EP 527 | MAY 19, 2025

AWS Releases AI Agent for VMware Migration; Cisco Bullish On Customer AI Spending

Take a Network Break! Guest co-host Tom Hollingsworth steps in for Johna Johnson. We discuss a report, unconfirmed as of recording time, that Arista is acquiring VeloCloud, then talk about Broadcom sending cease-and-desist letters to VMware users with perpetual licenses and expired support contracts. AWS announces a new agentic AI tool to help customers running VMware on AWS migrate off VMware, HPE announces new private cloud capabilities, Cisco posts a strong Q3, and more IT news. | LISTEN NOW

SPONSORED | MAY 19, 2025

Nix AI Risks With Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS, Prisma Access Browser (Sponsored)

AI is no longer on the horizon. It’s part of how people and products work today. And as AI finds its way into more business applications and processes, it can create new risks. On today’s Tech Bytes, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we talk about how Palo Alto Networks is addressing those risks so that organizations can take full advantage of AI. In particular, we talk about Prisma AIRS, a new platform for AI security; and the Prisma Access Browser, which includes security features for AI. | LISTEN NOW

EP 104 | MAY 20, 2025

How Long Should Your Planning Horizon Be?

How far ahead should you plan, and what things belong in your strategic plan? Conventional wisdom holds that a 3-year planning horizon is “about right”--but in a period of rapid technical and geopolitical change (such as we’re arguably in right now) does that go too far out, particularly when agile methodologies recommend shorter action plans against a clear vision.  Johna and John discuss what it should be, and what factors affect that. | LISTEN NOW

EP 063 | MAY 20, 2025

Wi-Fi Security and AI in the WLAN at Mobility Field Day

Wireless security takes center stage in this episode of Packet Protector. Jennifer Minella and guests discuss "secure by default" efforts by WLAN vendors; the current state of PSK, SAE, and WPA3; NAC and zero trust; more WLAN vendors adding AI to their products (or at least their messaging); and more. Jennifer is joined by Jonathan Davis, Sr. Network and Wireless Engineer at Carolina Advanced Digital; and Allyn Crowe, Principal Engineer at Nexum. This episode was recorded on site at Mobility Field Day 13. | LISTEN NOW

EP 092 | MAY 21, 2025

From Stealth to Scale - Decoding Network Data Management with Damian Garros

Damien Garros, CEO and co-founder of OpsMill is with us once again for today's podcast. Since we last spoke with Damien, OpsMill has emerged from stealth mode and is making progress as one of the leaders in network source of truth in the field. Today, we'll talk through the progress Infrahub has made and get Damien's perspective on the latest trends and breakthroughs in network automation. He also discusses how Infrahub is meeting future challenges and incorporating emerging technologies. | LISTEN NOW

EP 027 | MAY 22, 2025

Tunneling Quirks & Features

On today's show, we're going to dig deeper into tunnels and explore some of the quirks and features of tunnels. This week we'll discuss maximum transmission units (MTUs), maximum segment size, IP fragmentation and more.  Today's bonus material is more RFCs - RFC 4821 and RFC 8899. | LISTEN NOW

EP 014 | MAY 22, 2025

Scaling Your Leadership with Dr. Brad Topol

On today's episode, we are  joined by Dr. Brad Topol, Distinguished Engineer and Director of Open Source Technologies at IBM, to talk about how to scale your leadership.   We explore the process of how he went from individual contributor to distinguished engineer to director and executive. We chat about how you build a career with longevity at one company, how to decide when to move to new projects, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 030 | MAY 23, 2025

The Backbone of AI: Data Center Ops in the Age of Explosive Growth (Sponsored)

Data Center construction has reached an incredible pace over the last few years with implications on NetOps and operations of all kinds.  Today we with talk with sponsor Siemon regarding the state of data centers, past, present and future.  We explore legacy data centers and how they are evolving to work in today's environments.  We then consider the current explosion in growth of data centers due to AI and what that means for data center design in all sizes of data centers.  Lastly, we look forward to where data centers are headed in the future and how to plan for scale and new workloads. | LISTEN NOW

EP 782 | MAY 16, 2025

Netris Meets Your Network Automation Challenges in AI Data Centers (Sponsored)

Netris is tackling the issue of automating multi-tenancy in an AI data center. Netris has your answer to this challenge, and it’s a solution certified to work with NVIDIA. We’re going to get into the nuts and bolts of Netris network automation with Alex Saroyan, CEO and co-founder of Netris. Along the way, we will discuss not just the multi-tenancy challenge, but networking challenges common to all AI data centers, whether they’re meant for multi-tenant use or not. | LISTEN NOW