PHP / MySQL / FLASH website integration
First I have to say, check out the new Ashley McNamara Photography website at http://www.ashleymcnamara.com/ We had it designed by Bludomain.com. At first I was a little reticent about using them, but...
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Book Review – Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco...
Book Review – Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS by Dale Tesch, Greg Abelar Publisher:...
View ArticleWhat does it take to pass the CCIE exam?
What does it take to pass the CCIE exam? For those who haven’t heard yet, I passed my CCIE Lab on June 14th. Now I can officially put CCIE #18233 after my name. Anyone who has been down the same path...
View ArticleWhy was Storage Networking my first CCIE? And What did I do to prepare?
I got a question on groupstudy about my background, and why I chose Storage as my first CCIE. It seems like a good idea to post it here also. My background is all over the place. It goes from running a...
View ArticleZone based IOS firewalls
Zone based IOS firewalls Cisco has finally included zone based firewalling in the IOS firewall feature set. The configuration guide can be found here - Zone Based Firewall Design and Configuration...
View ArticleCisco Certified Design Expert – CCDE – officially released by Cisco
Today was the official release date for the CCDE exam. To quote Cisco - “CCDE Assesses advanced Network Infrastructure Design Principles and Fundamentals for large networks. A CCDE can demonstrate an...
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Me and the Nexus 7000 last week at the Data Center VT
I spent the majority of last week at Cisco’s San Jose headquarters attending the Partner DataCenter Virtual Training. We spent three days going over new product releases, getting briefed and trained on...
View ArticleUsability features in Cisco’s Nexus 7000
Douglas Gourlay, Sr Director, Marketing and Product Management for Cisco’s Data Center Business Unit and writer of Cisco’s Data Center Blog commented on my celebrity sighting post (me and the nexus...
View ArticleIdentity aware networking using Cisco TrustSec
With all the fanfare surrounding the recent Nexus 7000 release I think many people have missed a significant new development in Cisco’s security portfolio. That new development is Cisco TrustSec....
View ArticleReader question – Why are corporations looking for BGP experience?
Mike, a reader of my blog, sent me an email last week with decent question for someone early in their career. Mike is currently looking for a new job. He was curious why so many corporate IT jobs were...
View ArticleCisco is using Linux virtualization and 40 core CPU’s for its next generation...
Cisco recently released a new series of router called the Aggregation Services Router, or ASR for short. This series of routers is mainly targeted at the service provider market, where it is targeted...
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Challenges integrating VMware into Cisco networks
UPDATE – for those looking for the Nexus 1000v release, check out this post In the past couple years, VMware has changed from a product hidden in development and testing environments to a full fledged...
View ArticleLink Round Up – L2TPv3 FCOE Trill Wounded Warriors
I come accross alot of very interesting material each week, only some of which I write about. These are some links that I found interesting this week. 1. Layer 2 Tunneling Protcol (V3) static and...
View ArticleI’ll be at Cisco Live 2008 (networkers) in Orlando all week
It’s that time of year again, time to meet, drink, collaborate and learn. It’s time for Networkers (officially Cisco Live 2008). For some of us that means taking detailed notes all week long, for...
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It’s on like Donkey Kong – CCDE practical registration is open
The CCDE just got VERY real in a big way.The following announcement was posted in the CCDE zone at the Cisco Learning Network. (If you haven’t checked the Cisco Learning Network out yet, I recommend...
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Measuring and mitigating risk involved with sharing virtual infrastructure...
Ivan Pepelnjak over at IOS Hints and Tricks wrote a post about DMZ VLAN leaking that got me thinking. He writes about “the VLAN leaking myth” and how it encourages clients to utilize physically...
View ArticleCisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware
This afternoon Cisco released a new member of the Nexus family of switches, the Nexus 1000V. This is the first switch to take advantage of VMware opening up their ESX and ESXi platforms to for third...
View ArticleWhere was Colin in 2010?
Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t written to much in 2010. It wasn’t because I was ignoring you, I had some really good reasons. Reason #1 – Super secret projects I have been doing detailed...
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VSPEX – EMC’s Flexible Reference Architecture Explained
What is VSPEX? There has been a bit of speculation floating around the industry the past couple of weeks regarding what EMC will be releasing. I have heard rumors spreading from the extreme of EMC...
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VSPEX – EMC’s Flexible Reference Architecture Explained
What is VSPEX? There has been a bit of speculation floating around the industry the past couple of weeks regarding what EMC will be releasing. I have heard rumors spreading from the extreme of EMC...
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Netflix Pinterest Instagram outage is not Amazon’s fault
Amazon had an extended outage last night in their Virginia data center. This outage was a resulted of power interruptions due to storms in the mid Atlantic area. This outage created some very visible...
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Simplifying scale out DataCenter design with UCS Manager 2.1
I’ve been designing and deploying UCS since the product was released a couple years ago (technically I was involved in the pre-release so we will say since UCSM v 0.8). From the start I was constantly...
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