Network Break
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Network Break keeps you informed with fast, focused analysis of IT news, products, tech trends, and business outcomes. Blending sharp commentary with a touch of humor, hosts Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray sift through the weekly landslide of press announcements, product launches, financial reports, and marketing decks to find the stories worth talking about. You come away with the information and context to make smart decisions in your organization and career … all in the span of a (longish) c...
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Episodes (272)
NB589: OpenAI Makes Cyber Mess, Wants World to Clean It Up; Cisco Strategizes In...
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Aug 31, 202631:00pending
NB588: Active Threats Target Siemens PLCs; IBM Chills Qubits With Modular Cryoge...
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Aug 24, 202630:44pending
NB587: US Calls for CyberSec Privateers; Oracle To Rent Out Quantum Computers
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Aug 17, 202635:37pending
NB586: AI Angst Abounds; Arista Revs Up Q2 Revenue
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Aug 10, 202629:54pending
NB585: Anthropic Models Bad Behavior; Orbital Data Center Patent Issued
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Aug 3, 202624:59pending
NB584: OpenAI Agents Mug Hugging Face; Fortinet Picks Intel for Custom Silicon
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Jul 27, 202632:11pending
NB583: TSMC Chips In Another $100 Billion for US Fabs; Can Data Centers Make It...
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Jul 20, 202634:28pending
NB582: Infoblox Adds Network Observability with Kentik Buy; Satellite Data Cente...
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Jul 13, 202631:27pending
NB581: Brute Force Password Attack Bleeds Fortinet; US Sued Over AI Model Order
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Jun 29, 202622:22pending
NB580: Project Glasswing on Hold – or Not; Why You Should Hold In-Person Backgro...
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Jun 22, 202636:58pending
NB579: Datadog Unleashes Autonomous Agents; SpaceX Launches IPO
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Jun 15, 202650:49pending
NB578: Cisco Goes All-In on AI Ops with Cloud Control; China Floats Underwater D...
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Jun 8, 202638:33pending
NB577: Cisco Brings SONiC to N9000 Switches; Broadcom Debuts Wi-Fi 8 SoCs for Co...
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Jun 1, 202636:29pending
NB576: IBM Gets Big Bucks to Build Quantum Chip Fab; AT&T Sues to Hang Up on Cop...
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May 26, 202636:25pending
NB575: AI Multipath Protocol Goes to Open Compute Project; Cisco Shrinks Workfor...
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May 18, 202629:02pending
NB574: Extreme’s New AI Agent Nudges You; Cloudflare Evaporates 20% of Employees
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May 11, 202637:41pending
NB573: Cisco Open-Sources OpenClaw Protection; T-Mobile Taps Starlink for Broadb...
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May 4, 202637:14pending
NB572: Quantum Switches and Flying Cars
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Apr 27, 202635:17failed
NB571: Linux Loads 7.0 with Network Upgrades; NetGear Routes Around FCC Ban, But...
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Apr 20, 202631:35failed
NB570: Project Glasswing’s FUD and Thunder; Au Revoir Windows, Bonjour Linux
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Apr 13, 202650:35failed
NB569: Adding Drones to Your DR Plan; Collision Avoidance (Orbital, not Wi-Fi)
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Apr 6, 202625:49failed
NB568: Arm Reaches for More AI Revenue with In-House CPU; Debating the FCC Route...
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Mar 30, 202644:24failed
NB567: CISA Says Harden Endpoint Managers; NVIDIA Launches GPUs for Orbital Work...
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Mar 23, 202622:43failed
NB566: Google Spins Out Fiber Business; HPE Networking Revenue Soars in Q1
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Mar 16, 202629:39failed
NB565: New Algorithm Claims Quicker Quantum Decryption; NVIDIA Revenue Rockets H...
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Mar 9, 202645:21failed
NB564: New Juniper Routers Pump Up AI and Cloud-Scale Traffic; Anthropic Vs. DoD
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Mar 2, 202652:01pending
NB563: Palo Alto Networks Nets Koi for AI Security; Quantum Networking Notches R...
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Feb 23, 202630:56pending
NB562: Cisco Challenges Broadcom With 102.4Tb ASIC; Arista Reaches Record Revenu...
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Feb 17, 202642:03pending
NB561: Kubernetes Retires Ingress NGINX; Are Data Centers Headed for Orbit?
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Feb 9, 202634:49pending
NB560: Microsoft Doubles Down on Custom AI Chip; CrowdStrike Brandishes Big Buck...
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Feb 2, 202633:41pending
NB559: Cisco Builds Nexus Switch for Intel AI Chips; TeraWave Promises 6Tbps fro...
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Jan 26, 202644:59pending
NB558: Microsoft Buys Indulgences for Carbon Sins; Starlink Cleared for 7,500 Mo...
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Jan 19, 202627:21pending
NB557: Meta Goes Nuclear; Arista Taps EVPN VXLAN for Massive Mobility Domains
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Jan 12, 202628:35pending
NB556: 2025 Wrap: Insatiable AI, the Worst Top 5, Space Networking Surges, and M...
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Dec 15, 202548:45pending
NB555: AI and APIs Drive HPE’s Dual-Platform WLAN Strategy; Dell, HPE Dangle VMw...
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Dec 8, 202547:06pending
NB554: AWS, Google Link Public Clouds; Trading Data Center Has Zero Chill
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Dec 2, 202536:44pending
NB553: Palo Alto Networks Acquires Chronosphere; New Agentic AI Products for Orc...
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Nov 24, 202547:22pending
NB552: Nokia Switches On AI Ops; IBM Seeks a Quantum of Advantage
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Nov 17, 202544:58pending
NB551: Cisco Adds AI to Tech Support; Cryptography Hits a Post-Quantum Milestone
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Nov 10, 202528:59pending
NB550: A Cornucopia of AI Switches; DNS Strikes Again
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Nov 3, 202529:38pending
NB549: Startups Take on Switch, ASIC Incumbents; Google Claims Quantum Advantage
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Oct 27, 202549:32pending
NB548: Broadcom Brings Chips to Wi-Fi 8 Party; Attorneys General Scrutinize HPE/...
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Oct 20, 202529:16pending
NB547: New Cisco Router Targets AI DCI; Salesforce Launches ServiceNow Competito...
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Oct 14, 202530:55pending
NB546: Meta Mulls GPU Startup Purchase; Indirect Prompt Injection Exacerbates AI...
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Oct 6, 202550:42pending
NB545: CISA Orders Immediate Patch of Cisco Vulnerabilities; Firewall Upgrade Bl...
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Sep 29, 202522:30pending
NB544: NVIDIA Buys $5 Billion of Intel Stock; Netskope Rides SASE IPO to an $8.8...
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Sep 22, 202526:32pending
NB543: Splunk, ServiceNow Announce AI Agents; Data Center Spending Runs Amok
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Sep 15, 202529:41pending
NB542: Hollow Core Fiber Outshines Glass; Broadcom Bags Big AI Bucks
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Sep 8, 202524:57pending
NB541: Cisco Gets Serious About Wi-Fi Certs; Is AI Infrastructure Ebullience Ebb...
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Sep 2, 202529:30pending
NB540: PQE In PAN-OS; FBI Warns 7-Year Old Cisco Bug Under Attack
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Aug 25, 202547:16pending