NB435: Your FUs, VMware takeover, DPU News and Cooling is Toxic

Johna Til-Johson from Nemertes Research joins today (Drew on well earned leave). First the FU then its vendors co-operating ? NetBrain and Paessler. Google sells its domain registration to Squarespace, a smidgeon of Quantum computing before looking AMD at the state of Pensando DPUs. Finally the news that liquid cooling is toxic due to PFAS ‘forever chemicals’. Sponsor: Backbox BackBox is a multi-vendor network automation platform that lets you automate every device on the network through a single pane of glass. It supports network and security devices from 180 different vendors. So for example you can execute an OS upgrade across Cisco, Check Point, and Palo Alto firewalls with a single click.BackBox is the best-kept secret in automation, running on over 100,000 networks worldwide. Get an eval copy and see for yourself at backbox.com/packetpushers Tech Byes : Nokia PSE6 Coherent Optical Modules Today’s Tech Byte is a discussion on Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine, or PSE optics. The company has released version 6 of its PSEs, and we’ll tak about the growing challenges of moving more data farther and faster  and what Nokia  PSE-6 brings to the table. Our guest is Serge Melle, Head of Marketing for Optics at Nokia. * Push distances further * Carry new high speed data services * Reduce network power * Scale – 2.4TB/s on a single linecard * Performance – 3x the reach at 800G * Sustainability – 60% less network power Link: PSE-6s: A new frontier in scale, performance and sustainability | Nokia – Check out PSE-6s: A new frontier in scale, performance and sustainability at nokia.ly/pse-6s PSE-6s: A new frontier in scale, performance and sustainability | Nokia Show Links Link: NetBrain & Paessler PRTG: Automated Event-Triggered Diagnosis – https://www.netbraintech.com/blog/netbrain-integrates-with-prtg/ Link: Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets — The Official Squarespace Newsroom – https://newsroom.squarespace.com/blog/googledomains Link: Google Domains shutting down, assets sold to Squarespace  – https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurherman/2023/05/17/assessing-the-quantum-threat-by—————-the-numbers-finally/ Link: Exclusive: Broadcom set to win EU nod for $61 bln VMware deal, sources say | Reuters – https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/eu-antitrust-regulators-okay-broadcom-vmware-deal-sources-says-2023-06-12/?utm_source=packetpushers Link: AMD Data Center & AI Technology Premiere – YouTube – https://youtu.be/l3pe_qx95E0?t=2897 Data Center and Cloud Networking Session — Panseando DPU – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t43v1MvqV-E Faulty SFP Takes Down Amsterdam Prorail – https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7073998921890426880