Holes Revealed from 2021-09-20T19:50:37
Today's Network Break podcast discusses Juniper's new wired campus effort and how it leverages Mist Cloud for to help automate its campus fabric, a new set of Azure vulnerabilities, robust SD-WA...
ListenHeavy Networking 598: The Future Of Networking – Quantum Communications With Joshua Slater from 2021-09-17T16:01:26
Today's Heavy Networking gets entangled in a discussion about quantum communications or quantum networking. We discuss qubits, the challenges of moving them across a network, use cases such as k...
ListenDay Two Cloud 115: Software-Defined Interconnects With Console Connect (Sponsored) from 2021-09-15T13:31:32
Today's Day Two Cloud sponsored episode dives into software-defined interconnects. The big idea is that you go up to a Web browser, click a few times, and now you've got a circuit stood up betwe...
ListenNetwork Break 350: Intel Pledges Billions For European Chip Factories; Facebook Reveals New Data Center Design from 2021-09-13T15:52:16
This week's Network Break podcast wonders what Intel wants in return for a multi-year, multi-billion pledge to build European chip factories, marvels at Facebook's newly revealed data center des...
ListenHeavy Networking 597: Why Enterprises Want Private 5G (Sponsored) from 2021-09-10T21:05:01
Today's Heavy Networking podcast discusses the pros and cons of building a private 5G network in the enterprise. We examine use cases, contrast 5G with Wi-Fi, unpack the hardware and software re...
ListenDay Two Cloud 114: Successfully Transitioning From A Tech Role To Management from 2021-09-08T15:18:24
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast topic is about moving from a tech role into management. Is it a good idea? Why might you want to make the change? How can you do it successfully? We speak with two ...
ListenNetwork Break 349: T-Mobile Fails To Protect Millions Of Customer Records; Ciena Buys Vyatta Router from 2021-09-07T15:01:41
Today's Network Break podcast opines on why Ciena acquired the Vyatta router from AT&T (and why AT&T wanted to sell), how T-Mobile failed current and former customers via a breach that...
ListenHeavy Networking 596: Weaponizing Firewalls And Middleboxes For DDoS Attacks from 2021-09-03T15:32:47
Today's Heavy Networking podcast dives into academic research on DDoS attack techniques. Our guests have published a paper about how the TCP protocol and middleboxes such as firewalls can be wea...
ListenHS010 Budgeting for Cybersecurity from 2021-09-02T14:27:21
When it comes to allocating budget for cybersecurity there are many approaches to breaking it down into line items. We discuss various ideas and possibilities that might offer some insight for y...
ListenDay Two Cloud 113: Multi-Cloud Network Visibility And Automation With Aviatrix (Sponsored) from 2021-09-01T15:54:04
Today's Day Two Cloud episode dives into multi-cloud networking with sponsor Aviatrix. Aviatrix offers a cloud network platform with a common data plane and operational model that works across p...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 348: Ransomware Bedevils Cyber Insurance; TSMC To Raise Chip Prices from 2021-08-30T14:50:40
This week's Network Break examines how ransomware has insurers rethinking premiums and coverage limits, discusses the pros and cons of ISPs sharing flow records with security companies, digs int...
ListenHeavy Networking 595: Detect, Diagnose, And Act With Opmantek’s Automated Network Management Software (Sponsored) from 2021-08-27T18:39:52
In today's sponsored Heavy Networking show, we talk to Opmantek about NMIS, an intelligent network management platform that spans monitoring, visibility, automation, and configuration management...
ListenDay Two Cloud 112: Complex Multi-Cloud Networking from 2021-08-26T15:02:47
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast discusses the challenges of stitching together a fabric across more than one public cloud. How do you architect a fabric given the constraints of each cloud? We als...
ListenTech 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...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 347: Cisco Acquires Container App Monitor; Intel Unwraps Mount Evans IPU from 2021-08-23T15:34
It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Proc...
ListenHeavy Networking 594: TLS 1.3 Down Deep With Ed Harmoush from 2021-08-20T17:21:46
Like anything in the world of IT, TLS has gone through various versions. TLS 1.1 and 1.2 are still commonly used, but TLS 1.3 is really where it’s at. Our guest is Ed Harmoush. Ed’s a profession...
ListenDay Two Cloud 111: Infrastructure As Software With Kris Nóva from 2021-08-18T12:03:19
Kris Nóva, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Twilio, claims that managing infrastructure using tools like Terraform isn't that far away from just writing your own code to do the job yourself...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 346: Extreme Gets SDWAN, Huawei Struggles and SpaceX Swarms from 2021-08-16T16:39:03
The world of virtual donuts is supply constrained. Extreme Networks finally gets SDWAN buying Ipanema from Infovista at a bargain price. Research firms that does the numbers Dell'oro pitches tha...
ListenHeavy Networking 593: Network Observability With VMware vRealize Network Insight (Sponsored) from 2021-08-13T15:31:36
On today’s Heavy Networking, we drill into VMware’s vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) to learn how it provides end-to-end monitoring, how it uses flow records and other data sources, and its archi...
ListenDay Two Cloud 110: Automation’s Unintended Consequences – The Bunny.net Outage Saga from 2021-08-11T15:01:33
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast walks through a massive outage that hit CDN provider Bunny.net. An automated update triggered cascading failures that essentially took the company offline for two f...
ListenNetwork Break 345: Marvell Acquires High-End Ethernet ASICs; Arista CEO Says Component Shortage ‘Worst I’ve Seen’ from 2021-08-09T15:57:59
This week's Network Break podcat discusses Marvell's Innovium buy and its impact on the high-end Ethernet market, new Juniper security software for applications, Arista financial results and com...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 592: The VAR Perspective On Networking And Customer Trends from 2021-08-06T18:07:26
Today on Heavy Networking, we talk with Remington Loose, Solutions Architect at a mid-sized VAR, to get a sense of what technology is in demand; what problems customers are trying to solve; and ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 109: PacketFabric Wants To Make Networking As Easy As Cloud (Sponsored) from 2021-08-04T14:56:53
Today's sponsored Day Two Cloud episode talks WAN networking with PacketFabric. PacketFabric lets you provision point-to-point and hybrid cloud connectivity as a service. Built on a private fibe...
ListenNetwork Break 344: Zoom Expands Into Contact Center Biz; Will Devs Choose Cloudflare’s Green Compute? from 2021-08-03T02:07:54
Zoom buys its way into the contact center biz with the $14.7 billion purchase of Five9, Extreme announces Wi-Fi 6E APs, Cloudflare debuts Green Compute for scheduled workloads, and IT vendors re...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 591: Want Network Automation? Start With Compliance And Validation (Sponsored) from 2021-07-30T15:49:41
On today's Heavy Networking podcast we discuss network compliance. The big idea is to rethink how you do compliance so that the process is automation friendly and accommodates all the network de...
ListenDay Two Cloud 108: Putting The Dev In DevOps from 2021-07-28T15:31:03
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast dives into Cloud Development Kits (CDKs). How do CDKs differ from tools such as Terraform? What are the selling points for CDKs for infrastructure and development p...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 343: Ericsson, Verizon Ink $8.3 Billion 5G Deal; Intel Reports Flat Revenues from 2021-07-26T15:11:06
This week on the Network Break we examine an $8.3 billion 5G deal between Ericsson and Verizon, Microsoft's CloudKnox purchase to bolster cloud permissions management, research into microprocess...
ListenHeavy Networking 590: What It Takes To Build An ISP In 2021 from 2021-07-23T14:46:13
There's a huge amount that goes into building an ISP, from getting access to poles to run fiber, operating a cable plant, setting up customer support and billing, getting network gear in place--...
ListenDay Two Cloud 107: Making The Management Mistake from 2021-07-21T15:56
Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast, Ethan and Ned discuss two new AWS courses from Ned, and then tell stories about the time they took management jobs they shouldn't have. They share lessons le...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 342: SolarWinds Back In Security Hot Seat; In Defense Of The Fax Machine from 2021-07-19T15:36:44
Today's Network Break podcast delves into security issues at SolarWinds and SonicWall, discusses a new network offload capability between NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks, comments on Japanese bure...
ListenHeavy Networking 589: Cloud Networking’s Good, Bad, And Ugly: What CSPs Don’t Tell You (Sponsored) from 2021-07-16T17:15:05
Today's Heavy Networking examines how some of the unpleasant bits of cloud networking can be improved, particularly in the areas of troubleshooting, visibility, security, and automation. Our spo...
ListenDay Two Cloud 106: Towards A More Open Cloud from 2021-07-14T14:49:37
On today's Day Two Cloud we discuss the notion of open cloud. The premise is about reducing or minimizing costs of migrating from a public cloud. In theory, open cloud lets organizations keep th...
ListenHeavy Networking 588: Exploring The Hidden Realms Of Subsea Cables With Telstra (Sponsored) from 2021-07-13T15:13:57
Subsea communications cables are an essential part of the global Internet. On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Telstra, we dive into the realms of undersea cables to learn how they are lai...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 341: Ransomware Clobbers Kaseya Customers; HPE Buys Zerto For Cloud Data Protection from 2021-07-12T15:16:33
This week Network Break examines the fallout of the Kaseya breach, HPE's acquisitions of Zerto and Ampool to extend the value of its Greenlake platform, and Fortinet's purchase of a secure softw...
ListenHeavy Networking 587: When Your Side Project Gets Billions Of Hits – The ICanHazIP Saga from 2021-07-09T16:26:19
Today on Heavy Networking, the icanhazip story. On the surface, icanhazip.com is simple enough: You hit the URL, and get back your external, public IP address. There are no ads, no blinky lights...
ListenDay Two Cloud 105: How The Fly.io Cloud Brings Apps Closer To Users from 2021-07-07T15:25:19
Fly.io is a public cloud that can run your applications all over the world. The goal of Fly.io is to allow developers to self-service complicated infrastructure without an ops team, while making...
ListenNetwork Break 340: Marvell Challenges NVIDIA With 5nm DPU; Startup WiteSand Tackles Multi-Vendor Campus Network Management from 2021-07-06T15:25:22
This week's podcast asks how many Data Processing Units (DPUs) the market can support, discusses a startup that wants to manage your multi-vendor campus network from the cloud, explores new secu...
ListenHeavy Networking 586: Virtualizing And Accelerating 5G RAN With 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon (Sponsored) from 2021-07-02T10:00:18
Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Intel, dives into 5G, virtualization, and AI. Intel's 3rd Gen Xeon processors can support a variety of use cases, including running virtualized network fun...
ListenDay Two Cloud 104: Cloud Is No Escape From Your Data Center Dumpster Fire from 2021-06-30T14:46:36
IT and business leaders need to be more nuanced in their approach to the cloud. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, guest Melissa Palmer discusses why cloud hype is a problem for organizations, th...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 339: HPE Raises The Stakes On Its GreenLake Strategy; Windows 11 Injects Itself With Teams from 2021-06-28T14:30:42
Take a Network Break! We discuss how HPE raises the stakes on its GreenLake hybrid cloud strategy with new features, look at new products from Aruba Networks, review the latest changes in Window...
ListenHeavy Networking 585: From Help Desk To Network Automation Engineer In 5 Years from 2021-06-25T17:03:40
Curt Norris started his career as an IT support specialist. Five years later he's an automation engineer. On today's Heavy Networking we discuss his career journey including milestones, ongoing ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 103: Scality ARTESCA Is More Than An Object Store (Sponsored) from 2021-06-23T14:55:18
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk storage with sponsor Scality about its ARTESCA platform, cloud-native object storage for modern workloads. It integrates with Kubernetes, serves as stora...
ListenHeavy Networking 584: Optimize Your Peering With Crosswork Cloud Traffic Analysis (Sponsored) from 2021-06-22T18:37:16
Today's Heavy Networking explores Crosswork Cloud Traffic Analysis from episode sponsor Cisco. This tool is designed to make you deeply knowledgeable about your BGP peering relationships and tra...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 338: Breach In Progress? Gigamon Operators Are Standing By; IEEE Finalizes New Ethernet Standard from 2021-06-21T14:56:41
Gigamon adds a human touch to a new SaaS NDR offering, the IEEE finalizes 802.3cu for faster speeds over single-mode optical fiber, US service providers roll out managed SASE services, and more ...
ListenHeavy Networking 583: How Salesforce Evolved Its Branch Network With Prisma SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2021-06-18T16:58:29
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we hear from Salesforce about the evolution of its branch network to SD-WAN. Salesforce was able to trade MPLS for Internet broadban...
ListenDay Two Cloud 102: Edge Cloud Isn’t Magic from 2021-06-16T15:49:30
Today we're talking Edge Cloud. Guest Alex Marcham has written a book on the subject and we'll get his take on edge infrastructure, what edge cloud is all about, real-world use cases, and how it...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 337: Hey, You Dropped Some Bitcoin; Fastly Recovers From Outage…Fastly from 2021-06-14T13:57:56
On this week's Network Break deployment of virtual donuts and tech commentary, Fastly takes out much of the Web but recovers quickly, AWS suffers an outage at a German data center, US law enforc...
ListenHeavy Networking 582: The Future Of Networking With Nick McKeown from 2021-06-11T16:16:48
Nick McKeown, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, stops by the Heavy Networking podcast to speculate on the future of networking. Professor McKeown h...
ListenDay Two Cloud 101: Closing The Network/Cloud Gap Before You Fall In (Sponsored) from 2021-06-09T15:38:24
On today's episode, sponsored by BlueCat Networks, we examine the technology and human challenges that arise when you integrate on-prem and the public cloud. You can't continue to do things in t...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 336: Cisco Announces Cloud ACI And More; Amazon Borrows Wi-Fi Without Asking from 2021-06-07T14:59:35
Cisco debuts Cloud ACI to unify segmentation policies on prem and in the public cloud, Amazon will activate an opt-out mesh network using your Ring and Echo devices, Microsoft buys an IoT securi...
ListenHeavy Networking 581: How Gluware Lab Brings DevOps To NetOps (Sponsored) from 2021-06-04T17:13:03
On today's Heavy Networking, we get practical with infrastructure-as-code, talking with sponsor Gluware about how their users have integrated network automation into their IT practices, bringing...
ListenDay Two Cloud 100: Get To Know Crossplane: An Infrastructure Control Plane For K8s from 2021-06-02T16:57:53
Crossplane is an open-source project that plugs into Kubernetes to serve as a control plane that can run across multiple private and public clouds. It allows infrastructure teams to compose infr...
ListenNetwork Break 335: Cyber Insurance Premiums Climb; Aruba To Debut Wi-Fi 6E AP from 2021-06-01T15:11:53
Today's Network Break discusses rising cyber insurance premiums and how wider insurance adoption might affect the security market. We also discuss a forthcoming Aruba AP that uses newly availabl...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 580: Multivendor EVPN? Nope from 2021-05-28T15:50:11
Today's Heavy Networking is a nerdy excursion into EVPN VXLAN, including how it works, why you might want it, and why multivendor interoperability is so difficult with this standard. Guest Tony ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 099: Can Cloud Computing Get Simpler? from 2021-05-26T14:53
We're a good ten years into public cloud as an industry, and cloud operations don't seem to be getting any simpler. Why is that? Is it a problem? If so, can clouds become simpler? Guest Brian Gr...
ListenNetwork Break 334: Palo Alto Unveils New Security Gear; Arista Saves Time With Lowest-Latency Switch from 2021-05-24T19:35:56
This week's Network Break covers new firewalls & other security products from Palo Alto Networks, discusses Arista's lowest-latency switch (now with EOS), reviews financial results from Cis...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 579: How Arrcus Enables Network-as-a-Service For 5G Edge/Access Networks (Sponsored) from 2021-05-21T20:11:52
Today on Heavy Networking, we talk with sponsor Arrcus about its support for segment routing and the impact it will have on the wider network market, particularly for 5G networks. Our guests fro...
ListenDay Two Cloud 098: Cloud Centers Of Excellence – Should You Have One? from 2021-05-19T17:14:01
A fractured cloud strategy causes headaches such as duplicated services, unnecessary costs, poor security controls, and other problems. A cloud center of excellence can reduce the pain by develo...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 333: Cisco Acquires Optical Controller Software; DarkSide Gang Gets The Spotlight from 2021-05-17T17:32:26
This week's Network Break covers a pair of Cisco acquisitions, new path analysis capabilities from NetBeez, how the DarkSide ransomware gang is getting the spotlight, sleazy behavior from US bro...
ListenHeavy Networking 578: When Your Homegrown Tool Becomes Essential To The Team from 2021-05-14T18:34:56
Lots of network engineers develop tools to help them automate tasks. What happens if you build something so useful it becomes adopted in your organization? Ivan Del Rio, Senior IP Engineer at DQ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 097: Azure Cloud Networking Essentials from 2021-05-12T14:59:44
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast explores essential networking capabilities in Azure, including Virtual WAN, VPN gateways, availability zones, SSL termination options, connecting premises and branc...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 332: Juniper Teases SASE Offering; IBM Gets Small With 2nm Chip from 2021-05-10T15:02:27
Today's Network Break covers IBM's new 2nm chip process, Juniper's first step toward a SASE offering, whether secondary markets for network gear might be an option for companies dealing with sup...
