Network Break 446: Microsoft’s Series Of Unfortunate Events; Huawei’s 7nm Chip Gives US The Middle Finger

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss an FU about a 70kw rack to talk about a 400kw rack! On the news side, we dig into Microsoft’s post-mortem of an attack that led to the theft of emails from multiple US government agencies, Cisco and Nutanix team up on hyperconverged infrastructure, and AWS adds security groups to its cloud load balancers.

Check Point purchases a startup that scans for shadow SaaS apps, Huawei rolls out a new 7nm chip despite US trade restrictions meant to thwart advanced chipmaking, Vodafone and Project Kuiper plan to team up on satellite-delivered mobile service, and Microsoft says WordPad is going on the chopping block.

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Frontier supercomputer debuts as world’s fastest, breaking exascale barrier – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Our data centre in Oslo – AQ Compute

Results of Major Technical Investigations for Storm-0558 Key Acquisition – Microsoft

Microsoft mitigates China-based threat actor Storm-0558 targeting of customer email – Microsoft

Cisco and Nutanix Forge Global Strategic Partnership to Simplify Hybrid Multicloud and Fuel Business Transformation – Cisco

Quarterly Results – Nutanix, Inc

Paul Delory – Gartner VP, Analyst, and Research Portfolio Manager – LinkedIn

Network Load Balancers now support Security groups – AWS

Check Point to Acquire Atmosec, an Innovative SaaS Security Vendor, as part of its Strategy to Deliver the Most Secure SASE Solution – Check Point Software

Huawei’s new chip breakthrough likely to trigger closer US scrutiny, analysts say – Reuters

China’s widening iPhone curbs roil US technology sector – Reuters

Vodafone and Amazon’s Project Kuiper to extend connectivity in Africa and Europe – Vodafone

Vodafone and Amazon shoot for the stars while Kuiper satellites remain grounded – The Register

Amazon shareholder sues board, Bezos over Blue Origin launch contracts – Reuters

Microsoft EOLs’ Wordpad, the free word processor that has shipped – Thurrott