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Not everything is broken this week although some things definitely are looking grim. We consider how really dead data centers are according to Gartner, Cisco gobbles some more AI for Webex this time while HPE gets more AI-ish for Bluedata. GTT Communications is in trouble while ATT Bribery case highlights that big companies are dumb.

Its your weekly dose of snark, technology, corporate idiocy and virtual donuts. We love to present you with the 247th episode of Network Break.

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Is it worth banning 8chan? Casey Newton

A Technical Analysis of the Capital One Hack – CloudSploit – https://blog.cloudsploit.com/a-technical-analysis-of-the-capital-one-hack-a9b43d7c8aea  

Symantec Announces Sale of Enterprise Security Assets for $10.7 Billion to Broadcom – Symantec https://investor.symantec.com/About/Investors/press-releases/press-release-details/2019/Symantec-Announces-Sale-of-Enterprise-Security-Assets-for-107-Billion-to-Broadcom/default.aspx

When the chips are down, buy a software biz: Broadcom snaffles Symantec for $10.7bn – The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/09/broadcom_buys_symantec_for_10bn/ 

Symantec Corporation (SYMC) CEO Rick Hill on Q1 2020 Results – Earnings Call Transcript | Seeking Alpha – https://seekingalpha.com/article/4283681-symantec-corporation-symc-ceo-rick-hill-q1-2020-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Voicea | The Network – https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=2007901&utm_medium=RSS 

Turning Talk into Action…Voicea Technology a Gamechanger in Employee Experience – Cisco Blog – https://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-collaboration-news-073119 

BlueData Software | HPE – https://www.hpe.com/us/en/solutions/bluedata.html 

The sun sets on the big-data era: HPE to acquire MapR’s assets – SiliconANGLE – https://siliconangle.com/2019/08/05/end-big-data-era-hpe-acquire-maprs-assets/ 

HPE exec: MapR’s troubles didn’t influence our decision to acquire – CRN –

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Capital One gets breached, exposing credit card applications from 106 million people in the United States and Canada; Microsoft prepares to put Skype For Business out to pasture; and Google and VMware form a cloud partnership to let customers run VMware workloads in GCP.

A VXWorks vulnerability lurks in lots of older devices, Fortinet announces new NGFWs, and Cisco settles a security whistleblower lawsuit for $8.6 million.

Cloudflare reverses its position on 8chan and stops providing hosting and DNS services to the hate site, and we get financial results from Fortinet, Extreme Networks, and Arista Networks.

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Capital One Announces Data Security Incident – Capital One

Capital One’s Capital Two Day – Last Week In AWS

Capital One Data Theft Impacts 106M People – Krebs On Security

What’s in your cloud? – Cloud Security – Medium

Seattle woman accused in massive Capital One data breach was skilled with computers but struggled in her personal life – The Seattle Times

Skype for Business Online to Be Retired in 2021 – Microsoft

VMware Cloud Foundation comes to Google Cloud – Google Cloud Blog

Google Cloud, VMware Form New Cloud Partnership – SDxCentral

Google Cloud and VMware collaborate on SD-WAN and Service Mesh integrations with support for Anthos – Google Cloud Blog

VMware – Google Cloud – VMware

CloudSimple: The Firm That Got VMware Workloads On Google, Azure Public Clouds – CRN

URGENT/11 Information from the Research Team – Armis Labs

Wind Rive...

Take a Network Break! Greg Ferro is on vacation, so Ethan Banks and Phil Gervasi provide guest commentary and analysis.

VMware acquires Bitfusion, a startup that virtualizes GPUs, ASICs, and FPGAs; network OS startup Arrcus rakes in $3o million in a Series B and announces support for Jericho2 ASICs; and Kentik announces AIOps.

An IDC report predicts the SD-WAN market will hit $5.25 billion by 2023; Microsoft pours $1 billion into  OpenAI; the Federal Trade Commission levies a $5 billion fine against Facebook and ordered changes to the company’s privacy practices; and Juniper reports quarterly revenues of $1.1 billion.

Get links to all these stories below.

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Tech Bytes: Silver Peak

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Tennessee Oncology, a partner of OneOncology, a healthcare provider that’s using Silver Peak’s SD-WAN to boost performance and security of its WAN while segmenting critical application traffic such as electronic medical records and drug and lab systems.