ListenHeavy Networking 577: A Customer View On Cloud-Delivered Security For Streamlining Distributed Workforces (Sponsored) from 2021-05-07T21:02:42
Today's Heavy Networking gets into cloud-delivered security for user access. We're sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, and we'll talk about its Prisma Access service with a customer: Josh Dye, SVP ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 096: Public Cloud Isn’t Wrong. You Are. from 2021-05-05T18:00:46
Today's Day Two Cloud is a wide-ranging discussion about the value of public cloud, a response to the growing backlash toward cloud cost and complexity, and techniques to better meld automation ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 331: Proofpoint Goes Private In $12 Billion Deal; Defense Dept. Unveils IPv4 Address Cache from 2021-05-03T15:34:57
Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and Founder of Nemertes Research, joins the Network Break to discuss a variety of IT news including the rising price of copper, Proofpoint going private in ...
ListenHeavy Networking 576: Deception And Canaries In Network Security from 2021-04-30T09:00:35
Today's Heavy Networking examines the role of deception and "canaries" in network security. A canary sits on a network segment (or multiple segments) and sounds the alarm if it comes under attac...
ListenDay Two Cloud 095: Grappling With The Open Source Business Model from 2021-04-28T15:19:15
Today on Day Two Cloud we get into a whole lot of things. For example, what is IT's value in the age of cloud? How can IT figure out what's actually providing value to the business vs. undiffere...
ListenHeavy Networking 575: Designing Better Networking And Security With SASE (Sponsored) from 2021-04-27T18:43:58
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we examine what SASE means to you as a network engineer, its effects on how applications are protected and how you provide access to...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 330: VMware Stitches Together A SASE Offering; Nvidia’s Arm Purchase On Hold from 2021-04-26T14:39:07
This week's Network Break podcast examines VMware's new SASE offering for the distributed workforce, Nvidia's Arm-based accelerators, why the United Kingdom de-accelerated Nvidia's Arm acquisiti...
ListenHeavy Networking 574: Get HIP With Zero Trust And Tempered Networks (Sponsored) from 2021-04-23T16:58:14
Today's Heavy Networking podcast, sponsored by Tempered Networks, dives into how Tempered builds a software-defined perimeter with native zero trust, leveraging the Host Identity Protocol (HIP),...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 094: Essential Concepts Of Zero Trust from 2021-04-21T14:35:23
Today's Day Two Cloud episode aims to pick apart the marketing fluff around Zero Trust (there's a lot of it) to uncover a workable definition, discuss the rationale for this approach, and develo...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 329: Dell, VMware Consciously Uncouple; Aruba Networks Lives On The Edge from 2021-04-19T15:23:14
This week's Network Break podcast examines Dell's plans to spin off VMware for a healthy dose of cash, reviews Aruba Networks' Atmosphere keynotes, and dives into NVIDIA announcements around Sma...
ListenHeavy Networking 573: Using Application Dictionaries For Better Security Policy Management from 2021-04-16T16:41:42
Today's Heavy Networking thinks hard about how to manage security policy in modern IT infrastructure. We get into sources of truth, application modeling and application dictionaries, approval wo...
ListenDay Two Cloud 093: Application Modernization With VMware (Sponsored) from 2021-04-14T15:46:44
Today’s Day Two Cloud tackles application modernization with sponsor VMware. As new application platforms such as containers and the public cloud take hold, organizations need to examine t...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 328: Arista CloudVision Adds Config Workflow Automation; Innovium ASICs Embrace SONiC from 2021-04-12T14:28:55
On this week's Network Break we cover Arista's careful steps into automation, new support for SONiC from Innovium, a cash injection for whitebox NOS maker Pica8, a startup tackling cloud infrast...
ListenHeavy Networking 572: How First Bank Leverages Aruba SD-WAN For Network And Security Transformation (Sponsored) from 2021-04-09T15:19:12
Today's Heavy Networking explores how First Bank uses Aruba’s SD-WAN to advance its cloud migration, support remote workers, and provide secure segmentation for IoT devices. We also discuss the ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 092: What AWS Lambda Is Good For from 2021-04-07T14:23:23
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast is a thorough introduction to AWS Lambda, which is AWS's serverless compute service. We discuss how Lamdba works, what it can do, use cases, and more. Our guide for...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 327: Cisco Embraces As-A-Service Procurement; Will Amazon Make Its Own ASICs? from 2021-04-05T15:05:30
Today's Network Break sifts through the most interesting news from Cisco Live 2021 including an as-a-service procurement model, support for biometric-based authentication, integrating ThousandEy...
ListenBiB100: 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 571: Network Automation Workflows With Jenkins from 2021-04-02T15:29:09
Today on Heavy Networking, we talk about how to roll your own network automation workflow. Guest Steve Puluka has developed an automation workflow system that uses GitLab and Jenkins, among othe...
ListenDay Two Cloud 091: BGP School For Cloud People from 2021-03-31T14:54:14
On today's Day Two Cloud, Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance dive into essentials about BGP including why it's so widely used, concepts such as the Autonomous System (AS), the AS number, loop preven...
ListenHeavy Networking 570: Dell Brings The SONiC NOS To SmartNICs And DPUs (Sponsored) from 2021-03-30T15:11:10
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking podcast we examine the use of SmartNICs and DPUs to offload networking and security processes. We also discuss the use of the SONiC network OS to run on Sma...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 326: Cloudflare Announces New WAN Services; Intel’s Turnaround Roadmap from 2021-03-29T15:19:23
Can Pat Gelsinger refloat the Intel container ship? Is Cloudflare's new magic WAN service all that new? What's behind the Fortinet/Linksys partnership? Is a tweet really worth $2.9 million? This...
ListenHeavy Networking 569: New Metro Architectures For 5G, IoT, And Low Latency Services (Sponsored) from 2021-03-26T18:34:12
5G, IoT, and low-latency virtualized edge services present a major opportunity for providers and enterprises to build and consume new services in the metro network. On today's Heavy Networking e...
ListenDay Two Cloud 090: Hashicorp Vault For Beginners from 2021-03-24T16:05:23
HashiCorp Vault is a management tool that stores and controls access to sensitive data (passwords, certificates, API keys, and so on). Today's Day Two Cloud is a deep dive on Vault and its use c...
ListenNetwork Break 325: VMware Buys API Security Startup; Gartner Bullish On SONiC Network OS from 2021-03-22T19:51:41
This week's Network Break podcast discusses VMware's purchase of API security startup Mesh7, looks at a new security option for third-party Web components from Tala Security, and analyzes why Ga...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 568: Effective Technical Communication from 2021-03-19T18:47:04
Today's Heavy Networking explores how to communicate complex, nuanced technical topics to non-technical people. We examine how to balance finicky details with broader outcomes, discuss the value...
ListenDay Two Cloud 089: Connect All The Cloud Things – AWS Networking In 2021 from 2021-03-17T14:58:08
Network engineer and AWS product manager Nick Matthews visits the Day Two Cloud podcast to talk about the newest cloud networking capabilities in AWS. We also discuss common design mistakes, wha...
ListenHeavy Networking 567: Why You’ll Use A Service Provider Edge Cloud (Sponsored) from 2021-03-16T21:49:40
In today's sponsored Heavy Networking podcast, Juniper Networks is here to make the case that service providers are building cloud services at the edge that enterprises can take advantage of. Jo...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 324: Cisco ASIC Hits 25.6Tbps; AWS Extends VPC Flow Logs For Better Visibility from 2021-03-15T14:39:39
This week's Network Break discusses new ASICs from Cisco, new metadata fields in AWS VPC flow logs, a cloud visibility fabric from packet broker specialist Gigamon, lessons from a data center fi...
ListenHeavy Networking 566: Inside Intel’s Strategy To Unlock Data Center Performance (Sponsored) from 2021-03-12T17:40:42
On today's Heavy Networking we dive into Intel's portfolio---including Tofino, SmartNICs, P4, and more---to understand how it unlocks the compute power of your data center. Our guest is Mike Zei...
ListenDay Two Cloud 088: The Tech Recruiter – Friend Or Foe? from 2021-03-10T19:29:40
Our guest is Taylor Desseyn, Sr. Recruiter Advocate at Vaco. Taylor knows tech recruiting forwards and backwards. He gives us an insider's view of how recruiters look at you and how you should l...
ListenTech 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....
ListenNetwork Break 323: Google To Swap 3rd-Party Cookies For Cohorts; Attackers Exploit On-Prem Exchange from 2021-03-08T15:35:41
This week's Network Break checks the fine print on a Google pledge to phase out third-party cookie tracking, examines a serious attack against Microsoft Exchange servers, dives into HPE's latest...
ListenHeavy Networking 565: In Defense Of EIGRP from 2021-03-05T20:11:58
Does EIGRP need defending? Can this protocol even be defended? Ethan Banks and Zig Zsiga debate the case for EIGRP and discuss major use cases, design considerations, scaling tips, and more.
... ListenDay Two Cloud 087: Inside The World Of A Technical Marketer from 2021-03-03T16:18:40
Engineers are skeptical of vendor marketing, which is typically heavy on buzzwords and light on actual information. But technical marketing tries to change that dynamic by creating collateral to...
ListenNetwork Break 322: Juniper Mist-ifes 128 Technology; US Telcos Spend Big For 5G Spectrum from 2021-03-01T17:28:41
On today's Network Break we discuss a slate of Juniper announcements around new integrations with its Mist platform, plus new switches. HPE acquires a SaaS company for controlling cloud and infr...
ListenTech 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,...
ListenHeavy Networking 564: Seven Engineers At The Community Roundtable from 2021-02-26T17:14:30
Today's Heavy Networking episode is a grab bag of topics delivered in our community roundtable format. Five engineers join Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro to talk about subjects including IPv6, Smart...
ListenTech 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....
ListenDay Two Cloud 086: AWS Succession – Does It Matter Who’s The Next CEO? from 2021-02-24T16:16:37
AWS needs a new CEO now that Andy Jassy has been tapped to run the Amazon mothership. Does the cloud giant need a high-powered, Type-A successor to drive AWS’s growth, or is it now so dominan...
ListenNetwork Break 321: Palo Alto Buys Bridgecrew For IaC Security; Azure Steps Up Its Firewall Game from 2021-02-22T20:33:43
Today's Network Break discusses an acquisition by Palo Alto Networks that targets the security of Infrastructure as Code, a souped-up firewall for Microsoft Azure, a new private cloud option fro...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 563: Automating Documentation With Ansible, Genie, And Jinja2 from 2021-02-19T17:44:46
On today’s Heavy Networking, we explore how to get network data you reference all the time and store it in a CSV using Ansible, the Genie parser, and Jinja2. Our guide for how to assemble these ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 085: Hosting Your Infrastructure Code In The Cloud from 2021-02-17T17:16:23
Let’s say you’re an IT infrastructure professional with increasing cloud responsibilities. You’re doing as much automation as you can, which is actually quite a lot. In fact, you’ve got an ar...
ListenHeavy Networking 562: Juniper’s Paragon Automation Portfolio Prioritizes Service Experience (Sponsored) from 2021-02-16T23:48:31
In today’s sponsored show with Juniper Networks, we dive into Juniper's Paragon product portfolio, which measures service quality for critical applications. The portfolio allows service provider...
ListenNetwork Break 320: Juniper Rebrands Service Provider Automation Offerings; Fortinet Gets SASE With Latest OS from 2021-02-16T16:55:31
This week's Network Break dives into Juniper reorganizing and rebranding automation products as the Paragon portfolio, new SASE and ZTNA capabilities from Fortinet, the rise of cyber-insurance p...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 561: Modeling Your Network For Intent-Based Assurance With IP Fabric (Sponsored) from 2021-02-12T20:49:19
In today's podcast, sponsored by IP Fabric, we dive into the IP Fabric Network Assurance platform. This platform gathers network configuration and state, and then builds a network model using a ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 084: So You Want To Be A Consultant from 2021-02-10T15:39:43
Today’s Day Two Cloud gets into consulting. We’ve gotten a lot of listener questions about the consulting world. How do you start a consulting business or join a firm? What does the job...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 319: Arista Unveils Zero Trust Offering; Google Searches For Cloud Profits from 2021-02-08T16:09:11
Take a Network Break! This week we start with a couple of follow-ups, and then dive into the week’s news. Arista Networks announced a Zero Trust offering that has room to grow, Google’s...
ListenHeavy Networking 560: Moving Big Data Sets From Far-Off Locations from 2021-02-05T16:38:13
Construction sites generate tons of data but often lack network connectivity. Today's Heavy Networking explores how one CTO has found ways to move huge data sets to HQ and the cloud using everyt...
ListenDay Two Cloud 083: Should Cloud Be A Public Utility? from 2021-02-03T15:33:02
Computing power is a vital part of modern life. Should access to that power be more equitably distributed? Is there a role for a public-utility-style cloud that could make computing more cost-effec...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 318: Cisco Unveils New Catalyst Hardware; Internet Sleuth Uncovers Global IPv4 Misuse from 2021-02-01T15:33:30
Take a Network Break! Today’s explores new products from Cisco, including edge appliances for SD-WAN and micro switches to bring fiber to the desktop. In other product news, Fortinet has anno...
ListenHeavy Networking 559: Nokia SR Linux – A Hyperscaler NOS Designed For Everyone (Sponsored) from 2021-01-29T18:13:09
Today's sponsored Heavy Networking dives into SR Linux, a new network OS built by Nokia. SR Linux combines a microservices architecture with modern data center networking features and is designe...
ListenDay Two Cloud 082: You Don’t Need A Service Mesh from 2021-01-27T17:56:57
You don’t need a service mesh. You probably don’t even need microservices. That’s the message from the person who created Envoy, the open-source proxy that serves and a networking...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 317: Citrix Bets The House On SaaS Collaboration; AWS Forks Elasticsearch from 2021-01-25T15:28:05
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% ...
ListenHeavy Networking 558: No Time For Hardware – The Case For NFV from 2021-01-22T17:37:15
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) transforms routers, load balancers, firewalls and other network devices into virtual instances that can be service-chained, spun up and down as needed, and...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 081: Abstractions Should Save Typing, Not Thinking from 2021-01-20T19:39:35
Today’s Day Two Cloud episode is part one of a two-part show on abstractions. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Listen
Network Break 316: New CPU CEO Bids VMware Adieu; NSA Says Check Your DoH from 2021-01-19T23:48:46
Take a Network Break! This week’s tech news analysis covers the breach of Ubiquiti customer data via a third-party cloud service, Pat Gelsinger’s appointment to the CEO role at Intel, a...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 557: User Experience Is A Full-Stack Responsibility (Sponsored) from 2021-01-15T17:13:07
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is the topic on today's Heavy Networking. IT folks tend to view user experience from their own particular area of responsibility--networking, security, app de...
ListenDay Two Cloud 080: Multi-Cloud Isn’t A Myth – We Have Proof from 2021-01-13T19:21:09
Is multi-cloud real? Some say no, but others know the reality of multi-cloud because they are living it every day. One such human is William Collins, and he joins us to talk through some actual mul...
ListenNetwork Break 315: Pluralsight Sold For $3.5 Billion; Dent NOS Hitchhikes To The Edge from 2021-01-12T04:05:55
Network Break returns after a holiday rest to wish you a Happy New Year and resume our weekly analysis the IT industry.
We start with a review of the massive SolarWinds exploit, a Slack meltdow...
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...
ListenHeavy Networking 556: The State Of GNS3 For Network Labs from 2021-01-08T22:45:40
GNS3 is a tool for building virtual networks for labbing. Heavy Networking welcomes GNS3 co-founder and developer Jeremy Grossman and networking instructor David Bombal. We cover the state of GN...
ListenHeavy Networking 555: Top Network Design Trends Of 2020 from 2020-12-18T13:00:17
Today's episode is the last Heavy Networking of 2020. In the spirit of an end-of-year reflection, we're going to talk about network design trends from this year, some of which were driven, or at...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 079: Kubernetes Is Inevitable But Not Always Necessary from 2020-12-16T16:45:28
Welcome to the Day Two Cloud podcast. There’s a lot of hype and fanfare around Kubernetes, but on today’s show we’ll cut through the hype with a guest who has enterprise experienc...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 314: Juniper Buys Apstra For IBN; Aruba Targets The Data Center With Fabric Software from 2020-12-14T18:33:56
Take a Network Break! This is our final episode for 2020. We’ll be back on January 11, 2021. In the meantime, Drew and Greg will hose down the virtual donut vats, mixers, and extruders in an ...
ListenHeavy Networking 554: Mistaking Commercial Software For A Security Blanket from 2020-12-11T20:58:20
Today's Heavy Networking talks about the tradeoffs between commercial and open source software. While open source takes time and effort to make work, is commercial software any better? Guest Dan...
ListenDay Two Cloud 078: Cloud Economics Are Ridiculous from 2020-12-09T16:33:33
Today’s topic is cloud economics. While you might think cloud economics are about saving money, they may be more about optimizing your spend, which is a different thing. There’s also an...
ListenBiB099: 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...
ListenNetwork Break 313: Salesforce Snaps Up Slack; HPE To Decamp For Houston from 2020-12-07T15:49:57
Take a Network Break! This week we analyze Salesforce’s $27 billion acquisition of Slack; HPE’s planned move of its headquarters to Houston, TX; and the IETF’s funding infusion fr...
ListenHeavy Networking 553: Why Does BGP Need Link State? from 2020-12-04T20:26:43
Hannes Gredler stops by the Heavy Networking virtual studios to educate us on what BGP-LS is, the problems it aims to solve, how it differs from segment routing, and whether the industry is load...
ListenTech 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,...
