Take a Network Break! We’ve got a bubbling cauldron of tech news to serve up with your virtual donut, including a new hyperconverged platform from HPE, and big-name defectors from AWS including Dropbox and Apple.
There’s also product and licensing news from Cisco, chip stories from Cavium and Broadcom, laurels for Huawei in an SDN competition, and more.
See the show notes for links galore!

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Show Notes:
HPE Goes Hyperconverged
HPE Joins The Hyperconvergence Party – Network Computing
HP Will Announce Proliant Hyperconverged This Month – Ethereal Mind
Startup Targets Secure Servers
Skyport Systems Grabs Google & Cisco in $30M Series C – SDX Central
Skyport Systems: Fortress Infrastructure – Packet Pushers
Patent Victory For Radware
Radware Wins Patent Infringement Against F5 Networks in Jury Trial – GlobeNewswire
Open Compute Summit News
Cavium Seamlessly Connects OpenSwitch Software on XPliant® Switches – Cavium
Can you Afford an Unpredictable Network? – Mellanox Technologies
Yes, That Just Happened: A Recap Of The 2016 OCP Summit – Packet Pushers
Is Broadcom Saying Bye-Bye To WiFi?
Broadcom rumors say company is looking to phase out Wi-Fi chip business – DigiTimes
Docker On IOS-XR
Dockerized net tools – Brent Salisbury
Home Depot’s Low Low Security Breach Payout
Home Depot will pay up to $19.5 million for massive 2014 data breach – CSO Online
Staff Cuts At ClearPath
ClearPath Slashes Staff Following Investment Crisis – Light Reading
The Latest Cisco News
Cisco ONE is now a Licensing Program – Cisco Systems
Presenting the Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series Mini Switch – Cisco Systems
Catalyst4500E Supervisor8L-E Redefines Modular Access for Enterprises – Cisco Systems
Apple, Dropbox And AWS
Cloud Makes For Strange Bedfellows: Apple Signs On With Google, Cuts AWS Spending – CRN
The Epic Story Of Dropbox s Exodus From The Amazon Cloud Empire – Wired
HPE Still In The Cloud
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Announces New Machine Learning-as-a-Service Offering – Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Huawei An SDN Idol
Huawei Crowned Winner of SDN Idol 2016 at Open Networking Summit – Linux Foundation