Follow Up:

Follow Up On Network Break Here – Packet Pushers

7 Hardware & Firmware Hacks Highlighted at Black Hat 2017 – Dark Reading

Hacking iLO — take a moment to secure your servers – Avast Blog

iDRACula Vulnerability Impacts Millions of Legacy Dell EMC Servers – Serve The Home

The Missing Security Primer for Bare Metal Cloud Services – Eclypsium

Show Notes:

VMware acquires AI chip virtualization startup Bitfusion – Silicon Angle

VMware to Acquire Bitfusion – VMware vSphere Blog

Breaking: VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Bitfusion to Boost Support for Artificial Intelligence-based Applications – VMware

Arrcus Raises $30M Series B Funding Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners – Globe Newswire

Take a Network Break! It was a week of cloud wheeling and dealing. And by the way, if you want to follow up with us on any of our commentary, you can do so here: https://packetpushers.net/fu/

IBM is spinning a multi-billion cloud deal with AT&T as justification for its Red Hat acquisition, while AT&T anoints Microsoft its “preferred cloud provider for non-network applications.”

Meanwhile, Oracle lost a court appeal, so now it’s trying a political one as it attempt to derail AWS as the anticipated winner of a rich JEDI contract with the U.S Department of Defense.

Google shuts down Project Dragonfly, a censor-friendly search effort for the Chinese market; bugs in a server component highlight the vulnerability of tech’s extended supply chain, and Verizon and Ericsson  partner on a live trial of a microservices architecture on Ericsson mobility gear.

IBM announces Q2 financials, and Boeing and Ryan Air experiment with renaming the troubled 737 Max.

Get links for more details below.

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Tech Bytes: AppNeta

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with AppNeta. We discuss how AppNeta combines network performance monitoring and synthetic testing to get a complete picture of the end user experience, and how customers use AppNeta to address the challenges of monitoring remote offices and cloud services. Go to AppNeta.com/packetpushers to find out more.

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IBM lands AT&T contract worth ‘billions’ – Financial Times

IBM And AT&T Announce Multi-Year Strategic Alliance – IBM

AT&T announces cloud partnership with Microsoft 1 day after similar deal with IBM – IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog

AT&T And Microsoft Announce Strategic Alliance – AT&T

Judge dismisses Oracle lawsuit over $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract – TechCrunch

The Empire Strikes Back: Trump discovers $10bn JEDI cloud deal may go to nemesis Jeff Bezos, demands probe – The Register

Trump Expressed Concern About Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract – Bloomberg

Amazon or Microsoft set to pick up $10 billion DoD cloud deal after O...

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Zoom does an about-face on its initial response to security vulnerabilities disclosed by a researcher, Cisco acquires optical interconnect maker Acacia Communications for $2.6 billion, and IBM completes its Red Hat acquisition.

Goldman Sachs downgrades F5 from “Neutral” to “Sell” as the company finds its way in a cloud-centric world, Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack in daily users, and Cloudflare re-trademarks “The network is the computer” as a marketing gimmick.

Mozilla blocks a security company from being a root certificate authority in Firefox, an IT pro goes to jail for trashing an employer’s files, and a software engineer releases a research project on how to make massive ZIP bombs. Oh boy!

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Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website! – Jonathan Leitschuh via Medium

Response to Video-On Concern – Zoom

Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server – TechCrunch

Cisco Acquires Acacia Communications – Packet Pushers Ignition

Cisco Intends to Acquire Acacia Communications – Acacia Communications, Inc.

Cisco Announces Intent to Buy Acacia Communications; Helping Drive Significant Industry Network Architectural Shifts – Cisco Blog

IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion; Defines Open, Hybrid Cloud Future – IBM

F5 Networks -4.7% as Goldman cuts to Sell on pressures – F5 Networks, Inc. – Seeking Alpha

Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13 million daily users – The Verge

The Network is the Computer – Cloudflare

Take a Network Break! We start with FUs (follow-ups) on Aerohive and Extreme, L2TPv3, and the relationship between Aruba and HPE.

On the news front, Cloudflare burns itself with a Web Application Firewall update, Broadcom secures loans to buy Symantec, and Equifax’s former CIO gets jail time for insider trading.

Rising costs and uncertainty over US tariffs has tech giants reconsidering their manufacturing plans, Huawei may or may not be blacklisted by the United States, and Reuters digs into the years-long Cloud Hopper attacks.

