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

Cloud computing is coming whether you like it or not. VMware’s next release , Virtual Infrastructure 4 (Vi4) is going to change how applications are fundamentally delivered in your Data Center. But what does that really mean to you as a network and systems architects?
First and foremost it is important to discuss how many networks [...]

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I was putting together some presentations this morning and found a joke hidden inside the Nexus 5000 switch fabric architecture. Can you find it?

If you are from the San Francisco bay area you will recognize the towns of Los Altos and Los Gatos. In  this diagram, the chipsets are Altos and Gatos. But where is [...]

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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 hairpin configuration example - my buddy Rick was nerding it out in the lab and sent a great configuration doc for [...]

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