7 Layers
Technology Podcasts
7 Layers is a weekly podcast produced by SDxCentral, the leading media site for next-generation IT infrastructure. Whether you're a seasoned professional or someone just starting out in the field, 7 Layers covers everything from SDN to 5G to IoT to data security to get you up-to-speed and keep you informed on critic topics and technologies. Every topic is paired with an interview with an industry expert providing the unique insight SDxCentral is known for. Listen now and subscribe on your preferred podcast platform to never miss an episode. Want more? Subscribe to the SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for a weekly 5 minute summary of the weeks biggest technology news and visit sdxcentral.com for daily news, in-depth guides, and exclusive webinars.
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United States
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Technology Podcasts
Description:
7 Layers is a weekly podcast produced by SDxCentral, the leading media site for next-generation IT infrastructure. Whether you're a seasoned professional or someone just starting out in the field, 7 Layers covers everything from SDN to 5G to IoT to data security to get you up-to-speed and keep you informed on critic topics and technologies. Every topic is paired with an interview with an industry expert providing the unique insight SDxCentral is known for. Listen now and subscribe on your preferred podcast platform to never miss an episode. Want more? Subscribe to the SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for a weekly 5 minute summary of the weeks biggest technology news and visit sdxcentral.com for daily news, in-depth guides, and exclusive webinars.
Twitter:
@sdxcentral
Language:
English
Email:
podcasts@sdxcentral.com
Episodes
7 Layers: MWC Barcelona 2023 Review
3/8/2023
Industry trade group GSMA stated that more than 88,000 people attended its recent MWC Barcelona 2023 event, a number that might be hard to verify but seems legitimate considering the masses of people spread throughout the multiple halls of Barcelona’s cavernous Gran Via. While attendance might not have matched the 109,000 people GSMA said had attended the last pre-Covid event in 2019, many in attendance were still amazed by the strong turnout for the mobile telecommunication industry’s...
Duration:00:12:40
7 Layers: Open RAN Security Stance a Sensitive Situation
3/1/2023
The open radio access network (RAN) market recently gained significant U.S. government support when Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel touted open RAN as a way for operators to circumvent network equipment from China-based vendors like Huawei and ZTE. Specifically, Rosenworcel noted the ability for open RAN technology to provide operators with greater access to more secure networking equipment. “In the long run, these systems can help diversify the...
Duration:00:38:48
7 Layers: Check Point VP Unpacks the Latest in Cloud Security, AI, ChatGPT
2/22/2023
In this episode of the 7 Layers podcast, TJ Gonen, VP of Cloud Security at Check Point sat down with SDxCentral Editor Nancy Liu to delve into the ever-changing world of cloud security – specifically emerging trends in the evolution of the cloud threat landscape. Furthermore, we will explore how advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, such as ChatGPT, are being utilized to enhance cloud security, and discuss the most promising AI and ML-based cloud...
Duration:00:20:01
7 Layers: VMware Focused on Open Source Interaction, ML Security
2/8/2023
Chip Childers has been at VMware for six months, during which time he has focused on steering the vendor’s use and interaction of open source software platforms and refining its approach to supporting those efforts. These are significant areas of interest for VMware and for Childers’ role as VP and chief open source officer at the vendor, which is increasingly interacting with the open source community. “For projects that VMware hosts, we want to make sure that we're very welcoming to...
Duration:00:36:44
7 Layers: 5G Open Innovation Lab Links Edge Ecosystem Opportunities
2/1/2023
The 5G Open Innovation Lab is looking to help telecommunication operators and enterprises tap into the rapidly growing cloud and software developer ecosystem they know they need to tap into to reach their digital transformation goals. Jim Brisimitizis, general partner at 5G Open Innovation Lab, explained that these efforts involve his organization acting as a central contact point between these industry segments, a task lightened by the group’s list of big-name segment players. The 5G Open...
Duration:00:40:46
7 Layers: Dell Focused on Open 5G Sanity
1/25/2023
Dell Technologies’ Dennis Hoffman has spent the past three years refining his company’s growing focus on the 5G telecommunications space. A refinement that has been bolstered by the growing adoption of open and cloud-native architectures that Dell Technologies has been infusing throughout its broader ecosystem. “We've been focused almost exclusively from the beginning on helping people embrace open network architectures and monetizing them,” Hoffman said in an interview with SDxCentral....
Duration:00:38:35
7 Layers: Fortinet Sees Nation States Teaming Up With Cybercriminals
1/18/2023
Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs recently released its predictions for 2023, highlighting the trend of advanced persistent cybercrime enabling a new wave of destructive attacks at scale, fuelled by cybercrime as a service. In this episode of the 7 Layers, Derek Manky, chief security strategist and VP of global threat intelligence at FortiGuard Labs, sat down with SDxCentral editor Nancy Liu to discuss security trends. Manky and the team at the labs have seen cyberattacks become more destructive in...
Duration:00:24:56
7 Layers: Juniper Juggles RIC Work
1/11/2023
The radio access network (RAN) is central to a wireless network deployment. It’s the physical pieces of equipment we all see out in the wild, sometimes standing proudly and showing off its various antennas, sometimes being shy and trying to hide as a pine tree. But as these RAN networks continue to evolve based on the latest 5G standards, they are being pruned by virtualized (vRAN) and open RAN platforms designed to provide easier management and control. The next step in this process is the...
