NB491: Cisco Revenues Drop 10% in Q4; Texas Instruments Get $1.6 Billion for Chip Factories
Take a Network Break! Hackers may have stolen millions of US Social Security numbers, HPE acquires a multi-cloud management company, and Cisco announces plans to lay off 7% of its employees. Pure Stor...
19 Aug 202420min
NB490: Google’s Post-Monopoly Options; Microsoft Flips Delta’s Legal Threats the Bird
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a judge’s ruling that Google is monopolist and potential outcomes, the HPE/Juniper acquisition clearing regulatory hurdles, and Microsoft flipping the bird at ...
12 Aug 202426min
NB489: Shareholders Sue CrowdStrike; Intel to Fire 15,000 Employees
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a proposed class action lawsuit against CrowdStrike, while Delta investigates options to seek damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft. Microsoft Azure goes do...
5 Aug 202431min
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
