Tech Bytes

Feb 18 2025 250 ep. 16 mins 128
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Tech Bytes are short sponsored audio segments that appear at the end of Network Break episodes. We also separate them into this standalone feed so it’s easy to stay in the loop on new vendor developments.

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Tech Bytes: Nokia Event-Driven Automation: Simple, Reliable Data Center Automation (Sponsored)

Feb 18 2025 18 mins  
Nokia’s Event-Driven Automation, or EDA, is a network automation platform that aims to help network engineers achieve predictable, error-free operations so you can keep up with all the change tickets coming your way while ensuring the data center is reliable and performant. On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Nokia, we’ll talk about how EDA... Read more »

Tech Bytes: When the Internet Is Your Network, Catchpoint IPM Provides Critical Visibility (Sponsored)

Feb 10 2025 16 mins  
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we dive into Digital Experience Monitoring and Internet Performance Monitoring with sponsor Catchpoint. As more users rely on SaaS and cloud for applications, the Internet has essentially become a business-critical network. But how can you, a network engineer, be expected to manage the Internet? Enter Internet Performance Monitoring, or... Read more

Tech Bytes: Unifying Cloud, On-Prem Security with Lacework FortiCNAPP (Sponsored)

Jan 27 2025 17 mins  
CNAPP, or Cloud Native Application Protection Platform, is an integrated suite of tools for cloud-native apps that aims to help organizations manage cloud app risks and identify and respond to threats. Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Fortinet about its Lacework FortiCNAPP offering and how it integrates CNAPP for unified security... Read more »

Tech Bytes: Can SD-WAN Solve Latency Issues for Modern Applications? (Sponsored)

Jan 20 2025 21 mins  
Traditional SD-WAN ensures that business-critical apps get the best-performing network path to deliver a good user experience and meet service levels. But as SaaS and cloud adoption increase, the best path across a WAN may not be enough. Techniques like WAN ops and legacy caching techniques may have worked for enterprise or private apps, but... Read more »

Tech Bytes: Protecting OT/IoT Devices With FortiLink NAC (Sponsored)

Dec 09 2024 18 mins  
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Fortinet, we talk about IoT and OT risks and how to mitigate them. One option from Fortinet is FortiLink NAC, a free feature that can help you segment and protect IoT and OT devices and can even help deploy virtual patches. Another option is FortiNAC, a full-bore... Read more »

Tech Bytes: Converge Networking and Security with Fortinet APs and Switches (Sponsored)

Nov 25 2024 16 mins  
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk Ethernet switches and wireless APs with sponsor Fortinet. Yes, Fortinet. Best known for firewalls and other security products, Fortinet has a full line of switches for the campus and data center, as well as a robust portfolio of wireless APs. Fortinet is here to make its case... Read more »

Tech Bytes: MinIO Optimizes Object Storage for AI Infrastructure (Sponsored)

Nov 18 2024 19 mins  
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we welcome back sponsor MinIO to talk about how AI is altering the data infrastructure landscape, and why organizations are looking to build AI infrastructure on-prem. We also dig into MinIO’s AIStor, a software-only, distributed object store that offers simplicity, scalability, and performance for AI infrastructure and other high-performance... Re

Tech Bytes: How Autodesk Modernized Its Network and Security Architecture with SASE (Sponsored)

Nov 12 2024 16 mins  
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we talk with Palo Alto Networks customer Autodesk about how it migrated from SD-WAN and traditional remote access VPNs to SASE, or Secure Access Service Edge. We’ll talk about the trends that drove Autodesk’s migration and the results of their SASE adoption. Our guests... Read more »

Tech Bytes: From AWS Topography to On-Prem Flows, Cisco ThousandEyes Boosts Network Visibility (Sponsored)

Oct 21 2024 14 mins  
The Tech Bytes podcast welcomes back sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes to talk about new features that improve visibility into both the public cloud and your on-prem network. We’ll get details on the new topographical mapping feature for AWS, as well as ThousandEyes’ new capability to consume flow records from on prem and correlate those records with... Read more »

Tech Bytes: Security and Operational Benefits of Fortinet Unified SASE (Sponsored)

Sep 30 2024 18 mins  
Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE, brings together networking and cloud-delivered security services. On today’s Tech Bytes podcast we with talk with sponsor Fortinet about Unified SASE; that is, where a single provider offers both the networking and cloud elements of the service. We discuss essential elements of Unified SASE, Fortinet’s notion of sovereign SASE,... Read more