A British government agency whacks British Airways with a hefty fine for a 2018 security breach, the fallout from ransomware attacks bedevils US cities and towns, and another BGP mishap goes unnoticed for a week.

Get links to all these stories below.

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ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offers complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment. Explore the ExtraHop Performance Platform at extrahop.com/packetpushers.

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Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy – Cloudflare

Broadcom Makes Progress on Symantec Deal With Financing, Savings – Bloomberg

Broadcom: The EU Investigation Sounds Foreboding – Seeking Alpha

Former Equifax employee sentenced for insider trading – USAO-NDGA – Department of Justice

CEO who led Equifax during data breach gets huge raise – NY Post

Equifax CEO Richard Smith Who Oversaw Breach to Collect $90 Million – Fortune

HP, Dell and Microsoft join electronics exodus from China – Nikkei Asian Review

Big Tech’s China exodus – Financial Times

China’s trade war manufacturing exodus could be hastened by EU-Vietnam trade deal, analysts say – South China Morning Post

Trump Throws Huawei a Lifeline, but It Hasn’t Reached Safe Harbor Yet – WSJ

Yuge U-turn: Prez Trump walks back on Huawei ban… at least the tech sector seems to think so – The Register

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We start the show with a few Follow Ups on Li-Fi, certifications, HPE’s relationship with Aruba, and Helium/LoRa/LoRaWAN.

Then it’s on to news analysis with Extreme’s acquisition of WLAN vendor Aerohive (it’s all about the cloud). We discuss a BGP route leak that caused a cascade of troubles, and opine on why Oracle is retiring Dyn’s managed DNS in favor of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Mist Systems announces a new 802.11ax AP, an edge appliance, and a new support model; Amazon adds traffic mirroring in AWS VPCs, a provider of ransomware recovery services has an interesting business model, and Greg gives a Marketing Banana award to MicroTik’s Cloud Router Switch.

There’s a ton of links below if you’d like more details on anything we’ve covered. And if you want to hit us with an FU, send an email to [email protected] or talk to Drew on Twitter.

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Tech Bytes: Anuta Networks

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes episode with Anuta Networks. Anuta makes network automation software for multi-vendor environments. We discuss Anuta’s capabilities including low-code automation, network device configurations, compliance checks, telemetry collection, and more. The first 30 people who sign up at AnutaNetworks.com/packetpushers can get a snazzy polo shirt.

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Follow Up:

IEEE 802.11 (legacy mode) – Wikipedia

RFC 1925 – IETF

News Analysis

Extreme Buys Aerohive. Not bad. – EtherealMind

Aerohive Networks Has A Sales Problem – Aerohive Networks, Inc. (NYSE:HIVE) – Seeking Alpha

Extreme Networks to Acquire Aerohive Networks – Extreme Networks

Investor presentation – Extreme Networks

How Extreme Networks’ $210M Acquisition Spree Is Set To Pay Off In $545M In New Revenue – CRN

BGP filtering study resources (Was: CloudFlare issues?) – NANOG

Cloudflare Users Burned by Internet Routing Pile-...

Take a Network Break! Today’s podcast starts with a couple of FUs on certifications, and then dives into news from HPE Discover including HPE’s plans to make its full portfolio available by subscription. We also enjoy HPE’s “Cloudless” as a fine example of marketing jujitsu.

Riverbed and Versa partner on SD-WAN to extend Riverbed’s portfolio and customer reach, the startup Helium combines a peer-to-peer wireless network with cryptocurrency, and Cisco announces a Catalyst bug that crashes switches if you use the “show run” command.

Broadcom says its Trident 4 silicon is now sampling, Signify launches a Li-Fi play that uses light for data transmission instead of radio waves, and an open source group releases a proposed standard for service meshes.

Cumulus co-founder JR Rivers departs the company, Huawei says the US ban will strip $30 billion in revenue, a lack of good security gets very costly, and GE releases an unintentional parody video on the perils of IoT.

Get links to all these stories below.

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ThousandEyes gives you performance visibility from every user to every app over any network, both internal and external, so you can migrate to the cloud, troubleshoot faster and deliver exceptional user experiences. Sign up for a free account at thousandeyes.com/packetpushers and choose a free ThousandEyes t-shirt.