ListenDay Two Cloud 077: Why Kubernetes Is Wrong For You from 2020-12-02T15:40:05
Kubernetes is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the mirage in the distance you cannot reach, the MC Hammer you just can’t touch. Until you do, and you find that it’s a lot of sweat and bag...
ListenNetwork Break 312: AWS Kneecapped By Kinesis; Linux Unlikely For Apple M1 from 2020-11-30T18:36:10
Take a Network Break! This week we explore AWS’s pre-Thanksgiving outage and the lack of fallout, discuss a new AWS firewall service, and report on why Linus Torvalds isn’t holding his ...
ListenHeavy Networking 552: How Fortinet Enables Multi-Vendor Security Integration (Sponsored) from 2020-11-27T15:20:54
On today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Fortinet, we dive into a variety of topics including a multiplicity of edges that require connectivity and security (WAN edge, LAN edge, cloud edge, rem...
ListenDay Two Cloud 076: A Curated KubeCon And CloudNativeCon Roundup from 2020-11-25T17:42:04
On today’s Day Two Cloud we review announcements and make our observations of the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2020 virtual event. There were at least fifty announcements released...
ListenTech 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...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 311: Apstra Gets Loud About SONiC; VMware Sinks More Hooks Into Networking from 2020-11-23T15:49:13
This week’s Network Break podcast examines Apstra’s new support for the SONiC network OS in Apstra’s IBN platform, IBM’s acquisition of cloud-native APM vendor Instana, and ...
ListenHeavy Networking 551: An Insider’s Guide To The SONiC Network OS from 2020-11-20T23:50:27
SONiC is a network OS that can run on a variety of whitebox switches. Originally developed by Microsoft, SONiC is now an open-source project with distributions that target hyperscale and enterpr...
ListenTech 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...
ListenBriefings 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 075: Operationalizing Your Hybrid Cloud With VMware vRealize (Sponsored) from 2020-11-18T15:51:28
Consistency is key for your cloud operations team and your end users (be they employees, customers, or developers). Consistency is the theme for today’s Day Two Cloud episode with sponsor Listen
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...
ListenNetwork Break 310: Kemp Acquires Flowmon; Networking Startup Isovalent Nabs $29 Million VC Bucks from 2020-11-16T15:55:39
Virtual donuts for everyone! This week’s Network Break podcast discusses a serious flaw with Aruba switches, Kemp acquires Flowmon to extend from load balancing into security and performance ...
ListenHeavy Networking 550: Automation Readiness Isn’t About Your Routers (Sponsored) from 2020-11-13T18:55:04
Today's Heavy Networking podcast examines cross-domain automation. Our sponsor is Cisco and our guest is Omar Sultan, Leader, Product Management for Cisco's Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) p...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 074: Why Is There Still Shadow IT? from 2020-11-11T11:00:27
Why are we talking about shadow IT in 2020? Didn’t we DevOps shadow IT out of the picture? Turns out we didn’t. All the initiatives and process changes that were supposed to eliminate t...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 309: Arista Rolls Out New Campus Switches; Financial Reporting Roundup from 2020-11-09T20:19:42
Take a Network Break! Guest commentator Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, brings her analytical eye to this week’s tech news, which includes new Arista campus switches, a Dutch te...
ListenHeavy Networking 549: The Future Of Networking With Simon Sharwood from 2020-11-06T20:17:45
In this discussion, Greg accosts...no, converses with...Simon Sharwood on a variety of issues highly relevant to networking's future. It turns out, Simon is not short on opinions. And thusly, Si...
ListenDay Two Cloud 073: AnsibleFest & HashiConf 2020 Announcements, Analysis & Awesomeness from 2020-11-04T22:35:52
Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks analyze the big announcements from two conferences the clouderati should care about: AnsibleFest and HashiConf Digital. Both of these were virtual events because ther...
ListenHeavy Networking 548: Automating Multi-DC EVPN With Apstra (Sponsored) from 2020-11-03T20:05:52
If you’ve been looking at automation for your network, you should listen to this episode. This is one of those discussions that can help you understand whether you should roll your own artisanal...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 308: AMD Gobbles Xilinx, Marvell Chops Inphi. Its SmartNIC DPU Week from 2020-11-02T18:54:41
This week Network Break is about silicon companies Marvel and AMD bulking up to fight competition. Cisco ships a SmartNIC, Catchpoint releases new features and Space Networking.
Sponsor: ...
Heavy Networking 547: Building And Monitoring A User-Centric Digital Experience With Catchpoint (Sponsored) from 2020-10-30T17:50:54
Today’s Heavy Networking show dives into Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) with sponsor Catchpoint. Catchpoint combines synthetic testing with end user device monitoring to provide greater vis...
ListenTech 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....
ListenDay Two Cloud 072: VMworld 2020 Analysis And Roundup – Project Monterey And More from 2020-10-28T15:22:16
If you think VMware is in trouble because of public cloud, you’re missing one of the largest boats in the IT ocean make a massive course change. Don’t call it a pivot. Call it a series of acq...
ListenHeavy Networking 546: Making Zero Trust Remote Access Work (Sponsored) from 2020-10-27T16:09:45
Zero trust network access is ideal for today's distributed workforce, but it can be tricky to put into place. On today's sponsored Heavy Networking podcast, we talk with NetMotion about its remo...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 307: Cisco Launches Catalyst 8000 Edge Routers; Juniper Spends $450 Million For 128 Technology from 2020-10-26T14:43:49
Take a Network Break! Cisco is rolling out a new Catalyst line of SD-WAN routers, Juniper Networks spends $450 million to buy a technologically interesting software router, and Extreme Networks upd...
ListenHeavy Networking 545: Achieving Automated Network State Validation from 2020-10-23T15:40:31
Automated state validation is our topic today on Heavy Networking. The hard part isn't configuring the network: it's ensuring the configuration has resulted in the desired state. Guest John Capo...
ListenDay Two Cloud 071: It’s Not Too Late To Make DevOps Work from 2020-10-21T16:47:32
Technology is accelerating like crazy, with new tools, services, open-source projects, and processes. If you’re trying to make DevOps work in your organization, the pace of change can make yo...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 306: Cloudflare Launches Secure NaaS Offering; SonicWall Vulnerability Affects Nearly 800,000 Devices from 2020-10-19T14:07:12
Take a Network Break! Cloudflare has announced a new Network as a Service offering that includes secure remote access and security services, a SonicWall OS vulnerability affects nearly 800,000 of i...
ListenHeavy Networking 544: Building Effective Network Monitoring Solutions With Codilime (Sponsored) from 2020-10-16T15:37:03
Monitoring and visibility are critical to network operations. On today's sponsored Heavy Networking show, we talk with sponsor Codilime about custom development and integration of network monito...
ListenDay Two Cloud 070: The State Of Multi-Cloud Networking from 2020-10-14T17:06:22
Today’s show is a vigorous discussion of multi-cloud networking. Our guest, networking expert Ivan Pepelnjak, brings a heavy dose of skepticism, nuance, and informed perspective to the tricky...
ListenNetwork Break 305: NVIDIA Unfolds DPU Roadmap; IBM Spins Off Managed Infrastructure Biz from 2020-10-13T15:37:17
Take a Network Break! NVIDIA introduces new versions of the BlueField family of SmartNICs, which NVIDIA is calling Data Processing Units (DPUs). IBM announces plans to spin out its Managed Infrastr...
ListenHeavy Networking 543: What 2020 Internet Outages Teach Us About Managing Remote Work (Sponsored) from 2020-10-09T20:58:20
Stuff breaks all the time. With so many people working from home, most of the stuff that's breaking isn't yours, but that doesn’t mean it’s not your problem. Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 069: The Life Of A Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) from 2020-10-07T17:42:42
Today we talk with a real-live SRE, or Site Reliability Engineer, who works in an IT group that delivers applications using DevOps principles as part of their day-to-day work.
Our guest i...
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...
ListenNetwork Break 304: The VMworld 2020 Roundup; Arista Acquires Awake Security from 2020-10-05T15:20:29
Take a Network Break! Keith Townsend joins us as a guest analyst for today’s episode.
We start with a couple of FUs on the programability of a Trident ASIC on a new Juniper switch, ...
Heavy Networking 542: Is Whitebox Too Risky For The Enterprise? from 2020-10-02T20:34:33
Tom Hollingsworth stops by the Heavy Networking podcast to weigh in on a few topics, including the conflict between Broadcom and NVIDIA, and whether whitebox networking is becoming too risky for...
ListenBiB097: 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 068: Achieving Crucial Cloud Visibility With Riverbed (Sponsored) from 2020-09-30T15:24:23
Today’s show explores cloud visibility with sponsor Ri...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 303: Ericsson Acquires Cradlepoint For WAN Connectivity; HPE/Silver Peak Deal Closes from 2020-09-28T14:50:08
Today’s Network Break starts with some follow up, and then examines Ericsson’s Cradlepoint acquisition and the official closing of Silver Peak by HPE.
Kentik adds synthetic monitori...
Heavy Networking 541: An Update On Free Range Routing from 2020-09-25T18:25:36
Today's Heavy Networking jumps into the Free Range Routing (FRR) project, including features of the latest release, what's on the roadmap, and use cases and platform support. Our guest is Donald...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 067: Choosing The Right Applications For The Cloud With SolarWinds (Sponsored) from 2020-09-23T14:48:44
Does your app belong in the cloud? Of course it does, because cloud!
Uh, no. Most companies have gotten away from that sort of thinking, as the “because cloud” approach has resulted in some bad...
Network Break 302: Nvidia Bids Billions For Arm; VMware Melds Kubernetes With vSphere from 2020-09-21T15:10:38
Take a Network Break! We begin with FU on DNS Flag Day and Samsung’s multi-billion 5G contract with Verizon, and then dive into Nvidia’s $40 billion bid for Arm. We report on Broadcom r...
ListenHeavy Networking 540: Sinefa Blends Network Data, Synthetics To Measure End User Experience (Sponsored) from 2020-09-18T20:58:54
In today's sponsored show, we talk with Sinefa about its Digital Experience Monitoring capabilities. Sinefa assembles network traffic, DPI, end point monitoring, and synthetic transactions to ge...
ListenDay Two Cloud 066: Cloud Computing At The Edge(s) from 2020-09-16T16:18:46
The “edge” is one of the latest buzzwords to emerge in IT. Like “cloud” before it, edge can mean a lot of things depending on who’s trying to sell you something: a bra...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 301: Samsung Dials Up A 5G Contract; Broadcom Announces Fast, Power-Efficient New Jericho Chip from 2020-09-14T15:19:49
Take a Network Break! We start with an FU from a previous episode on CDNs and serverless, and then dive into th...
ListenHeavy Networking 539: Preventing The 4poKalypse With Inter-Domain Multicast from 2020-09-11T17:02:32
The 4poKalypse is coming, and service providers need more tools in their toolbox to combat congestion in eyeball networks. Local content caches close to the eyeballs (pretty much how we do it to...
ListenDay Two Cloud 065: Building Your Cloud On-Ramp With SD-WAN from 2020-09-09T15:43:48
Cloud access is a critical part of any network design, especially considering the number of business applications that run in the sky. The challenge is finding the best way to provide robust, secur...
ListenNetwork Break 300: Cisco Mixes Microservices And SD-WAN; Broadcom Rolls Out Gen7 Fibre Channel Switches from 2020-09-08T15:56:27
Take a Network Break! We start with a quick acknowledgement of our 300th episode, and then dive into the week’s news. That includes a new Cisco initiative to incorporate microservices applica...
ListenHeavy Networking 538: Running An Open, Automated Data Center Fabric With Nokia (Sponsored) from 2020-09-08T14:18:49
Today's show dives into Nokia's approach for automating and operating data center fabrics. In this sponsored episode we examine key elements of Nokia's approach including the SR Linux network OS...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 064: Bringing Ansible Into A Windows Shop from 2020-09-02T18:04:57
There’s a strong association between Ansible and Linux, but Ansible can also work really well with Windows. On today’s Day Two Cloud, guest Listen
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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 299: Cisco Acquires Audio Filter BabbleLabs; Apple Update Hits Facebook In The Ads from 2020-08-31T15:02:52
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on last-mile competition (or the lack thereof) in the United States, and the robustness of Meraki’s SD-WAN.
On the news front, Cisco...
Heavy Networking 537: Ansible Vs. Terraform For Network Automation from 2020-08-28T18:19:51
The networking community seems to have coalesced around Ansible for network device automation and Terraform for cloud. Why this divide? Are the two tools really that different? Today's Heavy Net...
ListenDay Two Cloud 063: The How And Why Of Migrating Databases To The Cloud from 2020-08-26T14:01:39
This episode of Day Two Cloud dives into the minutia of database migrations to the cloud. If you’re going to do it right, prepare to dig in because you have many options and many trade offs t...
ListenNetwork Break 298: Arista Launches CloudVision As A Service; Cisco, Megaport Partner On SD-WAN from 2020-08-24T15:44:03
Take a Network Break! Arista announces a SaaS version of its CloudVision management software, Cisco Systems and Megaport partner on SD-WAN, and China has reportedly begun blocking TLS 1.3 traffic.<...
ListenHeavy Networking 536: Arrcus Reimagines The Chassis Router With Its Virtualized Distributed Router (Sponsored) from 2020-08-21T20:11:44
Today's Heavy Networking dives into sponsor Arrcus's Virtualized Distributed Router, new software that transforms the monolithic chassis that can scale to thousands of ports while being operated...
ListenDay Two Cloud 062: What Do Words Mean? from 2020-08-19T18:00:51
The IT discipline you work in informs your understanding of particular terms. But a term used in security may have a different interpretation when used in storage. Complicating matters even more, v...
ListenNetwork Break 297: Juniper Rolls Out New WiFi 6 APs; Security Spending Is Pointless (Mostly) from 2020-08-17T21:15:35
Take a Network Break! This week’s news analysis includes new WiFi 6 APs from Juniper, a discussion about whether security spending is actually worth it, and the launch of a new brokerage serv...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenHeavy Networking 535: The ‘What’s On Your Mind?’ Roundtable from 2020-08-14T23:08:03
Today's Heavy Networking is a roundtable show where a group of engineers tell us what's on their minds. Topics include why EVPN/VXLAN is useful even for small data centers, how to get automation...
ListenDay Two Cloud 061: Using Public Cloud For Disaster Recovery from 2020-08-12T15:09:53
Disaster recovery is a complex mix of planning, policy, technology, and testing. The public cloud has emerged as an option for disaster recovery, and today’s episode explores what that might ...
ListenHeavy Networking 534: Managing Automated Networks With vCenter And Dell SmartFabric Services (Sponsored) from 2020-08-11T15:18:31
Heavy Networking dives into building cost-effective, practical, and easily managed leaf-spine networks with sponsor Dell Technologies. We discuss Dell's SmartFabric Services offering, including ...
ListenNetwork Break 296: Cisco Acquires Video Analytics Company; F5 Gear Targeted By Botnet from 2020-08-10T15:36:46
Take a Network Break! We start with an FU (Follow Up) on Greg’s comparison of Gartner to Fox News, and then dive into tech news.
Cisco acquires Modcam for video analytics, the Mirai...
Heavy Networking 533: Packet Pushers Roundtable – SD-Branch, BGP Over QUIC, Bandwidth Avoidance from 2020-08-07T16:22:28
Today's episode assembles the Packet Pushers to wrangle over a grab bag of ideas including the evolution from SD-WAN to SD-Branch, new compression standards to preserve Internet bandwidth, and t...
ListenDay Two Cloud 060: Charting Global Internet Performance With ThousandEyes (Sponsored) from 2020-08-05T15:41:08
If your idea of the Internet is to draw a generic cloud icon on the whiteboard, this is the episode for you. We all know that the Internet is important, and bandwidth is a big deal. We sort of have...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 295: Arista CloudEOS Edge Joins Multi-Cloud Portfolio; Juniper Announces AI-Powered WAN Assurance from 2020-08-03T15:45:05
Take a Network Break! Arista extends its multi-cloud networking portfolio with CloudEOS Edge; Juniper announces WAN Assurance, plus its Marvis digital assistant can accept natural language queries;...
ListenHeavy Networking 532: Scrapli Is A Netmiko Alternative from 2020-07-31T17:22:03
Scrapli is a Python screen-scraping client for network devices to help enable automation. Today's Heavy Networking dives into Scrapli with two of its creators, Carl Montanari and Dmitry Figol. W...
ListenDay Two Cloud 059: Cloud Field Day Wrap-Up from 2020-07-30T14:55:55
Today’s Day Two Cloud is a smorgasbord of cloud-related vendor analysis courtesy of Cloud Field Day 8<...
ListenNetwork Break 294: Fortinet, Arrcus Target Multi-Cloud Networking; Innovium Rakes In More ASIC Funding from 2020-07-27T14:51:07
Take a Network Break! Multi-cloud networking gets two new competitors as Fortinet extends its SD-WAN capabilities to link up public clouds, while startup Arrcus announces new multi-cloud networking...
ListenHeavy Networking 531: Hyperscale Multi-Cloud Networking With Arrcus (Sponsored) from 2020-07-24T20:11:08
Today's Heavy Networking podcast examines a new multi-cloud networking product from sponsor Arrcus. Arrcus streamlines and secures multi-cloud networks via its new ArcEdge and ArcOrchestrator pr...
