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Take a Network Break! This week we examine Cisco's latest cloud acquisition, discuss Juniper's forthcoming automation bots and dive into more tech news. Plus, stay tuned for a Coffee Talk with ThousandEyes.

Today on the Weekly Show, the Packet Pushers talk about work/life balance. Because it's hard. Our guest is Derick Winkworth, also known as CloudToad.

Today the Datanauts explore what it's like work in high performance computing. We discuss issues at the compute and network layers, explore resource allocation challenges, and more. Our guest is Nick Buraglio.

Barefoot Networks is big in the programmable networking space, known for their Tofino chip as well as the P4 programming language. In this briefing, Barefoot announced Barefoot Deep Insight, a network monitoring system they claim goes deep on every packet in the network. Ethan Banks reports.

This week's Network Break reviews big announcements from Amazon's Re:Invent, examines the latest security slip-up from a misconfigured AWS S3 storage bucket, looks at the latest numbers on server revenue, and more.

On today's Weekly Show, Greg and Ethan discuss why it's hard to bring radical products to market, DevOps as a communications issue, and whether automation tooling is just a provisional step in network evolution.

Cisco Tetration came out of the gate as a deep analytics and insights platform and is rapidly iterating on a variety of use cases. In this briefing, Cisco discussed how Tetration can be used for network security. Ethan Banks discusses.

Today on the Datanauts we talk about the key elements of building a physical data center: cabling, racks, HVAC, power, and management. Our guest is John Kerns.

Kemp 360 Vision is a SaaS product helping enterprises understand their application delivery fabric and stay ahead of problems using proactive monitoring.

Listen to the Network Break as we analyze tech news from ATandT, Microsoft Azure, HPE and more. And then stay tuned for our conversation with A10 Networks on SSL/TLS decryption.

In today s sponsored show with Silver Peak, we talk about lessons they've learned from more than 500 customer deployments, the role of routing, the necessity of Internet breakouts, and more. Our guest is David Hughes, founder and CEO.

Today's Datanauts episode looks at how NVMe moves the storage bottleneck back to the network. What s that mean for distributed storage design? We discuss with guest J Metz.

Ethan Banks summarizes a briefing he received at NFD16, where Gigamon describes sending rich metadata feeds as IPFIX records from GigaSECURE to Splunk.

On this week's Network Break, we examine Facebook's Open/R routing platform, discuss why Qualcomm has rejected Broadcom's bid, and look at a new private cloud partnership between HPE and Rackspace.

The Packet Pushers and sponsor Cisco dive into EVPN to explore how it works and find out why it's attracting the attention of enterprises and carriers for use cases such as data center interconnect and Carrier Ethernet.