Tech Bytes: Gluware

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Gluware. Recorded live at Intent ‘19, we talk with CEO and co-founder Jeff Gray about network automation, the notion of intent engineering, and how Gluware works.

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Certification Links:

Major Updates to Cisco Certifications

Major Updates to Cisco Certifications Part II (CCNA)

Major Updates to Cisco Certifications Part III (CCNP)

Cisco Certification Updates

The CCIE Times Are A Changing

Future of Cisco Certs ?

Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCIE Certification MAJOR Update – Changes in 2020

HPE announces plans to offer entire portfolio as a Service by 2022 – HPE

HPE: Since y’all love cloud subs so much, we’ll throw all our boxes into GreenLake by 2022 – The Register

Riverbed Strengthens and Expands Enterprise SD-WAN Market Presence, Signs Strategic Global OEM Agreement with Versa Networks – Riverbed

BiB 076: Versa Titan: SD-WAN ...

Take a Network Break! Cisco makes significant changes to its certification programs, including retiring the CCIE Route & Switch; Cisco also announced plans to unify its collaboration apps; and Intel snaps up Barefoot Networks for its Tofino programmable ASIC.

Arista launches new campus switches and an 802.11ax AP, VMware buys Avi Networks for ADC and load balancing, and Salesforce picks up Tableau for a whopping $15.7 billion in stock.

Broadcom announced its Q2 financials, Huawei presents Verizon with a patent bill, the Black Hat conference takes fire for a politician keynote speaker, and a nuclear sub sinks because someone forgot to close a hatch.

Get links to all these stories below.

Sponsor: ExtraHop

ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offers complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment. Explore the ExtraHop Performance Platform at extrahop.com/packetpushers.

Sponsor: Tufin

Tufin has pioneered a policy-based approach to network security management using automation and analytics. You can make network changes in minutes instead of days, reliably and securely. Tufin. The Security Policy Company. Find out more at tufin.com.

Tech Bytes: Tufin

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Tufin. We talk about security policies, developing a policy baseline, and how Tufin can help automate security and policy changes across your environment.

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Cisco Unleashes the Capabilities of the New Network – Cisco Systems

Cisco launches a developer-community cert program – Network World

The CCIE Times Are A Changing – Networking Nerd

CCNP Routing and Switching – Cisco

‘No More Islands’ Across Cisco Collaboration Portfolio, Tech Giant Says – CRN

Intel to Acquire Barefoot Networks, Accelerating Delivery of Ethernet-Based Fabrics – Intel Newsroom

Barefoot Networks – Crunchbase

Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy – The Next Platform

Arista Cognitive Cloud Networking Redefines the Campus – Arista Networks

VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Avi Networks ...

Take a Network Break! Internal misconfigurations at Google led to significant disruption to popular services including YouTube, Apple announced HomeKit integrations with security cameras and home routers for tighter security, and launched a new sign-in service to compete with Facebook and Google.

The IEEE unbanned Huawei reviewers from pre-publication technical papers, a British security official calls Huawei software “shoddy” (and doesn’t have good things to say about its competitors’ software either), and Firefox amps up its privacy features.

We discuss just how much funding U.S. telecos get from the government, Cisco acquires industrial security controls company Sentryo, and Google spends billions to buy analytics purveyor Looker.

Arista announces a new switch family and a Wi-Fi 6 AP, and Microsoft partners with Axe on an Xbox-branded line of soaps and deodorants.

Want links to all these stories? Scroll down for a bunch of them.

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ThousandEyes gives you performance visibility from every user to every app over any network, both internal and external, so you can migrate to the cloud, troubleshoot faster and deliver exceptional user experiences. Sign up for a free account at thousandeyes.com/packetpushers and choose a free ThousandEyes t-shirt.

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An update on Sunday’s service disruption – Google

Google Outage Sharpens Focus on Cloud Network Reliability – Data Center Frontier

Apple enables HomeKit support for home security cameras and routers – The Verge

Sign In With Apple – Apple

At WWDC 2019, Apple touts Sign In as convenient without privacy hit – CNET

Apple created the privacy dystopia it wants to save you from – Fast Company

IEEE says it may have gone about things the wrong Huawei, lifts ban after US govt clearance – The Register

Huawei must raise ‘shoddy’ standards, says senior UK cybersecurity official – The Guardian

Firefox 67.0, See All New Features,