This post originally appeared in the Packet Pushers’ Human Infrastructure newsletter, a weekly mailing of essays, links to technical blogs and IT news, and whatever else think is interesting. Subscribe for free here. Let’s say I invent an autonomous mobile robot. It can lift heavy items for you, wash your dishes, do your grocery shopping,…
A Look At Broadcom’s Jericho3-AI Ethernet Fabric: Schedules, Credits, And Cells
Broadcom has come up with some interesting mechanisms to address the challenges of building an Ethernet-based fabric that supports AI workloads. These mechanisms, which include a scheduling framework, cells, and credits, are intended to minimize congestion, latency, and dropped frames or packets in the fabric. In this post I talk about what I learned at…
The Packet Pushers Welcome CEO Jennifer Tribe
We’re excited to announce Jennifer Tribe has joined Packet Pushers Interactive as our first-ever CEO! Jennifer’s mission is to help grow the Packet Pushers podcast network, increase our visibility and reach in the tech community, and bring in new listeners and clients. Jennifer’s skill set and experience are ideal for this position. She’s been a…
Will ChatGPT Make Tech Blogs Obsolete?
This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in the Packet Pushers’ Human Infrastructure newsletter. You can subscribe and see all back issues here. Daniel Miessler says AI-powered chatbots will be the end of tech tutorial blogs. And at first glance, his argument seems sound. Prior to the rise of chatbots and digital assistants,…
Startup Radar: Kumorai Tackles Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Automation
Kumorai is a startup that aims to simplify the deployment and operation of compute, networking, and security infrastructure across public clouds. The company says its SaaS application provides a no-code environment where IT pros can use a visual interface to assemble infrastructure components such as compute, VPCs and vNets, Transit Gateways, and firewalls, and then…
SmartNIC, DPU Revenue Forecast To Grow 30% In 2023
Data Processing Unit (DPU) and SmartNIC vendors such as NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD are making a lot of noise about the ability of their adapters to offload work from CPUs and to run networking, security, and storage applications directly on a NIC inside a server. But that noise hasn’t necessarily turned into sales—at least not…
Xcitium’s Endpoint Virtual Jail Aims To Lock Up Mystery Malware
Xcitium is an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) vendor that sells client software that uses multiple methods to protect endpoints. Methods include anti-virus, a host firewall, a Host Intrusion Protection System (HIPS), and a technique it calls ZeroDwell Containment. The first three components are straightforward. The AV software relies on signatures to detect known malware….
Who Are The Most Overpaid Tech CEOs?
Here’s seven tech CEOs that showed up on a list of the 100 most overpaid chief executives. These IT execs are getting sky-high compensation. Their pay packages look even higher when compared to the median pay of their workers. For instance, the ratio between Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s compensation and the median pay of an Intel employee is 1,711 to 1.
Anuta Networks Adds Synthetic Tests For On-Demand Network Performance Monitoring
Anuta Networks has added an active assurance capability to ATOM, its network automation and orchestration software. Active assurance lets engineers run synthetic tests on demand using software agents. For example, if a service provider wants to test the performance of a link or network segment to see if it’s meeting SLAs, it can run a…
Fortinet Announces A New System on Chip (SoC) For Its Firewall Appliances
Fortinet has announced new chip hardware, the SP5, to power FortiGate firewall appliances for entry-level and medium-size customers that need firewalls at campus, branch, and edge locations. Fortinet is positioning this chip as a high-performance, energy-efficient option compared to security devices using off-the-shelf CPUs. Fortinet has long developed its own ASICs and has three hardware…
Cloudflare Muscles In On Digital Experience Monitoring
Cloudflare is rolling out Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) capabilities to help IT get visibility into network and application performance issues, particularly for remote workers.
