Episodios

  • NB484: HPE, Nvidia Cozy Up on AI Infrastructure; Norway Uncovers Rare Earth Elements Motherlode

    NB484: HPE, Nvidia Cozy Up on AI Infrastructure; Norway Uncovers Rare Earth Elements Motherlode
    Jun 24 2024
    Take a Network Break! We start with a longish round of FUs, and then dive into news. HPE announces HPE Private Cloud, which includes software, switches, and GPUs from Nvidia for building out infrastructure to support AI workloads. HPE also announced KVM virtualization for HPE Private Cloud. We debate whether Britian’s anti-trust inquiry to the... Read more »
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  • NB483: Cisco Hopes To Be Ikea For AI Infrastructure; Is Anyone Besides Nvidia Making Money From AI?

    NB483: Cisco Hopes To Be Ikea For AI Infrastructure; Is Anyone Besides Nvidia Making Money From AI?
    Jun 17 2024
    Take a Network Break! We start with an announcement from Greg about his impending retirement. After we dust ourselves off from that, we pivot to this week’s tech news. Fortinet acquires a company to bolster its offering in securing cloud deployments and workloads, Cisco announces an Ikea-like kit to build AI infrastructure on prem, and... Read more »
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  • NB482: HPE Launches Enterprise Private 5G; Arista Creates Agent for NVIDIA SmartNICs

    NB482: HPE Launches Enterprise Private 5G; Arista Creates Agent for NVIDIA SmartNICs
    Jun 10 2024
    Take a Network Break! Johna fills in for Drew for a second week. We start with a follow-up on last week’s take on HPE and 5G. With this week’s HPE announcement that it’s launching Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G, we see that its offloading of OSS/BSS was to streamline, not a step away from its... Read more »
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  • NB481: HPE Unloads BSS/OSS Tools; Multi-National Force Busts Botnets

    NB481: HPE Unloads BSS/OSS Tools; Multi-National Force Busts Botnets
    Jun 3 2024
    Take a Network Break! Johna fills in for Drew this week. We start with HPE adapting to the 5G market and unloading BSS/OSS tools to HCLTech. Dell financial results suggest AI problems. ISP Windstream replaces 600,000 routers destroyed by malware. France, Germany and the Netherlands lead the largest-ever police action against botnets with the help... Read more »
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    42 m
  • NB480: New Dell Switch Targets Ethernet AI Fabrics; Nvidia Net Income Leaps 628%

    NB480: New Dell Switch Targets Ethernet AI Fabrics; Nvidia Net Income Leaps 628%
    May 27 2024
    Take a Network Break! Lots of hardware news in today’s episode. We start with a new data center Ethernet switch from Dell designed to accelerate workloads on AI Ethernet fabrics. Public cloud networking startup Alkira raises $100 million in funding. Broadcom announces a 400G NIC that targets AI workloads, and Allegro Packets announces a 400G... Read more »
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    38 m
  • NB479: Solar Storm Survival; Cisco’s Sinking Revenue Doesn’t Dampen Wall Street

    NB479: Solar Storm Survival; Cisco’s Sinking Revenue Doesn’t Dampen Wall Street
    May 20 2024
    Take a Network Break! This week we discuss what IBM and Palo Alto Networks get out of a deal for Palo Alto Networks to buy the SaaS version of the QRadar SIEM from IBM, why LogRhythm is merging with Exabeam, and how Google is positioning its latest AI chip to take on the Nvidia juggernaut.... Read more »
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    42 m
  • NB478: More AI Assistants Emerge; Dell Tracks Hybrid Workers’ Office Attendance

    NB478: More AI Assistants Emerge; Dell Tracks Hybrid Workers’ Office Attendance
    May 13 2024
    Take a Network Break! We begin the episode with some follow-up on edge AI chips, whether Packet Pushers should start a dedicated AI channel, and a clarification on AWS and VMware. On the news front, we discuss the soft launches of AI assistant from Extreme Networks and Gluware, and a new virtual appliance for Cisco’s... Read more »
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    41 m
  • NB477: Arista Assembles Switch-Based Microperimeters; FCC Wants More Money for Telcos Dumping Huawei Gear

    NB477: Arista Assembles Switch-Based Microperimeters; FCC Wants More Money for Telcos Dumping Huawei Gear
    May 6 2024
    Take a Network Break! This week we cover a new microsegmentation offering from Arista, new GenAI assistants from Fortinet, and a GenAI firewall from Versa Networks to monitor and report on how organizations are using generative AI tools and applications. AWS will stop selling VMware Cloud on AWS (but you can still get it through... Read more »
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