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On Heavy Networking we spend a lot of time digging into the technologies that underpin SD-WAN: bonding multiple links, application ID, encryption and overlays, controllers, policy enforcement and more.

And while it’s essential to understand what makes SD-WAN work, before you adopt the technology, you have to build a business case.

Then, after the product or service is deployed, the business side of the house probably wants to know if the money they spent was worth it–that is, they’ll want to see a return on investment, or ROI.

To walk us through the intricacies and elements of building a business case and measuring ROI we welcome Jason Gintert, co-founder WAN Dynamics.

Jason is also the author of a new whitepaper available on the Packet Pushers Ignition site called SD-WAN: Building The Business Case & Understanding Your ROI, and we thought this was a good time to pick his brain.

So sharpen your pencils and grab your accounting eyeshades and let’s talk some business.

Show Links:

SD-WAN: Building The Business Case & Understanding Your ROI – Packet Pushers Ignition Whitepaper

Packet Pushers Ignition

List Of SD-WAN Vendors – Packet Pushers

Jason Gintert On Twitter

Ohio Networking User Group

On today’s sponsored Tech Bytes episode, we talk with Big Switch Networks about new products for hybrid and multi-cloud networking.

The company recently announced:

* Big Cloud Fabric Controller for AWS, which lets you manage and control AWS VPCs

* Global VPCs for multi-tenant networking across hybrid clouds

* Multi-Cloud Director- Cloud Service, which provides Mulit-Cloud Director as a service

Guest Paul Unbehagen, CTO at Big Switch, walks us through the announcements, including how Big Switch takes advantage of cloud-native networking constructs. He also outlines the benefits of visibility and control across hybrid clouds and public clouds.

Show Links:

Big Switch Labs

Big Cloud Fabric for AWS

Big Switch Networks on Twitter

On today's sponsored Tech Bytes episode, Big Switch Networks discusses its latest products for hybrid and multi-cloud networking, including a new controller for AWS VPCs and more. Our guest is Paul Unbehagen, CTO at Big Switch.

Take a Network Break! VMware extends its buying spree to include Carbon Black and the startup Uhana, Big Switch Networks rolls out new products for hybrid and multi-cloud networking, and Google stops sharing Android data with mobile carriers.

Google, Mozilla, and Apple deny a Kazakhstan government digital certificate; Apple and Mozilla block Web tracking techniques; and Infoblox launches a cloud-based DDI for branch and remote offices.

Cisco rolls out its latest tranche of security patches, VMware announces Q2 earnings and scores a huge tax break, the FCC releases a detailed post-mortem on CenturyLink’s December 2018 outage, and Google pitches faster expiration of digital certificates.

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Tech Bytes: Big Switch Networks

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Big Switch Networks. We discuss their new products for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud, including Big Cloud Fabric for AWS, Global VPCs, and Multi-Cloud Director.

Show Links:

VMware, Inc.’s (VMW) CEO Patrick Gelsinger on Q2 2020 Results – Earnings Call Transcript – Seeking Alpha

VMware buys Carbon Black and Pivotal, valued together at $4.8 billion – CNBC

Breaking: VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Uhana – VMware

VMware To Add Uhana to Telecommunications Portfolio, Harnessing the Power of AI for Mobile Networks – VMware

Magyar Telekom’s AI Trial Success Baffles Engineers – Light Reading

Big Switch Powers Hybrid Cloud with VPCs Everywhere and Cloud-Based Management – Big Switch

Exclusive: Fearing data privacy issues, Google cuts some Android phone data for wireless carriers – Reuters

Protecting Chrome users in Kazakhstan – Google Online Security Blog

Today's Network Break explores why VMware spent billions on Carbon Black, looks at new cloud networking products from Big Switch Networks, discusses why Google stopped sharing Android data with mobile carriers, and gawks at VMware's jaw-dropping tax break.

On today's Heavy Networking we look at one organization's journey to SDN, including pitfalls, triumphs, and lessons learned. Guest Sal Rannazzisi, principal network architect at a global pharmaceuticals company, shares details on dealing with vendors, finding and training engineers, developing internal processes, and more.

On today’s Heavy Networking we look at one organization’s journey to SDN, including pitfalls, triumphs, and lessons learned.

My guest is Sal Rannazzisi, principal network architect at Merck, a global pharmaceuticals company.

Sal discusses how the company experimented with early SDN products, how they tested them in the lab, and how they’re approaching SDN today. He also offers details on the vendors he’s using.

We discuss:

* The organization’s journey to SDN

* Building internal standards and processes

* Dealing with legacy equipment

* Whether to recruit or train for engineering talent

* Managing vendor relations

* Areas of concern

* More

Show Links:

Intelligent Network Automation: Gluware Intent ’19 Podcast (Sponsored) – YouTube

ARIN is the official network numbers register for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, as well as ASNs, for North America. The IPv6 Buzz crew talk with Mark Kosters, ARIN's CTO, about its role in providing IPv6 address resources, policy, and advocacy.

In June 2018, Microsoft went GA with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). As it sounds, AKS is a fully managed Azure service using Kubernetes as the orchestration layer for container-based applications.

Given all the hype around Kubernetes and cloud applications, I wanted to get a reality check on the service, which is just over one year old now.

My guest is Justin Luk, the Azure Kubernetes Service with Programmer Manager at Microsoft.

We discuss:

* Why Azure launched a Kubernetes service when it already had multiple ways to deploy containers

* Technical limitations that Microsoft wanted to avoid

* The business drivers for the service

* Customer adoption one year in

* How Microsoft deals with the constant updates to Kubernetes while supporting older versions

* The problems and challenges of running a service at scale

Show Links:

What Is Kubernetes? – Microsoft Azure

Support policies for Azure Kubernetes Service – Microsoft Azure

Azure AKS – Github

Justin Luk on Twitter

Justin Luk on GitHub

On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, host Ned Bellavance checks in on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which launched to the public in June of 2018. Ned and guest Justin Luk discuss why Microsoft rolled out AKS when it already had existing container services, business drivers for AKS, customer adoption, lessons learned, and more.