ListenDay Two Cloud 058: Using Curiosity And Mistakes To Advance Your Career from 2020-07-22T16:03:07
Today’s Day Two Cloud gets into career advancement with guest Sam Erskine. Sam has developed a five-step process to help you get where you want to go in IT. Curiosity is key, and the mistakes...
ListenNetwork Break 293: HPE Acquires Silver Peak; Dell Teases VMware Sale from 2020-07-20T14:13:52
Take a Network Break! HPE ponies up $925 million to acquire SD-WAN Silver Peak, Dell Technologies floats the idea of selling VMware, and VMware adds new features to its VMware Cloud on AWS offering...
ListenHeavy Networking 530: Everything You Need To Know About Wireless ISPs from 2020-07-17T17:48:33
Today's Heavy Networking dives into wireless Internet Service Providers, or WISPs. WISPs typically serve rural areas that have limited access to fiber or copper, but they also serve metro and ur...
ListenDay Two Cloud 057: See Your Data With Grafana from 2020-07-15T15:02:57
Day Two Cloud gets into data visualization with Grafana, which is free, open-source software. With Grafana you can visualize, alert on, and query all kinds of data and metrics. There are also comme...
ListenHeavy Networking 529: Demystifying Automation With Low-Code Workflows (Sponsored) from 2020-07-15T02:59:48
Today's Heavy Networking explores a partnership between Juniper Networks and Anuta Networks to bring low-code network automation to service providers and enterprises. In this sponsored show, we'...
ListenNetwork Break 292: Nokia Debuts SR Linux Network OS; AT&T, Cisco Team Up On SD-WAN from 2020-07-13T20:17:16
Take a Network Break! Nokia has developed a new network OS, called SR Linux, and the Nokia Fabric Service Platform. AT&T and Cisco partner on a managed SD-WAN service, and Google cancels a clou...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 528: If Automation Is So Great, Why Aren’t More Networks Automated? (Sponsored) from 2020-07-10T15:54:58
On today's Heavy Networking episode, sponsored by Cisco, we discuss reasons why automation isn't more pervasive, particularly in networking, and look at complications such as source of truth, ge...
ListenDay Two Cloud 056: (Not) Streaming Telemetry from 2020-07-08T15:36:59
Streaming telemetry is all the rage, and for good reason–it gives you immediate data that can inform your monitoring and analysis for performance, operations, and more.
However, tod...
Network Break 291: F5 Patches Severe Vulnerability; Senate Bill Aims To Weaken Encryption from 2020-07-06T19:20:51
Take a Network Break! F5 patches a severe vulnerability in its Big-IP ADC, Palo Alto Networks also fixes a critical PAN-OS flaw, and VMware acquires Datrium for SaaS-based disaster recovery.
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Heavy Networking 527: New Ideas For A Network Certification Program from 2020-07-03T09:00
Today's Heavy Networking explores ideas for designing a new networking certification program built around a network design challenge that focuses on broad, systems-oriented knowledge. The goal i...
ListenBIB096 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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Day Two Cloud 055: Securing Cloud Infrastructure And Applications from 2020-07-01T09:00:45
Welcome to Day Two Cloud. Security is difficult and tricky, but we’ve got an amazing guest to help you improve your security posture and manage your cloud risk. Our guest is Tanya Janca, Foun...
ListenHeavy Networking 526: Rethinking Your Global Enterprise WAN With Telia Carrier (Sponsored) from 2020-06-30T14:05:37
In today’s sponsored Heavy Networking podcast we talk to Telia Carrier. Telia runs its own global IP backbone, and as the public Internet becomes the de facto enterprise WAN, your choice of carr...
ListenBiB095 – 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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Network Break 290: HPE Unveils Edge-To-Cloud Strategy; Anuta, Juniper Partner On Automation from 2020-06-29T15:25:04
Take a Network Break! Ethan Banks brings the virtual bagels while Drew is on PTO.
Today’s show reviews HPE Discover, the latest virtual tech event to take place during the pandemic. Greg ...
Heavy Networking 525: Gluware Automating Terracon’s Network (Sponsored) from 2020-06-26T16:49:31
Some of our favorite Heavy Networking discussions are with folks deep in the hot aisle making technology work. No slide decks, just engineers doing the thing. How did it go? What do you wish you...
ListenDay Two Cloud 054: Real Life VMware Cloud On AWS from 2020-06-24T16:48:56
VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS presents a VMware software defined data center (SDDC) hosted on bare metal in AWS data centers. If you’re trying to vacate your own data centers or colos, but aren...
ListenBiB094 – 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...
ListenNetwork Break 289: Cisco Live 2020, Palo’s ML, HPE Edge Telco and more from 2020-06-22T18:04:54
Take a Network Break! We look at Cisco Live Virtual topics so its SecureX, Webex Collaboration and the “Connected Experience” (even if we don’t really know what that is). Palo Alt...
ListenHeavy Networking 524: Network Modeling With Open Source pyNTM from 2020-06-19T16:40:47
Today on Heavy Networking we cover network modeling using the Python Network Traffic Modeler, or pyNTM, an open-source tool. Creator Tim Fiola explains what network modeling is and how you can u...
ListenDay Two Cloud 053: Effectively Monitoring Cloud-Native Applications from 2020-06-17T17:39:06
Monitoring is the topic for Day Two Cloud. But before you skip because you think it’s boring, this conversation may change your mind.
We dig into what’s necessary to effective...
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...
ListenNetwork Break 288: Aruba ESP Senses Opportunity At The Edge; Intel Wrestles With New Chip Attacks from 2020-06-15T15:15:21
Take a Network Break! Aruba announces Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) at its ATMDigital event. ESP integrates Aruba’s wireless, wired, and SD-Branch portfolio and layers a new cloud-based ...
ListenHeavy Networking 523: OneOncology Boosts WAN Security, Availability With Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2020-06-12T18:17:22
Today's Heavy Networking podcast focuses on a real-world SD-WAN deployment with OneOncology. The organization deployed an SD-WAN solution from Silver Peak, our sponsor for today's podcast, to se...
ListenTech 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...
ListenDay Two Cloud 052: Moving Back Home From The Cloud from 2020-06-10T15:10:26
Today’s Day Two Cloud episode is a frank conversation about cloud migration, multicloud, cloud repatriation, and more. If you’re here for rainbows and unicorns, prepare for disappointme...
ListenHeavy Networking 522: How CIOs Prioritize Security – Cisco’s CIO Perspectives 2020 Survey (Sponsored) from 2020-06-09T15:14:02
Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Cisco, examines results and insights from 1,300 global CIOs in Cisco's CIO Perspectives 2020 survey. Guest Jo Peterson, VP of Cloud & Security for Cla...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 287: Open Compute Infrastructure Makes Its Mark; Cisco Live Postponed from 2020-06-08T14:13:30
On today’s Network Break we discuss a new IDC report that shows servers and storage systems based on Open Compute specs will generate almost $34 billion in revenue by 2024. Switching and rout...
ListenHeavy Networking 521: Diving Into Dell Technologies’ SONiC Network OS For The Enterprise (Sponsored) from 2020-06-05T16:09:09
Today's Heavy Networking podcast explores Dell Technologies' SONiC network OS for enterprises. This distro offers hardware support across multiple ASIC platforms and full enterprise support. We ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 051: Building And Running A Cloud User Group from 2020-06-04T13:45:44
On Day Two Cloud we talk about how to start and participate in a cloud user group. We talk about logistics, money, sponsors, a venue–in other words, the nuts and bolts of running and engaging...
ListenHeavy Networking 520: Cloud Architects’ Multi-Cloud Network Adoption With Alkira (Sponsored) from 2020-06-02T14:00:05
Today's Heavy Networking, sponsored by Alkira, dives into multi-cloud networking. Alkira's Cloud Service Exchange is an on-demand, as-a-service offering that lets customers deploy multi-cloud ne...
ListenNetwork Break 286: Cisco To Acquire ThousandEyes; The Return Of Follow Up from 2020-06-02T02:33:50
Take a Network Break! We start with some FU (follow up) from previous Network Break and Heavy Networking episodes, then dive into Cisco’s big ThousandEyes acquisition.
We also tackl...
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...
ListenHeavy Networking 519: Let’s Meet Wi-Fi 6E from 2020-05-29T19:40:15
Just as we’re getting comfortable with Wi-Fi 6, along comes 6E. Is the E for Excellent? Exciting? Execrable? In fact, Wi-Fi 6E is an extension that enables the use of newly available unlicens...
ListenDay Two Cloud 050: Nerding Out On GitHub Actions With Chris Wahl from 2020-05-27T15:22:22
Today’s episode gets into the nerdy details of how an infrastructure professional can use GitHub Actions. Actions is a recent feature introduced on GitHub that lets you chain together steps o...
ListenNetwork Break 285: 37,000 Kilometers Of Undersea Cable Coming To Africa; Cisco Announces ACI 5.0 from 2020-05-25T13:36:40
Take a Network Break! A consortium of telecom operators and Facebook have announced plans to lay 37,000 kilometers of undersea fiber optic cable around Africa, Cisco rolls out version 5.0 of its AC...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 518: Learning To Live With SNMP from 2020-05-22T17:01:18
Perhaps the most arcane technology in networking is the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which, despite its name, is one of the utmost confusing pieces of technology to actually use.
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Day Two Cloud 049: The Gritty Details Of Designing And Running A Private Cloud from 2020-05-20T15:52:13
Building a private cloud–who would do such a thing and how?
On today’s Day Two Cloud we tackle the practical aspects of private cloud, including designing the infrastructure a...
Network Break 284: Dell Technologies Announces SONiC Distro; Microsoft Acquires Metaswitch Networks from 2020-05-18T15:02:50
Take a Network Break! On today’s show we cover Dell Technologies’ announcement of a supported SONiC network OS distro, a reminder from Mellanox that they’ve been supporting SONiC ...
ListenHeavy Networking 517: DriveNets Disaggregates SP And Cloud Networks To Boost Capacity, Control Costs(Sponsored) from 2020-05-15T17:05:42
Today on Heavy Networking we get nerdy about disaggregation with sponsor DriveNets. The company’s Network Cloud routing software runs on whitebox hardware and enables service providers and te...
ListenDay Two Cloud 048: Migrating Your Data Center To The Cloud from 2020-05-13T19:56:21
Today’s Day Two Cloud episode dives into data center migrations. If you’ve got critical applications on premises that you want to move into the cloud, get ready to do a lot of planning....
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 283: NVIDIA Acquires Cumulus Networks; Innovium Announces 25.6 Tbps Switch ASIC from 2020-05-11T22:49:08
Take a Network Break! NVIDIA bolsters its Mellanox purchase by adding Cumulus Networks to its shopping list, Innovium announces a 25.6 Tbps ASIC, and Arista says it will support the SONiC network O...
ListenHeavy Networking 516: Is LISP The Overlay Of The Future? from 2020-05-08T20:57:52
Today’s podcast episode is a debate on network overlays.
The industry has seen the rise of overlay networking in the data center (EVPN, VXLAN and others), and many SD-WAN solutions ...
Day Two Cloud 047: Highlights And Analysis From Cloud Field Day 7 from 2020-05-06T16:57:21
Today’s Day Two Cloud podcast storms into your podcast player with product news from VMware, SolarWinds, and startup Pensando.
In April 2020, Ethan Banks attended a virtual Cloud Field Da...
Network Break 282: NVIDIA Completes Mellanox Acquisition; SpaceX Sets Date For Satellite Internet Beta Testing from 2020-05-04T14:32:57
Take a Network Break! NVIDIA completes its Mellanox acquisition, SpaceX announces dates for private and public beta testing of its satellite-based Internet service, and Cumulus releases version 3.0...
ListenHeavy Networking 515: A Decade of Network Podcasting from 2020-05-02T16:00:28
We interrupt our programming to commemorate ten years of podcasting. In this brief chat, Ethan and Greg discuss where we came from and where we are going. Note the retro music we used, and check ou...
ListenHeavy Networking 514: Aruba’s Vision Extends From The Data Center To The Edge (Sponsored) from 2020-05-01T15:46:39
On today’s Heavy Networking we talk about building a unified network infrastructure with Aruba Listen
Day Two Cloud 046: A Cloud Checkup During Covid-19 With ThousandEyes (Sponsored) from 2020-04-29T14:49:13
Day Two Cloud dives into the health and performance of the global cloud during the pandemic. Sponsor ThousandEyes measures, collects, and reports on Internet performance, giving them a unique persp...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 281: FCC Opens 6Ghz Band For Unlicensed Use; Arista Boosts WLAN Software from 2020-04-27T14:58:46
Take a Network Break! The US Federal Communications Commission opens the 6Ghz band to unlicensed use, including Wi-Fi; Arista upgrades its wireless software to enable app ID and enhance performance...
ListenHeavy Networking 513: How The Internet Is Handling The Covid-19 Load from 2020-04-24T20:27:25
As stay-at-home orders came down from governments around the world, questions arose about whether the Internet would be able to handle the load from hoards of remote workers, online schooling, and ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 045: Tackling Multi-Cloud Challenges With An Actual Multi-Cloud Consumer from 2020-04-22T18:00:57
The cloud giants are happy to tell you how great their services are, but what’s it like from the customer perspective? We find out on today’s Day Two Cloud podcast with a guest migratin...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 280: Nvidia Advances Mellanox Acquisition; Startup Alkira Tackles Multi-Cloud Networking from 2020-04-20T17:38:01
Take a Network Break! Tech Field Day and Listen
Heavy Networking 512: Production Ready Automation With Cumulus Networks (Sponsored) from 2020-04-17T04:00:44
In today’s Heavy Networking episode, we talk network automation. That’s a topic we’ve covered before on Packet Pushers, so what wondrous newness does sponsor Listen
Day Two Cloud 044: Dev+Ops, Ops+Dev from 2020-04-15T14:00:30
Derek Campbell joins Day Two Cloud for a discussion about DevOps. Of course, DevOps has been discussed to death across the IT landscape, so we drill into specifics with Derek to get his unique take...
ListenNetwork Break 279: Cisco Acquires Fluidmesh; VMware NSX 3.0; MS Events Virtual Until July 2021 from 2020-04-13T21:03:57
Take a Network Break! Grab a virtual donut, sit back and relax, and take a journey with us through Elysian fields of tech news analysis. We’ve got stories today on Cisco, VMware, a new PCAP applian...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 511: A Wireless Upgrade Case Study from 2020-04-10T16:23:18
Today’s Heavy Networking is all about wireless. Guest Bryan Ward, Lead Network Engineer at Dartmouth College, takes us through a campus-wide wireless upgrade that the institution is currently...
ListenBiB093: 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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Day Two Cloud 043: Git For Ops People from 2020-04-08T17:54:29
Day Two Cloud dives into Git for operations people. If you’re an ops professional and you’ve heard of Git but are unfamiliar with it, this is your show. Our guest is Damien Garros, Mana...
ListenNetwork Break 278: Palo Alto Buys SD-WAN Maker CloudGenix; Zoom Gets Called On Security, Privacy Problems from 2020-04-07T04:07:29
Take a Network Break! Palo Alto Networks plunks down $420 million to buy SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix, Zoom copes with security and privacy problems, and Cisco Webex announces it will automatically adj...
ListenTech 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...
ListenBiB091: 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...
Heavy Networking 510: Take A Modern Approach To SD-WAN And Networking With Fortinet (Sponsored) from 2020-04-03T18:26:05
Fortinet has assembled an extensive portfolio of security and access products, including firewalls, SD-WAN applianc...
ListenDay Two Cloud 042: AWS Networking Part 1: Performance from 2020-04-01T18:03:56
Today on Day Two Cloud, Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks answer listener questions about AWS Networking. They get into the nitty gritty on core AWS networking concepts including placement groups for ...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 509: Zscaler – Enabling Fast, Secure Remote Work For Employees (Sponsored) from 2020-03-31T21:06:06
Today’s show goes deep on cloud-based security, remote access, and zero trust with sponsor Listen
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...
ListenNetwork Break 277: Juniper’s Mist Systems Announces Premium Analytics; Cato Launches Clientless Remote Access from 2020-03-30T16:56:30
Take a Network Break! Juniper Networks rolls out a premium version of its analytics platform for network engineers and lines of business, Cato Networks launches a clientless VPN, and SpaceX gets an...
ListenHeavy Networking 508: Should Network Engineers Learn Advanced Programming Languages? from 2020-03-30T13:45:21
Today’s Heavy Networking explores what it’s like to get deeply into programming while still being attached to the world of networking.
We discuss the transition from day-to-da...
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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Day Two Cloud 041: Practical Automation In The Cloud And On Premises from 2020-03-25T16:33:22
On today’s Day Two Cloud, we discuss practical automation, including tools and tips to make automation work. In particular, we focus on deploying consistent, reliable builds for VMs across pu...
ListenNetwork Break 276: Cisco Extends Certification Renewals; EU Asks Streaming Services To Reduce Bandwidth from 2020-03-23T18:22:14
Take a Network Break. We check in on the health of the global Internet as more and workers go remote, a mobile networking successfully tests sending text messages via satellite using a standard mob...
ListenTech 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
Heavy Networking 507: Build And Run A Multi-Cloud Network Architecture With Aviatrix (Sponsored) from 2020-03-20T20:25:58
Cloud networking is a challenge, to say the least. And when you’ve got deployments running in different public clouds, your challenges multiply. On today’s Heavy Networking, sponsor Listen
Day Two Cloud 040: Building And Operating A Private Cloud from 2020-03-18T16:14:27
Today’s Day Two Cloud delves into how and why to build a private cloud that functions as well as a public cloud. We examine the design and operational challenges of assembling and operating c...
