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Network Break 377: AMD Buys Pensando; IBM Mainframe Marches On With z16
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss AMD’s $1.9 billion bid for Pensando, why Juniper is partnering with Synopsys on silicon photonics, and a new application access control feature from Cato Networks. Security vendor Fortinet releases 7.2 of its core OS, IBM marches on with its mainframe business with the launch of z16, a group of investors sue IBM over alleged misclassification of mainframe revenue to other underperforming business units, and an article argues that Russia’s cyber-offensive in the war against Ukraine has been more far-reaching, effective, and intensive than suggested. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: ITProTV Start or grow your IT career with online IT training from ITProTV. Learn IT, pass your certs, and get a great job! Visit itpro.tv/NETWORKBREAK for 30% off all plans. Use promo code NETWORKBREAK at checkout. Tech Bytes: Nokia Stick around for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Nokia about its new Edge Network Controller, a Kubernetes-based application that lets you configure switch hardware in edge cloud locations and support a NetOps environment for edge deployments. Show Links: AMD to buy cloud startup Pensando for $1.9 bln in data center push – Reuters AMD Expands Data Center Solutions Capabilities with Acquisition of Pensando – AMD AMD CEO Lisa Su breaks down acquisition of cloud startup Pensando for $1.9 billion – YouTube AMD: Pensando gives us better-than-AWS networking tech – The Register Synopsys and Juniper Networks Invest in New Company to Pursue Fast-Growing Silicon Photonics Market – Synopsys Is the Juniper/Synopsys Deal a Sea Change in Silicon Photonics for Networks? – CIMI Corporation’s Public Blog Cato Networks Introduces Risk-based Application Access Control Solving BYOD and Remote Work Security and Productivity Challenges – Cato Networks FortiOS 7.2: Enhancing the Only Converged Network Security Platform – Fortinet Blog The venerable mainframe rolls on at IBM with the release of the z16 – TechCrunch Announcing IBM z16: Real-time AI for Transaction Processing at Scale and Industry’s First Quantum-Safe System – IBM IBM deliberate...