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

Intel released open source drivers based on their current ISCSI driver implementation for Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCOE) today. For those that aren’t up to speed on FCOE, it is effectively ISCSI lite. When I say lite, I mean ISCSI without the layer 3 overhead. This will allow FCOE to leverage lower cost Ethernet [...]

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Cisco IOS tips and tricks had a great post on how to use EEM to send emails when interfaces go down.
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By Ivan Pepelnjak
John S. Pumphrey recently asked an interesting question: “Can the router send an e-mail when an interface goes down?” The enterprisey solution is obvious: deploy a high-end EMS to collect SNMP traps [...]

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News just in, Cisco has aquired Nuova systems. They have a distributed computing and storage platform very similar to plan 9.
News Release
This news is interesting as it shows that Cisco is continuing their push into the application layer.
Its Application Oriented Networking blade directly competes with IBM. The content services switch competes with Sun, F5, [...]

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