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Episodes

Total: 250

Network Break 444: NVIDIA Mines GPU Gold; VMware Wants To Sell You Private AI; SUSE Prepares To Go Private
2023/8/28

Take a Network Break! On today's episode we discuss two announcements from VMware Explore 2023: a pr

Network Break 443: Nuclear DCs, Mobile Cars, Fibrechannel, Open Source And Cheese
2023/8/21

We’ve got more durm and strang in open source license debate, cars that don't work wihtout a network

Network Break 442: HashiCorp Swaps Open Source For BSL; Open Enterprise Linux Goes After RHEL
2023/8/14

Today on Network Break we discuss big moves in open source, including HashiCorp switching from an op

Network Break 441: AWS Makes You Pay For IPv4; Superconductor Claims Meet Resistance; An Ultra Ethernet Q&A
2023/8/7

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss new charges for IPv4 addresses being levied by AWS, Cisco

Network Break 440: Broadcom Releases SONiC-Friendly Trident; Senator Requests Investigations Into Microsoft’s Shoddy Security
2023/7/31

On this week's Network Break we discuss a new Broadcom ASIC, a request from US Senator Ron Wyden to

Network Break 439: Ethernet Gets Ultra Injection For AI; Huawei Climbs The Patent Charts
2023/7/24

This week on Network Break we discuss the launch of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium and its intention

Network Break 438: Intel Abandons NUC; EU Blesses Broadcom/VMware Union; Microsoft Joins SSE Race
2023/7/17

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Intel walking away from the NUC PC, Microsoft rebranding

Network Break 437: Ethernet Turns 50; TSMC Imports Workers For Arizona Fab; BT, HPE Partner On Managed LAN
2023/7/10

On today's Network Break, Greg Ferro wishes Ethernet an unhappy birthday, HPE and BT want to manage

Network Break CCCCXXXVII: Summer Holiday Special!
2023/7/3

This bonus episode of Network Break discusses a new free tier of Prosimo's multi-cloud networking of

NB436: Cisco AI Silicon, DEM. HPE Greenlake AI LLM. FCC Talks Bandwidth Caps.
2023/6/26

Cisco announces AI Networking versions of SIlicon One ASICs and buys another DEM business. HPE Gree

NB435: Your FUs, VMware takeover, DPU News and Cooling is Toxic
2023/6/19

FU, vendors co-operating ? Google ditches something, Quantum computing, the state of AMD DPUs. Fina

Network Break 434: Cisco Licensing To Get Simpler, Bluecat Buys Again, Hashicorp Money Problems, and Itential Pops A Release
2023/6/12

Take a Network Break: Drew is on holiday (again) and Ethan shows up. Who knew he was still around ?

Network Break 433: NVIDIA Melds Switches, DPUs For AI Networking Fabric; FTC Says Amazon Ring Employee Spied On Female Customers
2023/6/5

This week's Network Break discusses a new Google offering to interconnect public clouds, NVIDIA's pl

Network Break 432: DriveNets Aims To Make Ethernet AI-Friendly; China Goes Eye-For-An-Eye With US Over Tech Bans
2023/5/30

This week we discuss a new offering from DriveNets that aims to make Ethernet more suitable as a net

Network Break 431: Juniper NAC Emerges From The Mist; New Google TLDs Are A Bad Idea
2023/5/22

This week's Network Break looks at a new Network Access Control (NAC) offering from Juniper, plus a

Network Break 430: Cisco Viptela Customers Have A Certifiably Bad Day; IT Crimes And Punishments
2023/5/15

Take a Network Break! This week we cover some follow-up on Lumen. Then we dive into a massive Cisco

Network Break 429: Palo Alto Previews Azure Firewall; White House Chases AI Horse After It Escapes Barn
2023/5/8

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a new Azure-native cloud firewall from Palo Alto Networks

Network Break 428: Arista Announces Cloud-Based NAC; Is Google Cloud Finally Making Money?
2023/5/1

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a new NAC solution from Arista Networks, a new version of

Network Break 427: Prosimo Launches Cloud-Native Networking Suite; Broadcom Stitches New Jericho ASIC For AI-Friendly Network Fabrics
2023/4/24

Take a Network Break! This week we cover new cloud networking capabilities from Prosimo, discuss Bro

Network Break 426: NetBox Labs Raises $20 Million; Intel Foundry, Arm Team Up To Make SoCs
2023/4/17

This week's Network Break discusses NetBox Labs's $20 million funding round and why it spun itself o