Network Break 310: Kemp Acquires Flowmon; Networking Startup Isovalent Nabs $29 Million VC Bucks - a podcast by Packet Pushers Interactive, LLC

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 monitoring, and cloud-native networking startup Isovalent, which offers a supported version of the Cilium open source networking software, rakes in $29 million in VC investment.

Extreme Networks takes on AWS Outposts by announcing its Extreme Cloud Appliance, Project Taara trials a free-space optics project in Kenya to deliver wireless broadband, and Cisco announces a tough quarter in its most recent financial results.

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Show Links:

Aruba warns of storage destruction flaw that bricks some switches – The Register

AOS-CX 10.04.3031 Release Notes forthe Aruba 6300 and 6400 Switch Series – HPE

Kemp Acquires Flowmon for Predictive Network Performance Monitoring and Network Detection and Response (NDR) – Kemp

Investing in Isovalent – Andreessen Horowitz

Google, Andreessen Horowitz lead $29M round for Linux kernel networking startup Isovalent – Silicon Angle

eBPF – The Future of Networking & Security – Cilium

Why We Switched To Cilium – MobilLabs

Innovation at the Speed of Cloud – Extreme Networks

Bringing light-speed internet to Sub-Saharan Africa – Project X (Alphabet)

Design: When to choose Free Space Optics (Ethernet Lasers)? – EtherealMind

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