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

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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Where was Colin in 2010?

January 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments · CISCO, EMC, NetApp

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) [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: CCDE·CCDE Practical·certification·Chicago·CISCO