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

One giant pain I have always faced when working with high security environments is dealing with surveillance systems. They are a necessary and required part of your security infrastructure. However they just never seem to integrate as well as your network, storage, or server devices.
When I work with data center infrastructure I expect the following [...]

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Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233 – (858) 927-4515 - colin@2cups.com
CERTIFICATIONS HELD
CCIE - Cisco Systems Internetwork Expert #18233
GCIH – GIAC Certified Incident Handler
CCVP - Cisco Certified Voice Professional
CSNSSS - Cisco Storage Networking Solutions Support Specialist
CSNSDS - Cisco Storage Network Solutions Design Specialist
CCIE Storage Networking
RHCE - Redhat Certified Engineer #804006368822511
RHCT - Redhat Certified Technician #804006368822511
NSCA - [...]

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My CCIE Storage Shopping List
Lets just start this out by saying, darn.. this is going to be expensive.
Now that that is out of the way, lets get started. Cisco publishes the hardware that is in the Storage lab.
Here is the hardware summary -

Cisco Routers
Cisco Catalyst Switches
Cisco Secure Access Control System
MDS 9506*
MDS 9216*
Port Analyzer Adapter
JBOD
RAID storage
HBA
3rd [...]

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Book Review - Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS

Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS
by Dale Tesch, Greg Abelar
Publisher: Cisco Press
Pub Date: September 28, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 1-58705-260-1
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-260-6
Pages: 408
This book had so much potential to be a great. Sadly it turned out to be an overgrown technical manual. The [...]

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