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Network Break keeps you informed with fast, focused analysis of IT news, products, tech trends, and business outcomes. Blending sharp commentary with a touch of humor, hosts Drew Conry-Murray & Johna Till Johnson sift through the weekly landslide of press announcements, product launches, financial reports, and marketing decks to find the stories worth talking about. You come away with the information and context to make smart decisions in your organization and career … all in the span of a (longish) coffee break.

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Arista Racks Up New AI Infrastructure Options; Arelion Expands Existing Fiber Optics Capacity

2026/10/13

Take a Network Break! We startup with follow-up on global tech news coverage and pronunciations, then pivot to Red Alerts about Dell Container Storage and SonicWall. This week’s news includes a quantum networking controller prototype from Cisco, new rack-scale AI architecture options from Arista, and Cloudflare applying to become a Certificate Authority. Three country-level TLDs... Read more »

Visa Offers AI Security Software Free of Charge; Meta's 1Pb Subsea Cable Puts Petal to the Metal

2026/10/05

Take a Network Break! We discuss listener follow-up on orbital data centers, and hit the Red Alert for a string of Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities. Visa releases its homegrown agentic AI harness for finding and remediating vulnerabilities as open source software, a bad change borks Azure networking services in 19 regions around the world, and Gluware... Read more »

AI Agents Come for Your Network; Google to Send TPUs Into Orbit

2026/09/28

Take a Network Break! We sound a red alert for active exploits against Check Point’s Secure Gateway. On the news front, a Cisco survey says 51% of organizations run agentic AI in production, Selector announces agentic AI additions to its AI network observability platform, and NetBrain rolls out new AI agents to evaluate changes and... Read more »

AWS Recommends UAE Migration; FCC Wants More Spectrum for Satellite Broadband

2026/09/21

Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on Arista’s vulnerability reporting, and Cisco ISE takes center stage for our Red Alert. Then we dive into EVA Networks, a startup touting ephemeral network connectivity to minimize risks of persistent network access, why AWS is recommending customers relocate workloads away from its data centers in... Read more »

Altera Adds PQC to FPGAs; Europe Spend Billions to Boost Satellite Broadband

2026/09/14

Take a Network Break! Ivanti takes center stage with a red alert on four critical CVEs in its Neuron platform, and MikroTik also gets a mention for an actively exploited flaw in its OS. On the news front, BackBox announces new AI capabilities for its OS backup and config management platform, Amazon selects from Qualcomm’s... Read more »

Blue Origin Wins NASA Bid for Mars Telecoms; Fortinet Offers High School Hackers Curriculum

2026/09/08

Take a Network Break! We begin with follow-up on the Cisco/Teleport deal and Chinese models on US public clouds. Our Red Alert warns of two critical vulnerabilities in HPE’s Aruba Networking Fabric Composer, and we offer a quick heads-up on OpenAI and Anthropic outages and forthcoming security disclosures from Arista. On the news front, Broadcom... Read more »

OpenAI Makes Cyber Mess, Wants World to Clean It Up; Cisco Strategizes Infrastructure Identity

2026/08/31

Take a Network Break! We start with listener followup about how Device Bound Session Credentials could thwart session cookie theft, and then highlight a string of critical vulnerabilities in IBM’s AIX. On the news front, Nvidia has reportedly bought Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, Nvidia and AWS team up on GPUs and physical AI, and... Read more »

Active Threats Target Siemens PLCs; IBM Chills Qubits With Modular Cryogenics

2026/08/24

Take a Network Break! It’s a Red Alert double feature for Oracle’s Internet Directory LDAP server and Cisco’s Secure Workload Software. In tech news, US law enforcement and intelligence agencies release a joint advisory warning of active threats against Siemens PLCs, Marvell wins a deal to make chips for Google that could bring billions in... Read more »

US Calls for CyberSec Privateers; Oracle To Rent Out Quantum Computers

2026/08/17

Take a Network Break! Our red alert goes to cluster of CVEs for Canonical’s LXD Linux Container system. On the news side, Palo Alto Networks adds AI-powered security evaluations as a service engagement, SonicWall introduces an endpoint security agent for SMBs, and the White House outlines a plan to authorize private companies to conduct cyber... Read more »

