Network Break 397: VMware Aria Sings Multicloud Management; NVIDIA Ordered To Stop Selling AI Chips To China

Take a Network Break! This week we start with space weather as a coronal mass that could disrupt electronic communications heads to Earth, VMware rolls out major announcements at VMware Explore, and Palo Alto Networks reminds customers to patch a firewall vulnerability that could lead to DDoS attacks. US officials tell NVIDIA to stop selling certain AI chips to China, Apple may or may not roll out satellite Internet connectivity in its upcoming phone launch, and former US employees of a security company based in the United Arab Emeriates face consequences for spying on US citizens. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Juniper Networks Juniper SD-WAN, driven by Mist AI, simplifies network deployments and operations. Attend one of Juniper Networks live, AI-driven SD-WAN demos to discover game-changing insights and automation from client-to-cloud. Sign up at juniper.net/sdwan-demo. Tech Bytes: Nokia On today’s Tech Bytes conversation, sponsored by Nokia, we discuss how you can develop custom apps using Nokia’s SR Linux network OS and Nokia’s NetOps Development Kit (NDK). With SR-Linux and NDK, you can write apps to help simplify network operations. We talk with Nokia about real-world apps that customers have developed. Show Links: Huge Sunspot Pointed Straight at Earth Has Developed a Delta Magnetic Field – Newsweek Coronal hole faces Earth – SpaceWeatherLive.com VMware Aria: If You Can’t Beat Public Cloud, Maybe You Can Manage It – Packet Pushers VMware Advances Multi‑Cloud Management with VMware Aria – VMware Announcing Project Northstar: SaaS delivered Multi-Cloud Networking and Security – VMware VMware is slowing down and vetoing customer deals as the Broadcom acquisition looms, frustrating salespeople and angering clients – Business Insider Palo Alto warns of firewall vulnerability used in DDoS attack on service provider – The Record CVE-2022-0028 PAN-OS: Reflected Amplification Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability in URL Filtering – Palo Alto Networks U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China – Reuters Kuo: Apple Has Completed Hardware Tests for iPhone 14 Satellite Connectivity, But Launch Depends on Partners – MacRumors An iPhone 14 satellite link could depend on Apple cutting a deal with wirele...