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

The folks over at TechWise TV just posted an interesting video on virtualization, and its effect on the Data Center.
They broke down a couple key challenges of virtualization - Policy Enforcement, Security in a virtual environment, Management, Automation and the change from network plumbing to fabrics. At the core of the message, is the Data [...]

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To the following blogs linked to me in their articles this month, Thank you.
Tom Ludwig at http://networkvirtualization.wordpress.com pointed out quite accurately that I wasn’t explicit on the public release date for the 1000V. Thank you Tom for pointing that out - Minor confusion about the release date of Cisco’s Nexus 1000V
Scott Lowe at http://blog.scottlowe.org included [...]

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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 separate network infrastructure in the DMZ’s. Now first things first, I wouldn’t call VLAN leaking a myth. At one time it was [...]

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