EP 484 | JUNE 24, 2024

HPE, Nvidia Cozy Up on AI Infrastructure; Norway Uncovers Rare Earth Elements Motherlode

We start with a longish round of FUs, and then dive into news. HPE announces HPE Private Cloud, including software, switches, and GPUs from Nvidia for building out infrastructure to support AI workloads. HPE also announced KVM virtualization. Prosimo partners with Palo Alto Networks for multi-cloud connectivity and security. Data center switch sales have dipped for the first time since 2020. HPE’s quarterly revenues ride a wave of server sales as its other BUs falter. AT&T and Verizon spar over access to spectrum currently used for public safety. Britain’s anti-trust looks at the HPE/Juniper acqui-merger. Intel partners with the Ohio Department of Transportation to close roads for equipment transport to chip factories. Norwegian mining company has found a major deposit of rare earth elements. | LISTEN NOW

JUNE 24, 2024

Performance, Power Efficiency Drive Dutch IXP Upgrade to Nokia Routers, Silicon

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Nokia, we hear from Nokia customer NL-IX. NL-IX is a leading Internet Exchange based in the Netherlands. The organization recently redesigned and upgraded its network. Nokia played a role in that upgrade, including 400 and 800G routers and FP5 silicon. We’re joined by Dirk Kalkman, Chief Network Architect at NL-IX, to talk about what drove their choice of Nokia, including performance and power efficiency, how Nokia helps the IX deal with DDoS, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 076 | JUNE 25, 2024

Greg’s Finale

This is Greg’s last Heavy Strategy episode before he heads off to retirement. He gives us his final pieces of career and life advice, opinions on private equity, and a Cookie Monster quote. We also briefly introduce John Burke, the new Heavy Strategy co-host. Farewell, Greg. Thank you for all the great debates. | LISTEN NOW

EP 020 | JUNE 25, 2024

Dropping the SBOM: The Software Bill of Materials and Risk Management

If you care about nutrition, you check the ingredients of your food. If you care about your IT infrastructure, you check the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) of the tech. At least that’s the future that Thomas Pace hopes for. Right now, SBOMs aren’t super common and software transparency is very low. Thomas walks us through what should be in an SBOM, who in an organization should care about it, and how it can be used for vulnerability management and incident response. He also talks about how wider demand for SBOMs could lead to a future of higher-quality software and more robust cybersecurity. | LISTEN NOW

EP 030 | JUNE 25, 2024

Down and Dirty with Industrial Wireless

Wastewater containers, conveyors, chemical reactors… Scott McNeil goes out where the carpet ends to do his wireless work. Today he joins the show to talk us through the basics of designing industrial wireless architecture. With advances in wireless technology, not only is wireless now reliable enough for production environments, but it’s also much cheaper than wired solutions. Scott walks us through OT protocols like WirelessHART and how to configure industrial radios. | LISTEN NOW

EP 067 | JUNE 26, 2024

AI and Total Network Operations with Scott Robohn

This is the final episode of a series of interviews with Scott Robohn (for now). We discuss AI in networking operations and how it’s still too early to tell exactly how much, if any, value will be created. We also dig into Scott’s Total Network Operations framework, what it consists of and how he wants to continue to develop it. Tune in to get your fill of systems thinking and Marvel references. | LISTEN NOW

EP 154 | JUNE 127, 2024

IPv6 Basics: Neighbor Discovery

Imagine a world with no broadcast storms, basically no DAD issues, not even ARP and reverse ARP. That is the world of IPv6 neighbor discovery. In today’s episode, we teach you the simplicity of IPv6 neighbor discovery: just native Layer 3 addresses, ICMPv6, and multicast. If you’ve ever been annoyed at a guy hopping on stage at a concert to propose to his partner in the crowd, this is the episode for you– not every node in the network needs to process your packet, sir. | LISTEN NOW

EP 740 | JUNE 28, 2024

IETF’s Network Management Operations (NMOP) Working Group

When you think of IETF, you probably just think of defining protocols, but its new NMOP working group is all about helping network operators identify issues and deploy solutions, including those that pop up around automation. Mahesh Jethanandani is an NMOP leader and joins the show today to tell us what they are working on and invite all network operators big and small to give their input. We discuss their work on data models, incident management, digital mapping, and digital twins. | LISTEN NOW