Network Break 419: HPE Buys Athonet For Private 5G; Exit Public Cloud, Save Millions?

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss HPE’s purchase of Athonet and whether there’s enough demand for private 5G to justify it, new features in the OpenNMS network management platform, and a cloud misconfiguration that exposed sensitive military files to the Internet. Aviz and Marvell partner on a SONiC-based network OS running on Marvell silicon, a security research firms says attackers were able to remotely penetrate data centers in Asia, and a SaaS provider says it will save millions over the next five years by abandoning public cloud. Intel cuts its dividend to shareholders in a sign of significant financial hardship, and Nvidia sees income drop in its Q4 and full-year financial results. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Itential We’re sponsored today by Itential. Itential simplifies automation across hybrid cloud network infrastructure. Their platform makes it easy for network teams to bring their own automation assets and scale their network automation efforts, so you can spend more time working on the things you like instead of the repetitive, tedious tasks. Find out more at itential.com/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: ThousandEyes After the news we talk about Open Telemetry with sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes. OpenTelemetry is open collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs to help share telemetry data among different monitoring and analysis platforms. We’ll talk with ThousandEyes about how it’s using OpenTelemetry to integrate  network visibility with  broader observability data. Show Links: Packet Pushers Audience Survey Hewlett Packard Enterprise doubles down on private 5G, extends leadership in wireless connectivity with acquisition of Athonet – HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise extends leadership in enterprise connectivity with private 5G offering – HPE OpenNMS releases OpenNMS Meridian 2023 with New Cloud-enabled Capabilities – OpenNMS Sensitive US military emails spill online – Tech Crunch Marvell and Aviz Networks Collaborate to Drive SONiC Deployment in Cloud and Enterprise Data Centers – Marvell Logins for Apple data centers and others found online – Tech Radar Two data centers used by major tech firms hacked – SC Magazine Cyber Attacks on Data Center Organizations – Resecurity