ListenBiB089 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’m not sure we solved the problem ...
ListenNetwork Break 275: Aruba Bridges 5G And Wi-Fi; VMware Embraces K8s With Tanzu, vSphere 7 from 2020-03-17T04:03:35
Take a Network Break! We start today’s show with a conversation on the impacts of coronavirus on IT, and then jump into tech news. We’re joined by Listen
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...
ListenHeavy Networking 506: Where Is The Industry Headed With Intent-Based Networking? from 2020-03-13T18:26:21
Where is the networking industry with Intent-Based Networking (IBN)? On today’s Heavy Networking show we talk about efforts to come to some agreement on just what constitutes IBN.
W...
Day Two Cloud 039: Kubernetes Fundamentals For Infrastructure from 2020-03-11T16:01:42
Kubernetes is making a lot of noise in the infrastructure world. Day Two Cloud co-host Ethan Banks spent three days taking a deep-dive course on the orchestration platform, and on today’s sho...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 274: Let’s Encrypt Revokes Millions Of Certificates; Microsoft Pitches SMB Over QUIC from 2020-03-09T15:39:56
Take a Network Break! Let’s Encrypt revokes millions of digital certificates due to a bug that failed to validate domain ownership, Microsoft floats the idea of running SMB over QUIC, and Cis...
ListenHeavy Networking 505: Achieving Consistent Multi-Cloud Network Policy With VeloCloud (Sponsored) from 2020-03-06T18:29:28
On today’s sponsored show, we talk with VeloCloud, a VMware company, about a variety of topics including the...
ListenDay Two Cloud 038: Making The Case For Third-Party Cloud Storage from 2020-03-04T17:10:32
Today’s Day Two Cloud podcast focuses on third-party cloud storage. While the big cloud providers have native storage offerings, there may be times when you want an alternative.
Our...
Network Break 273: Fortinet Pits Deep Learning Appliance Against Malware; Nokia ‘Reviews Options’ As Earnings Struggle from 2020-03-02T20:30:52
Take a Network Break! Fortinet announces a new appliance that uses deep learning to spot malware on premises, VMware bundles a software security suite and announces a new beta security feature in i...
ListenHeavy Networking 504: The State Of Optical Networking In 2020 from 2020-03-02T17:24:38
If you’re new to DWDM and optical networking, this Heavy Networking episode aims to peel back some of the layers of these technologies to help you understand how they work, and whether you ha...
ListenTech 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’...
ListenDay Two Cloud 037: NetApp – The Cloud Data Services Company (Sponsored) from 2020-02-26T17:36:45
In today’s sponsored show we talk with NetApp, the storage company that’s embracing the cloud.
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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 ...
ListenNetwork Break 272: Dell Technologies Sells RSA; Nubeva Cracks TLS 1.3 With Out-Of-Band Decryption from 2020-02-24T16:28:57
Take a Network Break! Dell Technologies sells RSA for just over $2 billion, sponsors pull out of RSA Conference over coronavirus worries, and ExtraHop adds IoT to its network analysis platform.
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Heavy Networking 503: Achieve Multi-Domain Network Automation With Itential (Sponsored) from 2020-02-21T16:10:17
As organizations engage with network automation, they want to be able to leverage their existing automation tools (scripts, Ansible playbooks, orchestrators, etc.) rather than an automation vendor’...
ListenDay Two Cloud 036: The Container Contrarian from 2020-02-19T18:38:35
Here’s something you don’t hear every day: containers are a fad. They aren’t all that. Or maybe containers are the wrong answer depending on the problem you’re trying to solve. Maybe containe...
ListenNetwork Break 271: Global Espionage Agita Kicks Up A Notch; Forescout Gets Bought For $1.9 Billion from 2020-02-18T16:59:19
Take a Network Break!
Guest analysts Keith Townsend and
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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...
ListenHeavy Networking 502: Get Off My VLAN! Old Network Engineers On What New Engineers Should Know from 2020-02-14T19:51:53
I see abstractions. I see automation. I see orchestration. I see people who think that because they can use a fancy management tool, they are an infrastructure expert. For networking, this drives m...
ListenBiB 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 ...
ListenDay Two Cloud 035: Understanding Kubernetes Operators For Complex Applications from 2020-02-12T16:32:45
When Kubernetes was first designed, it was all about stateless architectures.
It turns out, there’s more than just stateless applications–there’s a lot of complex archit...
Network Break 270: Google Reports Cloud Revenues; HPE Acquires Cloud Security Startup Scytale from 2020-02-10T19:01:38
Take a Network Break! Google breaks out its cloud revenues for the first time, Cisco releases a bundle of patches for serious vulnerabilities in its Cisco Discovery Protocol, and HPE acquires the c...
ListenTech 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...
Network Break FU Special Edition 001 from 2020-02-08T14:00:46
This is a special episode of Network Break. We’ve been carefully curating your follow-ups over the past several...
ListenHeavy Networking 501: Automating Incident Response With NetBrain (Sponsored) from 2020-02-07T18:20:18
Is network automation just provisioning of equipment?
That’s what most of us think of, but there’s more to the story. Anything within the scope of networking where we can reduce manual pr...
Day Two Cloud 034: Everything As Code – Including Documentation from 2020-02-05T16:44:23
Moving from legacy infrastructure to an automated and cloud-friendly environment is complex (to say the least).
On today’s Day Two Cloud episode, we talk with a guest who’s in...
Network Break 269: Apstra Enhances Intent-Based Data Center Capabilities; Cisco Brings Kubernetes To Hyperflex HCI from 2020-02-03T19:38:13
Take a Network Break! Apstra debuts version 3.2 of its intent-based AOS software with new features including data center rollback, Cisco brings Kubernetes to its Hyperflex HCI platform and rolls ou...
ListenTech 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...
Heavy Networking 500: The State Of SD-WAN In 2020 And Future Forecasts from 2020-01-31T17:39:36
On today’s Heavy Networking episode we’re examining the state of SD-WAN.
The technology is already being widely adopted to help companies cut WAN costs by trading MPLS for business broadb...
Day Two Cloud 033: Cloud Governance – Bringing Order To Your Cloud Chaos from 2020-01-29T21:26:52
You’ve got this cloud thing and it’s starting to look like the wild West. Accounts and subscriptions are created willy-nilly. Your devs have stitched together a networking nightmare. Nothing is nam...
ListenTech 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...
ListenNetwork Break 268: VMware Acquires Nyansa; Microsoft Plans To Hijack O365 Browser Search from 2020-01-27T17:45:56
Take a Network Break!
VMware snaps up visibility and monitoring company Nyansa for an undisclosed amount, Sonos EOLs hardware lines in a manner similar to IT vendors, and US telcos put an...
Heavy Networking 499: Introducing Cisco IOS XR7 (Sponsored) from 2020-01-24T18:00:50
Cisco IOS XR version 7 is the topic of Heavy Networking ...
ListenTech 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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Network Break 267: Equinix Buys Packet For Bare Metal; Google, Verizon Flirt With Privacy from 2020-01-20T16:55:23
Take a Network Break. Equinix acquires bare metal service provider Packet for an undisclosed amount, Google announces plans to phase out third-party cookies over the next two years, and Verizon rel...
ListenHeavy Networking 498: Creating A Single Source Of Truth For Network Automation from 2020-01-17T17:48:12
A major automation challenge is where the information describing your network should live. You might think that your network would be best described by the config files on your switches and routers...
ListenTech 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...
Heavy Networking 497: Good Reasons To Start Your Tech Blog from 2020-01-10T18:20:34
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to blog more, or start a blog, this episode is for you.
Technical blogging comes with benefits. For one, writing about a subject helps you u...
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...
ListenBiB085 – 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 ...
ListenHeavy Networking 496: Packet Pushers 2019 Live Audience Q&A from 2019-12-20T10:00:14
On December 18, 2019, the Packet Pushers hosted a livestrea...
ListenHeavy Networking 495: Smart, Effective, Automated SecOps With Tufin (Sponsored) from 2019-12-17T16:41:41
Cloud and digital transformation initiatives are pushing security operations teams to the limit.
The growing complexity of cloud and on-premises environments make it harder for security o...
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...
Heavy Networking 494: Hybrid Cloud Networking – All The Details from 2019-12-13T18:14:18
Welcome to Heavy Networking. Joining us is William Collins, lead cloud architect for a large healthcare company, who raised his hand when we asked for folks who wanted to be a guest on the show to ...
ListenHeavy Networking 493: Taming Service Provider Complexity In 5G Networks (Sponsored) from 2019-12-10T16:26:27
With 5G, we have a new set of challenges for service provider networks. As the network becomes increasingly dynamic and distributed to deliver an ever-evolving set of services, providers have to co...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 492: Using Streaming Telemetry To Inform And Enhance Automation (Sponsored) from 2019-12-06T18:19:51
Here are some things your SNMP-polling based network monitoring station probably doesn’t do:
1. Consume inbound streaming telemetry
2. Comprehend YANG models
3. Analyz...
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...
Heavy Networking 491: Real-Life Segment Routing & PCE from 2019-12-03T17:35:02
Segment routing is a mechanism for sending packets over a specific path through the network. There are several ways to do segment routing and multiple elements that go into the technology.
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 ...
ListenHeavy Networking 490: Lessons Learned From A Large SD-WAN Deployment from 2019-11-29T11:00:39
Heavy Networking visits with Snehal Patel. A global network architect for a brand-name retailer, Shehal has been deploying SD-WAN since before it became the biggest buzzword to bet your business’s ...
ListenHeavy Networking 489: Is BBR Too Unfair An Algorithm For The Internet? from 2019-11-27T13:52:35
BBR is a congestion control algorithm (CCA) designed for low latency. Backed by Google, BBR’s use is growing on the Internet, including as the default CCA for YouTube.
However, an element...
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...
ListenBIB 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...
ListenBiB083 – 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 488: Using Genetic Algorithms To Avoid Internet Censorship from 2019-11-22T17:54:32
Today on Heavy Networking, we’re going to evolve using genetic algorithms. You heard me right.
Researchers at the University of Maryland in the United States have developed a project call...
Heavy Networking 487: Fortinet And The Secure SD-WAN (Sponsored) from 2019-11-19T21:50:35
Fortinet sponsors today’s Heavy Networking podcast. You probably know Fortinet as a firewall company, but tod...
ListenTech 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.<...
ListenHeavy Networking 486: Measuring Global Performance Of The Big 5 Cloud Providers (Sponsored) from 2019-11-15T15:33:36
Understanding how the Internet carries your traffic is no longer optional.
The Internet is much of your WAN, and the Internet can have problems just like any wide area network. Beyond the...
Heavy Networking 485: Understanding Edge Exchanges from 2019-11-12T23:21:25
Internet Exchanges (IXs) perform a core function of allowing provider networks to exchange traffic and data. IXs are key to the functioning of the Internet. However, there are relatively few physic...
ListenTech 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...
ListenHeavy Networking 484: Cloud And SD-WAN Are New Opportunities To Rethink Your Network (Sponsored) from 2019-11-08T18:35:21
Today on Heavy Networking our subject is: Stop treating your wide area network like a network.
What does that mean? Is it a Zen koan? If we meditate on the inherent contradictions in that...
Heavy Networking 483: SD-WAN Incompetence, Myths, And Fallacies from 2019-11-05T02:00:44
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are trying to sell SD-WAN services by convincing you that you don’t have the staff, training, or competence to operate an SD-WAN.
On today’s H...
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
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Heavy Networking 482: Test Your Limits With The TRex OSS Traffic Generator from 2019-11-01T19:57:16
TRex is an open source traffic generator backed by Cisco. Joining us on Heavy Networking today is Hanoch Haim, Principal Engineer with Cisco, and the lead developer on the TRex project.
T...
Heavy Networking 481: Enhancing Cloud Security With Network Detection And Response From ExtraHop (Sponsored) from 2019-10-25T18:43:09
Today on Heavy Networking we talk security, both on premises and in the public cloud.
The network you build and run on premises and in the cloud are expressly designed to connect users an...
Datanauts 173: Goodnight, Datanauts from 2019-10-23T15:47:52
Today is the final episode of the Datanauts podcast. Thanks to all the listeners who joined us on this starship journey through IT infrastructure.
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Heavy Networking 480: WTF Is Digital Transformation? from 2019-10-22T15:14:53
Welcome to Heavy Networking from the Packet Pushers Podcast network. Today’s show is all about Digital Transformation.
CIOs, executives, analysts, and product managers talk about di...
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...
ListenHeavy Networking 479: Scaling Up Your DDoS Protection With Juniper Networks And Corero (Sponsored) from 2019-10-18T19:54:32
DDoS is a significant problem. The volume of DDoS traffic is increasing by leaps and bounds, enabled in part by botnets of compromised hosts such as IoT devices.
On today’s sponsore...
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.
Heavy Networking 478: Leveraging LTE For SD-WAN With Cradlepoint (Sponsored) from 2019-10-15T21:49:10
Today’s Heavy Networking dives into LTE on the WAN with sponsor Cradlepoint.
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Heavy Networking 477: Segment Routing Boot Camp With Juniper Networks (Sponsored) from 2019-10-11T21:08:43
Today on Heavy Networking we go deep on segment routing. Segment routing is way to encode into a packet the path it should take through the network. And why would you want to do that? Lots of reaso...
ListenHeavy Networking 476: Running ACI And NSX In The Same Data Center from 2019-10-08T22:12:27
Today on Heavy Networking, a network transformation. OK, that sounds like marketing, but it isn’t.
This is a discussion about a migration to Cisco ACI and VMware NSX technologies, paired ...
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...
Heavy Networking 475: Anticipating 5G’s Impact On Enterprise Wi-Fi from 2019-10-04T18:17:14
Greg and Ethan are here today. Hi. Just us. We wanted to speculate on what the impact of 5G and private LTE might be over the next several months & years on enterprise wireless. That is, Wi-Fi....
ListenBiB082 – 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...
ListenTech 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...
Heavy Networking 474: Find Breaches With Continuous Monitoring From Open Systems (Sponsored) from 2019-09-27T23:10:39
I have worked with several intrusion detection and prevention systems going back a couple of decades or so.
The problem with them? Alarm floods. Never-ending updates. False positives. Mys...
Heavy Networking 473: Synthetic Transactions, SD-WAN Readiness, And Internet Outage Autopsies With ThousandEyes (Sponsored) from 2019-09-24T17:07:24
Welcome to Heavy Networking, a uniquely nerdy podcast that puts the network at the center of the universe where it belongs.
Today is a sponsored show with Listen
Heavy Networking 472: Grappling With Wireless QoS from 2019-09-20T18:19:46
If you are deploying an enterprise QoS scheme, wireless QoS matters to you.
Today, we go through the basics of wireless QoS, covering some of the standards, terminology, and thinking requ...
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...
Heavy Networking 471: Routing-Centric Transformation With Arrcus’s ArcOS (Sponsored) from 2019-09-13T22:17:07
Today’s Heavy Networking is a sponsored show with Arrcus. Their ArcOS network operating system takes a fr...
ListenHeavy Networking 470: Why Does Networking Evolve So Slowly? from 2019-09-11T15:59:14
In a discussion on the Packet Pushers’ Slack channel, Greg shared some slides from 1999, where some of the same points he raised 20 years ago are still true today. Why is networking so slow t...
ListenHeavy Networking 469: Actionable QoS Monitoring from 2019-09-10T15:42:23
QoS is difficult to implement over the Internet, because hey, you don’t own all the gear between you and the destination.
And even if you do own all the bits, QoS is hard to monitor. How ...
Datanauts 172: Getting Automation In Tune With Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) – Sponsored from 2019-09-04T16:58:29
Set phasers to automate! The Datanauts delve into Cisco's Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) on today's sponsored episode. We explore how NSO works, examine its architecture and configuration w...
ListenTech 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...
Heavy Networking 468: Making The Business Case For SD-WAN from 2019-08-30T21:14:41
On Heavy Networking we spend a lot of time digging into the technologies that underpin SD-WAN: bonding multiple links, application ID, encryption and overlays, controllers, policy enforcement and m...
ListenTech 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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Heavy Networking 467: The Journey To SDN from 2019-08-23T23:20:42
On today’s Heavy Networking we look at one organization’s journey to SDN, including pitfalls, triumphs, and lessons learned.
My guest is Sal Rannazzisi, principal network arch...
Heavy Networking 466: Securing The Network That’s Everywhere With Open Systems (Sponsored) from 2019-08-16T07:00:17
As your network perimeter expands into public cloud and mobile, how do you secure it? The answer has been some combination of endless firewalls, host agents, and VPNs, maybe from a variety of vendo...
ListenDatanauts 171: The Joy Of Engineering With William Lam from 2019-08-14T05:00:47
Turning to technical folks and their blogs is a good way to "not panic" when it comes to dealing with the trough of woe. In this episode, we'll talk to prolific technical blogger & VMware e...
ListenHeavy Networking 465: Looking Backward and Forward with Harry Quackenboss from 2019-08-13T17:00:37
Harry Quackenboss is long time veteran of infrastructure technology. In networking he was a VP of Sales of Crescendo for FDDI networking (to the desktop) which was acquired by Cisco. He later found...
