Packet Pushers Podcast Network (OLD)

Cisco positions Tetration for workload protection, GitHub weathers a massive DDoS storm, Canada cans IBM and more tech news on this week's Network Break.

Mark Burgess, who developed the principles of Promise Theory as a way to model distributed systems, joins the Packet Pushers to explore how his ideas connect to networking and information systems.

FastNetMon is open-source software for DDoS detection. On today's Priority Queue we explore the software and its capabilities with project leader Pavel Odintsov.

Can you run a secure infrastructure without firewalls? Today on Datanauts, we make the case for this idea with guests Nick Buraglio and Jon Zeolla.

Today's Network Break examines the lawsuit tsunami swamping Intel, new security disclosure guidance from the SEC, an Oracle security acquisition and more tech news. Our guest is Ed Horley.

Today's Weekly Show explores Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) with sponsor Cisco. We'll look at doing ZTP at scale, plus drill into iPXE and ONIE, golden ISOs, and integration with tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.

Today's Priority Queue looks at OPNsense, the open-source firewall and router. We examine features and capabilities, how it differs from other open firewalls, and more.

The Datanauts delve into application security with sponsor VMware. We discuss VMware's AppDefense software, how it works, and why we need a new model for security.

Today's Network Break dives into new enterprise products from Juniper, financial results from Cisco and Arista, a new cyber-insurance scheme from Apple and Cisco, and more tech news.

We explore real-world SD-WAN use cases, including service chaining and SaaS performance improvement, with sponsor Silver Peak in our latest Weekly Show podcast.

On today's Priority Queue we talk with ATandT about its dNOS project: an open source network OS the company hopes will become a standard platform for white boxes and spur new applications and tools.

The term 'Machine Learning' is being sprinkled over IT marketing materials like magic dust. The Datanauts get to what s real in ML with guest Vivian Zhang.

Today's Network Break dives into Cisco security patches and discusses new products from Talari, ExtraHop and Apstra, plus more tech news.

How did MPLS get its start, and why was it created the way it was? Today on the Packet Pushers we dive into the creation of MPLS with some of the engineers who were there.

Today's Priority Queue delves into Open vSwitch with guest Ben Pfaff, an Open vSwitch contributor for the past ten years.