NB488: CrowdStrike Bug Tester Was Buggy; Can Starlink Match US ISP Performance?
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on CrowdStrike and Microsoft, and then examine a CrowdStrike incident review in which the security company says a bug in its content validator me...
29 Jul 202444min
NB487: The BSODs Strike Back; SolarWinds Sorta Dodges SEC Bullets
Take a Network Break! This week we cover the CrowdStrike/Microsoft patch debacle, why SolarWinds isn’t entirely out of trouble following a judge’s dismissal of most–but not all–of an SEC lawsuit, and ...
22 Jul 202448min
NB486: Chrome Ditches Entrust Certs; Do AI Stocks Mirror the DotCom Bubble?
Take a Network Break! This week we cover why the Google Chrome browser won’t trust a set of Entrust digital certificates come November and what you should do about it, an emergency security patch from...
8 Jul 202443min
NB485: A Final FU for Greg
Greg Ferro bids farewell to Network Break, and Drew Conry-Murray and Johna Till Johnson bid farewell to Greg. Of course, the podcast must go on, so we also cover some tech news. First, Nokia acquires ...
1 Jul 202459min
NB484: HPE, Nvidia Cozy Up on AI Infrastructure; Norway Uncovers Rare Earth Elements Motherlode
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 infrastru...
24 Jun 20241h 8min
NB483: Cisco Hopes To Be Ikea For AI Infrastructure; Is Anyone Besides Nvidia Making Money From AI?
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 b...
17 Jun 20241h 4min
NB482: HPE Launches Enterprise Private 5G; Arista Creates Agent for NVIDIA SmartNICs
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 Ent...
10 Jun 202455min
NB481: HPE Unloads BSS/OSS Tools; Multi-National Force Busts Botnets
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 ...
3 Jun 202442min
