Colin McNamara - CCIE 18233 , RHCE, GCIH, CCVP, GEEK

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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Entries Tagged as 'CCIE Storage'

Thanks and farewell to Jayshree Ullal

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Jayshree Ullal anounced today that she will be leaving her post as Senior Vice President in charge of Data Center, Switching, and Security groups. Jayshree has earned a reputation inside and outside of Cisco as a person who could take charge and get things done. First coming to Cisco as an engineer with the crescendo [...]

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Tags: CCIE Storage · CISCO · DC3.0

Encrypting your backup tapes with Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME)

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

IT staff at the University of Miami are having a very bad week. They are having to deal with the fact that two million private health records were stolen from from them. While it wasn’t directly their fault that their backup tapes were stolen from a off site storage providers transport van. The responsibility does [...]

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Tags: CCIE Storage · CISCO · DC3.0 · photography · sme

Nexus 5020 - Consolidated 10 Gig Ethernet and 4 Gig Fibre Channel

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Cisco released an addition to their Nexus series data center switching line, the Nexus 5020. The Nexus 5020 packs 1.04 terrabit of switching capacity into a 2 ru top of rack chassis. Inside this chassis you have 40 10 Gig Ethernet ports, as well as modular slots that can accept 12 extra 10 Gig ports, [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CCIE Storage · CISCO · DC3.0 · Technology · Uncategorized

Featured on Network World - 20 useful sites for Cisco networking professionals

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments

This morning I was featured as #11 of 20 in Network World Magazines 20 useful sites for Cisco networking professionals. Let me say thank you to the folks at network world for mentioning my little corner of the internet, and welcome to any readers that haven’t been to my site before. I hope that you [...]

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Tags: CCDE · CCIE · CCIE Storage · NX-OS · Nexus 7000 · certification

Cisco NX-OS 4.0 | Next Generation Internet Operating System

January 29th, 2008 · No Comments

The latest product to make its way from the storage networking arena into the data center networking arena is Cisco’s new NX-OS, next generation network operating system. Cisco has taken the highly succesful MDS line of switches, and  expanded on their success by taking their core operating system - SAN-OS and expanding it to provide [...]

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Tags: CCIE Storage · DC3.0 · IOS-NX · NX-OS