Network Break 317: Citrix Bets The House On SaaS Collaboration; AWS Forks Elasticsearch

Take a Network Break! Citrix spends $2.25 billion, including a $1.45 billion loan, for digital work management provider Wrike. Citrix also announced its Q4 and full year fiscal results, with an 8% revenue bump year over year. Red Hat says RHEL will be free to run on up to 16 production servers. Cisco warns customers of two serious bugs in its SD-WAN software. Elastic takes Elasticsearch closed-source and AWS forks the project. Alphabet (Google’s parent company) shoots down its project to deliver wireless broadband via balloons. A California employment law expert says VMware’s lawsuit against a former executive is weak. Get links to all these stories after our sponsor messages. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Enable secure access for your remote workers from anywhere with Palo Alto Networks’  Prisma Access, a cloud-delivered, tier-one network. Prisma® Access offers comprehensive network security in a single services edge platform designed for all traffic, all applications, and all users. Learn more at paloaltonetworks.com/secure-remote-workforces Tech Bytes: AppNeta Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with AppNeta where we discuss how to deploy real-time monitoring so you can define and actually measure performance and ensure a good end user experience. Show Links: Citrix to Acquire Wrike, Delivering Modern Digital Workspace and Advancing Future of Work – Citrix Inside Citrix’s $2.25-Billion Acquisition of Wrike – Futuriom Citrix Quarterly Results – Citrix (PDF) CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers – Ars Technica Cisco SD-WAN Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities – Cisco Critical Cisco SD-WAN Bugs Allow RCE Attacks – Threatpost Doubling down on open, Part II – Elastic Blog FAQ on 2021 License Change – Elastic Amazon: NOT OK – why we had to change Elastic licensing – Elastic Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch – AWS Open Source Blog The SSPL is Not an Open Source License – Open Source Initiative Elastic changes open-source license to monetize cloud-service use – ZDNet Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch – AWS

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