ListenHeavy Networking 464: Provocative Statements With Tom Hollingsworth from 2019-08-09T18:00:16
On Heavy Networking, Tom Hollingsworth joins us from GestaltIT. Don’t know Tom?
I’ll describe Tom as a long-...
Heavy Networking 463: Under The Hood Of 400G Ethernet With Cisco (Sponsored) from 2019-08-02T17:50:50
We’re going warp speed on Packet Pushers Heavy Networking: 400G Ethernet.
If you think 400G is the same thing as 100G, just faster, you’re sort of right…but also kind of wrong.
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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...
ListenDatanauts 170: NRE Labs – A First Step For Network Automation Training from 2019-07-31T16:58:42
The Datanauts explore NRE Labs, a free site where network engineers, or anyone, can get training on automation concepts and tools. NRE Labs is backed financially by Juniper Networks, but it's a ...
ListenTech 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 ...
Heavy Networking 462: You’re Not A Coder, But You Need A Coder from 2019-07-26T20:23:25
Today on Heavy Networking, we talk about what an ops team looks like when adopting automation.
Network automation seems to be driving many of you towards Python. You’re learning to code, ...
Heavy Networking 461: Key Concepts Of Intent-Based Networking from 2019-07-24T17:27:42
Intent-based networking is the latest in a long string of dreams and schemes to get meaningful, wide-scale automation into data center networks.
In broad strokes, intent-based networking,...
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...
ListenHeavy Networking 460: Extending The Life Of Your Cabling Plant With InterOptic (Sponsored) from 2019-07-19T21:02:01
On today’s Heavy Networking, sponsored by InterOptic, we explore how to extend the life of your legacy cabling infrastructure in the data center as you grow to 100G Ethernet, and the options ...
ListenDatanauts 169: Understanding RESTful APIs For Infrastructure Engineers from 2019-07-17T15:40:08
RESTful APIs are the subject, Ethan Banks is the student, and Chris Wahl is the teacher in today's Datanaut's podcast. Chris and Ethan explore foundational concepts about RESTful APIs and how th...
ListenDatanauts 168: Why Design Process Matters For Data Centers And The Cloud from 2019-07-03T16:48:25
When you're tasked with a new infrastructure project on premises or in the cloud, a design process will significantly improve your chances of success. Guest Adam Post joins the Datanauts podcast...
ListenDatanauts 167: Patch Now Or Later? The Delicate Art Of Vulnerability Management from 2019-07-01T13:54:12
Security expert Zoë Rose beams aboard the Datanauts podcast to discuss the intricacies of vulnerability management, including how to asses risks, when and what to patch, the importance of input ...
ListenBiB 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 ...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenTech 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 ...
ListenTech 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
Datanauts 166: Can You Hire ‘DevOps’? from 2019-06-05T13:01:07
Matt Stratton beams aboard the Datanauts starship to share his opinions and experiences with DevOps. Is DevOps a role you can hire for, or a culture you create? If it's the later, how do you get...
ListenTech Bytes: Network And Performance Monitoring With NetBeez (Sponsored) from 2019-06-03T15:29:48
Today on Tech Bytes we welcome sponsor NetBeez, w...
ListenDatanauts 165: IT Roundtable – Chaos Engineering And More From Google Next 19 from 2019-05-23T14:49:25
Today's Datanauts podcast was recorded live at Google Next 19. Greg Ferro, Packet Pushers cofounder, comandeers the Datanauts bridge for a roundtable conversation with three IT pros on a variety...
ListenTech 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...
ListenBIB 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...
ListenDatanauts 164: When Is It Time To Walk Away? from 2019-05-08T16:50:29
Today's Datanauts episode gets personal, and a little emotional, as we discuss the pressures of life in IT, how those pressures get to you, how to keep going in a role, and when to move on. Our ...
ListenBiB 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...
BiB 075 : Looking at Cumulus NetQ 2 Announcements from 2019-04-30T15:01:52
NetQ Platform
* NetQ platform is the central platform that receives real-time telemetry data, providing visibility, network validation and trouble-shooting. The platform can ru...
Datanauts 163: Hybrid Cloud DNS Design With AWS Route 53 from 2019-04-24T14:44:30
Why is hybrid cloud DNS with AWS hard? What has AWS recently done to make it better? Should we use the new Route 53 Resolver features? The Datanauts tackles these questions and other cloud DNS i...
ListenDatanauts 162: From Tech Support To Cloud Architect – An Opinionated Career Path from 2019-04-10T16:23:27
Looking to elevate your skills from on-prem hardware monkey to cloudy diva? In this Datanauts episode, we explore one person's career path from tech support to cloud architect, and get his opini...
ListenTech Bytes: How Arrcus Uses LSVR To Build Scalable Data Center Fabrics (Sponsored) from 2019-04-02T00:32:29
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
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BiB 074: Replace iSCSI With NVMe/TCP From Lightbits Labs from 2019-03-28T12:00:35
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, includi...
Datanauts 161: Building Application Resilience On Azure from 2019-03-27T15:23:25
Just because your application is in the cloud doesn't mean you can forget about resiliency. On today's Datanauts episode, guest Tom Vachon shares insights and tips on how to design a resilient i...
ListenDatanauts 160: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To IT Travel from 2019-03-13T18:13:22
Today's Datanauts episode offers travel advice for IT pros who spend a lot of time on the road. Our three guests have logged millions of miles for work. They share tips on getting from A to B sm...
ListenDatanauts 159: Examining Public Cloud Maturity from 2019-02-27T22:29:01
How mature are APIs, toolsets, and other components of AWS and Azure? Cloud architect Alex Neihaus joins the Datanauts to discuss this question. We also explore public cloud migration, and Alex ...
ListenPQ 162: Edge Compute Use Cases And Juniper’s Contrail Edge Cloud (Sponsored) from 2019-02-21T19:39:19
On today Priority Queue podcast, sponsor Juniper walks us through use case for its Contrail Edge Cloud software. We also cover the deployment and operation of this software solution. Our guest i...
ListenDatanauts 158: Creating, Operating, And Collaborating On Open Source from 2019-02-13T12:00:50
Today's Datanauts examines the successful open source project dbatools to better understand its intent, how the project is operated, and how folks collaborate across a wide spectrum to build som...
ListenDatanauts 157: Balancing Compliance And Security With PCI-DSS from 2019-01-30T17:56:49
On today's Datanauts podcast we assess the current state of the PCI-DSS compliance standard and its impact on your infrastructure and security operations. Our guest is Paul Snyder, an IT Risk Co...
ListenDatanauts 156: AWS Outposts, Choosing An NVMe Fabric, Parallel NFS Cautions from 2019-01-16T19:26:33
Today's Datanauts explores three different topics in one show: we dive into AWS Outposts with Ned Bellavance, NVMe fabrics with Howard Marks, and parallel NFS with Chris Wahl. It's a triple play...
ListenDatanauts 155: The Mad Libs Prediction Show from 2018-12-26T16:14:38
In our final Datanauts episode for this year, we review how the show did over 2018, talk a little about how the show comes together, and finish with our 2019 predictions done Mad Libs-style.
... ListenDatanauts 154: Modernizing IT Infrastructure With HPE (Sponsored) from 2018-12-19T21:46:07
Today's Datanauts episode, sponsored by HPE and Intel, explores how HPE helps companies unify their silos and build a modern IT infrastructure. Our guest is Garth Reid, Senior Strategist - Enter...
ListenPQ 161: Inside Juniper’s Programmable Silicon (Sponsored) from 2018-12-13T19:39:39
Today's Priority Queue dives into Juniper's programmable Penta ASIC in this sponsored episode. Guest Chang-Hong Wu shares details on how the Penta ASIC works and discusses the future of silicon ...
ListenDatanauts 153: Understanding Metadata For IT Operations from 2018-12-12T16:17:39
What is metadata, and why should IT practitioners care? How is metadata stored? What impact does metadata have on enterprise IT storage? We answer these questions and more on today’s Datanauts p...
ListenPQ 160: Inside ArcOS®: The Internet-Scale, Carrier-Grade Network OS (Sponsored) from 2018-12-06T16:59:12
On today's Priority Queue we dive into ArcOS®, a new network OS designed for whitebox routing and switching from our sponsor Arrcus. We examine how the OS was designed, how it differentiates its...
ListenDatanauts 152: No More Stretched Clusters! from 2018-11-28T19:13:20
Today on the Datanauts we examine why people stretch clusters, the problems this can cause, and alternative design strategies. Our guest is Erik Ableson, owner of the consultancy Infrageeks.
... ListenPQ 159: The SATCOM Primer For Network Engineers from 2018-11-22T14:00:14
Today's Priority Queue is a primer on satellite communications for military and commercial networks, including key basics on frequency bands and coverage areas, how different orbits affect netwo...
ListenDatanauts 151: An Insider’s View Of Technical Education And Certification from 2018-11-14T15:34:03
The Datanauts get an inside view of IT training and certification with guest Brett Guarino, who helps design and teach instructional courses for VMware Education.
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PQ 158: Introducing NRE Labs For Network Automation Training from 2018-11-08T17:12:52
We dig into a new online tool, NRE Labs, designed to help network engineers learn the concepts and tools of network automation. NRE Labs was created by Juniper Networks, but it's a free and open...
ListenDatanauts 150: Living Outside Your Technology Comfort Zone from 2018-10-31T15:11:57
Advancing your IT career means getting outside your comfort zone. The Datanauts and guest Ken Nalbone talk about overcoming tech inertia, taking technology and career risks, and why it's essenti...
ListenPQ 157: How Cisco Built A Carrier-Grade Network OS (Sponsored) from 2018-10-18T13:48:59
On today's sponsored Priority Queue podcast we take a deep dive into Cisco's IOS-XR network OS to learn what it takes to build a carrier-grade NOS, including its microservices architecture, mult...
ListenDatanauts 149: Entering The DevOps World With Azure DevOps from 2018-10-17T15:16:33
The Datanauts dive into Microsoft's Azure DevOps, a suite of online tools to help developers make DevOps a reality. Our guest and guide is Nathaniel Avery, a solutions architect.
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ListenDatanauts 148: What’s New In Azure And Azure Stack – Microsoft Ignite 2018 from 2018-10-03T14:46:12
Chris Wahl and guests dive into the latest announcements about Azure and Azure Stack, including the Data Box storage device, new networking features, and more. This Datanauts episode was recorde...
ListenPQ 156: Wires Matter – A Wireless Engineer’s Detective Story from 2018-09-27T14:57:37
On today's Priority Queue, wireless engineer Lee Badman shares a real-world detective tale about a troubleshooting problem that took him into dark places involving wires.
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Datanauts 147: What’s Your Private Cloud Strategy? from 2018-09-19T15:19:37
On today’s Datanauts podcast, we break down what it takes to build out a private cloud on your premises. Our guest is Rita Younger, National Practice Lead SDDC / SDN and Technical Innovation Gro...
ListenPQ 155: Forecasting Network Evolution At VMworld’s Future:Net 2018 from 2018-09-13T15:02:17
This Priority Queue was recorded live at the Future:Net conference at VMworld 2018. Guests Bruce Davie and Guido Appenzeller discuss service meshes, differences between hybrid and multicloud, in...
ListenPQ 154: Design Challenges In Military Networks from 2018-09-06T14:23:40
On today's Priority Queue we explore the challenges of building military networks, including bandwidth constraints, hostile environments, survivability, training and skills development, and much...
ListenDatanauts 146: A VDI Design Guide from 2018-09-05T15:05:25
In this Datanauts podcast, we get a fresh perspective on designing and deploying VDI in the enterprise. Most of the conversation is based on VDI Design Guide, a new book from our guest Johan van...
ListenPQ 153: DDoS Open Threat Signaling For Coordinated Response from 2018-08-30T14:02:28
What if DDoS mitigation services could coordinate to thwart attacks? On today's Priority Queue, we explore Distributed Denial Of Service Open Threat Signalling, or DOTS, an IETF effort to do jus...
ListenDatanauts 145: Microservice Meshes With Istio And Envoy from 2018-08-22T15:49:12
The Datanauts explore Envoy (an application-level proxy) and Istio (management software or the control plane for service meshes), key open-source projects for microservices architectures. Our gu...
ListenDatanauts 144: Managing Work Stress And Cognitive Biases from 2018-08-08T20:07:12
This Datanauts podcast episode dives into the realities of dealing with work stress, especially when trying to embrace time off and unplugging from work. Our guest is Eric Shanks.
The pos...
ListenPQ 152: An IETF Update On RIFT, BIER, SD-WAN And More from 2018-08-06T19:49:03
Today's Priority Queue podcast looks at what's new with key IETF networking projects including RIFT, BIER and PPR, as well as standards efforts around SD-WAN. Our guests are Russ White and Jeff ...
ListenDatanauts 143: Getting To Day 2 Cloud from 2018-07-25T13:07:34
Today's Datanauts podcast looks at Day 2 cloud issues including operations, training, understanding and managing costs, and of course, security. Our guest is Maish Saidel-Keesing.
The pos...
ListenDatanauts 142: Cloud-First Networking With Big Switch Networks (Sponsored) from 2018-07-18T14:49:28
Today on the Datanauts podcast, sponsor Big Switch talks about its cloud-first networking initiative and new products that aim to make your public and private clouds operationally consistent. Listen
PQ 151: Cisco And The Art Of Disaggregation With IOS-XR (Sponsored) from 2018-07-12T21:46:47
Today on the Packet Pushers Priority Queue, we get nerdy about disaggregation with sponsor Cisco. Specifically, we look at disaggregation options with Cisco's IOS-XR software.
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ListenDatanauts 141: Managing Cloud-Native Applications from 2018-07-11T16:03:49
On today’s Datanauts episode, we talk to Justin Garrison, a senior systems engineer, about managing cloud native applications. We cover the challenges of managing a microservices architecture, s...
ListenDatanauts 140: Exploring End User Compute from 2018-06-27T14:24:50
The Datanauts and guest Sean Massey explore the ins and outs of End User Compute (EUC) and VDI, including use cases, the end user perspective, and EUC/VDI's impact on the data center.
The...
ListenDatanauts 139: Getting AWS Security Right from 2018-06-20T14:50:46
Today the Datanauts explore how to lock down AWS services to ensure they aren't publicly exposed--and it's not just S3 buckets. Our guest is Scott Piper, who'll share tips and open-source tools....
ListenDatanauts 138: What’s Up With Ethernet Fabrics? from 2018-06-13T12:52:13
Today's Datanauts episode delves into the current state of Ethernet fabrics with guest Stefan Fouant.
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PQ 150: HCI Networking With Big Switch’s Big Cloud Fabric (Sponsored) from 2018-06-07T14:57:43
We discuss networking for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and how Big Switch's Big Cloud Fabric can help on today's sponsored Priority Queue podcast.
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Datanauts 137: Automating Infrastructure As Code With Terraform from 2018-06-06T12:00:33
Our guest today is Ned Bellavance. We pick Ned's brain about infrastructure as code and his hands-on experience with HashiCorp's Terraform.
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Datanauts 136: ChatOps Using PoshBot With Brandon Olin from 2018-05-30T18:27:32
On this episode of Datanauts, we chat with Brandon Olin, the creator of PoshBot, a PowerShell based chatbot for ops teams. What does PoshBot do? How was PoshBot built? How do chatbots impact Bra...
ListenDatanauts 135: An Introduction To Edge Computing from 2018-05-23T14:45:53
The Datanauts explore edge computing, including a working definition, use cases, issues of locality and latency, and the infrastructure that drives edge computing. Our guest is Alex Marcham.
... ListenDatanauts 134: Preventing Failures With AI And HPE InfoSight (Sponsored) from 2018-05-16T14:42:06
On today's sponsored episode we explore HPE InfoSight, an AI-driven cloud service that helps predict and prevent problems that could affect Nimble Storage arrays and other HPE products. HPE is o...
ListenPQ 149: WPA3 And Wireless Security Improvements from 2018-05-11T00:39:10
Today's Priority Queue explores features in the upcoming WPA3 specifications to improve wireless security, including Opportunistic Wireless Encryption. Our guest is Dan Harkins from Aruba, a Hew...
ListenDatanauts 133: Perfecting The Job Hunt from 2018-05-09T14:31:19
Today on the Datanauts: the job hunt. We break down the process to understand and optimize it with guest Doug Lane, who'll share his own experiences on a recent career transition.
The pos...
ListenPQ 148: How To Monitor Cryptojacking With Paessler PRTG (Sponsored) from 2018-05-03T16:15:13
Find out how to apply network monitoring to security, and get deep visibility into your network, with Paessler PRTG in today's sponsored Priority Queue.
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Datanauts 132: Unit Testing For Fun And Profit from 2018-05-02T14:42:32
Today on the Datanauts we explore why and how you should test your scripts. Our guest is Adam Bertram, an automation engineer working with PowerShell and other DevOps tools and author of The Pes...
ListenPQ 147: Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored) from 2018-04-26T15:22:22
Today's sponsored Priority Queue discusses how to connect security controls with GDPR regulations. Our guests are Cisco partners Equilibrium Security and ePlus/IGX Global.
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Datanauts 131: Masters And Mentorship from 2018-04-25T14:47:43
Today the Datanauts talk about why mentorship can lead to IT mastery and how to get past objections from experts who don't want to share their knowledge.
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PQ 146: Practical Python For Deploying BFD from 2018-04-19T14:07:54
Today's show walks through a practical use case for Python; namely, deploying BFD to detect routing failures. Our guest is Billy Downing.
