The Everything Feed - All Packet Pushers Pods

Tom Carpenter, Director of Education for the Certified Wireless Network Professionals, discusses the shift from Wi-Fi to other wireless protocols in IoT, Qualcomm's new QC C 730 chip, setting up a home lab with IoT devices, studying Wi-Fi and 802.15.4 standards, and the process of obtaining an expert level certification in IoT.

The podcast discusses using ZTNA for VPN consolidation and protecting developer access, with insights on third-party access, scalability, security, and integration of security solutions. It also covers topics like identity management, SSL inspection capabilities, and fundraising for veterans at the RSA conference.

Guest commentator Kyler Middleton discusses IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp and the shift to a closed licensing model. They explore the challenges of open source monetization and the construction of sustainable data centers using vegetable oil in Ireland. The conversation also touches on the FTC ban on non-compete clauses, cross-cultural challenges in business expansion, and IBM's consulting revenues.

What if instead of sending multiple queries out to APIs and getting disparate data back, you could just send a single query and receive a single answer. That’s exactly what GraphQL does for you. Rick Donato joins the show today to teach us about GraphQL and how it can help us on the path to... Read more »

The expectations for application delivery are higher than ever before, the networks that support those applications are increasingly distributed, and visibility is essential for network operations and troubleshooting. On today’s sponsored episode, Kentik’s Phil Gervasi joins us to discuss how Kentik collects essential performance data to help you monitor and manage all the networks your... Read more »

What makes for a good manager, director, and independent contributor (IC), and how do you figure out which is the best fit for you? Hazel Weakly has had a whirlwind tour of all three and is ready to share her insight into each. We talk about the skill set needed for each, and figuring out... Read more »

IoT devices are often like the tiny aliens in the locker in Men in Black: They’ve created a whole little world on your network without almost any humans knowing they exist. Today Troy Martin joins the show to teach us the basics of how to find and secure IoT devices on your network, specifically focusing... Read more »

Right now we’re in the first generation of edge architecture. We won’t even really know how to define it until we’re past it. Greg and Johna discuss the operational milieu in which the edge is forming: Vast numbers of IoT devices, increased remote computing capabilities, questions around cloud operational costs and efficiency, and vendors jostling... Read more »

Take a Network Break! This week we cover Hypershield, a new Cisco security product that uses technology from its Isovalent acquisition. We parse a blog from Broadcom CEO Hock Tan on the company’s VMware strategy, and discuss China’s latest counter-punch in its tech infrastructure fight with the United States. A KPMG survey reveals that executives... Read more »

Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE, combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security services including next-gen firewall, CASB, secure web gateway, and others. You can mix and match your SD-WAN and cloud security, but today Rajesh Kari from Palo Alto Networks is here to advocate for the benefits of their single-vendor option. We talk performance, security, and... Read more »