Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t written to much in 2010. It wasn’t because I was ignoring you, I had some really good reasons. Reason #1 – Super secret projects I have been doing detailed design work for a couple REALLY LARGE data centers clients (the type that dominate top 10 lists) [...]
Entries Tagged as 'certification'
Where was Colin in 2010?
January 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments · CISCO, EMC, NetApp
Tags: certification·CISCO·Data Center·DESIGN·EMC·flexpod·NDA·NetApp·Server·UCS·VBlock
Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switch
September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, Nexus 4000
Cisco’s vision of the unified data center took another step forward today with the announcement of the Nexus 4000 series blade center switches. This switch is another step forward in Cisco’s view of a true multiprotocol network. What does this mean? In Cisco’s view of the world this means supporting the transport of Fibre Channel, [...]
Tags: CEE·certification·CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·Nexus·Nexus 4000·Nexus 7000·NX-OS·switch·Technology·UCS
My experience taking the CCDE Practical Beta
October 5th, 2008 · 3 Comments · CCDE, certification, CISCO
To answer the question that everyone is bound to ask - “did you pass?”. The answer is, I’ll tell you in 6-8 weeks. The CCDE Practical Beta is just that, a beta. From what Dr Sarah and Russ White have said, there will be many iterations of psychometric analysis, as well as throwing out certain [...]