DPUs And The Future Of Distributed Infrastructure: A Packet Pushers Livestream Event
If you want to understand Data Processing Units (DPUs) and how they might impact your work as a network or infrastructure professional, join the Packet Pushers and Dell Technologies for a sponsored Livestream event on January 23rd, 2023. What’s A DPU? Is It Like A DUI? It’s definitely not a DUI. DPUs are dedicated hardware…
Hedgehog, Kubernetes, And The Network Automation Conundrum
This post originally appeared in Human Infrastructure, the Packet Pushers’ weekly newsletter. See back issues and sign up here to get it. The networking startup Hedgehog recently emerged from stealth with a network fabric that brings together the open-source SONiC network OS (NOS) and the Kubernetes orchestration platform. The goal is to provide a distributed…
Aryaka Adds Secure Web Gateway, Firewall Service To Its SD-WAN And Security Capabilities
Aryaka is introducing both a Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and a Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offering to complement its SD-WAN capabilities. Many vendors, including Aryaka, are extending their SD-WAN offering to include security functions delivered as-a-service via Points of Presence (PoPs) or public clouds. This as-a-service approach makes it easier for customers to consume security services because…
Startup Veego Targets ISP Customer Service With An End User Experience Package
A startup called Veego is pitching an end user experience service to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to help providers offer better tech support to customers. The question is, are ISPs interested in customer service?
Juniper Apstra Freeform Supports New Topologies, Protocols For Data Center Automation–With Caveats
Juniper Apstra has introduced Freeform, a new way to consume Apstra’s data center automation platform without being tied to stringent reference architectures. While Freeform expands the network topologies and protocols Apstra can work with, it comes with its own tradeoffs.
New Trident 4C ASIC Includes Real-Time Threat Analysis Option
Broadcom has announced a new ASIC in the Trident family that can monitor flows in real time to identify anomalies that may indicate DDoS attacks, port scans, data exfiltration, and other threats, but has yet to announce security partners to take advantage of this capability.
VMware Aria: If You Can’t Beat Public Cloud, Maybe You Can Manage It
VMware announced an ambitious project, VMware Aria, at VMware Explore 2022. Aria offers multi-cloud management for enterprises that use services in more than one public cloud. The speed and sprawl of cloud adoption has become a problem for enterprises. Companies are having a hard time containing costs, monitoring performance, and enforcing security and compliance policies….
An Overview Of Cisco’s SecureX Device Insights
Device Insights, a feature of Cisco’s SecureX XDR service, aggregates, normalizes, and visualizes esssential details about all the devices on your network. SecureX can also automate workflows to respond to device-level security problems.
Cisco Live 2022: A Kinder, Gentler, Cloudier Monster?
Cisco Live 2022 in Las Vegas kicked off with executive keynotes, including an address from CEO Chuck Robbins. My takeaways from the keynotes from Tuesday, June 14th are: Cisco knows it has to work harder to keep customers Cisco has big cloud ambitions Meraki is one key to Cisco’s cloud & simplicity goals Cisco Has…
Extreme Networks Announces New Products Including SD-WAN And Digital Twins Of Switches, APs
Extreme Networks is rolling out several new products during its Extreme Connect live event, including an SD-WAN product, a new digital twin capability for its switches and APs, and a new switch. First is the availability of an Extreme-branded SD-WAN product, Extreme Cloud SD-WAN. The product comes from Extreme’s $73 million purchase of Ipanema Technologies…
Juniper Extends Contrail To Kubernetes For Cloud-Native Virtual Networking
Juniper Networks’ network virtualization software Contrail can now integrate with Kubernetes. Originally designed for OpenStack, Juniper calls this new version of Contrail “CN2.” Contrail is a Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform for spinning up, configuring, and managing virtual networks on compute nodes rather than traditional network hardware. Contrail enables virtualized routing, switching, load balancing, and…
Aruba Seeks To Entice Resellers With Modular ‘Network-In-A-Box’ Approach
Aruba hopes to entice the channel to resell Aruba gear with a new purchasing model. Aruba is packaging network equipment and software into pre-sized bundles designed around outcomes. You want an outdoor WLAN? Select option 1. You want a wired campus? Choose option 2. Based on customer requirements, the reseller buys and installs pre-defined service…
New Return-To-Office Policies
The following post originally appeared in Human Infrastructure, a weekly newsletter from the Packet Pushers. You can sign up and see every back issue here. Earlier this year, Google spent a billion dollars on office space in London. As the company orders employees back to its campuses, it’s also restarting amenities “such as cafes, restaurants,…
Gigamon Introduces Playbooks, Plus A Full Year Of Data Retention, To Its NDR Service
Gigamon has added new features to its SaaS-based Network Detection and Response (NDR) service, including playbooks that provide context for investigations, and a full year of data retention. In addition, Gigamon hopes to compete with more established NDR vendors by bringing more of a human touch to its service.
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