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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NB539: Boom Times for Arista; SonicWall Offers $200K Firewall Warranty
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NB538: AI Copilot To Help Steer HPE SASE; SoftBank Will Test 5G Airships
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NB537: Palo Alto Networks IDs New Market With $25 Billion CyberArk Buy; Intel to...
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NB536: Fortinet FortiOS Goes Post-Quantum; Intel Scales Back Global Projects
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Jul 28, 202527:43pending
NB535: Tomahawk Ultra Chops Congestion; Denmark Invests for Quantum Advantages
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Jul 21, 202551:38pending
NB534: Arista Late to SD-WAN Party but Ready to Dance; CoreWeave Acquires GPUs,...
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NB533: HPE Settles With DoJ to Buy Juniper; Juniper Must Auction Mist Source Cod...
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NB532: HPE Deploys AI Agents Into GreenLake; Wi-Fi 7 Drives Q1 Switch Sales
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Jun 24, 202552:07pending
NB531: Cisco Spotlights AI, Unified Management at CLUS; Ultra Ethernet 1.0 Unvei...
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Jun 16, 202521:42pending
NB530: Broadcom Hits 102.4 Tbps With Tomahawk 6; Wireshark Debuts Certificate Pr...
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Jun 9, 202523:22pending
NB529: HPE Debuts 8Tbps Switch with Onboard DPUs; NVIDIA Revenues Run Wild
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Jun 2, 202543:17pending
NB528: IP Fabric Adds Firewall Rule Simulation; Extreme Networks Debuts Agentic...
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May 27, 202527:43pending
NB527: AWS Releases AI Agent for VMware Migration; Cisco Bullish On Customer AI...
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May 19, 202542:36pending
NB526: Cisco Unveils Quantum Networking Prototype; Arista Earns Record Revenues
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May 12, 202538:47pending
NB525: Cisco, IBM Recruit AI for Threat Response; HPE Air-Gaps Private Clouds
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May 5, 202531:46pending
NB524: Forward Networks Adds Endpoint Discovery; Intel Forecasts Q2 Layoffs
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Apr 28, 202524:10pending
NB523: CVE’s Reprieve, Google WAN For Sale, NVIDIA Pledges More US-Made Chips
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Apr 21, 202549:46pending
NB522: Git Turns 20, An iPhone Airlift, Cybersec Silence Speaks Volumes
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Apr 14, 202553:43pending
NB521: Optics Advances in the Data Center; Google Extends Gmail’s End-to-End Enc...
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Apr 7, 202542:55pending
NB520: When Good LLMs Do Bad Things, Dell’s Workforce Downsizes and Quantum Key...
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Mar 31, 202525:24pending
NB519: Google Bids $32 Billion for Cloud Security Startup; NVIDIA Makes Nice Wit...
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Mar 24, 202540:47pending
NB518: Clock Starts For New Intel CEO; Arista Load Balancing Targets AI Infrastr...
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Mar 17, 202538:16pending
NB517: TSMC Pledges $165 Billion for US Chip Manufacturing; Will the CHIPS Act G...
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Mar 10, 202546:39pending
NB516: Cisco, Nvidia ASIC Deal Chases Enterprise AI; Juniper Welcomes Third-Part...
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Mar 3, 202524:46pending
NB515: Quantum Computing’s Future Looking More Certain; Arista Posts Record 2024...
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Feb 24, 202527:32pending
NB514: Cisco, Juniper Announce New Switches; SolarWinds Goes Private in $4.4 Bil...
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Feb 18, 202538:20pending
NB513: UK Demands Apple Backdoor; AI Spending: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
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Feb 10, 202539:15pending
NB512: US Objects to HPE-Juniper Wedding; Cheeky DeepSeek Freaks VCs
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Feb 3, 202529:55pending
NB511: Cisco Sells Security Blanket for AI Nightmares; Stratoshark Captures Syst...
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Jan 28, 202538:28pending
NB510: CISA Says US Tech Inherently Insecure; AI Now Included in Google Workspac...
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Jan 20, 202547:46pending
NB509: FCC to Raise Funds for Rip-and-Replace of Chinese Telco Gear; Billionaire...
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Jan 13, 202529:45pending
NB508: Google Serves Up Custom AI and Quantum Chips; Nokia Puts Muscle Behind SO...
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Dec 16, 202424:09pending
NB507: Arista Announces Stackable Switches; FBI Recommends Encrypted Messaging
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Dec 9, 202442:04pending
NB506: Billions Flow for US Chips; FCC Lets T-Mobile, SpaceX Make Phone Calls fr...
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Dec 3, 202424:31pending
NB505: NetBox Makes Lateral Moves with New Products; Submarine Cable Cuts Raise...
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Nov 26, 202440:34pending
NB504: Cisco Updates Licensing, Branding with Wi-Fi 7; Google Cloud To Require M...
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Nov 18, 202444:43pending
NB503: Apple Buys Stake in Satellite Telecom Company; Arista Enjoys AI Revenue B...
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Nov 12, 202432:54pending
NB502: AWS Revenue Growth Lags Cloud Competitors; Microsoft Entra ID Forces MFA
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Nov 4, 202425:37pending
NB501: Fortinet, Cisco Defects Being Exploited; FCC Wants Input on ISP Data Caps
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Oct 28, 202423:37pending
NB500: SolarWinds and MacOS Vulernabilities Get Attention; Amazon Invests in Nuc...
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Oct 21, 202432:24pending
NB499: Juniper Extending AI Umbrella to Security; Should We Regulate AI or AI Ou...
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Oct 15, 202428:55pending
NB498: BlueCat Flows Into Network Performance With LiveAction Buy; T-Mobile Orde...
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Oct 7, 202425:42pending
NB497: Blocking AI Scraper Bots; HPE, Arista Reach for Bigger Slices of the Ente...
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Oct 1, 202439:34pending
NB496: Nokia’s Enterprise Data Center Intentions; Are AI ChatBots Worth the Nucl...
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Sep 23, 202451:08pending
NB495: Fortinet Customer Data Stolen; Boeing to Test Quantum Entanglement Networ...
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Sep 16, 202425:52pending
NB494: AT&T Sues Broadcom over VMware Support; Verizon Spends $20 Billion for Fr...
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Sep 9, 202431:49pending
NB493: Cisco Acquires AI Startup to Police AI; Nvidia, Dell Ride GPU Profit Wave
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Sep 3, 202450:13pending
NB492: AMD Spends Big For Engineering Talent; FCC Cracks Down on AI-Faked Roboca...
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Aug 26, 202442:53pending
NB491: Cisco Revenues Drop 10% in Q4; Texas Instruments Get $1.6 Billion for Chi...
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Aug 19, 202420:04pending
NB490: Google’s Post-Monopoly Options; Microsoft Flips Delta’s Legal Threats the...
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