A report this week claims that Broadcom is investigating Intel’s chip design business and is contemplating an acquisition. The news comes from the Wall Street Journal and says that while Broadcom is interested in chip design they are not interested in the foundry business. Analysts are intriguied because that means that Broadcom could either use Intel’s designs to augment their existing lineup or perhaps package the businesses for sale to other partners or even competitors. This and more on The Rundown.
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1:35 – Nokia Upgrades Internet Exchange Backbone
New York’s DE-CIX is about to get a whole lot faster. The Internet exchange has selected Nokia as their preferred partner to upgrade their backbone to 400GbE and eventually 800GbE. Nokia’s Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) will allow the IX to take advantage of faster speeds down the road. DE-CIX is the fifth largest exchange in the US and serves a large part of New England. They have been a Nokia customer for the last ten years.
Read More: Nokia selected by DE-CIX to upgrade New York’s largest Internet Exchange backbone
4:38 – Veeam Loses Data in Restore Debacle
If you posted on the Veeam forums last week and wondered why your post disappeared it wasn’t you. The company acknowledged that they had some forum issues for about 24 hours where topics and comments were gone. The root cause? A backup copy of the forum database was restored by an internal team even though there was no reason to restore it. Veeam quickly admitted to the mistake, the cause, and more importantly admitted this all without prompting or trolling.
Read More: Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU
7:47 – SanDisk Looks to Petabyte SSDs
At the recent SanDisk investor day, the drive manufacturer touted their UltraQLC technology and how it will enable solid-state drives of up to 1 petabyte in size. The challenge for these drives is getting the right amount of performance for the ever-growing size of NAND in the enclosure. SanDisk thinks they’ve solved with a new wider memory channel but the chips to grow to bigger sizes aren’t quite here yet.
Read More: Sandisk puts petabyte SSDs on the roadmap, has yet to reveal release date
10:18 – SonicWall Gets Hit with Cyberattack
SonicWall has a new CVE that is targeting SSL VPN authentication. The attackers can exploit a bypass to hijack SSL VPN sessions and gain access to unauthorized devices on the network. The proof-of-concept exploit has already been spotted in the wild by Arctic Wolf. The exploit was initially found back in January and SonicWall has been working to deploy a patch. As of last week about 4,000 devices still needed to be upgraded to mitigate the threat. SonicWall stated that there are currently no active reports of exploitation of the vulnerability.
Read More: SonicWall firewalls now under attack: Patch ASAP or risk intrusion via your SSL VPN
13:43 – HPE Announces Gen12 Ahead
HPE is getting on the Granite Rapids train with a new release of their Gen12 servers. The 1U HPE ProLiant DL320 is powered by the Intel Xeon 6 with up to 144 cores. That much horsepower can be cooled by either air or water. The DL340 is a 2U version with even more headroom for all manner of compute tasks.
Read More: HPE ProLiant Gen12 Launched Ahead of Intel Granite Rapids-SP
16:24 – OpenSSH Found to Be Vulnerable to MITM Attacks
Bugs aren’t just things that appear in big places. Research firm Qualys found new vulnerabilites in OpenSSH that need to be patched. The bugs allow for attackers to inject themselves into an exchange when a specific DNS verification setting is enabled. For about ten years it was even though it’s now disabled by default. This particular bug was introduced in 2014. There’s also another bug that could cause a denial-of-service for a client because of resource exhaustion. OpenSSH is a package that is used on almost every computer in the world for a variety of tasks. Tom, ten years is a lot of time for an exploit.
Read More: FreSSH bugs undiscovered for years threaten OpenSSH security
20:12 – Broadcom Wants Intel Chip Designs?
A report this week claims that Broadcom is investigating Intel’s chip design business and is contemplating an acquisition. The news comes from the Wall Street Journal and says that while Broadcom is interested in chip design they are not interested in the foundry business. Analysts are intriguied because that means that Broadcom could either use Intel’s designs to augment their existing lineup or perhaps package the businesses for sale to other partners or even competitors.
Read More: Broadcom, TSMC Weigh Possible Intel Deals That Would Split Storied Chip Maker
25:30 – The Weeks Ahead
Cloud Field Day 22 – February 19 – 20
Networking Field Day 37 – March 19 – 20
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