Network Break 389: Alleged IT Fraudsters Indicted; HPE Floats GreenLake Private Cloud

Take a Network Break! This week we cover two indictments from the US Justice Department: one about the alleged sale of  of counterfeit Cisco gear, the other about the sale of pirated Avaya software license keys. Both schemes netted millions of dollars and ran for years. VMware adds cloud-managed options for vSphere and vSAN as part of Project Arctic, and teases the end of life for NSX-T’s native load balancer. Juniper Networks rolls out new routing gear for service providers (with a dash of Juniper automation); HPE announces GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise; FedEx pledges to deliver a zero-mainframe, zero-data-center strategy by 2024; and Starlink announces satellite broadband for merchant vessels, oil rigs, and “premium yachts.” Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Nokia We’re sponsored in part by Nokia. Did you know Nokia’s SR-Linux network operating system supports streaming telemetry so you can get a more accurate, granular view of critical device data. Find out more at nokia.ly/fabric-services-system and listen to the Tech Bytes podcast from June 27th. Show Links: FU: 5G for IoT Alternatives CEO of Dozens of Companies and Entities Charged in Scheme to Traffic an Estimated $1 Billion in Fraudulent and Counterfeit Cisco Networking Equipment – United States Department of Justice Florida man charged with selling fake Cisco equipment in $1 billion scheme – Reuters CEO Arrested for Selling $1 Billion in Fake Cisco Hardware on Amazon, eBay – PC Mag Trio accused of selling $88m of pirated Avaya licenses – The Register Three Defendants Indicted in Software License Piracy Scheme – United States Department of Justice VMware Unveils vSphere+ and vSAN+ to Simplify Operations with Infrastructure Management, Increase Developer Velocity with Integrated Kubernetes, and Extend On‑Premises with Hybrid Cloud Services – VMware Project Arctic Means VMware Doesn’t Get Left Out In the Hybrid Cold – The Next Platform Native NSX Load Balancing is Going Away – Time to Migrate to Avi Load Balancing – VMware Juniper Networks Announces Cloud Metro Innovation to Drive Sustainable B...