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Take a Network Break! Google debuts a beta of its Cloud Service Platform, a hybrid cloud product that lets you run applications on premises or in Google’s public cloud. Reuters digs up new data to affirm AWS’s public cloud lead, and Duo Security tracks unsafe Chrome extensions.

Palo Alto Networks shells out over half a billion dollars for Demisto, a security orchestration company; a Drupal vulnerability puts millions of sites at risk; and the U.S. Secretary of State warns American allies that the use of Huawei gear in critical infrastructure could jeopardize intelligence-sharing.

HPE posts its first-quarter financial earnings, and Google “forgets” to tell customers about a microphone built into a Nest home security product.

Sponsor: ExtraHop

Today’s episode is brought to you in part by ExtraHop. ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. Visit extrahop.com/packetpushers for an interactive demo to find out more.

Packet Pushers Virtual Design Clinic

Learn new stuff without getting on a plane! The next Packet Pushers Virtual Design Clinic is Thurday March 14th. We’ll have technical presentations on IPv6, the P4 programming language for network devices, and Ask Me Anything sessions with expert panelists. Register and attend for free!

Show Links:

Cloud Services Platform—bringing hybrid cloud to you – Google

Google emits a beta of Cloud Service Platform to entice hold-outs with hybrid goodness – The Register

Google’s new cloud boss has big task to catch rivals, Reuters data show – Reuters

Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2018 Edition – Platformonomics

CRXcavator: Democratizing Chrome Extension Security – Duo Security

Palo Alto Networks Announces Intent to Acquire Demisto – Seeking Alpha

Drupal core – Highly critical – Remote Code Execution – SA-CORE-2019-003 – Drupal

Millions of websites threatened by highly critical code-execution bug in Drupal – Ars Technica

You’re on a Huawei to Hell, US Sec State Pompeo warns allies: Buy Beijing’s boxes, no more intelligence for you – The Register

Britain managing Huawei risks...

InterOptic returns in this sponsored podcast to explore emerging trends in optics, including the rise of 400G, the differences between OSFP and QSFP, and the state of silicon photonics. Our guests are Robert Coenen, VP of Business Development at InterOptic; and Tim Doiron, Principal Analyst, Intelligent Networking at ACG Research.

In today’s sponsored podcast, InterOptic returns to update us on SFP modules.

Based on the feedback we get, lots of people aren’t happy about how brand vendor price SFPs. And when you look at alternatives, there’s a wide variety of suppliers making the same products, but it’s hard to tell what the actual difference is.

Decision paralysis, here we come.

InterOptic produces optics with the same capabilities and quality as brand-equivalent modules, but at a significantly reduced cost.

We look at how InterOptic uses the same manufacturers as OEMs and how that impacts your ROI, the role of firmware in modules and why it’s important to get the firmware right, and the rise of 400G.

We also look at emerging trends in the optics market, the differences between OSFP and QSFP, and the state of silicon photonics.

Joining us today is Robert Coenen, Vice President of Business Development at InterOptic. And for an independent perspective, we’re also joined by Tim Doiron, Principal Analyst, Intelligent Networking at ACG Research.

Show Links:

InterOptic.com

InterOptic on Twitter

Show 360: All About Optics With InterOptic (Sponsored) – Packet Pushers

On today Priority Queue podcast, sponsor Juniper walks us through use case for its Contrail Edge Cloud software. We also cover the deployment and operation of this software solution. Our guest is Nick Davey, Product Line Manager at Juniper.

What problems are we trying to solve with edge computing, and how might we get those done?

Our sponsor today is Juniper Networks, and we’re going see if we can answer those edge computing questions in a discussion about Contrail Edge Cloud.

Our guest is Nick Davey, Product Line Manager at Juniper.

We discuss:

* What edge cloud means (pushing compute as close to the workload edge as possible)

* The components of Juniper’s Contrail Edge Cloud software suite

* Typical use cases

* Day 1 operations of Contrail Edge Cloud, including installation, management, and orchestrating edge nodes with the central controller

* Monitoring Contrail Edge Cloud performance and end user experience

* Exploring Tungsten Fabric as an open-source option

* More

Show Links:

Contrail Edge Cloud

Tungsten Fabric – Linux Foundation

Tungsten Fabric Deployment Guide – GitHub

In today's episode we make sense of IPv6 protocol analysis with expert teacher and troubleshooter Denise Fishburne. We discuss the importance of using a protocol analyzer and packet captures to better understand IPv6, and how to get over your fear of learning this protocol.

Automation is awesome!  You build your intricate scripts and configuration files. You deploy out your infrastructure and applications. And then celebrate, because your job is done.

Except there’s going to come a day when business requirements change, your infrastructure doesn’t behave the way you expect, and there’s a new version of the application to be deployed.

Automation is the job that’s never done, so how do you do it right each time, every time, particularly when it comes to essential infrastructure like RAID, networking, and firmware?

Rob Hirschfeld is my guest for today’s episode. We discuss how to build a robust infrastructure to support your private cloud, and how to add a layer of automation to the underlay.

Rob is CEO and co-founder of RackN.

Topics include:

* The early days of private cloud deployments

* The development of OpenStack

* Digital Rebar, an open-source project that provides an abstraction layer for hardware

* Why it’s essential to get your private cloud underlay–firmware, OS, networking, RAID, etc.–right

* How composibility and workflow are key to day-two operations

Show Links:

Digital Rebar

Rob Hirschfeld on Twitter

RackN

Datanauts 089: SRE vs. Cloud Native vs. DevOps – Packet Pushers

On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, we discuss how to build a robust infrastructure to support your private cloud, and how to add a layer of automation to the underlay with Digital Rebar, an open-source project. My guest is Rob Hirschfeld.

On today’s Tech Bytes, sponsored by ThousandEyes, we delve into the impacts of a 50-hour outage that CenturyLink suffered in December, 2018. We also discuss lessons everyone can take away from the incident.

Our guest is Ameet Naik, Technical Marketing Manager for ThousandEyes.

We discuss:

* The underlying causes of the outage

* Services affected

* Why network visibility is esssential

* The importance of ISP redundancy

* Why management networks are critical in an age of automation and DevOps

Show Links:

ThousandEyes

Lessons from the CenturyLink Outage – ThousandEyes Blog

Ameet Naik on Twitter

On today’s Tech Bytes, sponsored by ThousandEyes, we delve into the impacts of a 50-hour outage that CenturyLink suffered in December, 2018. We also discuss lessons everyone can take away from the incident.

Our guest is Ameet Naik, Technical Marketing Manager for ThousandEyes.

We discuss:

* The underlying causes of the outage

* Services affected

* Why network visibility is esssential

* The importance of ISP redundancy

* Why management networks are critical in an age of automation and DevOps

Show Links:

ThousandEyes

Lessons from the CenturyLink Outage – ThousandEyes Blog

Ameet Naik on Twitter