AI Angst Abounds; Arista Revs Up Q2 Revenue

2026/08/10

Take a Network Break! Cisco takes center stage in our Red Alert after the network giant discovered a bunch of high-severity bugs in its Catalyst SD-WAN platform. It has rolled out software upgrade and there are no other workarounds. On the news front, NVIDIA assembles other tech bigwigs to form the Open Secure AI Alliance... Read more »

Anthropic Models Bad Behavior; Orbital Data Center Patent Issued

2026/08/03

Take a Network Break! We start with red alert for a serious vulnerability in HashiCorp’s Terraform MCP server. In the news, Anthropic, not wanting to be one-upped by OpenAI, reveal that its own models are also ‘leet’ hackers. We also consider whether OpenAI and Anthropic have broken the law by not preventing their models from... Read more »

OpenAI Agents Mug Hugging Face; Fortinet Picks Intel for Custom Silicon

2026/07/27

Take a Network Break! Scott Robohn steps in for Johna this week. We start with some followup on 3M and then tackle the news. Arista catches up to the rest of the market on a “branch in a box” approach with new security capabilities in its VeloCloud SD-WAN, Cisco announces the Antares family of Small... Read more »

TSMC Chips In Another $100 Billion for US Fabs; Can Data Centers Make It In New York?

2026/07/20

Take a Network Break! In this week’s episode our red alert highlights two critical vulnerabilities in RabbitMQ, and we dig into listener follow-up about data centers in space. This week’s news coverage considers Apple’s $30 billion spending pledge to Broadcom, TSCM promising another $100 billion to build even more chip fabs in the US, and... Read more »

Infoblox Adds Network Observability with Kentik Buy; Satellite Data Centers vs. the Environment

2026/07/13

Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Adobe Coldfusion. On the news front, Infoblox acquires Kentik to add network observability to its portfolio, data center electricity consumption jumps worldwide, and Exabeam rolls out AI-agent focused detection in its Agent Behavior Analytics platform. DriveNets and WhiteFiber connect two AI data centers over... Read more »

Brute Force Password Attack Bleeds Fortinet; US Sued Over AI Model Order

2026/06/29

On this week’s Network Break, Johna Johnson and Scott Robohn start with a serious vulnerability in IBM’s Langflow open source software. On the news front, a massive breach of tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls exposes some of the world’s biggest companies, the US government gets sued over an order to shut down powerful AI... Read more »

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4.7 out of 5

101 reviews

★☆☆☆☆

Javolono 2025/03/19

Ok show

Used to like all packet pusher content, after Greg left not the same. Not the same energy and a lot of sobbing sounding hosts. Leave politics out of t...

★☆☆☆☆

Stryker4526 2024/09/09

Used to be great

Before Greg retired I would listen to every show except the sponsored ones, going on five years now. These days it is more like a contest to see how l...

★★★★★

spuluka 2023/09/14

Interesting discussion on current news in enterprise technology

Network Break provides insightful and interesting discussion some of the enterprise technology news every week. This ranges from new products, deploy...

★★☆☆☆

10339821 2020/08/05

I guess my snark filter needs mor vCPUs

Corey tries too hard to be snarkily clever and funny. It doesn't work for me. I spend too much brain power trying to follow his meandering versus his ...

★★★★★

Cmc5000 2020/05/04

My favorite show of all

This is THE one podcast I look forward to more than any other. Great perspective and info. If there is one single podcast you listen to, make it t...

★★★★★

Austin.Bike 2018/07/22

Great Catch-up of the week in networking

OK, let me start with the disclaimer, I am occasionally a guest on this podcast. But I actually prefer to listen when its not me because they do a gre...

★★★★★

Vinyl snob 2018/04/28

the palace of my comumute

I recently starting consistenly listening to the suite of shows provided by packet pushers everyday for the past 3 weeks during my commute. I even giv...

★★★★★

@broadcaststorm 2018/04/12

Great content, entertaining snark

Fantastic podcast for staying up to date on a variety of networking headlines. Content delivered is relevant, has interesting analysis, and most impor...

★★★★★

rayiron 2018/02/14

So useful and yet so dang fun!

These guys provide a megaton of relevant industry news with a healthy dose of the rueful skepticism that any seasoned network engineer develops. Th...

★★★★★

Rich in Cleveland 2017/05/02

Wow

Much network, so break!

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