Network Break 378: Barracuda Gets A New Owner; Intel Buys Ananki For Private 5G
Take a Network Break! This week we cover several acquisitions including Barracuda Networks being bought by KKR, SailPoint being picked up by Thoma Bravo, and Perforce buying Puppet. Last but not least, Intel has bought Ananki to get into the private 5G market. Atlassian struggles to restore customers after a serious outage, the Linux Foundation takes over the SONiC network OS, the Java Struts vulnerability re-emerges, and Cisco releases a patch for a level-10 vulnerability in its wireless LAN controller. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Nokia We’re sponsored by Nokia and its Edge Network Controller, a Kubernetes-based application that lets you automate your IP network in edge locations. To learn more about the Edge Network Controller listen to the April 11 Tech Byte we recorded with Nokia and go to nokia.ly/Edge-Network-Controller to learn more. Tech Bytes: Aruba Stay tuned after the podcast for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Aruba Networks, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, about the Wi-Fi 6E standard and why demand is strong for APs with Wi-Fi 6E support. Show Links: KKR to acquire Barracuda Networks – Barracuda Networks Intel acquires the Open Networking Foundation’s team – Converge! Network Digest Intel acquires private 5G network provider Ananki – The Register ONF Enters a New Era Focused on Growing Adoption and Community for its Leading Open Source Projects – Open Networking Foundation SailPoint to be Acquired by Thoma Bravo for $6.9 Billion – SailPoint Perforce to Acquire DevOps Pioneer Puppet – Perforce Update on the Atlassian outage affecting some customers – Atlassian The Great Atlassian outage enters a new week – The Register The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time – Pragmatic Engineer.com SONiC moves under the Linux Foundation umbrella – Converge! Network Digest Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) Moves to the Linux Foundation – Linux Foundation Apache says Struts 2 security bug wasn’t fully fixed in 2020 – The Register