Network Break 284: Dell Technologies Announces SONiC Distro; Microsoft Acquires Metaswitch Networks - a podcast by Packet Pushers Interactive, LLC

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 before it became cool, and Microsoft’s acquisition of Metaswitch Networks.

VMware buys Kubernetes security platform Octarine and announces an integration deal with SIEM vendors, U.S. President Donald Trump extends a ban on U.S. companies buying products from Huawei or ZTE (but we can still sell them components), and Cisco reports a tough third quarter.

Links to all these stories are below.

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Show Links:

Dell Technologies and SONiC: Open Source Networking That Checks All the Boxes – Direct2DellEMC

Dell Technologies Delivers the Power of Open Source Networking to Help Automate and Simplify Data Centers – Dell Technologies

Mellanox Integrated SONiC Open Networking Solution – NVIDIA Blog

Microsoft has announced an agreement to acquire Metaswitch Networks – Metaswitch Networks

Microsoft announces definitive agreement to acquire Metaswitch Networks, expanding approach to empower operators and partner with network equipment providers to deliver on promise of 5G – Microsoft

Microsoft has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks! – Affirmed Networks

Microsoft announces agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks to deliver new opportunities for a global 5G ecosystem – The Official Microsoft Blog

VMware to Acquire Octarine to Boost Kubernetes Runtime Security – The New Stack

VMware Advances Intrinsic Security Strategy at Connect 2020 Announcing Intent to Acquire Octarine to Expand Workload Security Solution into Kubernetes and Creation of Next-Gen SOC Alliance – VMware

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