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Datanauts 130: The Good, Bad And Ugly Of The VAR Life from 2018-04-18T14:52:17
The Datanauts and guest Eric Gullickson dive into the good, bad and ugly of the life of a VAR from people who have lived it.
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PQ 145: Greg And Ivan Have A Chat from 2018-04-13T19:10:30
Greg Ferro chats with Ivan Pepelnjak about the state of the networking industry, including automation, intent, product quality, and whatever else catches their fancy.
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Datanauts 129: Automation And Security In AWS from 2018-04-11T15:13:32
The Datanauts parse the meanings of automation, infrastructure as code, and DevOps; explore new AWS services; and talk security best practices on today's cloudy episode. Our guest in Ken Hui. Listen
PQ 144: Engineer Roundtable: Encryption, Code Style, Tech Over 40 from 2018-04-05T14:26:27
The Packet Pushers convene an engineer roundtable to discuss encryption, code-writing strategies for networkers, and what it's like to work in tech after a certain age.
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Datanauts 128: Kubernetes, Serverless And No Code With Kelsey Hightower from 2018-04-04T14:24:17
Kelsey Hightower beams aboard the Datanauts starship to discuss the latest evolution of Kubernetes, serverless, and the wild new world of application design.
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Datanauts 127: Found On The Internet Series 4 from 2018-03-28T14:08:56
The Datanauts crack open our cabinet of curiosities to explore a variety of ideas found on the Internet including SREs, AWS vs. Amazon for a cloud career, the ups and downs of industry certifica...
ListenDatanauts 126: Stephen Foskett On Storage, Containers&Cloud from 2018-03-21T15:16:56
Stephen Foskett beams aboard the Datanauts starship to talk about what's new in storage, including for containers and cloud, plus cogent career advice.
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PQ 143: The Strange Dynamics Of Buying&Selling Enterprise IT from 2018-03-15T14:30:32
Martin Casado, general partner at Andreesen Horowitz, shares his perspective on the changing dynamics of how enteprises buy IT, and how it's sold to them.
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Datanauts 125: Security Gamification&Training New Talent from 2018-03-14T13:57:45
Is security gamification a useful tool for training security talent, or just a gimmick? The Datanauts dive in to explore this issue. Our guest is Evan Dornbush.
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PQ 142: TCP Latency Monitoring With Ruru from 2018-03-08T14:43:38
Today's Priority Queue peers into the Ruru project, which is open source software for TCP monitoring. Our guest is Ruru developer Richard Cziva.
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Datanauts 124: VMware Cloud On AWS (Sponsored) from 2018-03-07T15:43:36
VMware Cloud on AWS lets you run a native VMware environment on bare metal AWS servers. The Datanauts delve into service details, use cases, and nerd knob options with episode sponsor VMware. Listen
PQ 141: Using Open-Source FastNetMon For DDoS Detection from 2018-03-01T15:30:51
FastNetMon is open-source software for DDoS detection. On today's Priority Queue we explore the software & its capabilities with project leader Pavel Odintsov.
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Datanauts 123: Security Without Firewalls from 2018-02-28T15:47:39
Can you run a secure infrastructure without firewalls? Today on Datanauts, we make the case for this idea with guests Nick Buraglio and Jon Zeolla.
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PQ 140: OPNsense Wants To Be Your Open-Source Firewall from 2018-02-22T15:45:43
Today's Priority Queue looks at OPNsense, the open-source firewall and router. We examine features and capabilities, how it differs from other open firewalls, and more.
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Datanauts 122: Protecting Applications With VMware AppDefense (Sponsored) from 2018-02-21T15:53:02
The Datanauts delve into application security with sponsor VMware. We discuss VMware's AppDefense software, how it works, and why we need a new model for security.
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PQ 139: Why AT&T Is Building An Open Source Network OS from 2018-02-15T16:14:18
On today's Priority Queue we talk with AT&T about its dNOS project: an open source network OS the company hopes will become a standard platform for white boxes and spur new applications and...
ListenDatanauts 121: A Professor Takes Us To Machine Learning School from 2018-02-14T15:41:03
The term 'Machine Learning' is being sprinkled over IT marketing materials like magic dust. The Datanauts get to what’s real in ML with guest Vivian Zhang.
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PQ 138: Inside Open vSwitch from 2018-02-08T16:16:20
Today's Priority Queue delves into Open vSwitch with guest Ben Pfaff, an Open vSwitch contributor for the past ten years.
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Datanauts 120: Data Center Transformation, Certifications&Consulting from 2018-02-07T23:34:57
Today the Datanauts explore the worlds of consulting and VARs, and their customer focus areas, including data center transformation and certifications. Our guests are Jason Nash and Josh Coen. Listen
Datanauts 119: Is The Full Stack Engineer A Myth? from 2018-01-31T16:38:38
The Datanauts dive into the notion of the full stack engineer--an IT pro who can work across every layer of the infrastructure. Our guest is Tom Vachon.
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PQ 137: WhiteSpider&Real-World Cisco ACI Deployments (Sponsored) from 2018-01-29T14:31:10
On today’s sponsored Priority Queue, we're joined by sponsors WhiteSpider & Cisco to examine real-world deployments of Cisco ACI. We also discuss how Cisco’s SD-Access takes ACI constructs ...
ListenPQ 136: Making The Transition From Skype To Microsoft Teams (Sponsored) from 2018-01-25T13:24:36
Today's Priority Queue, sponsored by Ribbon Communications, examines how to make the transition from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams, and how Ribbon's Session Border Controller (SBC) can h...
ListenDatanauts 118: The Whitebox&Enterprise Networks from 2018-01-24T21:05:21
Whitebox networking hardware and open source software are challenging incumbent vendors and demonstrating new operational models for network engineers. The Datanauts and guest Peyton Maynard-Kor...
ListenDatanauts 117: Inside The World Of DBAs And SQL Server from 2018-01-17T17:56:50
The Datanauts dive into SQL Server and database architectures, as well as how infrastructure ops and DBAs can work better together. Our guest is Mike Fal.
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Datanauts 116: Understanding VXLAN Networking from 2018-01-10T15:59:49
The Datanauts dive into VXLAN networking with guest Lukas Krattiger. We explore how it works, discuss use cases, and examine how hosts inside a VXLAN network communicate with end points on the o...
ListenDatanauts 115: Secure Printing With HP (Sponsored) from 2017-12-20T16:22:20
The Datanauts discuss securing print infrastructure with Michael Howard, Chief Security Advisor, and Jason O’Keeffe, Print Security Advisor, at HP.
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Datanauts 114: Unikernels And IncludeOS from 2017-12-13T18:29:48
Today the Datanauts we talk unikernels and IncludeOS with guest Per Buer. We discuss how unikernels differ from a traditional OS, advantages and tradeoffs, and unikernel use cases.
The po...
ListenDatanauts 113: Working In High Performance Computing from 2017-12-06T15:40:30
Today the Datanauts explore what it's like work in high performance computing. We discuss issues at the compute and network layers, explore resource allocation challenges, and more. Our guest is...
ListenDatanauts 112: Building The Perfect Data Center Beast from 2017-11-29T17:01:33
Today on the Datanauts we talk about the key elements of building a physical data center: cabling, racks, HVAC, power, and management. Our guest is John Kerns.
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Datanauts 111: NVMe And Its Network Impact from 2017-11-22T17:28:02
Today's Datanauts episode looks at how NVMe moves the storage bottleneck back to the network. What’s that mean for distributed storage design? We discuss with guest J Metz.
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Datanauts 110: The Future Of Storage from 2017-11-15T14:37:28
The Datanauts divine the future of storage--including commodity hardware, NVMe, distributed architectures, and of course, cloud--with guest Tom Lyon.
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PQ 135: Mastering Python Networking – The Book from 2017-11-09T17:29:46
Today on the Priority Queue, we're talking about the book "Mastering Python Networking" by Eric Chou. We also cover Pythan, automation, Ansible, and other good stuff.
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Datanauts 109: Run VMware Apps In The Cloud With Ravello (Sponsored) from 2017-11-08T15:38:39
The Datanauts talk with Oracle Ravello in this sponsored episode about using Ravello to run your VMware applications in the public cloud.
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PQ 134: Meet ZeroTier – Open Source Networking from 2017-11-02T14:19:15
Today's Priority Queue dives into ZeroTier, an open source project for building virtual networks including VPNs, SDN, and SD-WAN. Our guest is founder Adam Ierymenko.
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Datanauts 108: Building Service Meshes With AVI Networks (Sponsored) from 2017-11-01T14:13:02
The Datanauts and sponsor AVI Networks explore service meshes and why they're essential to support applications built around microservices.
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PQ 133: Analytics&Automation Use Cases With Nokia Deepfield (Sponsored) from 2017-10-26T14:35:35
Today's Priority Queue explores real-world use cases for analytics and automation with Nokia Deepfield, our sponsor for this episode.
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Datanauts 107: Found On The Internet Series 3 from 2017-10-25T14:46:38
The Datanauts discuss stories they found on the Internet that apply to the Datanauts audience, including the rise of container adoption, storage networking, IT blame culture & more.
...
ListenPQ 132: YANG All The Things – IETF 99 from 2017-10-19T14:13:49
Recorded live at IETF 99, today's Priority Queue is a conversation about network automation and the YANG data modeling language. Our guest is Sue Hares.
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Datanauts 106: Controlling AWS Costs from 2017-10-18T16:43:36
The Datanauts explore how to control cloud costs with guest Corey Quinn, a consultant and Amazon observer who shares his insights and experience on understanding and managing your cloud spend. Listen
PQ 131: Whitebox At LinkedIn – IETF 99 from 2017-10-12T14:03:44
Our Priority Queue series from IETF 99 continues with a conversation about whitebox switching at LinkedIn. Our guests are Shawn Zandi and Russ White.
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Datanauts 105: Cryptocurrencies And The Blockchain from 2017-10-11T21:37:05
The Datanauts get an introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain.
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ListenPQ 130: ANIMA And IoT Networking – IETF 99 from 2017-10-05T14:47:35
Greg Ferro talks about the challenges of connecting lots of little devices to the network in a conversation recorded live at the IETF 99 conference. His guest is Michael Richardson.
The p...
ListenDatanauts 104: Migrating Exchange To Office 365 from 2017-10-04T17:33:50
The Datanauts explore the business case for, and challenges of, migrating on-premises Exchange to Office 365. Our guest is Theresa Miller.
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PQ 129: Accelerating Change In Enterprise IT – Future:Net (Sponsored) from 2017-09-28T17:48:26
The Packet Pushers and an expert panel discuss why technology change is so difficult in the enterprise, and how that might be fixed. This podcast, sponsored by VMware, was recorded live at the F...
ListenDatanauts 103: Azure Infrastructure And PowerShell At Microsoft Ignite from 2017-09-27T14:14:04
Chris Wahl records a live Datanauts at Microsoft Ignite to talk Azure, Azure Stack, PowerShell and more with Microsoft Technical Fellow Jeffrey Snover.
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PQ 128: ExtraHop 7.0&Addy Machine Learning (Sponsored) from 2017-09-21T16:10:48
ExtraHop joins the Packet Pushers for this sponsored episode to discuss packet analysis and the latest capabilities in ExtraHop 7.0. We also talk about ExtraHop's Addy machine learning and its a...
ListenDatanauts 102: Does Data Locality Matter? from 2017-09-20T15:41:33
In distributed storage/HCI systems, does it matter whether the storage mount for a workload is local or across the network? The Datanauts & guest Howard Marks discuss data locality.
...
ListenPQ 127: Path Aware Networking Research Group – IETF 99 from 2017-09-14T14:07:07
Priority Queue sits down with the co-chairs of the Path Aware Networking Research Group from the IETF to discuss efforts to put more choice and intelligence into path selection.
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ListenDatanauts 101: CIOs And The Business Side Of IT from 2017-09-13T15:02:13
This Datanauts episode delves into the role of the CIO to understand how technologists can work with executives to meet goals and align with business needs. Our guest is Tim Crawford.
The...
ListenPQ 126: The Future Of Data Center Fabrics – IETF 99 from 2017-09-07T14:45:22
Recorded live at IETF 99, this Priority Queue episode is a roundtable conversation on new and emerging ideas for data center fabrics. Our guests are Jeff Tantsura, Russ White, and Tony Przygien...
ListenDatanauts 100: Ask Me Anything from 2017-09-06T15:29:47
The Datanauts answer listener questions on tech topics and favorite episodes in an AMA-style format to celebrate the 100th show.
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PQ 125: In-Situ OAM And Telemetry Is Magic – IETF 99 from 2017-08-31T14:49:32
Today's Priority Queue explores In-situ OAM (IOAM), an IETF initiative to enable per-packet telemetry to be collected and extracted from the network.
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Datanauts 099: Understanding Microservices from 2017-08-30T16:47:29
Microservices represent the new application architecture, but is it right for everyone? And what do microservices mean for infrastructure design? The Datanauts explore microservices with guest B...
ListenPQ 124: Cloud SBC Security&Analytics With Sonus Networks (Sponsored) from 2017-08-24T17:12:09
Sonus Networks joins the Packet Pushers to discuss cloud SBCs for security and analytics in this sponsored episode of Priority Queue.
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Datanauts 098: The Changing Face Of Application Acceleration from 2017-08-23T15:03:47
The Datanauts explore how Web and mobile application delivery and acceleration have changed, and examine new efforts such as HTTP/2 and SPYDY. Our guest is Lori MacVittie.
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PQ 123: DMARC And Email Authentication – IETF 99 from 2017-08-17T16:10:45
Today's Priority Queue explores DMARC, an IETF project to improve email authentication to ensure mail delivery while thwarting spam and phishing. Our guest is Kurt Andersen.
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Datanauts 097: Unpacking Azure Stack For Hybrid Clouds from 2017-08-16T13:53:22
The Datanauts unpack Azure Stack to get a closer look at its primary components, explore the rationale for adopting Azure Stack, understand the integrated systems required to run it, and more. O...
ListenPQ 122: Interface To Network Security Functions – IETF 99 from 2017-08-10T14:48:06
The Interface to Network Security Functions (i2nsf) is an IETF project to provide standard software interfaces and data models for multi-vendor security services. Greg Ferro talks with Linda Dun...
ListenDatanauts 096: The Fuss About IoT from 2017-08-09T15:05:25
IoT presents interesting and exasperating challenges for IT infrastructure pros. The Datanauts delve into IoT issues including security & networking.
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Datanauts 095: Exploring Azure IaaS with Jennelle Crothers from 2017-08-02T14:45:56
The Datanauts are joined by Jennelle Crothers, IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft, to discuss infrastructure-as-a-service in the Microsoft public cloud, Azure.
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PQ Show 121: Getting Involved With The IETF – IETF 99 from 2017-07-27T16:07:54
Find out the many ways you can participate in the IETF in this conversation with Greg Ferro and guests at the IETF 99 meeting.
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Datanauts 094: Choosing Your Next Infrastructure from 2017-07-26T15:03:25
The Datanauts talk about the pros and cons of alternative infrastructure options including converged, hyperconverged & composable infrastructures. Our guest is Fred Chagnon.
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ListenDatanauts 093: Erasure Coding And Distributed Storage from 2017-07-19T14:54:46
The Datanauts look under the hood of distributed storage systems to explore erasure coding. Our guest is J Metz.
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Datanauts 092: Microsoft MCSA Lab Creation With Chef from 2017-07-12T17:29:09
Learn how to use Chef to automate the creation of MCSA labs for Microsoft certifications. Our guest on the Datanauts is Brett Johnson.
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PQ Show 120: Intent-Based Networking With Apstra (Sponsored) from 2017-07-06T17:58:25
The Packet Pushers talk intent-based networking with our sponsor Apstra. We discuss why the industry cares about intent, how intent-based networking works, and its potential impacts on network e...
ListenDatanauts 091: Found On The Internet Series 2 from 2017-07-05T14:25:09
The Datanauts explore major hybrid cloud announcements from the Nutanix Next 2017 conference, including a Google partnership and Nutanix's Calm and Xi initiatives. This is the second episode in ...
ListenDatanauts 090: AWS Networking Deep Dive from 2017-06-28T14:53:22
AWS and public cloud networking is not just VLANs. The Datanauts and guest Anthony Miloslavsky explore essential network constructs and architectural choices
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Datanauts 089: SRE vs. Cloud Native vs. DevOps from 2017-06-21T20:08:34
SRE, or Site Reliability Engineer, is an effort to create a job role that puts operations teams on equal footing with developers. Rob Hirschfeld joins the Datanauts to discuss just what it means...
ListenPQ Show 119: Can The Network Do That? from 2017-06-15T20:24:58
Guest Dave McCrory discusses the network in relation to distributed systems and problems of consistency.
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Datanauts 088: Found On The Internet Series 1 from 2017-06-14T14:59:15
OpenStack, CockroachDB, and the future of ops are the topics for the Datanauts' first-ever Found On The Internet series.
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PQ Show 118: IETF&The Enterprise Data Center Operators Group from 2017-06-08T15:11:37
The Priority Queue delves into the Enterprise Data Center Operators Group, which aims to get enterprises engaged with the IETF standards process. Our guest is Nalini Elkins.
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Datanauts 087: The Future Of Infrastructure Security from 2017-06-07T18:18:15
The latest Datanauts episode explores how the cloud, virtualization, and automation are affecting infrastructure security and why the approaches you use today may not be the ones you use tomorro...
