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

John McCool was chosen to succeed Jayshree Ullal as the leader of the DSSG yesterday. John comes with a rich development background on both the 4500 and 6500 series platforms, as well participating in internet standards bodies.

Please join me in welcoming John McCool to his new position as the leader of (in my opinion) [...]

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Jayshree Ullal anounced today that she will be leaving her post as Senior Vice President in charge of Data Center, Switching, and Security groups. Jayshree has earned a reputation inside and outside of Cisco as a person who could take charge and get things done. First coming to Cisco as an engineer with the crescendo [...]

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IT staff at the University of Miami are having a very bad week. They are having to deal with the fact that two million private health records were stolen from from them. While it wasn’t directly their fault that their backup tapes were stolen from a off site storage providers transport van. The responsibility does [...]

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Cisco released an addition to their Nexus series data center switching line, the Nexus 5020. The Nexus 5020 packs 1.04 terrabit of switching capacity into a 2 ru top of rack chassis. Inside this chassis you have 40 10 Gig Ethernet ports, as well as modular slots that can accept 12 extra 10 Gig ports, [...]

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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 the access layer of your data center. Your access layer is no longer a [...]

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