Duration:00:28:27
7 Layers: Security, SASE, Private 5G Top SDxCentral Ecosystem Topics in 2022
1/4/2023
The SDxCentral ecosystem witnessed significant change in 2022, highlighted by ongoing cybersecurity attacks, the proliferation of new networking technologies, and industry changing merger and acquisition activity. Basically, another year at the office. The SDxCentral editorial staff sat down before the year ticked over to discuss what they found to be the biggest news and trends across their respective beats in 2022. While the sound quality might indicate that conversation was secretly...
Duration:00:16:09
7 Layers: Palo Alto Networks CISO on Protecting Palo Alto Networks
12/21/2022
Palo Alto Networks Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Niall Browne sat down with SDxCentral Editor Nancy Liu in Las Vegas during the company’s Ignite event to discuss how Palo Alto Networks secures the company itself and its customers using its own zero-trust network access (ZTNA 2.0), secure access service edge (Prisma Access), cloud security (Prisma Cloud), and autonomous security operation center (Cortex XSIAM) products, the unique challenges it faces to secure one of the largest...
Duration:00:37:56
7 Layers: Working Group Two Tackles 5G Core Cloudification
12/14/2022
Mobile telecom operators continue to ramp their 5G core deployments with many of those efforts based on running vital core operations in a cloud environment. This is an effort that Working Group Two CEO Erlend Prestgard said is critical for operators to monetize their next-generation 5G deployments. “We’re trying to steal the business model back from the tech giants and bring them back to telecom,” Prestgard said in an interview with SDxCentral. Working Group Two’s efforts in this scheme are...
Duration:00:33:23
7 Layers: What Is It Like to Secure the ‘Smart’ Las Vegas?
12/7/2022
Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Las Vegas Michael Sherwood and Armis CTO Steve Gyurindak joined SDxCentral Editor Nancy Liu to discuss Las Vegas’ efforts on becoming a smart city, what it’s like to secure the Sin City, and what cities should look out for when building a smart-city network. Sherwood touted Las Vegas has one of the largest private cellular networks for a municipality that “provides connectivity to sensor systems, provides wayfinding as well as connecting students to...
Duration:00:20:34
7 Layers: The Kubernetes Evolution From Inside the Box
11/30/2022
Craig Box expands on his early work in the Kubernetes ecosystem, how it has impacted the cloud market, and what’s next for the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:30:31
7 Layers: Cisco on 5G’s Pivotal Role in the Future of Transportation
11/23/2022
On this week’s episode of 7 Layers, SDxCentral reporter Tommy Clift sat down with Matt Price, Cisco Vice President of IoT Engineering and Operations to discuss the transforming connectivity demands of future transportations systems, and how 5G and multi-access technologies are playing a pivotal role in its progress. Because transportation ecosystems must chiefly prioritize safety, having ubiquitous and extremely reliable connectivity is mission-critical, Price explained. 5G provides improved...
Duration:00:15:32
7 Layers: Deloitte Quantum Experts Argue Against Fixating on Qubit Numbers, Y2Q Dates
11/16/2022
Deloitte’s managing director of Risk & Financial Advisory Colin Soutar and Deloitte Specialist Leader Itan Barmes joined SDxCentral Editor Nancy Liu to dive into quantum security on this episode of the SDxCentral 7 Layers podcast. Soutar and Barmes answered some frequently asked questions about quantum security, such as what is it really going to take to break current cryptography with a quantum computer and why shouldn’t we fixate on the number of qubits to break the crypto or as a measure...
Duration:00:22:50
7 Layers: Verizon Drives 5G Across Ops
11/9/2022
Andrea Caldini, VP of network engineering at Verizon, has seen a lot of wireless technology evolution during her 20 years at the telecom giant. This includes that carrier’s initial 3G launch based on CDMA technology, its radical move to 4G LTE more than a decade ago, and its more recent push into 5G. “I remember at some point thinking 64 kb/s was really fast,” Caldini joked during an interview with SDxCentral. Caldini cited Verizon’s early 5G work, including its early work toward 5G...
Duration:00:20:40
7 Layers: Juniper Lead Underlines SASE, Zero Trust Should Work Together
11/2/2022
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Duration:00:24:30
7 Layers: Verizon Business Doubles Down on Private 5G
10/26/2022
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Duration:00:26:39
7 Layers: CIOs Say ‘Triple Squeeze’ of Economy, Talent, Supply Chain to Impact 2023 Investments
10/19/2022
CIOs are expecting their IT budgets to increase an average of 5.1% due to a “triple squeeze” of economic pressure, the talent shortage and supply chain challenges, according to a new survey from Gartner released in time for the Gartner IT Symposium 2023 in Orlando, Florida. The 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey gathered data from 2,203 CIO respondents in 81 countries and all major industries, and representing approximately $15 trillion in revenue/public-sector budgets and $322...
Duration:00:12:31
7 Layers: AT&T Security AVP Spotlights on Cloud, Quantum Security Efforts
10/12/2022
AT&T’s Assistant Vice President of Security Dan Solero sat down with SDxCentral Editor Nancy Liu at AT&T’s Global Headquarters in Dallas, Texas for this episode of 7 Layers. Solero noted the security industry is facing a lot of pressure due to emerging technologies and modalities, new initiatives in the legislative and regulatory environment, and ongoing talent shortages. To address some of those challenges, a few years ago, AT&T announced it will be a public-cloud first company, meaning the...
Duration:00:19:15