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In today's Heavy Networking episode, we talk Production Ready Automation. That's a topic we've covered before on Packet Pushers, so what wondrous newness does sponsor Cumulus Networks bring to the table? The idea is a system that's ready for you to use. Why? Because a lot of folks are finding that rolling their own artisanal network automation takes considerable time both to create and maintain. Our guests are Pete Lumbis, Director of Technical Marketing and Rama Darbha, Director of Services at Cumulus Networks.

Derek Campbell joins Day Two Cloud for a discussion about DevOps. Of course, DevOps has been discussed to death across the IT landscape, so we drill into specifics with Derek to get his unique take, which he delivers with a Scottish accent. Even if you can't make out what he's saying, you've love listening to him.

Take a Network Break! Grab a virtual donut, sit back and relax, and take a journey with us through Elysian fields of tech news analysis. We’ve got stories today on Cisco, VMware, a new PCAP appliance, a Tech Byte from sponsor Silver Peak with their SD-WAN customer C&S Wholesalers, and more.

Today's Heavy Networking is all about wireless. Guest Bryan Ward, Lead Network Engineer at Dartmouth College, takes us through a campus-wide wireless upgrade that the institution is currently undertaking. We get nerdy about planning, infrastructure, cabling, and more, and dive into why the college is switching vendors.

Day Two Cloud dives into Git for operations people. Git is a version-control system used to track changes in software. If you've heard of it but aren't familiar with it and want to learn more, this is your show. Our guest is Damien Garros, Managing Director at Network To Code.

Our weekly installment of tech news analysis includes Palo Alto's $420 million purchase of CloudGenix, Zoom's very bad week for security and privacy, Cisco Live going virtual, updates on professional development opportunities, and more on Network Break from the Packet Pushers.

On today's sponsored show, we dig into Fortinet's portfolio, including SD-WAN and its security fabric. We discuss customer use cases, examine how the fabric works, and explore how Foritnet integrates its own and third-party security tools to enhance visibility and automation. Our guest is Stephen Watkins, Director and Principal Security Architect at Fortinet.

Today on Day Two Cloud, Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks answer listener questions about AWS Networking. They get into the nitty gritty on core AWS networking concepts including placement groups for EC2 instances, Elastic Network Adapters, network and application load balancing, Route 53, and more.

Today's show goes deep on cloud-based security, remote access, and zero trust with sponsor Zscaler. In particular we explore Zscaler Private Access, an alternative to traditional IPSec VPNs. We take a packet walk through Zscaler's service to understand how it works. Our guest is Lisa Lorenzin, Director, Transformation Strategy at Zscaler.

Today's Network Break podcast examines a new analytics service from Juniper's Mist Systems for engineers and lines of business, a new clientless remote access service from Cato Networks, the impact of increased traffic on Facebook and cloud services, how co-lo sites are restricting physical access, and more.

Today's Heavy Networking explores what it's like to get deeply into programming while still being attached to the world of networking. We discuss the transition from day-to-day networking tasks to spending more time with code, the role of programming in automation, and more. Our guests are Matt Stone, Brent Salisbury, Dave Tucker, and Daryn Johnson.

On today's Day Two Cloud, we discuss practical automation, including tools and tips to make automation work. In particular, we focus on deploying consistent builds for VMs across public cloud providers and on premises. We also examine key issues such as the need to close the loop on automation processes, and how to ensure that one person doesn't become irreplaceable. Our guest is Larry Smith, Senior DevOps Engineer.

On today's Network Break we check in on the health of the global Internet as more and workers go remote, Cisco extends the lifetime of professional certs, the EU asks streaming services to throttle back on bandwidth, some debt-laden tech companies see share prices plunge, and more.

Cloud networking is a challenge, to say the least. And when you've got deployments running in different public clouds, your challenges multiply. On today's Heavy Networking, sponsor Aviatrix joins us to discuss their cloud networking architecture, which provides a consistent operational environment on top of cloud-native constructs. Our guests are Hammad Alam and Shahzad Ali, both Principal Cloud Solutions Architects at Aviatrix.

Today's Day Two Cloud delves into how and why to build a private cloud that functions as well as a public cloud. We examine the design and operational challenges of assembling and running cloud infrastructure on premises. Our guest is Bryan Sullins, Senior Systems Engineer for a large retailer.

On today's Network Break we discuss potential impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on Internet loads, conferences and events, VPNs and working from home, and other tech areas. We also examine Aruba's new Air Pass and Air Slice offerings, drill into VMware's massive Tanzu and vSphere 7 releases, a WatchGuard acquisition, and more. Guest pontificator Ned Bellanvance comes along for the ride.

Where is the networking industry with Intent-Based Networking (IBN)? On today's Heavy Networking we talk about efforts to come to some agreement on just what constitutes IBN, dive into graph databases, and examine proposed IETF definitions of the technology. Our guests are Jeff Tantsura, head of networking strategy at Apstra and IETF chair; and Phil Gervasi, a solutions architect.

Kubernetes is making a lot of noise in the infrastructure world. Day Two Cloud co-host Ethan Banks spent three days taking a deep-dive course on the orchestration platform, and on today's show aims to provide Kubernetes fundamentals as they apply to your infrastructure.

Let's Encrypt revokes millions of digital certs, Microsoft proposes SMB over QUIC for file access without a VPN (and an easier way to get through firewalls), big vendors offer extended free trials of conferencing software for companies considering remote work, Microsoft pays hourly workers full salaries during work slowdowns, and more. We analyze these and other stories on the latest Network Break podcast.

Today's Heavy Networking dives into a multitude of topics with sponsor VeloCloud (a VMware company), including getting consistent network policies in a multi-cloud world, the emerging SASE category and what it means for SD-WAN and security, and how VeloCloud is incorporating analytics from Nyansa, which VMware recently acquired. Our guest is Craig Connors, Chief Architect at VeloCloud.