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

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Colin has left ePlus Technology

June 9th, 2011 · No Comments · CISCO

After an awesome four and a half years I have decided to leave ePlus. My last day was June 8th. I have to admit, it was an extremely hard decision. Of the past half of a decade ePlus has provided unquestioned support for “crazy” ideas like using service provider technology in enterprise designs, or focusing [...]

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Tags: adventure·CISCO·eplus·opportunity·quitting

Vote for my VMworld presentation – #3221 Built to fail (shameless pandering)

May 12th, 2011 · No Comments · CCIE, CISCO, VMworld

3221 Built to Fail – Testing and Acceptance for Tier 1 Virtualized Environments Today’s virtualized Data Centers are not stand-alone environments. The availability and performance of these environments depends on complex inter-dependencies of networking, server, virtualization and storage vendor components. Behaviors of which can vary by vendor or even firmware version. Not only are end [...]

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Tags: availability·CISCO·VMworld 2011

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