Welcome to the Network Break! On today’s episode we talk about the Infloblox acquisition by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners for $1.6 billion, and discuss a new partnership between Cisco and Salesforce on collaboration and IoT.
We examine a reporter’s reasoning for why Juniper could be the next private equity target, and look at the implications of Yahoo’s big hack.
HPE partners with Docker to sell integrated Docker servers, and Cisco shuts down its Intercloud initiative. Gartner tallies the size of the public cloud market, and an emerging standard targets IoT.
We sympathize with Brian Krebs as his site KrebsonSecurity suffers a massive DDoS attack, and look at an AT&T proposal for gigabit wireless sent along power lines.
OpenDaylight releases the latest version of its SDN controller, and silicon maker Centec Networks gets a new round of investment.
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Show Notes:
Infoblox Announces Agreement To Be Acquired by Vista Equity Partners – Infoblox
Infoblox to Be Acquired by Vista Equity for $1.6 Billion – Bloomberg
Juniper For Sale? But Are There Suitors? – TheStreet
Yahoo confirms ‘state-sponsored’ hackers stole personal data from 500m accounts – The Guardian
HPE Docker Ready Servers Now Available – Get Docker Preinstalled On Your Favorite Hardware – Docker Blog
Cisco, Salesforce partner on Internet of Things, collaboration, contact center integration – ZDNet
Cisco moves on from Intercloud, will focus on cloud management instead – Network World
Public Cloud Market Worth $208 Billion By End Of 2016 – InformationWeek
Why Narrow Band IoT can help the ever growing concept truly take-off – Telecoms.com
Narrow-Band IoT – Wikipedia
KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Record DDoS – KrebsOnSecurity
AT&T Labs Project AirGig Nears First Field Trials For Ultra-Fast Wireless Broadband Over Power Lines – AT&T
OpenDaylight Boron Gets Telco Love, But What About The Enterprise? – Packet Pushers
China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Leads $47M Round In Centec Networks – China Money Network
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