Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, EMCIE, NCDA, GEEK

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BIG Cisco – VMware announcement – 1:30 Pacific time

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments · CISCO, DC3.0, vmware

Expect something really big in the cloud computing / datacenter 3.0 space to be announced by Cisco this afternoon. Sadly, I have the unfortunate situation of being tagged as an insider (work in the partner community). So I have to play nice, and cannot reveal any juicy tidbits. Suffice it to say, that Jashree Ullal [...]

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Measuring and mitigating risk involved with sharing virtual infrastructure between DMZ and Internal environments

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · hyper-v, virtualization, vmware

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 [...]

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Challenges integrating VMware into Cisco networks

March 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments · CISCO, Technology, virtualization, vmware

UPDATE – for those looking for the Nexus 1000v release, check out this post In the past couple years, VMware has changed from a product hidden in development and testing environments to a full fledged enterprise computing platform. It brings many benefits to the companies that implement it, however with those benefits come changes to [...]

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