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	Podcast:		Packet Pushers - Network Break
	Episode:		Network Break 47: Network Services, Cisco Housecleaning
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:00:00
	Publish Date:		2015-08-07 10:26:40
	Description:		Take a Network Break! Special guest Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at 451 Research, joins us this week to opine on the latest IT news and vendor moves. It’s the time of year for quarterly financial results and we look at some numbers from F5 and others to predict the fate of network services companies that rely on hardware sales. Cisco kills Invicta, its all-flash storage product, and we examine rumors that Dell might spin out its security services business. In cloud and SDN news, HP acquires Stackacto from ActiveState to boost its PaaS offerings, and Midokura strikes a deal with Fujitsu to provide the network virtualization components in Fujitsu’s OpenStack offering. Finally, Citrix’s longtime CEO Mark Templeton is retiring and a hedge fund activist gets a seat on the board, and Intel touts the power of a forthcoming storage chip. Links to all these stories are in the show notes below. Sponsor: Sonus Networks This week s show is sponsored by Sonus Networks. Sonus wants you to know that there is a better way to address business continuity with less cost, more flexibility, and increased management efficiency a Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) powered by Sonus NaaS IQ. Ensure you know the differences between SD WAN business connectivity and SD WAN business continuity; visit Sonus at www.sonus.net or reach them at 1-855-GO-SONUS and tell them you heard about them on PacketPushers. Show Notes: Hardware And Network Services Companies F5 Gains on Q3 Earnings & Revenue Beat – Zacks.com F5 Networks reported better-than-expected third-quarter fiscal 2015 results. Also, the year-over-year comparisons on both counts were favorable, primarily due to better-than-expected software sales. The company also provided encouraging fourth-quarter guidance. Brocade Says x86 Future of Networking Brocade CEO: Specialized Data Center Network Gear on Its Way Out – Data Center Knowledge So, what does that mean for Brocade? His forecast is that the overall size of the data center networking market will shrink, while Brocade s share of that market will increase. The Silicon Valley company has been investing in all things networking software, and Carney sees the imminent sunset of dedicated networking hardware as a big opportunity for Brocade, whose current data center market share is fairly small in comparison to Cisco s and other incumbents , such as HP, Juniper, Arista, and Huawei s.” More Cisco Housecleaning Cisco Kills Invicta Storage Product Line – Network World Cisco Invicta EOL Fueled By Mistakes And Misfortune – Network Computing Dell To IPO Security Business? Report: Dell looking to spin off this business in an IPO – Fortune Dell is studying storage giant EMC and its Federation model of maintaining a collection of independently functioning companies that are housed under one parent company, Durban said. An anonymous source told the Atlanta Business Chronicle that Dell was considering spinning off SecureWorks in order to get capital into parent Dell. HP PaaS Acquisition HP Buys ActiveState s PaaS, Stackato – InformationWeek Docker support, ease of use, and a widely recognized open source platform were all critical elements in HP’s ability to address the market of enterprise cloud users. It offered HP a way to quickly appeal to developers and enlist them in its Helion public cloud as an adjunct or hybrid operation to what they were already doing on premises. Midokura, Fujitsu OpenStack Teamup Fujitsu Dumps Open vSwitch for Midokura Plugin in OpenStack Cloud – Data Center Knowledge Did You Forget About Midokura? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t – Packet Pushers Citrix Leadership Change Citrix Loses a CEO, Gains a Hedge Fund Board Member – SDX Central Intel Launches 3D XPoint Chip Intel s new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash memory – The Verge The post Network Break 47: Network Services, Cisco Housecleaning appeared first on Packet Pushers.
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