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

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 7000). He asked two questions regarding my post about the Nexus 7000, and I feel that it best serves everyone to answer them here.
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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 new features as well as new products, as well as socializing with other engineers who focus on DataCenter technologies.
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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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