ListenPQ Show 117: VMware NSX&Container Networking (Sponsored) from 2017-06-01T14:14:32
Today's Priority Queue episode is a sponsored conversation with VMware about NSX and container networking. Our guest is Sai Chaitanya.
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Datanauts 086: AWS Identity&Access Management Policies from 2017-05-31T19:38:41
Today's Datanauts episode explores how to set up Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in AWS. Our guest is Cole Morrison.
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Datanauts 085: Understanding In-Memory Databases from 2017-05-24T15:59:08
Today's Datanauts podcast explores the architecture and design challenges of running distributed in-memory databases. Our guests are Swapnil Bawaskar and Jim Bedenbaugh from Pivotal.
The ...
ListenPQ Show 116: Practical YANG For Network Automation from 2017-05-18T16:07:50
Today's Priority Queue explores network modeling and programmability. Our guest Michael Kashin has been working with YANG models, python, and a variety of supporting tools. We discuss how to wor...
ListenDatanauts 084: A Fireside Chat: PowerShell&DevOps Global Summit from 2017-05-17T19:50:03
Today's episode is all about Chris’s adventures at the 5th annual PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit.
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PQ Show 115: BIER, RIFT&BGP+SFC At IETF 98 from 2017-05-11T16:30:58
Today's Priority Queue explores three IETF draft projects for routing, including BIER, RIFT, and the use of BGP as a control plane for service function chaining. Our guests are Alia Atlas and An...
ListenDatanauts 083: Diving Deep Into vSphere Host Resources from 2017-05-10T15:53:51
Today on the Datanauts we explore the depths of vSphere 6.5 host resources to help you maximum performance of your virtual infrastructure and provide a deeper understanding of essentials such as...
ListenPQ Show 114: Hackathons: Rough Consensus, Running Code At IETF 98 from 2017-05-04T14:17:23
Today's Priority Queue looks at hackathons at the IETF. Hackathons provide real-world feedback for working groups, validate implementations of standards, and help drive adoption in the broader t...
ListenDatanauts 082: The Path To Automation&Coding For Ops Teams from 2017-05-03T18:25:25
On today's Datanauts episode we recount the journey of a technical professional to teach ops folks how to talk to APIs, code in various languages, and embrace the programmability of networking. ...
ListenPQ Show 113: All About DNS At IETF 98 from 2017-04-27T14:36:03
Today's Priority Queue is all about DNS, including scale, security, privacy, and DDoS protection. We'll also get into mechanisms for DNS authentication and operational issues. This episode was r...
ListenDatanauts 081: Building Secure Email Infrastructure from 2017-04-26T15:07:12
Today the Datanauts discuss the whys and hows of building secure in-house email infrastructure. Our guest is Jacob Evans.
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PQ Show 112: Free Range Routing At IETF 98 from 2017-04-20T14:18:41
Today's Priority Queue dives into Free Range Routing, an open source router that's a fork of Quagga. We examine capabilities, deployment options & more. This episode was recorded live at IE...
ListenDatanauts 080: The Current State Of Network Automation&Telemetry from 2017-04-19T15:09:06
The Datanauts explore the current state of network automation and telemetry and discuss how network engineers can transition from the CLI to a more automated infrastructure. Our guest is Ryan Bo...
ListenPQ Show 111: YANG Models&Telemetry At IETF 98 from 2017-04-13T15:10:54
Today's Priority Queue drills into the YANG data modeling language and telemetry. Our guest is Benoit Claise
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Datanauts 079: Designing For The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from 2017-04-12T13:45:12
The Datanauts peer under the hood of VMware's VCSA 6.5 to see what's new and discuss whether you should migrate. Our guest is Emad Younis.
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PQ Show 110: Is The CCIE Fading In Value? from 2017-04-06T15:51:21
The CCIE has been the gold standard certification in networking for years, but it's been tarnished by recent critiques. On today's Priority Queue we discuss whether the value of the CCIE is fadi...
ListenDatanauts 078: Object Storage&The OpenIO Project from 2017-04-05T15:20:06
Today on the Datanauts it's object storage. Our guest is Enrico Signoretti. We'll talk about how object storage compares to file & block, discuss use cases, look into the OpenIO project ...
ListenPQ Show 109: A Look Inside DMEVPN from 2017-03-30T13:53:36
On today’s Priority Queue, we explore DMEVPN, a open-source technology for multipoint EVPN tunnels. By using DMEVPN, network engineers can extend layer-2 tunnels across an IP network.
The...
ListenDatanauts 077: Transitioning To A Less Technical Role from 2017-03-29T14:43:07
The Datanauts & guest Tom Hollingsworth explore the transition from the engineering trenches to new roles that demand new skills but less detailed technical know-how.
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PQ Show 108: Do You Really Want To Work For A Startup? from 2017-03-23T15:20:20
Working for a startup sounds cool: it's all about creativity, hoodies, and big money, right? Today's Priority Queue looks at more common outcomes, including dysfunction and failure.
The p...
ListenDatanauts 076: Understanding AWS Vs. Azure from 2017-03-22T15:44:36
The Datanauts talk with Eric Shanks about the differences between AWS and Azure, how organizations choose a public cloud provider, the reasons application architecture are so critical, and how t...
ListenDatanauts 075: AWS Warts And All from 2017-03-15T15:57:52
The Datanauts and guest Alex Galbraith examine the gotchas of storage, networking, and scaling in AWS so you can get the best design for the least amount of money.
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PQ Show 107: The Applicability Of Machine Learning To Networking from 2017-03-09T14:49:30
The latest Priority Queue dives into the applicability of machine learning to networking with guest David Meyer, Chief Scientist and Fellow at Brocade.
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Datanauts 074: Understanding Data Models&Why They Matter from 2017-03-08T15:30:44
On today's Datanauts episode, Karen Lopez shares her expertise on data models, CAP Theorem and the pros and cons of various database types, and database architectures.
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PQ Show 106: Whitebox, SD-WAN&More – An NFD14 Wrapup from 2017-03-02T14:52:17
Today's Priority Queue is a conversation about the whitebox, SD-WAN, analytics & automation/orchestration technologies showcased at Network Field Day 14, with guests Eyvonne Sharp and Kevin...
ListenPQ Show 105: Will 5G Improve Rural Broadband? from 2017-02-23T16:54:31
Our latest Priority Queue episode tackles 5G and its potential to help with the rural broadband problem. Alex Marcham sits down with the Packet Pushers to help us understand the role that 5G wil...
ListenPQ Show 104: Design&Build 12: Certificate-Based DMVPN Design from 2017-02-16T14:30:47
The latest entry in our Design & Build series digs deeper into DMVPN. Today's focus is on using certificates for endpoint authentication with guest Nick Moody.
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PQ Show 103: Design&Build 11: DMVPN from 2016-12-15T17:12:21
The Packet Pushers Design & Build series continues with DMVPN, a proprietary Cisco technology for hub-and-spoke connectivity using multipoint VPNs. Our guest is Eugene Khabarov, a network e...
ListenPQ Show 102: Sonus Networks&Migrating To Microsoft Cloud PBX (Sponsored) from 2016-12-08T19:40:03
The Packet Pushers discuss the risks and rewards of putting your PBX in the cloud with Sonus Networks, today's sponsor.
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PQ Show 101: Kentik NPM For Cloud&DDoS Detection (Sponsored) from 2016-12-01T14:46:06
Kentik CEO Avi Freedman joins us on this sponsored episode to talk about new capabilities in the Kentik platform, including network performance monitoring for the cloud, as well as DDoS and anom...
ListenPQ Show 100: Engineers At The Bar Round 2 from 2016-11-17T15:47:03
Today's Priority Queue is a candid conversation among engineers about the tech industry, recorded live in bar. They talk about the state of networking as a discipline, prospects for open network...
ListenPQ Show 99: Netmiko&NAPALM For Network Automation from 2016-11-10T22:03:56
Today on Priority Queue we talk about Netmiko, network automation tooling you can use today with the equipment you already have, and which costs you nothing. Our guest today is Kirk Byers, creat...
ListenPQ Show 98: GNS3 Network Training&Virtual Labs (Sponsored) from 2016-11-02T18:44:07
Today we catch up with GNS3, a free and open source network simulator, sponsored by SolarWinds, that’s incredibly useful if you’re trying to lab and learn without all that pesky physical equipme...
ListenPQ Show 97 – Inside Three Real-World SD-WAN Deployments (Sponsored) from 2016-11-01T14:36:46
On today's episode, recorded live in NYC & sponsored by Viptela, network engineers talk candidly about the business & technology decisions for purchasing and deploying SD-WAN products....
ListenPQ Show 96: Cambium Networks Pushes Wireless Boundaries (Sponsored) from 2016-10-28T16:13:44
Cambium Networks sponsors the Packet Pushers for a discussion about WiFi in your enterprise as well as a new solution they recently announced that offers 14x14 MIMO.
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PQ Show 95: Nuage Networks, Red Hat&Container Networking (Sponsored) from 2016-10-27T23:33:50
On today's Priority Queue episode we're joined by Nuage Networks and Red Hat to dive into container networking, including the role of orchestration, overlays, service insertion & more. This...
ListenPQ Show 94: The State Of Open Compute Networking from 2016-10-06T14:20:21
The Packet Pushers catch up on the latest developments from the Open Compute Project on networking, including new efforts that target the campus and WLANs, with guest Carlos Cardenas.
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ListenPQ Show 93: Smart Network Monitoring With Paessler (Sponsored) from 2016-09-22T13:26:55
On today's Priority Queue episode, we talk smart network monitoring with our sponsor, Paessler, maker of PRTG Network Monitor.
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PQ Show 92: Network Or Endpoint: Where To Put Security? from 2016-09-15T18:41:58
Recorded live at Future:Net, this Priority Queue episode explores the 'network or endpoint' security debate with VMware's Bruce Davie & Bromium's Simon Crosby.
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PQ Show 91: Intel And 5G Networks (Sponsored) from 2016-08-25T19:26:27
5G networks will dramatically boost the capability of mobile networks and have a significant impact on industrial networks, IoT, and cloud computing. In this sponsored podcast we talk with Intel...
ListenPQ Show 90: What Is I2RS&Why Do We Love It? from 2016-08-18T15:33:31
This Priority Queue episode was recorded live at IETF 96 & focuses on I2RS, an IETF effort to create an interface to interact with the routing system. Guests Sue Hares and Russ White join G...
ListenPQ Show 89: Implementing EVPN for Enterprise DCI from 2016-08-11T05:00:55
This week, the Priority Queue gets into the weeds on EVPN with the specific use-case of DCI. Join Ethan Banks as he interviews double JNCIE Clay Haynes on setting up BGP adjacencies, creating EV...
ListenPQ Show 88: Multi-Layered Control Planes from 2016-08-04T13:36:55
Today's Priority Queue explores the notion of multi-layered control planes. Guest Russ White joins us to outline the concept of a control plane that's broken out into separate functional classes...
ListenPQ Show 87: Private Cloud Is For Real from 2016-07-28T19:03:38
Today's Priority Queue looks at the real state of private cloud. While public cloud gets the most media attention, and some analyst firms argue that private cloud doesn't make sense for most com...
ListenPQ Show 86: Making Sense Of CloudRouter from 2016-07-21T17:48:36
CloudRouter is an open source project built on Linux. It's designed to run in physical and virtual environments, including the cloud, and includes core routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF. Th...
ListenPQ Show 85: FD.IO&VPP Open Virtual Switch from 2016-07-07T13:40:05
Today's Priority Queue episode dives into the FD.IO project and the VPP open virtual switch/router. FD.IO is a Linux Foundation project, with VPP code contributed by Cisco. Cisco's Dave Ward, Da...
ListenPQ Show 84: Cloud Network Complexity Vs. Romana.io from 2016-06-30T17:18:42
Today's Priority Queue takes a visit to Romana, an open-source project that tackles network and security issues for cloud-native applications. We'll explore just what the Romana project is about...
ListenPQ Show 83: Sonus Networks&Microservice Orchestration (Sponsored) from 2016-06-23T11:55:14
On today's episode of Priority Queue, sponsor Sonus Networks joins us to explore microservice orchestration for networking, particularly in the context of OpenStack.
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PQ Show 82: Aruba Certifications Overview from 2016-06-16T16:41:34
Today's Priority Queue climbs the Aruba certification ladder for wireless networking. Exam developer Kimberly Graves talks about what you'll learn, and offers training and testing insights.
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On today's Priority Queue, Matt Oswalt shares details about ToDD (Testing On Demand: Distributed), an open source tool he developed for validating network changes.
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PQ Show 80: P4 – A Language For Programming Switches from 2016-06-02T13:34:56
Nick McKeown joins us on today's episode to talk about P4, an open-source language for programming packet processors, especially switches. P4's goal is to make network hardware more flexible ...
ListenPQ Show 79: Building The Digital Workplace With Aruba from 2016-05-26T14:34:31
This episode of Priority Queue, sponsored by Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, explores the ongoing evolution of the digital workplace and the key role that mobility plays.
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ListenPQ Show 78: BGP Flowspec For DoS Mitigation from 2016-05-19T20:01:11
On today's Priority Queue episode we talk about BGP flowspec, an IETF RFC that can be used for DoS mitigation, with Justin Ryburn, a Consulting Engineer with Juniper Networks.
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PQ Show 77: Location-Aware Apps With Aruba Meridian (Sponsored) from 2016-04-14T13:40:40
Today's Priority Queue, sponsored by Aruba, talks about wireless location services. We examine use cases for location services, and dive into Aruba's Meridian platform for building location feat...
ListenPQ Show 76: Understanding Aruba’s Unified Wired And Wireless Roadmap (Sponsored) from 2016-04-06T14:26:34
On today's Priority Queue show, sponsored by Aruba, we get a detailed update on the integration roadmap between Aruba and HPE Networking product lines.
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PQ Show 75: Talking Network Analytics And Telemetry from 2016-03-29T16:11:13
Today we talk about how network analytics and telemetry differ from traditional monitoring, what new data sources & techniques are available, and how we can put this data to good use.
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Today on Priority Queue, we're talking wireless with our sponsor, Cambium Networks. Cambium specializes in fixed outdoor wireless broadband in the unlicensed 5GHz/2.4Ghz spectrum, handling chall...
ListenPQ Show 73: VMware’s Martin Casado On SDN Evolution In 2016 (Sponsored) from 2016-01-28T14:02:51
Martin Casado, General Manager of the Network and Security Business Unit at VMware, joins the Packet Pushers to get nerdy about where SDN and VMware’s NSX have been, and where they’re going in ...
ListenPQ Show 72: Three Use Cases For Sonus VellOS Dynamic Path Networking (Sponsored) from 2016-01-26T21:14:41
On today’s Priority Queue, sponsored by Sonus Networks, we examine three use cases for the VellOS SDN platform, including enterprise SD-WAN, service provider interconnects, and multitenant inter...
ListenPQ Show 71: Kentik&Real-Time Network Visibility (Sponsored) from 2016-01-21T16:36:42
Startup Kentik offers real-time network visibility for service providers, Web companies, and enterprises. CEO and co-founder Avi Freedman joins the Packet Pushers to talk about how Kentik works,...
ListenPQ Show 70 – The HPE-Aruba Networks Merger – How Is That Going To Work? from 2016-01-12T20:21
HPE and Aruba Networks are merging their businesses. What does this mean for customers?
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PQ Show 69: Sonus VellOS And QoE For Unified Communications (Sponsored) from 2015-12-29T15:36:59
Sonus joins the Packet Pushers to talk about VellOS, a network operating system for ensuring quality of experience for unified communications. With VellOS you can automate flows through a networ...
ListenPQ Show 68: Geneve Data Center Overlay Update from 2015-12-18T21:30:22
Geneve is a data center overlay project in the IETF that aims to take the best parts of STT, NVGRE, and VXLAN. Join us and our guests as we drill into the technology and explore Geneve's prospec...
ListenPQ Show 67: VMware NSX Everywhere With Guido Appenzeller (Sponsored) from 2015-12-03T18:22:13
VMware's Guido Appenzeller joins Ethan and Greg on this sponsored Priority Queue podcast to talk about NSX's capabilities beyond the data center, including containers, the cloud, mobile devices,...
ListenPQ Show 66: Competency In The Enterprise from 2015-11-26T15:00:24
IT has been trained to operate equipment, but can they--and should they--learn the fundamentals that underpin the infrastructure? Does the enterprise have the skills, resources, and competency ...
ListenPQ Show 65: IPv4 Broker Services from 2015-11-20T18:19:19
IPv4 address space is officially exhausted in ARIN’s region. Broker services can facilitate the sale and transfer of IPv4 addresses between parties, but is it a good idea? John Curran, Presiden...
ListenPQ Show 64: OpenFlow TTPs Won’t Save Us with Rob Sherwood from 2015-11-12T14:14:59
On this Packet Pushers Priority Queue, we interview Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch Networks, to gain an alternate view on OpenFlow TTPs (table type patterns). We first talked about TTPs in Week...
ListenPQ Show 63: 6WIND Accelerates Hypervisor Networking: Sponsored from 2015-11-03T01:18:20
Today on Packet Pushers Priority Queue, we discuss the hypervisor performance bottleneck, some of today's workarounds, and commercial-grade virtual acceleration for hypervisor networking with ou...
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