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Aruba Networks is announcing new capabilities in its Aruba Central platform that leverage machine learning to do things like provide insights into clients on the network, recommend firmware for the best AP performance, and enable natural language queries in languages other than English. The post Tech Bytes: Aruba Networks AIOps Get More Features and Functions appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on Heavy Networking, we discuss NVMe over fabric, where your Ethernet and IP network is the fabric. Many NVMe over fabric discussions focus on what’s happening inside the storage packets themselves. This conversation focuses on the network. What does the topology need to be? What are the latency and loss characteristics of an NVMe transport fabric? What QoS tools should you be considering, how do they work, and when should you use them? Our guest for this vendor-neutral conversation is J Metz. The post Heavy Networking 641: Network Design For NVMe Over Fabric appeared first on Packet Pushers.

The pro and con's of having preferred supplier for IT technology ? You can save time and effort, simplify purchasing and move quicker but are you getting the best solution and support. We discuss different perspectives on going down the path and point out the subscription pricing moves towards vendor lockin. The post HS029 Do You Want A Strategic Vendor ? appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we welcome back sponsor Nokia to talk about a compelling feature in Nokia’s Fabric Services System. This feature, called Connect, lets Fabric Services System integrate with platforms such as VMware, OpenStack, and Kubernetes to streamline the provisioning of network services in Top Of Rack switches when new workloads or services are instantiated. The post Tech Bytes: Nokia Fabric Services System Streamlines Network Automation For Application Stacks (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

We discuss different aspects of selecting technology to buy. Topics include business case, planning, selection, evaluation and review - as you might expect - but we find that there isn't one right answer. The post HS028 – Do’s and Don’ts of Selecting Technology Provider appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we look at how to get better visibility into the WAN. Our sponsor is Cisco ThousandEyes and we’re going to discuss its latest capability, called WAN Insights, that analyzes WAN performance data to help remove SD-WAN blind spots and give network engineers a better understanding of whether their providers are delivering as promised. The post Tech Bytes: Forecasting SD-WAN Performance With WAN Insights (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On today's Tech Bytes podcast we discuss the value of streaming telemetry in a modern network with sponsor Nokia. Nokia's SR-Linux network OS enables streaming telemetry, so let's dive into the value of telemetry, how the OS supports it, and options for consuming the telemetry to do useful things with it. The post Tech Bytes: Maximize Network Data With Nokia’s Streaming Telemetry (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

The Tech Bytes podcast welcomes Fortinet to  to discuss the universal nature of Fortinet hardware and software. The same FortiGate NGFW appliance includes networking capabilities including a router, SD-WAN, ZTNA, and a LAN controller. The post Tech Bytes: Fortinet Firewall Integrates SD-WAN, ZTNA, LAN Controller (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we talk about Zero Trust Network Access and how it’s evolving to provide more comprehensive and consistent security. The post Tech Bytes: The Evolution Of Zero Trust Network Access (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking about Network as a Service with sponsor Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, including how Aruba defines NaaS, the market appetite for network as a service, customer examples, and more. The post Tech Bytes: How Aruba NaaS Changes Network Consumption (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today we welcome sponsor Nokia back to the Tech Bytes podcast to get more information about its Digital Sandbox, and how this software, part of Nokia’s Fabric Services System, helps enable a continuous integration/continuous delivery, or CI/CD framework, for network engineers. Our guest is Erwan James, Product Line Manager at Nokia. The post Tech Bytes: Enhancing CI/CD Pipelines With Nokia’s Digital Sandbox (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Welcome to this sponsored Tech Bytes episode with HashiCorp, where we focus on how HashiCorp's Consul product helps automate network infrastructure. We also dig into what’s included in the Enterprise version of Consul. Joining us today is Hari Sankaran from the Consul product team. The post Tech Bytes: HashiCorp’s Consul Tackles Network Infrastructure Automation (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with Managed Service Provider (MSP) and VMware partner of the year Softchoice on how Softchoice helps customers navigate multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments using VMware. We cover details about two real-world Softchoice/VMware customer use cases: a Major League Baseball team and a financial services firm. The post Tech Bytes: MSP Softchoice And VMware Tackle Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Deployments (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Palo Alto Networks about two new approaches for supporting remote and hybrid workers. First is Okyo Garde, a new wireless mesh product to support remote work. And second, a new bandwidth-on-demand option for Palo Alto’s Prisma SD-WAN. The post Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Introduces Security As Flexible As Today’s Hybrid Workforce (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today's sponsored Tech Bytes dives into HashiCorp's Consul product to learn how it’s evolved from its humble beginnings to become a service networking platform with features including a service mesh, service discovery, network infrastructure automation, an API gateway, and more. The post Tech Bytes: Solving Service Networking Problems With HashiCorp’s Consul (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking WAN architectures and how to simplify and secure them with sponsor Cloudflare. Cloudflare's Magic WAN is a network-as-a-service offering. Customers can connect data centers, branches, and users to Cloudflare's private network; add security services; and integrate with third-party SD-WANs. The post Tech Bytes: Cloudflare Simplifies Wide Area Networks With Magic WAN (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we dive into sponsor Nokia's Digital Sandbox, which creates a real-time model of a data center network by extracting state and configuration from leaf and spine switches. Network engineers can use this model to test and validate changes. We discuss how the sandbox works and how it ties into Nokia's approach to intent-based networking. The post Tech Bytes: How Nokia’s Digital Sandbox Enhances Intent-Based Automation (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Welcome to the Tech Bytes podcast. VMware is our sponsor, and we’re discussing vRealize Network Insight Universal, the SaaS version of vRealize Network Insight. We look at how it can help with your cloud migration project. The post Tech Bytes: Flexible Cloud Migration Using VMware vRealize Network Insight Universal (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Fortinet, we’re going to dig into Fortinet’s campus and branch switching and wireless LAN portfolio. You might think of Fortinet primarily as a firewall company, but they do much more. The post Tech Bytes: Switching On Fortinet’s Wired, Wireless Portfolio (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast gets into networking and security. More specifically, despite what you might hear about cloud taking over, the network still matters, and is essential to an organization’s security strategy, especially as cloud adoption and remote work drive the need for hybrid IT. We’re going to address this topic with sponsor Fortinet. The post Tech Bytes: Why The Network Is Essential For Securing Hybrid IT (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.